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Friday, May 9th, 2008
By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman.
Former Detective Gregg Junnier told a Fulton County jury that detectives would tell judges that they had verified their informants had bought cocaine from dealers ...
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Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine -- repeating the same message over and over and with diminishing results.
That's how I felt after 8 months of silence after labeling the credit crisis a "subcrime" scandal, ...
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U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Gregg Zoroya | More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.
This reliance on troops found medically "non-deployable" is another sign of stress placed on a military that has sent 1.6 million servicemembers to the war zones, ...
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Does Organic Really Mean Organic?
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By David Gutierrez | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its approval for 46 non-organically produced substances to be used in foods and beverages that are labeled "organic." At the same time, the agency withdrew its approval for a type of food coloring and a food additive.
Under the Organic Foods Production Act, the USDA's National Organic Standards Board ...
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US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains “Surge”
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Jim Lobe | Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight insurgents there, is putting the vaunted success of the George W. Bush administration's "surge" strategy to the test.
Although the House of Representatives appears poised to ...
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Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Marjorie Cohn | What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no immunity from criminal liability for violation ...
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John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Damien McElroy | Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action.
“This is a case where the use of military force ...
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Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult ...
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The Pentagon vs. America
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Scott Ritter | I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail included the following query: “I told you about how I wanted to build a career around social activism and making a difference. You told me that one of the most important things was to make myself ...
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Nuns are turned away from Indiana polls
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Scott Martelle - Los Angeles Times | A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ...
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FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
AFP | FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be a probe into political misuse of the agency, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio reported.According to the Journal, the agents seized computers and documents belonging to the head of the agency, Scott Bloch, and his ...
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‘Torture memo’ author, former attorney general, to testify
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
AP | A former Justice Department lawyer who wrote a now-repudiated memo allowing harsh interrogations of military prisoners has agreed to testify to Congress about those practices, say House Judiciary Committee officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the panel has not yet made the announcement.John Yoo, now a law professor at University of California-Berkeley, has agreed to testify ...
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US Navy Deploys Around Latin America
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Lamia Oualalou | It's now official: The Pentagon is going to resuscitate its Fourth Fleet, with the mission of patrolling Latin American and Caribbean waters. Created during the Second World War to protect traffic in the South Atlantic, the structure was dissolved in 1950. "By reestablishing the Fourth Fleet, we acknowledge the immense importance of maritime security in this region," declared ...
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Report: U.S. Not as ‘Free’ as Touted
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Betsy Pisik | The U.S. political system is, at best, "a work in progress" according to an evaluation from the pro-democracy group Freedom House, which finds significant flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system, counterterrorism strategies and the treatment of minorities and immigrants.
In a 300-page report, titled "Today's American: How Free?", to be released tomorrow, the group subjects the ...
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Iraq ‘Divide and Rule’ Strategy Called Shortsighted
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Inter Press Service | Five years since U.S. President George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually "accomplish" the mission that could see a peaceful Iraq and a return home of U.S. troops.
Though the 2007 revamping of the counter-insurgency strategy, known as the "surge," has markedly reduced violence, ...
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