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Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Greg Palast |Psst! George Bush has a secret. While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.
You’re not supposed to know that – for two reasons:
First, the summit planned for the N.O. ...
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Should flawed war-crimes court be scrapped?
Monday, April 21st, 2008
McClatchy-Tribune News Service | The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, April 17: The boycotts of hearings by terror suspects is the latest challenge to the war-crimes court at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So many issues have cropped up, you would think that this court was charting unknown territory. It is not. Look no further than the case of Zacarias Moussaoui.
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How Corporations Took Over The Supreme Court
Thursday, March 20th, 2008The headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, located across from Lafayette Park in Washington, is a limestone structure that looks almost as majestic as the Supreme Court. The similarity is no coincidence: both buildings were designed by the same architect, Cass Gilbert. Lately, however, the affinities between the court and the chamber, a lavishly financed business-advocacy organization, seem to be more ...
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Human rights activist on trial in China
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008BEIJING - Hu Jia, a human rights activist and commentator, was tried in a Beijing court yesterday on charges of inciting subversion against the Chinese government through his writings on the Internet. Hu's lawyer, Li Fangping, said the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court would probably hand down its sentence in about a week. Hu, 34, who faces up to five years in prison, pleaded not guilty. Li said he was given only ...
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Burrell ‘took bloodstained ring from Diana’s body’
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Diana's former butler Paul Burrell took a bloodstained engagement ring off her dead body and kept it, her inquest heard today. Michael Faux, who worked as Burrell's bodyguard, said he had been "disgusted" after hearing the revelation. He told the inquest Burrell told him he took the ring in the Paris hospital where Diana died following a car crash in August 1997. Faux said: "He said that he took it from the ...
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Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
Friday, February 29th, 2008U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. By Aaron Glantz "The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it," said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans ...
tagged Afghanistan and Law
Anti SOCPA Campaigners To Assert Right To Protest
Thursday, February 28th, 2008In response to the recent Home Office consultation titled ‘Managing Protest around Parliament’, which threatened further restrictions on demonstrations throughout the UK, a second day of action [1] called by the Campaign for Free Assembly will take place on Saturday 1 March. Campaigners opposed to the Government’s proposals will assemble at London’s Trafalgar Square (north side) at 1pm. The Government consultation on ‘Managing Protest around Parliament’, which closed on 17 January, ...
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Secrecy: Update laws on openness
Monday, February 11th, 2008The Clarion-Ledger "It being essential to the fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of representative government and to the maintenance of a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and public manner, and that citizens be advised of and be aware of the performance of public officials and the deliberations and decisions that go into the making of public policy, it is hereby declared to ...
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“Surge” in War Crimes?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008U.S. Army unit Probed for killing Iraqi prisoners The US Army has opened a criminal investigation into an allegation of "battlefield deaths" of detainees captured by a US brigade that operated last year in southwest Baghdad, an army spokesman said. The allegation involved the 2nd Combat Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, which returned to its home base in Schweinfurt, Germany in November after a 15-month tour in Iraq, said Paul Boyce, ...
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Former US congressman indicted
Thursday, January 17th, 2008An ex-congressman is indicted for his part in an alleged terrorist fundraising and accused of sending $130,000 to a Taliban supporter. A US grand jury indicted ex-Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice. It is alleged he lobbied for a charity that sent funds to al-Qaeda and Taliban supporter Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Siljander was a congressman from 1981-1987 and served one ...
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MI6 asks for gagging order in murder trial
Saturday, December 15th, 2007David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian The Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, is behind a virtually unprecedented attempt to hold a British murder trial in secret, the Guardian can disclose. The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, has been asked to sign a public interest immunity certificate - a gagging order - at the request of the agency, which is responsible for spying and recruiting ...
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De Menezes shooting trial jury out
Thursday, November 1st, 2007A jury on Wednesday retired to consider its verdict in the trial of the Metropolitan Police over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. The force is accused of a "catastrophic" series of errors leading to the death of the innocent Brazilian at Stockwell Tube station on July 22, 2005. Mr de Menezes, 27, ...
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Judge rules internet spying illegal
Sunday, September 9th, 2007By Iain Thomson A US judge has ruled that the FBI cannot spy on people's internet and telephone use without a warrant. Judge Victor Marrero, of the District of Columbia, determined that the rules under the Patriot Act that allowed the FBI to secretly request telephone, internet and email logs without applying for a warrant were barred by the constitution. The Patriot Act was ...
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Lie detectors target benefit claim cheats
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007The Observer Benefit claimants and job seekers could be forced to take lie detector tests as early as next year after an early review of a pilot scheme exposed 126 benefit cheats in just three months, saving one local authority £110,000. Last May, the Department for Work and Pensions asked Harrow council in London to undertake a year-long, £63,000 pilot of the ground-breaking Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) technology. 'We will wait until ...
tagged Big-Brother, Culture, Fraud, ID-Cards, Law, Police-State, Science, Security, Spying, Technology and UK-News
Secret trials for terrorists, says US judge
Friday, June 29th, 2007David Nason A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution. Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to ...
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