• UN expert urges U.S. to take steps to avoid unlawful killings

  Xinhua | UN human rights expert Philip Alston on Monday called on the United States to take immediate steps to improve its...

   

• Ex-Abu Ghraib prisoners sue US contractors, claim torture

  Yahoo | Four Iraqis announced Monday in Istanbul they are suing two US firms and their employees for allegedly torturing...

   

• ID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptions

  By Geraint Bevan | THE organisation NO2ID will not be represented officially inside the Home Office’s secretive ID...

   

• Nine held in ID card demo

  NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following a demonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The...

   

• MEP Tries to Certify Bloggers

  Via Blairwatch | We earlier reported an initiative about the EU certifying bloggers. EU Observer has an interesting report...

   

• Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant

  Consortium News | All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque...

   

• Brussels To Sign Away Your Private Details To US

  The Times | American authorities will be able to obtain greater access to private information such as credit card transactions,...

   

• How the “Dear Leader” Blackmailed Bush

  By Mike Whitney | After seven years of nonstop belligerence and saber rattling, the Bush administration has given North Korea...

   

• Is Britain moving to the right?

  Socialist Review | It’s hard to remember that only nine months ago 1 May was projected as a likely general election day....