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Monday, May 12th, 2008
New York Times | Congress is finally moving to shut one of the more egregious forms of Iraq war profiteering: defense contractors using offshore shell companies to avoid paying their fair share of payroll taxes. The practice is widespread and Congressional investigators have been dispatched to one of the prime tax refuges, the Cayman Islands, to seek a firsthand ...
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UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone Nargis were impounded by the military government. A spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said its food aid and equipment had been confiscated ...
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Peak Food: Blaming the Victims
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Nafeez Ahmed | I've already written about this in previous posts under the 'hidden holocaust' theme, but am prompted to re-address this issue given the way it's been dealt with by mainstream media and associated 'experts'.
In today's Independent we see an eye-opening article revealing that amidst what is described as a series of "global food shortages", a ...
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The Challenge Of Modern Slavery
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables. “Miguel,” a Mexican slave freed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US human-rights organization, may have harvested the apples we eat at breakfast. Miguel picked fruit under guard in the United States. He had traveled to el ...
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Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By William Fisher | As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly ...
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The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of Spies
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
PR Watch | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about "the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying," citing Burger King Corporation's spying on the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, through Cara Schaffer and her private security ...
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Suicide bomber was in Guantánamo, says US
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
By Ewen MacAskill | The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month. The involvement of an ex-Guantánamo detainee will make it harder for civil rights lawyers in the US and Britain, who have been fighting for the release ...
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Roads blocked in Beirut anti-gov’t protests
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Press TV | Demonstrators have blocked roads in and around Beirut with burning tires, protesting against the govt's economic and social policies. Witnesses said the main road leading to Beirut's international airport was among routes blocked by the protesters, who support the Hezbollah-led opposition, Reuters reports.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah called on all workers and employees to demonstrate on May 7, blaming ...
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Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Gareth Porter | Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary ...
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Iraqi alleges Abu Ghraib torture, sues US contractors
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
AP | An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison for more than 10 months. Emad al-Janabi's federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, claims that employees of CACI International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. punched him, slammed him into walls, hung him from a ...
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Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Associated Press | An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
"The existing double standard shall not be tolerated anymore by non-nuclear-weapon states," Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told a meeting of the 190 countries that have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Nuclear safeguards are ...
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UN official decries weakening of press freedom
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Dawn | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised as objective information — especially when alleged security-related issues are on the table.
In a message on the occasion of Press Freedom Day, Ms Arbour noted that harassment and secrecy laws were ...
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3.5 Million Tons of Plastic Floating in the Pacific
Monday, May 5th, 2008
David Gutierrez | A mass of plastic debris twice the size of Texas is still growing in the Pacific Ocean, fueled primarily by plastic trash generated on the land. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of 3.5 million tons of trash, 80 percent of it plastic, floating in a rarely-traveled portion of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and San Francisco.
"With the ...
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Al Jazeera Cameraman Freed From Guantánamo
Monday, May 5th, 2008
RHC | Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj has been released from the U.S.-run military prison at Guantánamo. Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, al-Haj had spent nearly six-and-a-half years at Guantánamo without charge or trial. He had been on a more than a year-long hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
Earlier today, al-Haj landed in his hometown of Khartoum, Sudan, where he ...
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Renditions Ruin the EU Case
Monday, May 5th, 2008
By David Cronin | Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU's efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn up by Brussels officials has admitted.
In 2001, the EU approved guidelines on how diplomats representing it should raise concern over the ill-treatment of detainees with the ...
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