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An Iowa sheriff said he is concerned over how the US military is using restraint chairs he invented and manufactures out of Denison. The chairs are being used to force-feed prisoners of the US who are on hunger strikes at Gitmo.
The US Navy has put Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean on notice: They will be intercepted, pursued, arrested and handed over to coastal states for trial (or taken to US navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba).
In the chronicle of abuses that has emerged from America's fight against terror, there may be no story more jarring than that of the 2 young men killed at a US military detention center in Afghanistan in December 2002. They were found dead withi
Ascension Island is left over from the British empire. Its 35 square miles is in the middle of the Atlantic between Brazil and west Africa. It is a discreet base for covert British and American operations in Africa. To prevent the indigenous populati
"Night Watch," a gritty horror movie about an epic battle between the forces of light and dark on the streets of Moscow, broke all box office records on its domestic release in July 2004. In the US, it will be distributed in Russian with En
Many of the left-behinds and their colleagues will now be leaking embarrassing material to enterprising reporters like so many sieves, just as their outraged peers at the CIA, the NSA, the Justice Department, FEMA, and so many other purged and mangle
It isn’t just the men beating the teenagers, or the soldier filming the crime who are culpable. The film was shown on a military base in Europe before a whistleblower came forward. Many people witness a crime and take it for entertainment. One person
Free-speech advocates have blasted Google and other Internet companies for bowing to China's demands that they censor or turn over information on the communist government's behalf. Congress has proposed legislation to hobble the companies as
A computer programmer turned electronic vote-rigging software whistleblower, is planning a run for the US Congressional seat in Florida currently occupied by the man who Curtis alleged once asked him to create a vote-rigging software prototype progra
Television talk shows took aim at Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental weekend shooting in Texas of a hunting companion. Here are a few of the jokes:
A new Government Accountability Office report finding that the Bush Administration spent more than $1.6 billion in public relations and media contracts in a 2½ year span. The Bush Administration had commissioned "covert propaganda" from pub
Thomas W. Noe, the coin dealer and prominent Republican contributor whose $50 million state coin investment sparked one of the biggest scandals in Ohio state government history, was indicted today on 53 felonies, including theft of more than $1 milli
Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA as a undercover officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran. The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valeri
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department today issued a report on Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting Saturday of a fellow quail hunter on a sprawling Texas ranch. The hunting accident report, a copy of which you can find below, brief
CBS News reports that local law enforcement officials were prevented from interviewing Vice President Cheney after he accidentally shot a 78-year-old man during a hunting trip.
Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bo
A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East. Hundreds of scientists and technicians would be targets in the opening salvos as the attacks focused on eliminating further nuclear
Homeland Security completed its “Cyber Storm” wargame to test how our government “would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.” The nature of the attacks by bloggers must
... the detainees were being interrogated and tortured, and that they were sometimes given psychotropic drugs. Some, he believed, had died in custody... the detainees were not Taliban fighters or associates of Osama bin Laden. "By the time we go
Over the last five years, US manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17% of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.
A draft UN report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the US treatment of them violates their right to physical and mental health, and, in some cases, constitutes torture. It also urges the US to close the military prison in Cub
Syria has switched all of the state's foreign currency transactions to euros from dollars amid a political confrontation with the US, the head of state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said. "This is a precaution. We are talking about billions
The US has spent more than a quarter of a trillion dollars during its 3 years in Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and shelter the troops and rebuild the country.
Neoconservatives in Washington are urging President Bush to drop diplomacy with Iran in favour of boosting internal dissent and opposition forces within the Islamic regime. The US state department spends roughly $4m a year on the promotion of democra
Shiite lawmakers chose incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari to be Iraq's new prime minister, endorsing the physician and longtime exile for a second term by a single vote, thanks in large part to support by a radical anti-U.S. faction.
The US is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects. Building was under way at Ain Aouda, above a wooded gorge south of Rabat’s diplomatic district. Run by the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substant
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Prime Minister Blair held out a begging bowl towards dissenters in his own party, urging them to rethink their opposition towards ID cards and new laws which aim to ban the “glorification” of terrorism.
Chief police officers kept a controversial shoot-to-kill policy against suicide bombers secret from the public because they feared it would be "watered down". Barbara Wilding, one of the architects of the strategy known as Operation Kratos,
“This is the first time in my 45 years judicial career where chivalry has been used as a defense,” Judge Faircloth quipped prior to issuing a guilty verdict and sentencing. “I don’t buy the chivalry defense. I consider this a grievous offense.”
