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Socialistische Arbeider | Geopenbaard: Het plan van George Bush om `veiligheidsovereenstemming' op te leggen die 400 permanente militaire basissen en het bepaalde groene licht van de V.S. personeel aan doden zullen betekenen. George Bush beëindigt de aanspraak dat Irak een „democratische staat“ is. Hij legt nieuwe „veiligheidsovereenstemming op“ die van het land van zijn soevereiniteit zullen ontdoen en het […] zullen toestaan

Door Stephen Lendman - RINF | De rapporten houden opduikend over nieuwe bedreigingen tegen Hugo Chavez. Gezien afgelopen degenen, kunnen zij niet licht worden genomen. Chavez wordt dienovereenkomstig gealarmeerd en reageert. Goed voorbeeld: het opknappen van diensten van de de decennia de oude intelligentie van Venezuela. Het is lange achterstallig en dringend binnen nodig gezien de ambtstermijn van het beleid van Bush het winden neer en zijn bepaling […]

Progressief | Met de versie van het Rapport van het Comité van de Senaat Uitgezochte, is de beschuldiging dringender dan ooit. Hier hebben wij het bewijs dat de Voorzitter en de Ondervoorzitter herhaaldelijk de natie in oorlog misleidden.
Zij slaagden er niet in om onzekerheden binnen de intelligentiegemeenschap over Saddam beweerd kernwapensprogramma en zijn biologisch en chemisch […] te erkennen

Het Horloge van Rechten van de mens | Een besluit door de Verenigde Staten van de bedragen van de Raad van de Rechten van de mens van de V.N. aan een verlaten van rechten van de mensverdedigers en slachtoffers, vandaag bovengenoemde het Horloge van Rechten van de mens los te maken.
The United States announced today at its daily State Department briefing that it will only participate in debates at the council when absolutely necessary […]

AP | A new counterterrorism training facility operated by Blackwater Worldwide, the largest private security company in Iraq, echoed with the grunts of Navy sailors, a day after a judge ordered the city to let classes begin.The 24 trainees batted and punched each other Thursday as they learned basic strike tactics in a corner of the […]

AP | A UN committee on child rights criticised the US yesterday for filing war crimes charges against Guantanamo Bay detainees who were picked up as minors. The detainees were recruited to fight while they were children and should therefore be treated as victims rather than unlawful enemy combatants, the UN Committee on the Rights of […]

By Sean O’Neill | Murder, rape and child abuse investigations will be hampered if a European court rules that more than 500,000 DNA samples should be removed from Britain’s National DNA Database, a senior police chief has told The Times.
In his first interview since standing down as chairman of the database, Tony Lake gave warning […]

By Cath Elliott | It seems incredible now, but on the May 3 1997 I actually celebrated Labour’s election victory. After 18 years of a Conservative government that had cosied up to dictators and murderous regimes around the globe; that had overseen the destruction of the country’s manufacturing and mining industries; that had driven 3 […]

By Christopher Caldwell | Setting up cameras and monitoring employees’ toilet breaks, as the supermarket chain Lidl did; keeping a “black money” fund for kickbacks to officials in developing countries, as Siemens allegedly did; diverting money to pay for call girls for refractory board members, as Volkswagen did … German executives have not been at […]

The Associated Press | As of Friday, June 6, 2008, at least 4,092 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,332 died as a result of hostile action, […]

By Rosa Prince | Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister, is preparing to make a rare intervention into domestic policies by speaking out against Government plans to increase detention without trial to 42 days.
In private, Sir John has been telling friends for some time that he believes the plans to be profoundly illiberal and […]

By Andy Worthington | This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004.
Last Friday, it was revealed […]

By CHARLIE SAVAGE | A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.
In a letter posted online by National Review […]

By John Walcott | Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have “been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service … to reach into and influence the highest levels of the U.S. government,” a Senate Intelligence Committee […]

By Ed Hamer & Mark Anslow |
1. Yield
Switching to organic farming would have different effects according to where in the world you live and how you currently farm.
Studies show that the less-industrialised world stands to benefit the most. In southern Brazil, maize and wheat yields doubled on farms that changed to green manures and […]