http://rinf.com/alt-news Breaking News, Alternative News & Media Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon Wednesday sought to play down the seriousness of growing violence in Afghanistan but declined to say the United States and NATO were winning their fight against Taliban insurgents. On a day when President Bush visited the Pentagon to discuss Iraq and Afghanistan with top officials, Pentagon ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/pentagon-plays-down-fears-over-afghan-violence/4180/ KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - The son of a journalist at a popular weekly newspaper in northern Iraq was allegedly shot dead by US troops when his car appeared to veer wildly, local police said on Thursday. American soldiers shot dead Arkan Ali al-Nuaimi, 19, on Wednesday evening as he approached ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/son-of-iraq-journalist-shot-dead-by-us-forces/4179/ http://skin-up.com/forum/public-hearing-planned-on-medical-marijuana-t-30.html By Dana Hedgpeth | Auditors at a Pentagon oversight agency were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on major defense contractors to make them look more favorable instead of exposing wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office. The Defense Contract Audit ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/business-news/pentagon-auditors-pressured-to-favor-contractors-gao-says/4177/ State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles. The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people. The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/how-reliable-is-dna-in-identifying-suspects/4176/ Real Women, Real Voices | Last week, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan. While President Bush and his colleagues discussed world hunger over a ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/g8-to-poor-women-let-them-eat-dirt/4175/ The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/exposing-bush%e2%80%99s-historic-abuse-of-power/4174/ By Jeff Stein | Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis, who resigned last year after two years as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, today described the military commissions system as fatally "tainted" by politics and designed to produce guilty verdicts, no matter what the costs.        The possibility of the system delivering "credible verdicts is doubtful," Davis said ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/former-gitmo-prosecutor-says-trials-rigged/4173/ By Robert Parry | A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens - as well as non-citizens - into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” even if they have engaged in no violent act ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/gitmo-%e2%80%98justice%e2%80%99-for-us-citizens/4172/ An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran. Francis A. Boyle says following Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment within two weeks or ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/us-lawyer-seeks-to-sue-us-over-iran-threats/4171/