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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 376 through 450 of 525.
- The World Bank recognizes the countless social and environmental problems caused by dams, but won't let them get in the way of building more and more dams. - At issue: more than 300 hours of secret videotapes from a U.S. prison facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., where many Arab and Muslim detainees were incarcerated in the months after 9/11. - Former Chilean military ruler Gen Augusto Pinochet has been placed under house arrest and charged with tax evasion and passport fraud.
- Would the U.S. government terrorize its own people? Yes, unless we expose their tricks. - This is not the first time a government agency has come to UC Berkeley looking for help with recruitment. The Central Intelligence Agency participated in a similar program on campus last fall. It was not well publicized. - The huge danger, or course, is that the current Iraqi politicians will be bribed into signing long-term agreements which the Iraqi people will never be able to get out of. - With authentic Special Forces firearms, a full arsenal of technologically advanced gadgets, and night-fighting stealth tactics, the covert armies give you even more weapons in your fight for the new world order. - Behind It All, Some Elite Giving the Order - "I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed. He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11." - The war in Iraq could last for decades with British troops unlikely to withdraw without a "highly unlikely" split with Washington, a report says today. - Despicable attack on the First Amendment deep in the heart of Texas - Journalists' rights groups are urging the United States and Britain to provide clarification of a report that suggests US President George Bush sought to bomb Aljazeera. - If Iran gets a nuke (and that’s an awful big "if," considering the technical hurdles), the United States will not invade the country, as they will not invade or attack North Korea. In short, possession of a nuke will more or less guarantee the peace. - A Chilean judge has put former military ruler Augusto Pinochet under house arrest hours after he was released on bail in another case. The latest charges centre on the disappearance of dissidents in 1975 in what was known as Operation Colombo.
- What is not known is how many of the 45 million users of BitTorrent search for files to download via the BitTorrent.com site. Many other websites let people search for so-called "torrents" or simply list the most popular ones for people to download and these sites could be unaffected by the deal. - ...new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police. - A controversial device that can store security information and is the size of a grain of rice will make its way into the right arms of some 50 volunteering Arrowhead Regional Medical Center patients.
- After a 10-year moratorium, Gilmore in 1977 became the first person to be executed following a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that validated state laws to reform the capital punishment system. Since then, 997 prisoners have been executed, and next week, the 998th, 999th and 1,000th are scheduled to die. - Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry’s cleanup practices. - Once what is left of the story from Iraq reaches the west, having dodged bullets, kidnappers, suicide bombers and the occupying military, it must then overcome perhaps its most formidable obstacle: the filter of the mainstream media. - The Netherlands has warned Washington that if it continued to "hide" over reports of secret prisons in eastern Europe, Dutch contributions to US-led military missions could be affected, the ANP news agency has reported. - Under the guise of expressing their "point of view," administration officials were given a forum in which to make numerous questionable and even categorically false statements about the Iraq war, without refutation. In many instances, Woodward knew or should have known of evidence that undermined or refuted their "views." - Security service MI5 has received information given by terror suspects held in "secret prisons" outside the US... - What al-Jazeera was doing in Fallujah is exactly what it was doing when the United States bombed its offices in Afghanistan in 2001 and when U.S. forces killed al-Jazeera's Baghdad correspondent, Tareq Ayoub, during the April 2003 occupation of Baghdad. Al-Jazeera was witnessing and reporting on events Washington did not want the world to see.
- Staff at Arabic news broadcaster al-Jazeera have held protests over UK media reports that US President George W Bush wanted to attack its Qatar HQ. - ...nearly three months later — and after repeated revisions of the official account of the incident and a lowering of the death toll to two — authorities said they were still trying to reconstruct what happened Sept. 4 on the Danziger Bridge. And on the city's east side, where the shootings occurred, two families that suffered casualties are preparing to come forward with stories radically different from those told by police. - Why would New Orleans police be ordered to shoot and kill Defense Department contractors who were trying to repair canal walls? - Speaks out on phony UN-US dog and pony show, EPA testing pesticides on children - Murtha had no problem with the criminal enterprise of Iran-Contra—pulled off by the same criminals now in control of the White House and the Pentagon—and supported the illegal invasion of Iraq (100,000 Iraqi "soldiers" killed and 113,000 civilians slaughtered, according to the Red Crescent Society of Jordan). Murtha supported the intentional destruction of municipal water systems, waste material treatment and sewage disposal systems throughout Iraq. It can be assumed Murtha supported the violation of the Geneva Conventions and the laws of armed conflict, resulting in war crimes and crimes against humanity. - FAA records for four years listed both 9/11 United jetliners as still on the "active" list. Now planes only "deregistered" in September after snoopy researchers questioned FAA officials a month earlier. - In Chile, they are going to destroy a glacier in order to exploit gold. - Large parts of Italy's transport system have been brought to a halt by a nationwide strike. - The OSS instructed the anthropologists and other advisors to try to conceive ways that any detectable differences could be used in the development of weapons, but they were cautioned to consider this issue "in a-moral and non-ethical terms," with an understanding that, "if any of the suggestions contained herein are considered for action, all moral and ethical implications will be carefully studied." Prefiguring the findings of Stanley Milgram's later "shocking" obedience experiments, most consulted anthropologists abandoned their moral authority and complied with the OSS' request. - ...fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm. - The Council of Europe's Human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles said he had been "shocked" by conditions at the barbed wire-rimmed centre inside a US military base, which he witnessed in 2002. - When he was a student at Harvard Business School, a young George W. Bush told one of his professors that "poor people are poor because they're lazy." It's their own fault. Tell that to those 13 million babies. - The share of national income going to wages and salaries is at the lowest level since 1929 -- the year that kicked off the Great Depression. The share going to after-tax corporate profits, which heavily benefit wealthy Americans through increased dividends and capital gains, is at the highest level since 1929. - The Neocons had used his case as fearmongering of the continued threat posed by Al Qaeda on American soil. - How long before these billboards bear the faces of 'political dissidents' and other enemies of the state? - Use of e-voting machines has resulted in two elections with improbable results in Ohio, with potentially catastrophic outcomes for American democracy – especially if they are ignored. - Global warming is doubling the rate of sea level rise around the world, but attempts to stop it by cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be futile, leading researchers will warn today. - The man who lost his job as head of the US response to Hurricane Katrina has started up a new firm - dealing with disaster readiness. - According to the IFJ, which has been campaigning for justice in some 16 cases where journalists and media staff have died at the hands of US troops in the Iraq conflict, there was no US investigation or proper report on why the attack in which journalist Tareq Ayyoub was killed took place. - The sewage system in the city does not function properly and heavy water from open sewers inundates streets.
