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Ignorant Citizens Destroying Freedom: Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying, "Ignorant and free has never been and never will be." He is right, of course. Furthermore, this simple proverb may best explain the cause of America's rush to moral and political destruction.
 
 
Britain: The real outlaw state: "The reality is that the Blair government is seriously out of control – an outlaw state, undertaking its foreign policy in open contempt for international ethical standards, including riding roughshod over the United Nations."
 
 
In case you missed it: September 11 and the Origins of the ‘War on Terrorism’: A Revisionist Account
 
Who First Suggested That Iraq Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks? Would you believe the Israeli Mossad ? 
 
In case you missed it: Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack: Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington.
 
Was The war on Iraq Conceived in Israel ? To understand why Israeli leaders would want a Middle East war, it is first necessary to take a brief look at the history of the Zionist movement and its goals.
 
 
War casualties overflow Walter Reed hospital: Officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are referring some outpatients to nearby hotels because casualties have overloaded the hospital's convalescence facility.
 
 
8/04 Career officer does eye-opening stint inside Pentagon I suggested to my boss that if this was as good as it got, some folks on the Pentagon's E-ring may be sitting beside Hussein in the war crimes tribunals.
 
Wounded soldiers battle injuries, emotions upon return to U.S. Part of Shrode's therapy each day is learning how to write with his left hand. If he goes slowly enough, the letters look almost as good as if he were penning them with his missing right hand.
 
Israeli Lobby Purchases Another 29 Democratic Congressmen The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee is the main pro-Israel lobby group in the United States. It frequently sponsors visits to Israel for leading figures in American public life. 
 
Not-So-Great Expectations? The George W. Bush Guide for Making Yourself Look Good Even Though You Aren't Really Doing Anything.
 
 
Shi'ites raise new battle cry: The growing radicalization of Iraqi Shi'ites, as reflected in the creation of the "army of al-Mahdi", heralds the widening of the anti-occupation movement beyond the expectations of the US government. 
 
Iraqis fear soldiers will rob them: Citizens have problems trying to retrieve property seized at checkpoints, and the attitude is poisoning relations.
 
 
 
US in cash threat to halt West Bank fence: The proposal would aim to cut loan guarantees on the basis of what Israel spends on the construction of the security fence east of the Green Line.
 
Pentagon fires off new China report: Brace yourself - it turns out that China actually has the unmitigated gall to want to act like a major power and equip its military accordingly. The horror, the horror!
 
U.S. presses program for new atom bombs: Pentagon is seeking weaponry to strike at adversaries buried deep in bunkers.
 
Letting Up On Osama U.S. officials are suggesting that the focus on the former leader of Iraq has come at the cost of eliminating the eccentric Saudi millionaire behind the 9/11 attacks.
 
 
The Crusades: the fall of Jerusalem: How the concept of jihad has changed.
 
Afghan Political Violence on the Rise: Instability in South Grows as Pro- Taliban Fighters Attack Allies of U.S.-Led Forces.
 
The many voices of US foreign policy: Contending forces within the administration of President George W Bush and his Republican Party are fighting for control of the US's foreign policy, and the White House seems more and more unable to impose discipline.
 
8/03 How many Americans will die for oil? George Bush has given oil companies carte blanche in Iraq. This will lead to disaster.
 
Robert Fisk: British Troops Play it Cool. But Anxiously They Eye the North The south has been relatively free of the guerrilla attacks suffered by US forces in Baghdad. But is that all about to change? 
 
U.S. Wants Saddam, But Dead - Not Alive Dead dictators tell no tales.
 
Religious zealotry and the crisis of American democracy The danger of religious fundamentalism has been present in the American political bloodstream since the arrival of the Puritans. Now, with a government of religious conservatives locked in a polarising mindset of us-them and good-evil, the threat it poses is not just to American freedom, but to the world’s.
 
