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Archive for the Month of June, 2005.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 451 through 511 of 511.
- The US Supreme Court has ruled that file-sharing companies are to blame for what users do with their software. - Swiss researchers have developed the world's most economical car that could circle the globe on only eight litres of fuel.
- “Despite persistent rumors of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm,” the Pentagon insisted that “US forces had not used a new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq.” The Pentagon lied. - "9/11 Mysteries" presents photographic and video evidence drawn from over 3000 web sites and 10 current documentaries, allowing viewers to create perspective and form conclusions by themselves." - The Bombing of Iraq, January 2001 - March 2003 - Cheaper 'to pay Saddam to quit Iraq' - Former soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force have come forward with claims of widespread abuses against the Palestinians amid what they say is a growing climate of "moral corruption". - Most of Iraq is today a bloody no-man's land beset by ruthless insurgents, savage bandit gangs, trigger-happy US patrols and marauding government forces.
- It is interesting, if not wholly typical, that a Google news search of the words “Morgan Reynolds” and “inside job” returns exactly ten matches. - Consider the legacy of the Reagan years, scrupulously avoided by the corporate media when the Gipper cashed in his chips last year...
- A US terror alert in late 2003 that interrupted about 30 overseas flights was triggered by a CIA analysis of what were thought to be hidden messages broadcast on Aljazeera TV, NBC Nightly News has said. - Both the Maoists and the Army have involved children in their bloody nine-year war. The Maoists, who are trying to overthrow the monarchy, control 75 percent of the country's territory - most everything but cities, towns, and district headquarters. They have set up their own courts and systems of taxation and governance. Over 8,000 children have been orphaned and tens of thousands displaced in a conflict that has claimed over 12,000 lives. The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) has caused two-thirds of the deaths, according to INSEC, a human rights organization.
- A top US army procurement official has said Halliburton's deals in Iraq were the worst example of contract abuse she had seen as Pentagon auditors flagged over $1 billion of potential overcharges by the Texas-based firm. - Washington's decision to send food aid to North Korea, rather than a purely humanitarian act spurred by deep sentiments of benevolence, brotherhood and care for one's fellow man, is a cold, calculated decision to further its political, economic and military interests - Who Was That Ex-President I Saw You With Last Night? - ‘The attack on Iraq is an attack on justice, on liberty, on our safety, on our future, on us all’ – The Jury of Conscience - U.S. President George W. Bush has been significantly exaggerating the amount of money his administration has provided in aid to sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study released here Monday. - The list below contains many of the keywords the Government Spooks search YOUR email and chat for. - The young woman on the phone says she is proud to have won $50,000 in scholarships from the CIA. - The United Nations says it has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining terrorism suspects, notably on American military ships. - Iraq, the land of two rivers that once irrigated the world's earliest civilisations, needs up to $15 billion to repair a dilapidated water system crippled by war and neglect, the country's water minister said on Tuesday
- Police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Tuesday wounding seven protesters, including one man who was shot in the head, witnesses and hospital staff said.
- Activists across Latin America are taking a stand against devastating mining plans. If CAFTA passes, they won't stand a chance. - There are two ways to defeat democracy, one way is by preventing citizens from voting, and the other is by preventing worthy candidates from appearing on the ballot. - Advocating for an invasion himself, Cavuto said, "I just don't know gentlemen what you do here short of a military invasion or quarantine or any of that stuff." - Calls for the U.S. government to require that electronic voting machines produce voter-verified paper trails ran into opposition from two members of a Senate committee during a hearing on e-voting last week. - Yesterday, an Indymedia server in Bristol was seized by the police. An Indymedia volunter was also arrested during the raid, the organisation said.
- In a popular shopping area of Caracas, with street musicians playing a bolero in the background, Jorge Botero is filming a promo for Latin America's most ambitious new satellite channel. - I present before you on behalf of the prosecution this indictment on the criminalized and privatized nature of this brutal war which is the corporate invasion and occupation of Iraq.
- As of January, the Pentagon would admit only that Death Squads were on the table - "The Americans just do not care, this happens all the time," said one distraught mourner at Bakri's funeral. - So even the applause was fake. - It has destroyed 100,000 small businesses, is breaking the union movement, has shipped massive amounts of jobs overseas, and has the news media in it's pocket. They are a version of the Pullman Company, but much more dangerous.
- The finding by the National Academy of Sciences panel is viewed as critical because it is likely to significantly influence what radiation levels government agencies will allow at abandoned nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons production facilities and elsewhere.
