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Former UK chief spy slams Iraq war
The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al Qaeda, emboldened the group's leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain's former director of the MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller, has told an inquiry.
World's rich got richer amid recession
No suprises here from the business pages...
Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website
American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of confidential and potentially hugely embarrassing diplomatic cables that offer unfiltered assessments of Middle East governments and leaders.
Current govt surveillance law in NZ
Survey of the current state of surveillance law in New Zealand.
Urgent Call: Raise Your Voice in Solidarity with Oaxaca and Against Militarization
The following is an URGENT call for solidarity in order to highlight the increased militarization in Oaxaca and in other communities throughout the world. We recognize that the recent armed attack against the compañeros participating in the Support and Solidarity Caravan for San Juan Copala, Oaxaca (which includes two dead, one wounded, and many disappeared) have deep roots extending to histories of imperialism and white supremacy. Imperialism, because repression is historical and based on domination, subjugation, and displacement. White supermacy, because violence is systemically and institutionally perpetuated against indigenous peoples, so-called third worlds, people of color, and other marginalized groups in an effort to maintain privileges of wealth and power. We recognize this broader context, that the injustices in Oaxaca do not operate in a bubble, that repression is a global phenomena situated in very different local contexts.
Democracy Now Video: Paramilitaries Kill Two Human Rights Activists in Oaxaca
In Mexico, two human rights activists have been shot dead in the state of Oaxaca. The victims have been identified as Beatriz Carino, director of the Mexican human rights group CACTUS, and Jyri Antero Jaakkola, a human rights observer from Finland. They were traveling as part of a convoy attempting to deliver aid to a town that’s been targeted by paramilitary blockades since the 2006 uprising against governor Ulises Ruiz. [Includes rush transcript]
NORML Condemns Police Raids
"...how ironic that the Police should choose today to raid multiple home gardening stores, when the Law Commission has just detailed the harms and costs associated with alcohol," said Phil Saxby, spokesperson for the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). "Alcohol is at Class B level and it’s alcohol, not cannabis, that is causing mayhem on our roads and in our homes"
Today's raids included Switched On Gardener stores around the country, Guru Gardener in New Plymouth, Grow & Brew in Silverdale, and many others...
WikiLeaks Video - "Collateral Murder, Baghdad July 12, 2007"
Report from the WikiLeaks Press Conference
By Michael Collins
(April 5, Washington, DC) Julian Assange and Wikileaks kept their promise of February 20 by releasing a video tape that shows civilians and reporter deaths from an attack by United States forces. The tape was presented at a 9:00 am press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Prisoner lodges complaint against New Zealand with United Nations Human Rights Council
Waihopai Three Trial Focuses Peace Activists Friday
Report on the protests and activities surrounding the trial of the Waihopai dome-deflaters
