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He has an article Britain’s terror laws have left me and my family shattered at The Guardian’s Comment is Free- The UN’s committee on human rights has just published a report criticising Britain’s anti-terror laws and the resulting curbs on civil liberties.

Some Politicians Are the Same As Terrorists

Yesterday, we watched parents bury a lovely 5 year old, one month short of his sixth birthday: If you ever have to, our hearts honestly go out to you. It was, simply put, indescribable. As the priest said, “Parents do not expect to bury their children.” _____________________________ Today, we just had to get home.

Quotations by David Korten The systemic forces nurturing the growth and dominance of global corporations are at the heart of the current human dilemma … to avoid collective catastrophe we must radically transform the underlying system of business to restore power to the small and local.

“President Bush, Will You Please Shut Up?” By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied American media are heading the innocent world toward nuclear war. Back in the Reagan years the National Endowment for Democracy was created as a cold war tool.

After a blogger filed a Freedom of Information Act request, the military last week released photographs of the crates (”segregation boxes”) into which it segregates violent Iraqi prisoners: Three grainy black-and-white photos show the rudimentary structures of wood and mesh.

True, one can find perhaps more “learned” assessments elsewhere, but The Mail today provides a reasonable summation of the Georgia-Russia conflict. The Mail’s reporting aside, what this blog finds especially interesting are the reader comments at the bottom.

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted August 5, 2008. We did not invade Afghanistan to help the Afghan people. So why are so many progressives buying into that myth? Monday’s New York Times ran an article that drew dark parallels to the news out of Iraq.

The Dorset/Daily Echo (via the wife): DRIVERS in the BH postcode district are the most likely in the country to be caught speeding, a shock survey has revealed… …Borough of Poole councillor Phil Eades said: “This table suggests that drivers in BH are six times worse than Glasgow drivers.

The following article pretty much says it all - I've got nothing really to add, other than what I've previously written here, here, here, here and here: Do You Feel Safe Now? By Paul Craig Roberts Now that military officers selected by the Bush Pentagon have reached a split verdict convicting Salim