Who winsten van de oorlog van Irak? Een meer dan kwart senatoren en de congresleden hebben minstens $196 miljoen van hun eigen geld in bedrijven geïnvesteerdn die zaken met het Ministerie van Defensie (DoD) doen die van de dood en de vernietiging in Irak profiteren. Volgens de recentste rapporten, investeerden 151 leden van Congres dicht bij kwart-miljard in bedrijven die defensiecontracten… ontvingen

Politico | Lurita Doan, hoofd van het Algemene Beleid van de Diensten, werd gedwongen om haar berusting aan te bieden vanavond, volgens een e-mail stuurde zij vanavond. Doan werd benoemd in recent Mei, 2006, die de eerste vrouw om als Beheerder te dienen GSA wordt. Met 12.000 empioyees en een $20 miljard jaarlijkse begroting, heeft GSA responsibilty voor het toezicht houden van op duizenden van de bouw en…

Druk TV | De Staatssecretaris Condoleezza Rice heeft van de V.S. Palestijnse vechters Hamas als „volmachtsstrijders“ voor de Islamitische Republiek gekenmerkt. De rijst legde de verklaring in een toespraak aan het Amerikaanse Joodse Comité in Washington af dat de groeiende zorgen van de V.S. over Teheran onderstreepte. De Staatssecretaris van de V.S. beweerde dat Iran niet alleen een bedreiging voor de Palestijnse gebieden, maar ook… is

Door David Barrett | De vrouwen en de meisjes kunnen in prostitutie door advertenties worden verlokt die in Arbeidsagentschappen worden geplaatst, werden Afgevaardigden vandaag gewaarschuwd. Een liefdadigheid die de hulpwijfjes gered van de geslachtshandel de Overheid zeiden deed dienst als „pimp“ door advertenties voor afbijtmiddelen, escortemeisjes goed te keuren, tonen de overlappingsdansers en volwassen stewardessen. Directeur van het Project van de Papaver, Denise Marshall, vertelde…

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - AP | Osama bin Laden's former driver walked out on his war-crimes tribunal Tuesday, saying he did not believe justice was possible at the U.S. military base where he has been held for nearly six years. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni, is the fourth alleged al-Qaida operative at Guantanamo Bay to refuse to participate in America's first U.S. ...

Ian Cobain - The Guardian | Human rights groups and MPs are calling for an investigation into claims that MI5 officers colluded in the torture of British citizens detained in Pakistan during counter-terrorism operations, after the allegations were detailed by the Guardian yesterday. The demand came as a fourth Briton alleged that British officials "outsourced" ...

The Zimbabwean army is responsible for a new wave of rights violations throughout Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch said today. Military forces are providing arms and trucks to so-called ‘war veterans’ who have been implicated in numerous acts of torture and other violence against opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members and supporters.‘The army and its allies – ‘war-veterans’ and supporters of the ...

By Tom Shepherd | Campaigners fighting the Government's plans for ID cards are claiming a victory after four Labour candidates seeking election to Oxford City Council on Thursday opposed the scheme. And today, city councillor and Lord Mayor John Tanner, who is seeking re-election in his Littlemore seat, told Oxford campaign group NO2ID he also did not support the Government's proposals. NO2ID ...

NY Times | Senator Barack Obama broke forcefully on Tuesday with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an effort to curtail a drama of race, values, patriotism and betrayal that has enveloped his presidential candidacy at a critical juncture. At a news conference ...

AP | A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing. James Lee Woodard stepped out of the courtroom and raised his arms to a throng of photographers. Supporters and other people gathered outside the court erupted ...

AAPS | Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). “The ...

By Garett Rogers | I guess either way, the answer is ultimately China, but this latest news on Google’s censorship in China is a bit strange. Chinese people are very upset with the French due to an attack on a wheelchair bound Olympic torch carrier. The act caused many Chinese people to call for a boycott on Carrefour — a ...

By Jeff Cohen | In the fall of 2002, week after week, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq in debates televised on MSNBC. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers – no real threat, cost, instability. But as the war neared, my debates were terminated. In my 2006 book Cable News Confidential, I ...

By Andrew Clark - The Guardian | Four months after buying the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused by a special independent committee of breaking "the letter and the spirit" of an agreement to protect editorial integrity. A five-strong committee established as a condition of the Bancroft family's $5bn (£2.5bn) sale of the paper's ...

By Marwaan Macan-Markar - IPS | An environmental group is warning U.S. energy giant Chevron to clean up its act in Burma or face legal proceedings where the multinational’s links to gross human rights violations in the military-ruled country could be exposed. There has been little relief for villagers living in the Yadana pipeline region in southern Burma since the Chevron Corporation ...