- A senior al-Jazeera executive is in the UK to demand publication of a memo in which George Bush allegedly discusses bombing the TV station's HQ. - The deal is one of the most spectacular moves yet in Mr Chavez's attempt to market his "21st-century socialism" using his country's oil wealth. - Wish I made a sweet deal with the devil. What an opportunity for me. The only reason I couldn't...is because I'm not Dick Cheney. - The Council of Europe, which represents 46 countries, said on Nov. 23 that it was opening a formal inquiry into reports the U.S. secretly held terrorist suspects in Europe and used European countries as transit points for the detainees. - A confidential Foreign Office document accuses Israel of rushing to annex the Arab area of Jerusalem, using illegal Jewish settlement construction and the vast West Bank barrier, in a move to prevent it becoming a Palestinian capital. - by Ralph Nader - All this junk television is transmitted, without the stations paying rent, to us for the public airwaves that we the people own. - ...footage shows two corpses laid out facing Mecca and then being burned in what the reporter, John Martinkus, describes as a "deliberate desecration of Muslim beliefs". - "DeLay is so addicted to corporate money that he is now accepting it to fight charges that he laundered it..." - US invader troops reportedly drive five kilometers into Syrian territory, lose armored vehicle in battle with Resistance fighters, then withdraw to occupied Iraq with their wreckage. - The ability of the United States government to gain access to Canadians' personal information that is in the hands of U.S. service providers has been an issue for some time. - More than $140,000 of the foundation's funds... was used to purchase sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, camouflage suits, thermal imagers and other materiel which Abramoff's foundation called "security" equipment. - Accused of shooting and paralyzing a Chicago police officer 35 years ago - Virtually alone among nations, the United States -- by far the worst polluter on the face of this green and smoggy planet—refuses to acknowledge the existence of a greenhouse threat -- let alone address it. The world burns, the barons steal, and America plays its public relations fiddle. - In Iraq, a country being torn apart in a seemingly never-ending conflict, there is now an acute shortage of blood. And the worse the violence becomes, the higher its black market prices rise. - Concern is mounting that the US government is using antiterror laws - namely, the Patriot Act - to revive a now-discredited practice common during the cold war: the prevention of foreign intellectuals who are critical of administration policies from entering the country and sharing their views with Americans. - Layers of Duplicity and Deceit - See, Neoliberalism Really Works! - ...if the Bush administration and its puppets in Congress achieve their common goal of protecting pharma profits by shielding vaccine makers from lawsuits, tax payers will have to foot the bill for the life-long costs of caring for millions of injured children. - Vedanta is a vertically- integrated behemoth with an impressive international portfolio comprising copper, bauxite (aluminium), zinc, lead and gold. It has raised almost $1 billion on the London Stock Exchange and has started to snap up mines in Zambia and Australia. - Police in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, have used truncheons, tear gas and water cannon to disperse a mass protest over the 6 November election results. - Rodent Trials Show Biotech is Squeaky Unclean
- Spain's largest sale of military equipment, to the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez, looks likely to go ahead in spite of objections from the US. - ...on a visit to Washington, Polish military officials had seen plans from Nato that were "a mirror image" of the Warsaw Pact's own deadly war plan. - He's forgotten nothing of the pain, the humiliation, the solitude. American investigators took a year to clear him. And another year to free him. - Is this the first time someone suggested bombing al Jazeera out of existence? I had a hunch that it had been talked about, on some level, and made its way up to the President, who was probably keen on the idea, personally. - European governments should consider direct intervention in an attempt to curb the systematic measures being undertaken by Israel to increase its control and population in the historically - and legally - Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem, a highly sensitive EU report concludes. - "We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America..." - Twelve soldiers who had just finished their 32-week commando training were alleged to have taken part in the initiation ritual, while around 40 other marines - also stripped naked - watched. The fight appears to have been "directed" by two non-commissioned officers. One was dressed in a surgeon's outfit, the other dressed as a schoolgirl. - A "trophy" video appearing to show British security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet. The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis. - Our new COINTELPRO, run by military intelligence and probably the CIA, will make the old COINTELPRO pale in comparison. - "You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ordnance in Iraq, should be tried as war criminals in courts..."
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