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Archive for April, 2008We Must Imagine a Life Without OilWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By Mark Hertsgaard - The Nation | It used to be that only environmentalists and paranoids warned about running out of oil. Not anymore. As climate change did over the past few years, peak oil seems poised to become the next big idea commanding the attention of governments, businesses and citizens the world over. The arrival of $119-a-barrel crude and $4-a-gallon gasoline this ...
The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian WarWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By Paul Craig Roberts | It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel.
The targeted victims are not Poland and France, but Iran, Syria, the remains of the ...
Amnesty accuses Moz police of tortureTuesday, April 29th, 2008 AFP | Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity, according to a report by Amnesty International released on Tuesday.
"Police in Mozambique seem to think they have a licence to kill and the weak police accountability system allows for this," Michelle Kagari, deputy director of Amnesty International's Africa Programme, said in the report.
"In almost all cases of human rights ...
Increasing use of council surveillance powersTuesday, April 29th, 2008 Surveillance powers which allow local authorities to follow people and access their phone records have been used by Northamptonshire County Council 10 times in the past year.
Legislation brought in by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) means councils and police forces can use "covert human intelligence sources", for example, following suspected criminals. They can also demand ...
Green Scare State TerrorismTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Stephen Lendman - RINF | In May 2005, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis told a Senate panel that ecoterrorism is "one of today's most serious domestic terrorism threats." Then the FBI's James Jarboe estimated that two organizations (the Earth Liberation Front - ELF and Animal Liberation Front - ALF) committed over 600 criminal acts since 1996, causing ...
Lawmaker Threatens Subpoenas for AidesTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Carrie Johnson | The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee threatened yesterday to subpoena Bush administration officials who have refused to appear at a hearing on torture and interrogation policies.
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said he would "have no choice but to consider compulsory process" if current and former ...
New CSI Tool Analyzes AntibodiesTuesday, April 29th, 2008 AP | Federal researchers say they've developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It would be a handy new weapon in the arsenal for detectives, forensic experts and the military, though no one expects it to replace DNA analysis - and its promoters say it is not intended to.
The new method analyzes antibodies. Each ...
U.S. reveals way to get off terror listTuesday, April 29th, 2008 UPI | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a way for people who don't belong on terrorist watch lists to be spared extra scrutiny at the airport.
Under the new program, tens of thousands of travelers who are stopped repeatedly because their names match those of suspected terrorists will be permitted to register with the airlines, USA Today reported ...
Corporate AmericaTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Chris Hedges | The corporate state is our shadow government. Candidates who aspire to higher office get corporate money if they promote corporate interests. They are shut out of the national debate—look at Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader—if they do not. Defy the corporate state and you get handed a ticket to oblivion. You become invisible. Work for it and ...
Iraq mass graves yield 100 bodiesTuesday, April 29th, 2008 Reuters | Iraqi security forces have found more than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on Sunday. Fifty bodies were found in a mass grave in central Iraq on Sunday, a military source in the area said, and another team said it had discovered more than 50 bodies in a grave south of Baghdad on April 17.
The grave found ...
Iraqi political leaders protest U.S. siege of Sadr CityTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Hussein Kadhim and Raviya H. Ismail | About 50 leaders representing a variety of Iraqi political blocs took to Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, a stronghold of fiery religious leader Muqtada al Sadr, to protest the U.S.-led siege of that area.The leaders promised to work together with Sadrists to remove insurgents and weapons in the ...
Top brands in OFT price-fixing probeTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By James Hall and Richard Fletcher | About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre of an investigation into allegations of price-fixing, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
They are included on a hit list of grocery products and toiletries drawn up by investigators from the Office of Fair Trading, which runs to five ...
Ominous Signs That White House Wants More WarsTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Jim Lobe | Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping for a final confrontation against one or more members of the revised 'axis of evil' before his term next January?
That's the big question here this week, ...
Brown wants tougher policy on cannabisTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Alan Travis | Gordon Brown's decision to overturn the advice of his own group of drug experts by pressing ahead with a tougher policy on cannabis could face a high court challenge from campaigners.
As the report from the 23-strong Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) recommending that cannabis should remain a class C ...
MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspectsTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Ian Cobain | Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects.
A number of British terrorism suspects who have been arrested in Pakistan at the ...
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