- Bolivia's government has ordered the armed forces to take 'physical control' of oilfields in a politically charged move amid continuing demands for full nationalization of the industry in South America's poorest country.
- Draft dodging, adultery, child sex abuse, vehicular manslaughter, if you think these sound like the crimes of some "pinko commie hippie", think again, these are U.S. government officials.
- A critical analysis of the propagated information about the tsunami gives credence to our view that the media’s position is turning into a political smoke screen, covert propaganda, and a publicity stunt of our corporate rulers to shape world public opinion towards the corporate benevolence and divert public attention from the tragedy in Iraq. - The UN is making a war-torn Iraq suffer the additional economic hardship of paying compensation for Saddam Hussein's 1991 invasion of Kuwait, according to activists from a US-based lobby group. - "It's not a pay raise," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power." - A controversial chemical used by DuPont Co. to make the nonstick substance Teflon poses more of a cancer risk than indicated in a draft assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency, an independent review board has found - With 714 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, the United States remains the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, ahead of Russia and Belarus, according to figures published by the London University King's College International Centre for Prison Studies. - A top US businessman and an international network of smugglers and academics are making millions of dollars through their illegal dealings in looted Middle Eastern artefacts, according to a leading stolen antiquities activist.
- A private developer contacted the local government in Supreme Court Justice David Souter's hometown in New Hampshire yesterday asking that the property of the judge – who voted in favor of a controversial decision allowing a city to take residents' homes for private development – be seized to make room for a new hotel - Under a newly-proposed rule (that will most likely be formally adopted), the EPA would allow pesticide manufacturers to test their products on human "volunteers." The volunteers would include pregnant women and prisoners, as well as newborns and children. - A New York state lawmaker says he's embarrassed, after he mistakenly sent out an e-mail message that referred to his constituents as "idiots." - Global temperatures in the future could be much hotter than scientists have predicted if new computer models on climate change are correct. - We may now be only weeks away from a complete collapse of the Iraqi army and the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in the face of overwhelming public pressure on Tony Blair. - The United States is increasingly unpopular in much of Latin America and presidents that were US allies have recently been forced from office. Carlos Mesa of Bolivia is the latest to be pressured into resignation because he could no longer govern the country. - "In any criminal act one needs to look at who benefited. Surely it wasn’t we the people. We have pretty much lost our entire Bill of Rights, and The Constitution under a regime of fear and the catch all phrase “terrorism." - Belief in the myth of the self-made man has made many ordinary people suckers for the right-wing pitch. - The FBI is to be re-organised, and will include another new intelligence body called the National Security Service. - Want to become a US ambassador? It's not as hard as you may think. Just donate a couple of hundred thousand to President George W. Bush's campaign coffers and pick your city. - Mohammad Radwan Obeid is a threat to national security because he surfed terrorist Web sites and visited terrorist chat rooms, the FBI claims. - Iraq's shortage of runaway brides and sharks keeps U.S. news crews away
- Sproul got into a bit of trouble last fall when, in certain states, it came out that the firm was playing dirty tricks in order to suppress the Democratic vote: concealing their partisan agenda, tricking Democrats into registering as Republicans, surreptitiously re-registering Democrats and Independents as Republicans, and shredding Democratic registration forms.
- Here are the resistance conditions: “All enemy troops are to withdraw to the occupied city of Kuwait” and then “we sit under the exact same tent, that Schwarzkopf erected at Safwan, only this time it is to be erected in Matlaa the generally known and accepted borders of Iraq, and with the authorization of our new government, which will be declared soon at the correct timing from our Baghdad, we will negotiate your surrender!” - One in six countries in the world face food shortages this year because of severe droughts that could become semi-permanent under climate change, UN scientists warned yesterday. - The next road you travel -- and pay a toll to use -- could be privately owned. - The president of Venezuela, at a summit of leaders from neighboring Carribbean nations, hinted that supplying oil to the U.S. was a task he would rather not have, and indicated that the days of cheap oil - and oil discounts for the United States - were over. - Before the U.S.-led invasion, Baghdad residents had about 20 hours of electricity a day. Today, they get about 10, usually broken into two-hour chunks. - Before the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government a year ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported registering 107 detainees under 18 during visits to six prisons controlled by coalition troops. Some detainees were as young as 8. Since that time, Human Rights Watch reports that the number has risen.
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