Door Mariam Karouny en Peter Graff | BAGDAD (Reuters) - Irak eiste veranderingen in een pact van de ontwerpveiligheid met de Dinsdag van Verenigde Staten nadat het er niet in slaagde om de steun van zijn politieke leiders ondanks maanden nauwgezette onderhandelingen met Washington te winnen. ? De aankondiging heropent effectief onderhandelingen die vorige week hadden geleid tot het onthullen van een ontwerp dat de V.S. zou vereisen. krachten om Irak tegen eind 2011 te verlaten. …

Het Horloge van PR | Een analyse van de documenten van de tabaksindustrie die in het Britse Medische Dagboek (BMJ) worden gepubliceerd vertelt hoe de Duitse sigaretindustrie werkte om Lufthansa, de vlaggeschipluchtvaartlijn van Duitsland tegen te houden, van het verbieden rokend op zijn binnenlandse vluchten in de vroege jaren '90. De documenten openbaren ook dat de Duitse tabaksbedrijven… werkten

Door Matthew Rothschild | Sparen uw lof van Colin Powell. Omdat terwijl hij Barack Obama onderschreef, hij bezig het herschrijven van de geschiedenis van de Oorlog van Irak was en het bestendigen van flagrante leugens over zijn rol en George Bush? s rol in lood-omhooggaand. Op een persconferentie na zijn verschijning op Meet antwoordde de Zondag van de Pers, Powell aan een vraag over zijn betrokkenheid in de besluiten rond de Oorlog van Irak. http://www.cnn.com…

More than 16.5 million people were placed at risk of identity theft, after their details were lost or stolen from financial services firms, Computer Weekly has learned. The figures, obtained by Computer Weekly under the Freedom of Information Act, show more than one in four UK consumers have been placed at risk by financial firms last year. The disclosure has sparked calls from opposition MPs for legislation to force financial services companies ...

Models wearing chains, stockings and gags have been led around Westminster in protest at laws to make owning "extreme pornography" illegal. From next year, possession of images such as those showing a threat to life or serious injury to a person's genitals will be banned. Demonstrators opposite Parliament described this as the government interfering with people's sex lives. Ministers argue the law is needed to cope with more use of internet images. ...

By James Sherwood Microsoft has come over all PC - gedddit?!?!? - by filing a patent application for technology that?ll stop you from swearing online. In its ?Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast? patent application, the firm describes how a real-time or batch-mode automatic censor could be employed to filter out ?undesired words or phrases?....

Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ?security state?, the country?s top prosecutor has warned. By Christopher Hope Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations ?can?t bear?. In his wide-ranging speech, Sir Ken appeared to condemn ...

By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON ? Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Bush?s ...

By Lynn Berry | The world's biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games with our children, not engaging with others in outdoor activities. Most of us like to think that television has absolutely no effect on how we think or what we do. We believe that it is a way to relax. Many of us may be surprised to know that television is ...

By Walter Pincus | Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands, exchange objects and kiss each other goodbye. The video is sent from unmanned and manned aircraft to intelligence analysts at ground stations in the United States and abroad. They watch video in real time ...

Vincent Bugliosi is heard by Congressman John Conyers, Chairman House Judiciary Committee Vincent Bugliosi is heard by Congressman John Conyers, Chairman House Judiciary Committee Inquiry Hearing on Articles of Impeachment Former L.A. County Prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi and author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder", which details prosecutable evidence of ...

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW? This is a message to those who got behind Barack Obama because they have been horrified and furious with the direction this society has taken over the past eight years. To those who put their deep felt desires for change in the hope that Obama will take society in a different direction. Revolution has made the argument about why such hopes are misplaced and illusory, why ...