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Coincidentally, we also have Bill Clinton in the news this morning whining about a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Bill Clinton: ‘Vast right-wing conspiracy’ as ‘virulent’ as ever
Lord Mandelson today criticised “extreme rightwing figures” for circulating rumours on the internet which led to Gordon Brown being asked on the BBC whether he had been prescribed medication to [...]
Germany’s most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources.
The alleged agent – the late Adolf von Thadden – came closer than anyone to giving the far-right real influence over postwar German politics.
Under his leadership, the National Democratic party [...]
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The former head of MI6 has hit out at ’striking and disturbing’ invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state.
Sir Richard Dearlove, who led the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, claimed some were an ‘abuse’ of the law.
He attacked the ‘loss of liberties’ caused by expanding surveillance powers and described some [...]
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The former head of MI6 has hit out at ’striking and disturbing’ invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state.
Sir Richard Dearlove, who led the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, claimed some were an ‘abuse’ of the law.
He attacked the ‘loss of liberties’ caused by expanding surveillance powers and described some [...]
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North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
“The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer,” the official Korean Central [...]
North Korea, defiant in the face of international condemnation of its latest nuclear test, fired two short-range missiles off its east coast on Tuesday and accused the United States of plotting against its government.
In a move certain to compound tensions in the region, South Korea said it would join a U.S.-led initiative to intercept ships [...]
US-LED air strikes killed more than 100 civilians during operations against insurgents in Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said today, as the US military opened an investigation.
“We confirm that in the military operation the other night more than 100 non-combatants have been killed,” Farah province police chief Abdul Ghafar Watandar told AFP, referring to strikes [...]
A hard-line Islamic cleric who had tried to impose Taliban-style rule here in the capital returned Friday to the city’s Red Mosque, the scene of a bloody siege nearly two years ago, and vowed to continue his struggle to enforce Islamic law in the country.
Pakistani men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the [...]
Emerging markets, led by China and Russia, plan to jointly challenge the U.S. dollar’s role as the world’s sole benchmark currency at the April 2 meeting of the Group 20 nations – a move that underscores the currency’s weakness and fading support around the world.
The creation of a new reserve currency to be issued by [...]
Emerging markets, led by China and Russia, plan to jointly challenge the U.S. dollar’s role as the world’s sole benchmark currency at the April 2 meeting of the Group 20 nations – a move that underscores the currency’s weakness and fading support around the world.
The creation of a new reserve currency to be issued by [...]
Emerging markets, led by China and Russia, plan to jointly challenge the U.S. dollar’s role as the world’s sole benchmark currency at the April 2 meeting of the Group 20 nations – a move that underscores the currency’s weakness and fading support around the world.
The creation of a new reserve currency to be issued by [...]
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu won Labor chief Ehud Barak’s agreement on Tuesday to a political partnership that could help Israel’s next government avoid friction with Washington on Middle East peace.
Under the coalition deal with Barak, an administration led by Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud would respect all of Israel’s international agreements, a Labor Party official said, a [...]
Vancouver city officials are hoping to tap into $2.5 million in government funding to beef up surveillance during the 2010 Winter Olympics with street cameras.
City council will consider a report next week that recommends accepting the funds from the province and the RCMP-led Olympic security unit.
If approved by council, the money will be used to [...]
Source: FT.com
A rogue piece of software, which triggered a cascading failure through Google’s data centres around the world, led to the shutdown of its Gmail system last week.
The failure, during routine maintenance at one of the company’s European data centres, was an unforeseen side-effect of a software program that was written in-house, said Nelson [...]
Source: Daily Express
TOP secret contingency plans have been drawn up to counter the threat posed by a “summer of discontent” in Britain.
The “double-whammy” of the worst economic crisis in living memory and a motley crew of political extremists determined to stir up civil disorder has led to the extraordinary step of the Army being [...]
Source: NYTimes.com
The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians.
The operation was led by Uganda and intended to crush the Lord’s Resistance Army, a [...]
Source: Reuters
Kyrgyzstan began moves on Wednesday to close a U.S. military air base in the former Soviet republic which is vital for supplying U.S.-led troops fighting in Afghanistan.
The decision by a traditional Russian ally in Central Asia sends a tough signal and challenge to new U.S. President Barack Obama as he plans to send additional [...]
Source: washingtonpost.com
Militants blew up a bridge in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, cutting the major supply line for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan with an explosion that turned the narrow span into a jagged metal “V.”
It was the latest, and perhaps most serious, attempt to block supplies to the U.S.-led mission against the Taliban.
The length of the [...]
Source: Bloomberg.com
OAO Gazprom, Russia’s state gas exporter, called for a resumption of talks on a dispute with Ukraine that led to a cutoff of Russian supplies of the fuel today to the country, the second interruption in three years.
Price was not the main issue in negotiations broken off yesterday, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told [...]
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