Functionally insane Americans In the asylum, nothing is real unless our masters tell us that it is. The functionally insane nod their heads in agreement, their eyes never betraying a hint of confusion over the ever-shifting reality being created for them.
 
 
 
Top Saddam Aide: Iraq Destroyed WMD's In 1991: Leader sought to keep up guessing game to prevent a US invasion.
 
 
 
Blair and Bush join forces to spin away weapons issue:  At the same time both men are working to lower the burden of proof - from finding weapons to finding evidence that there were programmes to develop them
 
British Intelligence chief to quit after split on Iraq: Britain's top spymaster has decided to retire early, dealing a damaging new blow to the Government's credibility over its presentation of intelligence on Iraq.
 
US Renews Sanctions on Iraq President Bush has continued for one year the national emergency with respect to Iraq, citing continued instability in the country.
 
US Tries To Silence Niger: America has warned the Niger government to keep out of the row over claims that Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium for his nuclear weapons programme from the impoverished West African state.
 
 
 
 
The prisoner of Ramallah: A Profile Of Yasser Arafat: He has spent most of his life in constant danger, with a dozen secret services trying to kill him. He survived several assassination attempts.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Is Syria next? Syria - encircled, broke and threatened by America and Israel.
 
8/02 Al Qaida wins a battle: Although Islamic terrorists may eventually lose the War on Terrorism, they have clearly won the most recent battle: Operation Iraqi Freedom.
 
Snuffed Candles: In a stunning development, the Bush Regime announced its unconditional and abject surrender in Iraq this week. What they did surrender, at long last, was the pretense that their pre-invasion warmongering -- built on iron certainties and "smoking guns" and "bulletproof evidence" (Don Rumsfeld's phrase) -- ever had the slightest connection to reality.
 
Operation Iranian Freedom: All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Terror in the Middle East.
 
Analysis: Soaring costs of ' rescuing' Iraq: It has become a fiscal nightmare, a monetary Vietnam that already accounts for around 15 percent of the U.S. annual budget deficit,
 
 
 
Inside the Pentagon: Franklin "Chuck" Spinney: Is Our Massive Defense Budget Keeping Us Safe?
 
Inside the Pentagon: Defense Spending Map In all but a handful of states, Department of Defense dollars account for by far the majority of federal dollars.  Check out your state's share.
 
Inside the Pentagon: Defense Dollars: This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
 
A Warning: President Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell to the Nation: We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
 
 
 
US Immunity demand 'a violation': The United States on Wednesday tabled a resolution in the UN security council that would authorise deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force in Liberia. But, it included a proviso that those in the force be exempt from the ICC's jurisdiction.
 
Saddam's sons buried in Tikrit: There was a heavy US army presence and journalists were prevented from photographing or filming the swift burial service. 
 
 
Reporting On Israel: A comparison of how the New York Times and Le Monde reported the vote of the Knesset blocking citizenship for Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens.
 
Halliburton Profits Skyrocket On Iraq Deals Halliburton, said work in Iraq had boosted revenue as it swung from a loss to record second-quarter net income.
Facing resistance: The Anglo-American military conquest of Iraq is starting to be seen, experienced and resisted as just that -- a military conquest. 
 
What Does Bush Have To Hide? Censoring the 9/11 report: neocons project their fantasies onto blank pages.
 
 
 
 
Interview With Saddam's Daughter. Video in Arabic. [Will someone be kind enough to provide a transcript of this interview in English and send it to emailtom@cox.net Thank you.]
 
For an Iraqi Family, 'No Other Choice' Father and Brother Are Forced by Villagers to Execute Suspected U.S. Informant
 
Democracy in Iraq? Bush does not want it; it won't happen! A guerrilla war was planned all along in Iraq against the U.S. and will continue for decades. It will come home to Americans as well.
 
Three months after end of major combat, Iraqis deeply distrustful of U.S. occupiers A child was dying, and so was the good will that this company of the Florida National Guard had worked for more than two months to build.
 
