(Houston Chronicle) Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth, U.S. researchers said today.
The study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI, not only sheds light on what goes on when people lie but may also provide new technology for [...]
Twenty years on the surviving people of Bhopal are still awaiting compensation from Union Carbide via the Indian government. Union Carbide didn’t even clean up the contamination they caused. Corporations are not people. They should not have the rights of people without any of the responsibilities. This kind of crap [...]
Via Corrente, Blair is going to try and introduce compulsory identity cards in the UK. Various administrations have mooted this idea over the years and gotten a consistently hostile reaction from the British people. I doubt this time will be any different. It is not a vote winning idea - I’m [...]
As I mentioned earlier in the week there have been allegations of a lethal gas being used against Fallujans as well as other weapons of dubious legality. Dahr Jamail has more on these and other atrocites:
The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report..
”Poisonous gases [...]
The Republican-controlled Congress has stepped up its campaign to curtail the power of the International Criminal Court, threatening to cut economic aid to governments that refuse to sign immunity accords shielding U.S. personnel from being surrendered to the tribunal.
The move marks an escalation in U.S. efforts to ensure that the first world criminal court can [...]
(Common Dreams) CARACAS - U.S. politics over the next four years will be rooted in patriotism and religion, an ”explosive combination” that will require Latin Americans to ”arm themselves with strength, courage and bravery,” according to Portuguese writer José Samamago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Saramago spoke to writers and journalists this week [...]
It is good to finally see this story appear in a British mainstream magazine. Ex-labour minister Michael Meacher is not burdened with the disengenuous naivite of some of his colleagues. Hopefully some other publications might now start giving this story the attention it deserves. From the New Statesman:
Michael Meacher smells something fishy in [...]
From the New Statesman:
For those of you who cannot conceive of the US as a cruel country, read the tale of the young quadriplegic condemned to death for possessing marijuana. By Andrew Stephen
If you think that the number of law and order bills in Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech shows that Britain is becoming illiberal and authoritarian, [...]
Why Natasha Diman Joined the fight for change in Ukraine
By Andrew Osborn in Kiev for the Independent
27 November 2004
She came to deliver a letter in Kiev’s Independence Square, planning to be back at her home town of Bila Tserkva by the evening. Five days later Natasha Diman, 24, an unemployed lawyer, finds herself at the [...]
I’ve witnessed elections Here in Australia and in the US over the last two months and been disappointed by the results of both. Only one more to go - my own voting country. A last chance to turn the tide. If the warmongers get a hat-trick we are all going to hell in [...]
Courtesy of Weezil, Investigative Journalist Wayne Madsen has some new information on the rigging of the election:
November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and [...]
WASHINGTON — November 23 — Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency took several chemicals off its list of regulated, smog-forming, volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs react in sunlight to form ground-level ozone, or smog, a major lung irritant. The agency decided that the newly delisted chemicals do not cause enough ozone to require regulation.
One of [...]
