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In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair’s Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security - and must have Churchill spinning in his grave
By Henry Porter
In the shadow of Winston Churchill’s statue opposite the House of Commons, a rather odd ritual has developed on Sunday afternoons. A small (…)

by Robert C. Koehler
The unending game of “pretend” that the U.S. media allow George Bush to play on the global stage, so often letting his lying utterances hang suspended, unchallenged, in the middle of the story, as though they were plausible - as though a class of third-graders couldn’t demolish them with a few innocent questions - feels like the journalistic equivalent of waterboarding. Gasp! Some truth, please!
I suggest the prez has forfeited the right to command a headline, or (…)

Zarqawi Successor "In Egypt Jail" Aljazeera + Agencies Thursday 06 July 2006, 13:59 Makka Time, 10:59 GMT Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the purported successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is in an Egyptian prison and not Iraq, a lawyer has claimed.
Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri al-Yawm has quoted Mamduh Ismail as saying he met al-Muhajir, also known as Sharif Hazaa, or Abu Ayub al-Masri, in Tura prison in Cairo, where he has been held for seven years.
"Sharif Hazaa (…)

"Stars And Stripes" Lands Exclusive, And Revealing, Bush Interview By E&P Staff Published: July 05, 2006 3:20 PM ET NEW YORK When Stars and Stripes nabbed anexclusive interview with President Bush on July 4 — aboard Air Force One — it devoted most of the questions to ones submitted by service members.
One, put to the commander-in-chief by the newspaper’s Jeff Schogol: Has he attended even one funeral for a fallen soldier from Iraq? No, he replied. “Because which funeral do you go to? (…)

by Joshua Frank
There really is no way of getting around it. Sen. Hillary Clinton may well be future presidential material. From Manhattan to Hollywood, Hillary Clinton is pocketing enormous amounts of cash for her reelection campaign. Yet, Hillary is facing what seems to be fierce opposition from within her own party, as well as from third parties here in New York. The main reason candidates have signed up to challenge Hillary is her position, er, non-position on the disgraceful "war on (…)

Canada’s Multiculturalism A Threat Or Grace? By Joshua Hergesheimer Tuesday 27 June 2006, 13:31 Makka Time, 10:31 GMT It has been almost a month since the Canadian city of Toronto woke up to the news that 17 suspects had been arrested in an anti-terror operation.
The suspects had been caught in a police sting after they tried to buy a suspiciously large quantity of fertiliser that could be used for bomb-making.
Canada, the country north of America considered synonymous with the word (…)

By Nicola Nasser* Three years after the U.S. invasion to change the Iraqi regime, Washington’s strategic regional ally, Israel, has launched a massive military operation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to force another regime change in the Middle East, with an end goal to incapacitate the Palestinian Authority and rule it out as a negotiating partner. Israel’s pretexts are a capture of an Israeli soldier in a daring attack, attacking Israeli communities by Palestinian home-made (…)

Shadows On The Wall Sheila Samples, Arab News Thursday, 6, July, 2006 And so we Americans sit, shackled by self-imposed chains of fear, captivated by shadowy forms that move discordantly across the walls of our perception. Once again we are eager to accept appearance for reality.
The Supreme Court ruling last week rejecting President George W. Bush’s military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees casts a huge shadow on the wall. Many are saying it not only curbed Bush and Cheney’s (…)

A cousin describes finding the shot and shattered bodies. A U.S. soldier is in custody.
by Raheem Salman and J. Michael Kennedy BAGHDAD - He was the first to enter the charred farmhouse where the bodies of his relatives lay strewn about the floor, shot and bludgeoned to death.
And he watched more than three months later as a U.S. Army officer took the two surviving children in his arms, barely able to hold back tears as he told them that the people who had killed their family would be (…)

FOX NEWS is the self proclaimed network that America turns to for fair and balanced news’ ....Is hiring war-mongering DLC Democrats toface-off ’ against war-mongering GOP neocons an exhibition of balance ? ...FAIR AND BALANCED ?.... How are the paid ,debauched `on-air personalities’ at FOX NEWS able to utter such errant nonsense without cracking up on air ? ..... Where do they find human refuse - so desperate for face time on TV as to traduce their self respect ?... They are BOBBLE-HEADS (…)