IC Wales | De VRAGEN zijn gesteld over of de Europese wetten in het runnen van een nieuwe £92m bedrijfstoelageregeling worden overtreden. De zorgen volgen een vergadering bij het Hotel van het Huis van Holland in Cardiff op Donderdag, toen de hogere ambtenaren van de Overheid van de Assemblage leden van het Welse bedrijfsleven over het nieuwe systeem informeerden. Iemand wie de vergadering bijwoonde, die niet…

IPA | Aangezien de overheidsleiders van rond de wereld bij de V.N. samenkomen. de voedsel conferentie in Rome, is organisaties zonder winstbejag ook daar samengekomen. De volgende analisten zijn beschikbaar voor een beperkt aantal gesprekken en zijn in contact met anderen in Rome van rond de wereld: De Secretaris-generaal van FLAVIO VALENTE van FIAN [de de Eerste Informatie en Actie van het Voedsel…

Door Brian Brady | De verplichte identiteitskaarten zouden kunnen worden gebruikt om op mensen te spioneren, vandaag waarschuwen Afgevaardigden. De leden van het Uitgezochte Comité van Binnenlandse Zaken zeggen zij vrezen dat de manier de autoriteiten gevoelige gegevens gebruiken die in het multibillion-pondprogramma worden verzameld geleidelijk aan in werkingsgebied „kon kruipen“ om heimelijk toezicht te omvatten. De alle-partijcommissie spoort ook ministers aan om plannen voor te maken hoe…

Kable's Government Computing | The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says that decisions to create new databases, to start sharing data or to increase surveillance of people ...

By Tim Rutten | Thursday's arraignment before a military tribunal of five Al Qaeda members accused of planning and assisting the 9/11 terrorist atrocities seemed custom-made to assist the loathsome defendants in achieving exactly what they desire -- an aura of martyrdom. The prisoners, including the plot's apparent mastermind, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were called to answer before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, ...

By Paul Harris | Hillary Clinton yesterday suspended her bid to become America's first woman president and vowed to help Barack Obama in his fight to win the White House for the Democratic party. In a gracious, emotional concession speech, Clinton spoke movingly of her long campaign and thanked all those who had supported her. But she left ...

By Harry Cohen | The British in Basra are unpopular and mostly ineffective. The last survey of Basra residents by BBC Newsnight indicated that 86 per cent believe British troops have had a negative effect on the Iraqi province since 2003. More than half felt the troops presence had actually increased the overall level of militia violence over the ...

By Barry Grey | The Senate Intelligence Committee report issued Thursday on the Bush administration’s use of phony intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq is yet another exercise in damage control, aimed at concealing the full scope of the criminal conspiracy to drag the American people into a war of aggression. The 170-page report was released a full ...

By MARK THOMPSON | Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads — acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them — he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We'd been doing some heavy missions, and things were starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police ...

Socialist Worker | Revealed: George Bush’s plan to impose ‘security accords’ that will mean 400 permanent military bases and US personnel given green light to kill. George Bush is ending the pretence that Iraq is a “democratic state”. He is imposing new “security accords” that will strip the country of its sovereignty and allow it to be used as ...

By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez. Given past ones, they can't be taken lightly. Chavez is alerted and reacts accordingly. Case in point: revamping Venezuela's decades old intelligence services. It's long overdue and urgently needed given the Bush administration's tenure winding down and its determination in its remaining months to end the ...

The Progressive | With the release of the Senate Select Committee Report, impeachment is more urgent than ever. Here we have the proof that the President and the Vice President repeatedly misled the nation into war. They failed to acknowledge uncertainties within the intelligence community over Saddam’s alleged nuclear weapons program and his biological and chemical weapons. They fast-forwarded the timeline ...

Human Rights Watch | A decision by the United States to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council amounts to an abandonment of human rights defenders and victims, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States announced today at its daily State Department briefing that it will only participate in debates at the council when absolutely necessary and it feels compelled to do so ...

AP | A new counterterrorism training facility operated by Blackwater Worldwide, the largest private security company in Iraq, echoed with the grunts of Navy sailors, a day after a judge ordered the city to let classes begin.The 24 trainees batted and punched each other Thursday as they learned basic strike tactics in a corner of the 61,000-square-foot (5,665-square-meter) converted warehouse in an industrial ...

AP | A UN committee on child rights criticised the US yesterday for filing war crimes charges against Guantanamo Bay detainees who were picked up as minors. The detainees were recruited to fight while they were children and should therefore be treated as victims rather than unlawful enemy combatants, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said.US officials say two men ...