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BBC News: Gays 'fearful' in Namibia

Namibia takes a giant leap backwards andorders police to arrest homosexuals. I guess they’ll be blowing up statues next.

Posted on 21st March 2001 Details

BBC News: Exxon 'helped torture in Indonesia'

Things are goingway too farin the name of the almighty dollar. These big corporations think they can get away with anything (and they do).(Thanks John)

Posted on 22nd June 2001 Details

The Observer: Squalid road that leads to Belgium

This is so depressing: an Observer article notes how Brussels has become theEuropean centre for the trade in child prostitutes, mainly controlled by Albanian gangs.I can imagine the police must be up against incredibly well organized networks, and if there is one crowd that has a ruthless reputation in this city, it’s certainly the Albanian "underworld".

Posted on 24th June 2001 Details

BBC News: Coke sued over death squad claims

The world we live in is moving closer and closer to the worlds depicted in sci-fi novels: Coca-Cola is being accused of allegedlyhiring right-wing death squadsto terrorise workers at its Colombian bottling plant.

Posted on 21st July 2001 Details

PlanetOut: Forced 'conversion' of gays uncovered

A disturbing period in thedark past of British medical researchhas recently been uncovered.

Posted on 8th August 2001 Details

The Guardian: They can't see why they are hated

AGuardian articleclearly and eloquently puts into words what I’ve been struggling to express about this ghastly crisis. This is so depressing. The term “vicious circle” perpetually springs to mind.

Posted on 13th September 2001 Details

NY Times: Some Passengers Singled Out for Exclusion by Flight Crew

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that an airline pilot can single out a passenger for exclusion based on his ethnicity or the fact that the passengers stood by without reaction. Readthe story at the New York Times.

Posted on 22nd September 2001 Details

Washington Post: Questions Swirl Around Men Held in Terror Probe

Watch as liberties slowly decline.This articleis truly frightening:

Posted on 15th October 2001 Details

The Guardian: Gagging the sceptics

Remember Bush sayingif you’re not with us, you’re against us, it’s turning out to beway too real. The article is really worth reading, and raises some very valid points, if a little paranoia-tainted at times.(via the null device)

Posted on 16th October 2001 Details

NY Times: Dissapearing in America

While the New York Timesattacks the erosion of civil libertiesfollowing the September 11th events, the UK plans toplace itself under a state of public emergency, allowing the government to detain suspected terrorists without trial, by opting out of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Welcome to the future.

Posted on 11th November 2001 Details

Moscow Times: Global Eye -- Weather Report

It won’t come with jackboots and book burnings, mass rallies and fevered harangues. It won’t come with ‘black helicopters’ or tanks on the street. It won’t come like a storm—but like a break in the weather, that sudden change of season you might feel when the wind shifts on an October evening: Everything is the same, but everything has changed. Something has gone, departed from the world, and a new reality has taken its place

Posted on 15th November 2001 Details

Indymedia: Reason to be Paranoid; a Personal Experience

Recently, a foreign poster to the indymedia site was stopped upon entering the USA andinterrogated by government agentswho accused him of involvement in terrorist groups.

Posted on 22nd November 2001 Details

WSWS: Afghan POWs at Guantanamo base: bound and gagged, drugged, caged like animals

Afghan prisoners are not really prisoners of war, they’re "illegal combatants", although such a designation does not exist under the Geneva Convention. But it lets the US militarydo what they pleasewith them.

Posted on 14th January 2002 Details

SMH: Brutal conditions inside Cuban cage

This articlecontains impressive photos of the U.S. detention center in Cuba.

Posted on 20th January 2002 Details

The Standard: Guantanamo's Unhappy Campers

A journalistvisits Guantanamo baywhere al-Quaeda prisoners are being held, and returns with tales of well-treated prisoners that masturbate and stick toothpaste up their backside.

Posted on 3rd February 2002 Details

Salon: Too late to stop the hangman?

Missouri is determined to execute Joseph Amrine for murder even though every prosecution witness and the jury foreman now say he’s innocent and new witnesses point to another man. Why? A federal law says the evidence came in too late.

Posted on 21st February 2002 Details

Wired: Games Elevate Hate to Next Level

There are some seriously twisted minds out there.Racist and anti-Semitic computer gameswith titles like Ethnic Cleansing, Shoot the Blacks and Concentration Camp Rat Hunt are growing in popularity as a tool for hate groups.

Posted on 22nd February 2002 Details

WSWS: US oversees abduction, torture, execution of alleged terrorists

We can’t capture them legally and torture them at home? No big deal, let’s just abduct them andget someone else to torture them.

Posted on 20th March 2002 Details

AnitaRoddick: Victory in Nike Greenwashing Suit

A US courthas ruledthat Nike can’t get away with lying about its bad record on sweatshops by using US freedom of speech guarantees.

Posted on 4th May 2002 Details

BBC News: Virginia apologises for eugenics policy

Unbelievable:The state of Virginia has become the first American state to apologise for the forced sterilisation of thousands of its citizens as part of a eugenics, or selective breeding, programme in the last century.

Posted on 6th May 2002 Details

Guardian: Belgium exhumes its colonial demons

Moreskeletons from Belgium’s colonial cupboardmay be about to be discovered, and about time too. The Museum of Africa here in Brussels is a pretty scary experience in its own right.

Posted on 15th July 2002 Details

NY Times: High-Altitude Rambos

al Quaeda doesn’t need to strike the USA anymore, I think the paranoia is doing a pretty good job by itself. Witness theAirline Rambosincident.

Posted on 24th September 2002 Details

Ventura County Star: Saudi women endure contradictions

In Saudi Arabia, it’s men whochoose women’s underwear.

Posted on 28th October 2002 Details

Art Bell - POWs On Board

Photos takeninside a military C-130transporting POWs? They look like the real thing.

Posted on 8th November 2002 Details

The Courier Mail: US plans death camp

Guantanamo Bay tobecome a death camp? Is anyone surprised?

Posted on 3rd June 2003 Details

SF Chronicle: Torture by proxy/ How immigration threw a traveler to the wolves

This story should send a chill down any spine:torture by proxy.

Posted on 6th January 2004 Details

MonPuteaux.com: interpelle sans motif par la police municipale de Puteaux

French blogger Christophe Grébert wasarrested by the policeyesterday due to the content of his weblog being an annoyance to the local mayor. And yes, that’s France, right next door to here; not some obscure dictatorship most people couldn’t point out on a world map. [credit]

Posted on 16th May 2004 Details

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