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international / sci-tech Friday December 17, 2004 - 14:23 by nerd
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No one expects Mr Bush to weaken his support for a project that has become an article of faith among many Republicans. But analysts said that they expected sceptics in Congress and in the Pentagon to try to whittle down the vast sums being spent on the project, some $10.2bn this year alone. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2004 - 05:47 by redjade
'Under a presidential directive and authorities approved by administration lawyers, the CIA is allowed to capture and hold certain classes of suspects without accounting for them in any public way and without revealing the rules for their treatment.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2004 - 21:20 by jac
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Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches ... read full story / add a comment
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louth / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 12:39 by Brian Vernon
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Victor Makarov once spied for Britain from the heart of the KGB, spending five years in a labour camp after he was caught. After MI6 helped him defect to this country, he hoped for a new and prosperous beginning in the nation for which he had risked his life. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2004 - 11:47 by pat c
A former technician who was jailed for 18 years for leaking Israel's nuclear secrets has been elected rector of Glasgow University. Mordechai Vanunu, 50, will hold the post for three years. Students said they voted for him to show their support for human rights and opposition to nuclear weapons. Previous incumbents include Winnie Mandela, Benjamin Disraeli and TV presenter Johnny Ball. The current rector is comedian Greg Hemphill. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 11:36 by pat c
16 December: Sir William Petty, an eminent political economist, died in 1687. He was the first to demonstrate the labour theory of value. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 16, 2004 - 08:02 by Qnas
by Robert Fisk The Independent [UK] December 15, 2004 Baha Mousa, 26, was working as a hotel receptionist in Basra 14 months ago when British troops surrounded the building and arrested seven men. They were taken to a British base and were reportedly hooded and beaten. Two days later, Mousa was dead. His family was given $3,000 in compensation and rejected a further $5,000. What they wanted was justice. Yesterday, after more than a year of official stonewalling, his relatives won a 'historic' ruling to force the MoD to hold an independent inquiry. Will the truth now be known? ... read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 06:39 by Brian Vernon
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British Home Sec. Blunkett has "resigned" after an enquiry found that he had illegally fast-tracked a visa application for his childs nanny. He spotted(?) a way out [without too much long term personal or political damage] of the Lying Duplicitious War Criminal British Government and he took it!! ... read full story / add a comment |
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