As private security firms take on more responsibility in Iraq, no amount of regulation can stop tragedies from happening

An extraordinary report from Guy Adams in Los Angeles at the music arena that has been turned into a makeshift medical center August 15, 2009 They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right [...]

Shadow Foreign Secretary fears ‘Europe’s black hole’ is slowly falling apart again by Nigel Morris August 12, 2009 Bosnia is on the brink of collapsing back into chaos and violence as its ethnic tensions escalate, the shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague warned yesterday. Fourteen years after the end of the war that tore apart the former Yugoslav republic, Mr [...]

por Marina Litvinsky WASHINGTON, 11 ago (IPS) – Grupos de derechos humanos acusan a Arabia Saudita de detener ilegalmente a miles de personas sin juicios ni sentencias desde 2003, mediante su programa de lucha contraterrorista. Miles de personas han sido detenidas en total secretismo, mientras otras sufren juicios secretos y sumarios, y afrontan su posible ejecución, señala [...]

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So by Chalmers Johnson July 30, 2009 However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with [...]

by Terry Macalister July 24, 2009 Trade union leaders warned tonight that the direct action seen at the Vestas factory was likely to be repeated elsewhere as workers refused to “bend their knee and accept their fate” in the face of mass redundancies caused by recession. The sit-in at the Isle of Wight wind turbine plant was the [...]

by Ben Webster and Dom Phillips (in São Paulo) July 18, 2009 Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international convention.

by Kim Zetter July 14, 2009 International fingerpointing in the recent cyber attacks against U.S. and South Korean websites has widened to include Great Britain, as researchers examining the attacks trace them to a server in the United Kingdom.

Unmanned drones could be banned from use in conflicts, Lord Bingham, one of Britain’s most senior judges has suggested. by Murray Wardrop July 6, 2009 Lord Bingham, who retired last year as a senior law lord, said the aircraft could follow other weapons considered “so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance” in being consigned [...]