http://rinf.com/alt-news Breaking News, Alternative News & Media Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:26:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RINF has launched a new web hosting service for businesses, individuals, groups and campaigns. As dissident websites and blogs are increasingly being censored and in some cases shut down for their political views, our new service aims to protect free speech and help keep the multi-corporates from controlling what can be said and ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/rinf-launches-web-hosting-service/4032/ By SCOTT SHANE | The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” What the trainers did not say, and may not ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/china-inspired-interrogations-at-guantanamo/4031/ By LARA JAKES JORDAN | Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to do it again. Tentative Justice Department guidelines, to be released later this summer, would let agents investigate ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/civil-liberties-group-criticizes-new-fbi-authority/4030/ AP | U.S. prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a U.N. rights official said Monday. U.N. envoy Philip Alston said the tribunals are flawed because of detainees' limited access to defense attorneys at the remote U.S. Navy base in ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/un-official-says-gitmo-trials-unfair/4029/ By Ramesh Santanam | Contractor ordered to do barracks inspections Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says 13 Americans have died of accidental electrocution there since September 2003 and a contractor has been ordered to inspect facilities for electrical safety hazards, a Pennsylvania senator said. The military has acknowledged ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/13-americans-have-been-electrocuted-in-iraq/4028/ CACI International, an Arlington-based provider of interrogators to the U.S. military in Iraq, said it "rejects and denies" allegations from four Iraqi men who said they were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison. The "unfounded" claims filed in lawsuits are a "rehash of the previous slanderous lawsuits," CACI said in a ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/caci-denies-use-of-torture-in-iraq/4027/ By Katie Dawson and Danielle Dwyer | Five houses were raided by police today as part of an inquiry into a gang suspected of promoting extremist views and radicalising vulnerable people.   The properties were all in Stoke-on-Trent, including three in Cobridge, one in the High Lane area of Burslem and one ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/five-homes-raided-under-terror-act/4026/ By Robert Scheer | As we head into the Fourth of July weekend of patriotic bluster and beer swilling — but before we are too besotted with ourselves — might we also for once consider our imperfections? Why not take a moment to heed the cautions of our founding father, ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/happy-oil-dependence-day/4025/ By John Lettice | The bosses of the UK's major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that "the UK aviation industry is being used for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support."* If anything the move, ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/top-airline-bosses-launch-assault-on-airport-id-card-plan/4024/ THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ordered the British government to pay €7,500 in costs and expenses to the UK human rights organisation Liberty for violating its right to privacy by intercepting its telecommunications. Liberty took the case along with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and British-Irish Rights ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/uk-government-fined-for-violation-of-right-to-privacy/4023/