8/01 Greg Palast: Bush And The Saudis Sittin' In A Tree President George was in one hell of bind this week when it turned that that Saudi Arabia funded Al Qaeda, not Iraq. Realizing we'd invaded the wrong country, Bush did the honorable thing: he's come out against gay marriages.
 
US Bartering Arms for Soldiers for Iraq Faced with a rising death toll among its soldiers in Iraq, the United States is trying to "buy" foreign troops
 
 
Bush's 9-11 Secrets: The Government Received Warnings of Bin Laden's Plans to Attack New York and D.C.
 
 
US Homelessness and Poverty Rates Skyrocket While Billions are Spent Overseas on Occupation.
 
Iraq: soldiers doling out "Dirty Harry" style vigilante justice: "They beat him pretty bad. They beat him, tied him up and beat him again," said a US officer on condition of anonymity. 
 
John Pilger: The War on Truth Studies now put the death toll at as many as 10,000 civilians and 20,000 Iraqi troops. If this does not constitute a "bloodbath", what was the massacre of 3,000 people at the twin towers? A Must Read
 
7/31 Iraq war Is 'boost' to al-Qaeda fear: The Iraq conflict may have hampered the battle to defeat international terrorism, an influential group of MPs have warned.
 
 
Pentagon: China Gearing for Taiwan Attack China is boosting its missile stocks and military budget to prepare for what could be a quick and brutal showdown with Taiwan
 
 
 
 
Robert Fisk: Iraq Isn't Working There is a veneer of normality about life in the new Iraq. But America's failure to deliver on its promises has triggered a spiral of murderous anarchy that threatens to become an epic tragedy.
 
Terrorist Attacks:  Bush Plays with the Numbers. We are treated as the idiot children of a despot, not capable of entertaining the truth.
 
Now we pay the warlords to tyrannise the Afghan people The Pentagon prefers to pay the warlords to run the country outside Kabul, dressing up the exercise with a loya jirga in which 80% of those "elected" were warlords. 
 
Deceit, danger mark U.S. pursuit of new WMD Illegal biological and nuclear weapons production is on the rise - in the United States.
 
The Fourth Reich – DC Style: Small scale wars against an already beaten opposition are one thing but already, after only ninety days, they’re having to admit that far from subduing the ‘enemy,’ each day sees increasing opposition to the rule of the New Imperium.
 
The American gulag expands The United States incarceration rate is up again, with more than 2.1 million men and women behind bars. That's one in every 143 Americans.
 
An " invisible enemy" strikes U.S. soldiers in a faraway land we claim to be saving; overwhelming American firepower kills thousands before many citizens realize their president used phony pretexts to justify military action; Sound familiar? [Can you say Vietnam?]
 
Knesset approves ' racist ' citizenship bill The Knesset plenum approved Thursday the second and third readings of a bill to prevent Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from receiving citizenship or permanent residency status.
 
 
Troops Keep Dying – But For What? The ranks of the killed and injured inch upward, toward a time when the whole nation will have to ask itself: How many casualties are too much?
 
The usual mangled speech but Bush is let off the hook in rare press conference The main lesson to emerge from the 50-minute session, the first since the invasion of Iraq four months ago, was how easily the chief executive evaded any serious damage - and how the reporters made it easy for him to do so.
 
 
9/11 Report - The real Saudi Ties are U.S. Ties What if the "Saudi ties" are in reality homegrown?
 
 
Israel Approves New Settlement Construction in Gaza Israel on Thursday published building tenders to expand a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip - defying a stipulation in the US-backed "road map"
 
Christian Right Waves Flag for Israel "We are Christians. We believe in the truth of the Bible. We believe America will be blessed as it blesses Israel, as the Bible says."
 
