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Excerpt: Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President george W. Bush last week.

Excerpt: Barack obama and John mccain are currently engaged in a bidding war to see who can promise more troops in afghanistan.

Excerpt: Iran's provocative missile tests 10 days ago again fueled the debate on the likelihood of aerial strikes against Iran.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John mccain says Democrat Barack obama is wrong about the Iraq war.

Summary: So, next time when you hear about possible attacks on Iran, pause for a moment and think about their consequences, if for no reason other than the pocket issues: Attacks on Iran will put many of us out on street, unemployed, and hungry. Should we not care about our own well-being, instead of supporting the warmongering of the neocons, their allies, and their vested interest in starting another unjustified war in the Middle East? source: The Huffington Postread more

Summary: In a new book, Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, the authors offer four main reasons why sanctions have had such a spotty track record. The hardships caused by sanctions often unify the interests of the target regime and its people, strengthening a rogue leader’s hold on power, rather than weakening it. Secondly, sanctions are often too weak or too haphazardly applied to force the desired change of behaviour. source: The Globe and Mailread more

As the downward economic spiral ensures that millions more people are likely to be unemployed, the government is devising ways to crackdown on and discipline the workshy gets. Last year it was forcing single mums to take jobs, under plans co-devised by a rich investment banker named David Freud (a fucking nobody in other words). This year, again with the help of Mr Freud, they are planning to abolish incapacity benefit and replace it with a more ‘temporary’ scheme that will compel benefits offices to goad the recipients into seeking work. Meanwhile, those on Jobseekers Allowance who remain unemployed for more than a year will have to “pick up litter” and do similar community service, at first for four weeks and then full-time if they don’t snap out of it. Forgive me, but isn’t community service a form of state penalty dealt out to petty criminals? Is the government now saying that unemployment is a crime? The first thing to notice about this is that,

Acting Chief Negomo of Chiweshe district in Mashonaland Central province accused eight families of backing the opposition, demanded money and livestock from them and issued eviction orders against them

Gregory Patterson, 24, pleads guilty to conspiracy to wage war against US

Some observers expressed skepticism the parties to the talks could address all the issues on the table in the fortnight allotted for the task