http://rinf.com/alt-news Breaking News, Alternative News & Media Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:17:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How Bush Inspired a New World Order By Ramzy Baroud | The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US's world standing much sooner than most analysts predict. What was difficult to foresee was ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/global-realignment/4560/ By Dr. Steve Best, Ph.D. | In 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically acclaimed by the animal advocacy movement. Because this movement is overwhelmingly single-issue in its focus, and in ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/the-deconstruction-of-a-bush-speech-writer/4553/ By Chris Marsden | The August 30 Guardian interview with Britain’s Chancellor Alistair Darling was extraordinary in many respects. In the first place there can be few occasions that so dramatically reveal the sense of profound crisis within ruling circles in Britain. Darling admitted to Decca Aitkenhead that the economic times ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/alistair-darling-and-the-implosion-of-the-labour-government/4552/ YNet News | WASHINGTON - Iran is a “major threat” and it would be “unacceptable” for the rogue nation to develop a nuclear weapon, Barack Obama said Thursday. Obama: Nuclear Iran 'unacceptable' 'Iran a major threat; I would never hesitate to use our military force in order to protect homeland, US interests, Democratic presidential ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/obama-nuclear-iran-unacceptable/4551/ Inter Press Service | Haider returned from Iran recently, with enough money to pay for his wedding and a new car. He was trained to join Badr, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Many more come where he recently came from. Badr is being ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/iraq-us-blamed-for-increasing-iranian-influence/4550/ By Jyoti Mishra | US Vice-President Dick Cheney has condemned what he called Russia’s “illegitimate” attempt to change Georgia’s borders last month.Mr Cheney added that Russia’s actions during the recent conflict with Georgia had cast doubt on its reliability as an international partner. (Source: BBC News)   This is the same Dick Cheney that ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/us-hypocrisy-reaches-critical-mass/4549/ WASHINGTON - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era. The outcome: Not one ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/fbis-civil-rights-initiative-no-trials-yet/4548/ By Juliette Jowit | Rising energy prices are on course to net the government a windfall of over £1bn thanks to a little-known scheme designed to promote the development of renewable energy. The disclosure of the substantial sums made through the scheme comes as Gordon Brown has been piling pressure on power companies ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/environmental-news/revealed-browns-1bn-power-windfall/4547/ SchNews | As we predicted (in SchNEWS 644), last weeks protests in Denver outside the Democrat convention were nothing compared to the scenes out on the streets of St Pauls, Minnesota, during this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC). It seems that the thought of another Republican president is just too ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/unconventional/4546/ By Haider Rizvi | (IPS) -Numerous governments around the world are using anti-terror laws to suppress political dissent and civil liberties, according to a new report released by one of the world’s most respected human rights organisations. Amid calls for increased U.N. scrutiny, in its report, the London-based group Amnesty International ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/anti-terror-laws-prone-to-abuse-amnesty-says/4545/