 
Tom DeLay, Americas Best Know Cockroach Killer Says He Is " an Israeli at heart" Meanwhile over at Fox Moooss the headline is, DeLay: 'Israel's Fight Is Our Fight' Where he says,  that liberating Israel from Palestinian violence is part of the worldwide campaign against terror. 
 
"A Form Of Looting" 'The government is not really telling the truth to the American people." Der Spiegel, Interviews George A. Akerlof, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences. A Must Read
 
Arrests And Abuses By American Troops On The Rise In Iraq: "They're treating us like cattle" Translated from Libération (Paris)
 
'Grey Fox' closes in on prize scalp: Saddam Grey Fox was established by the Pentagon in 1981 to work as manhunters, assassins and deep penetration agents.
 
U.S. Changes Tactics in Violent Iraq City As of Tuesday, according to local officials, blood money had been paid to 26 families who suffered losses in the April killings: usually $1,500 for a fatality and $500 for an injury.
 
 
Investigation? No, Bush should pick up the phone: Enough already. Enough excuse-making.
 
7 more cases of mystery illness: Seven more soldiers in Iraq have contracted the same puzzling illness that has killed two soldiers
 
 
7/30 Stratfor Intelligence Report: Iraq and the Broader War The failure of the United States to achieve a decisive victory in Iraq would have substantial consequences.
 
 
Why I am leaving this Country: Daniel Pipes and the Failure of Democracy in America
 
Still Crazy Our seemingly unending capacity to stay Still Stupid After All These Years, allows our governments literally to get away with murder. 
 
 
US army admits Iraq suicides US forces in Iraq have suffered cases of probable suicide, amid slumping morale among troops faced with daily and deadly attacks.
 
The Kingness of Mad George The Founding Fathers never figured on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush, and his court-appointed "Government of the neo-cons, by the neo-cons, and for the neo-cons."
 
Betting On Terror: Government Deletes Web Site: You can view the complete web site by clicking here. PDF format. The Original Web site was at this address. http://www.policyanalysismarket.org
 
 
Robert Fisk:Al-Jazeera Accuses US of Harassment in Row Over "Bias" The station's Baghdad bureau chief has said, his offices and staff in Iraq "have been subject to strafing by gunfire, death threats, confiscation of news material, and multiple detentions and arrests, all carried out by US soldiers". 
 
Damaging Sources and Methods George W. Bush has damaging “methods and sources” – he rules over the most secretive and corrupt administration in the history of our country.
 
Air marshals pulled from key flights Move seen as bid to cut costs comes amid new hijack warnings.
Treating the symptoms instead of the cause The "roadmap" to peace in the Middle East will not bring lasting peace to the region.
 
The Israelis' Outrageous Self-Righteousness Everything I've written here is known by everyone, but forbidden to state aloud because it is not patriotic.
 
 
Army Of One: The Reality Of U.S. Military service. Flash Presentation
 
Feds: Deny Damages to Former Iraqi POWs Assets seized from the Iraqi government should be used to rebuild the country and not to compensate 17 Americans held captive in Iraq in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge Tuesday.
 
Myers Says Central Iraq a "War Zone" NEARLY THREE MONTHS after President Bush declared major military operations over in Iraq, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers said central Iraq, from Baghdad to Tikrit, was still a “war zone.”
 
Nigeria demands more US cash to end Liberian war Nigeria said yesterday that it would not send troops to end the fighting in Liberia unless the West offered more cash.
 
Cheney Chicanery When Vice President Dick Cheney comes out of seclusion to brand critics “irresponsible,” you know the administration is in trouble.
 
Judge Looks at Cheney Fraud Lawsuit Halliburton Co. asked a federal judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit charging that the company and Vice President Dick Cheney, its former chief executive, misled investors by changing the way it counted revenue from construction projects.
 
Why the US needs the Taliban It may sound unbelievable, but the United States is prepared to permit the return to rule in Afghanistan of its erstwhile arch-enemies, the Taliban.
 
