Westelijke Post | Het debat over privacy en de rechten van het individu tegen die van de maatschappij bij groot is gegeven een verse draai deze week met de arrestatie van MP en klachten van politie zwaar-handigheid. Damian Green, de Conservatieve immigratiewoordvoerder, is één van duizenden mensen geworden die worden gedwongen om een steekproef van DNA te geven. M. Green is niet belast met enige inbreuk, nog zal zijn steekproef…

Door de Afdeling van de Inkeping | De POLITIE maakte dozijn arrestaties nadat een groep anarchisten een protest bij de gebouwen van het Bureau van het Huis in Sheffield opvoerde. De leden van de Federatie van de Anarchisten kwamen bij Huis Vulcan in Millsands op de Rivieroever in de stadscentrum van Sheffield aan om ongeveer 8.30am om een protest tegen de de kaartregeling van identiteitskaart van de Overheid op te zetten. Na wordt geweigerd ingang door veiligheidspersoneel ketenden veel zich van protesters aan de bouw dwingend…

Harpers -- Volgens een speciale ambtenaar van de verrichtingenintelligentie, is het antwoord het aantalnoorden van drie duizend-niet tellend de tientallen verminkt of ernstig gewonde duizenden, geberokkend de vernietiging van de reputatie van de natie als morele leider, of de schade aan onze Grondwet. Bij overweldigen op-E-D gepubliceerd in Washinton Post van de Zondag, detailleert een speciale ambtenaar van de verrichtingenintelligentie zijn rechtstreekse ervaring met uitgevoerde martelingspraktijken…

Door Peter Symonds | In een hoogst politiek besluit, ontsloeg het Constitutionele Hof van Thailand gisteren effectief de overheid door de beslissende Partij van de Macht van Mensen (PPP) en twee van zijn coalitiepartners op te lossen. Anti-government protests that paralysed Bangkok's two main airports for a week have been called off, but the country's protracted political crisis is far from over.   The court ruled unanimously that the PPP, Chart Thai and Matchima Thipataya were guilty ...

By David Kravets | SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration on Tuesday will try to convince a federal judge to let stand a law granting retroactive legal immunity to the nation's telecoms, which are accused of transmitting Americans' private communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. At issue in the high-stakes showdown — set to begin at 10:00 a.m. PST — are the nearly four ...

By Patrick Martin | The Pentagon has begun to implement plans for the mobilization of 20,000 regular Army troops in anti-terror operations alongside state and local forces, a dramatic change in US military operations within the borders of the United States. Some 4,700 troops, a full combat brigade based at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, were made available to the US Northern Command on October 1. The remaining troops will be assigned ...

Kiwis urged to become part of the solution on World Anti-slavery Day Although slavery was abolished worldwide in 1926, it is still a thriving industry today with between 600,000 to 800,000 people being trafficked every year. On World Anti-slavery Day (December 2) it is time for those in developing nations not only to speak out against the trade, but to be part of the solution, TEAR Fund Executive Director Stephen Tollestrup ...

By Timothy V. Gatto | The people of the United States might not know what it is that they want the new administration to do, they may not know what it is they want Congress to do, but one thing for sure is that they don’t want another repeat of the Bush Administration or the last two sessions of Congress. One reason that progressives and liberals seem to be the ones ...

By John Byrne | Five years after he declared victory in Iraq on the US aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, President George W. Bush says he was "unprepared" for a war in Iraq that has gone on to claim thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqis."I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess," Bush tells ABC's Charlie Gibson in an interview to be broadcast tonight, ...

By Jason Ditz | For the rich and well-connected, the Afghan criminal justice system is remarkably convenient, with a simple phone call to an influential police officer or judge usually sufficient to ensure release without any formal charges, even for those arrested under severe circumstances. But the UN warns that for poorer citizens, the situation is far more onerous. Speaking at a news conference today in Kabul, UN drug and crime agency ...

In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming -- one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, Congress ordered a lockdown on all records kept by the Nixon White House, afraid that the outgoing president would try to wipe out the paper trail of his disastrous ...

By Robert Fisk | The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands—all but a square mile at the centre of the city—and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul. Hamid Karzai’s deeply corrupted government is almost as powerless as the Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad’s “Green Zone”; lorry drivers in the country now carry business permits issued by the ...

Think Progress | In his new Weekly Standard column, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol lays out a to-do list for President Bush before he leaves office. He urges Bush to deliver speeches "reminding Americans of our successes fighting the war on terror." Kristol dreams, "Over time, Bush might even get deserved credit for effective conduct of the war on terror." After urging Bush to fight the incoming administration’s desire ...

By Ali Frick | In a Washington Post op-ed today, a former Special Operations interrogator who worked in Iraq in 2006 sharply criticizes American torture techniques as ineffective and dangerous. “Torture and abuse cost American lives,” he writes: I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was ...

By Joel S. Hirschhorn | Electing Barack Obama president was the first step in redeeming American democracy. The second step must be indicting ex-president George W. Bush, giving him a fair trial, finding him guilty of many criminal acts and putting him in prison. Forget revenge. Think rule of law and justice. I want President Obama soon after taking office to go on television and announce the formation of a special group of ...