- Drive 800 Miles or Feed a Person for a Year? The Biofuels Dilemma Can the pumping of ethanol into American fuel tanks really make it harder for parents to feed their families?

- NYC's Staggering Arrest Rate for Pot Achieved By Police Deception and Scams New study says New York's cannabis crackdown is both racist and fraudulent -- and that more have been arrested under Bloomberg than Giuliani.

- Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes? Borrowers are being crushed under the credit crisis. Someone needs to pay.

- Our Media Have Been So Wrong for So Long In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.

- New research on baby survival rates stokes abortion limit row To be sure, a new study published online by the British Journal of Medicine will intensify the debate over whether the present abotion time limit should be lowered. Anti abortionists want to lower the legal cut-off point for

- Luis Posada Carriles, a terror suspect abroad, enjoys a 'coming-out' in Miami Hypocrisy is a notable part of United States exceptionalism. The case of Luis Posada Carriles is evidence of a gross double-standard on the part of the Bush Administration towards terrorism that only makes the world more

- Marines ignore Afghan opium so as not to upset locals Afghanistan supplies some 93 percent of the world’s opium used to make heroin It’s long been rumored Bush’s father got his nickname for overseeing similar shenanigans during his tenure with the CIA.

- Arrest me now Homeland Security Questions from Homeland Security´s latest brainchild had me both confused and dumbfounded on the latest transatlantic flight I embarked upon: A. Do you have a communicable disease; physical or mental disorder; or are

- Indymedia Journalists Targeted in Ecuador, Five Arrested

- May Day 2008 Parades

- Triqui community radio announcers murdered in Oaxaca

- Decentralized Days of Action for Squats and Autonomous Spaces

- Fare for stengte flyplasser 17. mai Source: Magasinet Aktuell

- Petroleumstilsynet vurdere samsoving på Alvheim Source: ie aktuelt

- Mangler på beredskap offshore bekymrer Source: ie aktuelt

- Sykehusstreik kan bli utvidet Source: Avis2/NTB

- Voldtagne prostituerede bliver ligestillet med andre kvinder Ny byretsdom ligestiller prostituerede med andre voldtægtsofre. De får nu udbetalt samme erstatning af gerningsmanden. - Nyheder / Køn & seksualitet, Politi og ret

- Politiet ransager Café 1000Fryd Ifølge politiet blev der torsdag den 8. maj beslaglagt et våbenlager på Café 1000Fryd i Aalborg. 1000Fryd mener, historien er blæst op. Blandt det beslaglagte var f.eks. et kroketspil, forklarer de. - Nyheder / Venstreflø

- Soldater stak kniv i gummibåd – 29 druknede Afrikanske flygtninge beskylder marokkanske soldater for at være skyld i mindst 29 druknede flygtninge. Marokkos myndigheder benægter hændelsesforløbet. - Nyheder / Flygtninge & indvandrere

- Fredsaktivister ødelægger spionradar Kristne aktivister fra fredsorganisationen »Ploughshares Aotearoa« trængte ind på en militærbase på New Zealand og ødelagde en spionradar. - Nyheder / Efterretningstjenester & overvågning, USA i krig

- Politimann må møte i retten Nettavisen - 2 timer siden Mener det ikke er straffbart å kalle en innsatt monkey boy. Av Trine Stalsberg Politimannen som er funnet skyldig i grov uforstand i tjenes

- Politivold sjokkerer USA iBergen - 1 dag siden Amerikansk politi er i hardt vær etter en ny voldsskandale. Et videoopptak gjort fra et tv-helikopter viser hvordan politimenn drar ut tre miste

- Politimenn tas ut av gatetjeneste etter rystende pågripelse     Dagbladet - 1 dag siden 15 politimenn slo og sparket tre mistenkte.

- Rå politivold ryster Philadelphia     VG Nett - 1 dag siden (VG Nett) Politiet i Philadelphia er under et

- Colombia Seeks UK PR Help The Colombian government -- which is dogged by controversy over its human rights record -- is seeking help from British PR firms to help promote a "modern" image amongst journalists and politicians. Colombia's deputy head of missi

- Ohio Governor Snuffs Out Ohio Anti-Smoking Foundation The Ohio state legislature has seized $230 million from to the state's Tobacco Prevention Foundation and diverted it other uses. In the late 1990s, Ohio and other states sued the major tobacco companies to recover billions of doll

- The True Story of a Bogus Blog Writing for AdWeek, Andrew Adam Newman reports that a deceptive PR campaign on behalf of the Coach bag company has become "the latest illustration of how a buzz-seeking stunt may backfire." Led by Paul Werth Associates, an Ohio PR

- Pill Shills and Marketing Ills "Prozac Nation: Revisited," a show that aired on U.S. National Public Radio member stations, "featured four prestigious medical experts discussing the controversial link between antidepressants and suicide. ... All four said that

- Snatch of the Day No Borders actions around the country target Borders and Immigration Agency snatch squads used in early morning raids to forcibly arrest and detain 'failed' asylum seekers for deportation.

- Court Out Playing Square The SOCPA laws which made protests near the Houses of Parliament much more difficult are being repealed – but it is to be replaced with a new armoury of anti-protest legislation. Also a demo against the Counter Terrorism B

- Like a Verge On Southampton University becomes the latest victim of censorship when it is forced to pull the scheduled screening of the Smash EED campaign film 'On the Edge' made by SchMOVIES.

- Shac Rattle & Roll Multinational pharmaceutical and bio-tech corporation Novartis is in SHAC's sights for the World Day For Lab Animals...