Universal fascism, freedom betrayed: What is Mr. Bush doing in your name? A Must Read
 
 
In Case You Missed It: The US Not Only Provided Iraq With It's WMD's, It Setup CIA Front Companies To Supply And Finance These Deals. Henry B Gonzalez provided evidence of these crimes to the House in Sept, 1992
 
In Case You Missed It: Hill Chairman Details U.S. Prewar Courtship. U.S. officials insisted in 1989, for instance, on playing down the importance of a scandal involving an Atlanta-based bank and more than $5 billion in unauthorized loans to Iraq, including $900 million guaranteed by the U.S. government. 
 
In Case You Missed It: William Safire exposes, THE ADMINISTRATION'S IRAQ GATE SCANDAL Instead of pressing the investigation or curbing the appeasement, the President turned a blind eye to lawbreaking and directed another billion dollars to Iraq. 
 
 
 
 
 
U.S. political objectives in the Middle East will Fail: Creating a New Cold War with China and Russia; Target is Iran not Iraq.
 
7/29 The wrath of the conquered: America's GIs feel like living targets on Baghdad's streets, while the subjects of the accursed dictator Saddam Hussein complain more and more vocally about the arrogance and incompetence of their conquerors.
 
 
 
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Call for Cheney's Resignation: VIPS is made up of retired CIA agents who are critical of the Bush administration’s justification for a so-called pre-emptive strike.
 
 
America is a religion: US leaders now see themselves as priests of a divine mission to rid the world of its demons
 
This guerrilla war is likely to last a generation: To call these guerrillas "criminals" and the "frustrated" because of lack of "services," is disgraceful! But to add to the mix the blame placed on Saddam Hussein because he released prisoners in a general amnesty is raw propaganda directed at the ignorant.
 
Deaths and resistance: Washington's response to the Iraqi resistance suffers from a fundamental flaw. It has either swallowed its own propaganda or hopes that the people of Iraq will ignore fundamental realities.
 
Iraqi detainees report 'inhumane' treatment: Human rights groups question U.S. tactics.
 
Does Israel Target Palestinian Children?: 'I can't imagine anyone who considers himself a human being can do this'
 
All In A Days Work For A Mythical Democracy: Under this ‘cease-fire,’ the Israeli government continues to send occupation soldiers to rip up trees and crops, creating wastelands that reinforce the myth that this is a land without a people, as if no Palestinian family ever lived here. 
 
Fisk: US Death Toll Hits 50 as assault increase by Iraqi guerrillas  America's military crusade in the Middle East ­ to eliminate non-existent weapons of mass destruction and "liberate" Iraq ­ is already crumbling.
 
Protecting U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq. Instead of bailing-out the Iraqi people, new debt for Iraq’s people will formally accrue through the program that President Bush pledged would "benefit the people of Iraq."
 
US Military Kidnapping Iraqi Women And Children: On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: “If you want your family released, turn yourself in.”
 
International Criminal Court Looks at Allegations Against UK Troops in Iraq The prosecutor of the world's first permanent war crimes court will review a dossier containing allegations of human rights abuses by British troops in Iraq.
 
America's Daily Reminder to Depart: The ability of the U.S. to win the "hearts and minds" of Iraqis diminishes with each passing day. Yet the ability of token guerrilla forces to kill American troops, seemingly at will and at random, increases daily.
 
Iraqi Group Threatens "Holy War": A hitherto unknown group of Iraqi Muslim militants has warned in a video tape aired on an Arab channel they will fight a "holy war" against U.S. President George W. Bush and his administration.
 
Pentagon Plan Would OK Bets on Terrorism: Senators Say Pentagon Plan Would Allow Betting on Terrorism, Assassinations
 
Robert Fisk: American Agents are Blamed for Raid That Became a Massacre The American killing of up to 11 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad during an abortive attempt to seize Saddam Hussein on Sunday has provoked disturbing questions as well as widespread anger in the city.
 
Axis of evil' remark ushered in the new belligerence: When the history of the second Bush administration is written, historians will conclude that one of its worst diplomatic blunders was President Bush's incendiary "axis of evil" appellation to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
 
Bush to Meet Top Saudi on Sept. 11 Report Saudi Arabia's foreign minister will meet President Bush on Tuesday and was likely to ask that portions of a Sept. 11 report related to Saudi Arabia be declassified
 
7/28 9-11 Report Questions Rice's Statements: The president's daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, contained "information acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives," the report stated.
 
From the archive: Over and over since Sept. 11, aviation and security officials have said they were shocked that terrorists had hijacked airliners and crashed them into landmark buildings.
 
Just How Shocked Were They? This page shows the " Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise" took place on Oct. 24, 2000. A full 10 months before 9/11
 
 
Sharon and the State of "Israel" do not and can not represent the Jewish people Statement issued by Neturei Karta in connection with demonstration in Lafayette Park, Washington, DC. to protest the visit of Israel's Arial Sharon to President George Bush July 29, 2003.
 
 
Lawyers sue Blair over war: Top lawyers from Greece filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague on Monday against senior UK officials.
 
11 nations join plan to stop N. Korean ships: The Bush administration is preparing to tighten an economic noose around North Korea.
 
No Oil. Let The UN Take Care Of It! US urges UN, other countries to take lead in Liberia
 
 
"I Did Not Want To Be a Collaborator" Isam al-Khafaji, a former member of the Iraqi reconstruction council, explains his decision to resign.
 
Islam's rebel women: How did a religion that originally offered women greater freedom than they had known in traditional societies come to be associated with their repression?
 
America Will Pay the Price if it Ignores Iraqi Nationalism: Iraqi resistance is now a force to be reckoned with, both within the country and across the political and strategic map of the Middle East. 

Monday Morning Attack Kills Another US Soldier

 
 
US troops kill five Iraqis in botched raid "I am not sure how many cars drove up to the checkpoint but it was at least two. The first car went down the road and they opened fire on it. Then a Toyota carrying a mother, a father, a son and a disabled man went down there and was also shot at. They were all killed. I saw it."
 
Robert Fisk: US troops turn botched Saddam raid into a massacre Killing up to 11, including two children, their mother and crippled father. At least one civilian car caught fire, cremating its occupants.
 
US warned it faces ' third Gulf war' in Iraq: "Unless this situation changes soon, and radically, the United States may end up fighting a third Gulf war against the Iraqi people . . . It is far from clear that the United States can win this kind of asymmetric war."
 
Pat Buchanan: Was Poppy Right After All? The truism stands: the guerrillas win if they do not lose. And they do not lose as long as they keep fighting, dying, killing, and raising the cost of the occupation. British, French, Israelis, and Russians can testify to that.
 
Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating, US on 'Mad Max' mission
 
Terror To Empire: With Democrats fearful and media silent, the Bush Administration has transformed the war against terror into a war for empire. Can Americans stop this madness?
 
Though The Heavens Fall: The political fortunes of the Bush administration are never so strong as when people are dying. The attack of September 11 was the best thing to ever happen to George W. Bush
 
 
 
Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image A person close to Rice said that she has been dismayed by the effect on Bush. "She knows she did badly by him, and he knows that she knows it," this person said.
 
The Times Scoops That Melted: Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller.
 
The Bug Exterminator Goes to Jerusalem: For DeLay and millions of other Christian Zionists, slaughtered Palestinians are but a fleeting tick on their moral compasses, if that. In fact, for Christian Zionists the Palestinians are all but invisible, except when they strike out in desperation. 
 
The Political - Christian Right  The only way to turn the tide and stop the Politico-Christian Right from taking control of America is to know about them, and then to speak out ---loudly and frequently. 
 
Unrest in Iraq Holy City, Anti-U.S. Attacks Go On: U.S. troops opened fire in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala on Sunday as stone-throwing Iraqis protested over Marines killing a man the day before.
 
Military Wife Rebuked for E-Mail: Spouse Accused of Spreading Fear in Bid for Information
 
 
Terms of engagement: It's very difficult keeping up with Mideast news due to the Orwellian newspeak coming from Washington. So here's a handy list of key terms, translated into simple English.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Real Fist in the Face of the Palestinians: The purpose is to make the lives of the local residents as miserable as possible and to remind them, day in and day out, who is sovereign here and thus also to make the settlers happy.
 
 
Future Iraqi leader spurns US: Dr Adnan Pachachi, acting head of the US-backed Iraqi Governing Council, even indicated that the Iraqi people might take up arms against the Americans.
 
The Politics of Military Trials: It may turn out that the fatal weakness in Zacarias Moussaoui's case is not that the defendant is an admitted member of al Qaeda, but rather that he's French. 

7/27 Who Made George W. Bush Our King? He Can Designate Any of Us an Enemy Combatant.

 

Iraq attacks kill five US troops: Another US soldier has been killed by hostile fire in Iraq - the fifth in the past 24 hours.

Bit by bit, the real Dr Kelly emerges from the shadows: The man dismissed as a lowly technician was no such thing.

Ministers accused of threatening BBC chiefs: "There have been phone calls from within government saying 'we are going to get you', talking about 'vengeance'. There's a war going on against the BBC of some kind."

Why Will This Man Not Stop? It seems the government is determined to cover up its lies at any cost … even if that means destroying the BBC in the process.

Shelling Kills 14 in Liberian Capital

Liberia: rewriting history: "Another day, another atrocity in Liberia’s blood-soaked capital Monrovia"

 
 
Four corners: Who would be Nawaf Zaidan? Having betrayed his guests – Saddam’s sons – for an uncool $15 million a head, one can only guess at when or where he will have the peace of mind to spend his blood money.
 
Lessons From the Killing of Uday and Qusay: We must learn from this that US military strategy, doctrine, tactics and whatever else you can think of have reached a point of total bankruptcy. They are simply incapable of fighting real battles against real people who do not roll over and play dead on cue.
 
Billionaire challenges case for war: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is running full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers challenging the honesty of the Bush administration's case for waging war in Iraq.
 
 
The American People Deserve The Truth: Urge your Congressperson and Senators to get the truth.
 
 
Reflections on Tony Blair's Troubles: Did the Americans get upset when the lie was discovered? Not at all. So the president lied. Big deal. And the CIA helped him to lie. Big deal again. The important thing is that the sons of Saddam have been killed in a "targeted elimination", Israeli-style. How wonderful!
 
Another Four U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq Attacks: Three U.S. Soldiers Killed While Guarding Iraqi Hospital; Another Dies in Separate Attack
 
U.S. tried to kill bin Laden, report says: "The president ordered two submarines loaded with cruise missiles on perpetual deployment off the coast of Pakistan for that very purpose."
 
Troops Accused of Firing Into Crowd Of Unarmed Iraqi's Killing One: Witnesses Say Crowd Was Fired On After Hussein Firefight; U.S. Denies Allegation.
 
Christian Zionists Criticized by Fellow Believers for Campaign Against Road Map A vocal segment of evangelical Protestants, are lobbying the Bush administration to abandon the peace plan because they believe it rewards terrorism, and violates God's promise in Genesis to give the Jewish people the historic land of Israel.
 
Tom DeLay: Palestine Would Be a "Sovereign State of Terrorists" "I can't imagine this president supporting a state of terrorists, a sovereign state of terrorists," he said. "You'd have to change almost an entire generation's culture."
 
7/26 Does Hitler's Ghost Live In Israel? This is an outrage. How can the Zionist Jews who run Israel not remember how Hitler brutalized them in the 1930s and 1940s?