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McCarthyism’s Revival: Chicken Little Journalism: "We hope that the excesses of McCarthyism will serve as a cautionary tale for future generations." Those future generations are here and now.

Israel: Vigilantes take up arms, vow to expel 'Muslim filth'

Gaza visitors must sign waiver in case army shoots them

U.S. Diplomats Decry `Military Coup' The hijacking of foreign policy-making by the Pentagon.

States' Rights vs. Monetary Monopoly: The federal government today can wage wars without the consent of our congressional representatives, overthrow foreign governments, tax nearly half of national income, abolish civil liberty in the name of "homeland security" and "the war on drugs." 

Will Iran Be Next? In the coming months the United States and its ally Israel will either accede to the existence of an Iranian nuclear power program, or take steps to prevent it. A Must Read. Provides background and insight into a possible conflict regarding Iran's nuclear program.

Bush Targets Iran: U.S. President George W. Bush shifted targets yesterday, saying that Iran must be stopped from developing nuclear warheads.

US Moves On Iran: The United States is pushing for UN action against Tehran.

Look to Iran for the Real Costs of the War in Iraq: The United States invaded Iraq--a nation without nuclear weapons--but treated North Korea much more gingerly. If you were an Iranian leadership what would you do?

US's "Axis of Evil" as China Sees It: A Must Read

U.S. resolution calls for U.S. and Britain to run Iraq for at least a year: The resolution, to be introduced at the Security Council on Friday, outlines a U.S. vision for postwar Iraq at odds with that of several Security Council members, particularly Russia.

Two US soldiers shot dead in Baghdad Two American soldiers have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad.

Strong Must Rule the Weak, said Neo-Cons' Muse: Is U.S. foreign policy being run by followers of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher whose views were elitist, amoral and hostile to democratic government?

My Country: The World: As a patriot, contemplating the dead GIs, should I comfort myself (as, understandably, their families do) with the thought: "They died for their country." If so, I would be lying to myself. 

Exposed: The elite power brokers enrolled to open doors: 

US Imperial Urge Did Not Begin With George Bush: “Ever since the 13 colonies, nestled east of the Allegheny mountains, relentlessly marched west to acquire and control the continent, expansionism and imperialism have been part of the American ideal.”

The Secret Government: Bill Moyers, documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of Americas foreign policy.

Stop demolishing Palestinian homes: Since the start of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands in 1967, more than 10,000 Palestinian civilian homes have been demolished, only 600 of which were the homes of people accused of security offenses.

From the archives: Tears, Death And Israeli Terror

Saddam prepares for guerrilla warfare with 40,000 fighters.

Nuclear Scientists in Iraq: Citizens Stole Uranium and Other Dangerous Materials: "The U.S. and other countries in the world spend hundreds of millions of dollars to store and dispose of radioactive materials, now they are in the homes of simple poor people, and they are dumped in the river..."

Scaring America half to death: The State Department has announced that terrorism is at its lowest level in 33 years.

Al-Qaeda preparing new attack in US "on scale of September 11": report

Karl Rove: Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop: Karl Rove led the nation to war to improve the political prospects of George W. Bush. I know how surreal that sounds. But I also know it is true.

Autopsy of British cameraman shows he was killed by IDF fire

A U.S. Gulag For Children: Our state of enlightenment regarding human rights is on a par with Somalia's, the only U.N. member state — other than the United States of America — that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Basra suffers cholera outbreak: HEALTH officials fear a cholera epidemic has broken out in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, caused by a shortage of clean water and sanitation.

Sharon Demands : Palestinians must renounce the right to return to their original homes in Israel.

Don't Look for Democracy: Predictions About the Iraq War

Iraqi Civilians Sue General Tommy Franks For War Crime: Democracy Now! Interviews Jan Fermon, Belgian lawyer who is filing a complaint against General Tommy Franks.

US terror tactics in Iran the US military reached a ceasefire agreement with an Iraqi-based Iranian group, declared by the US and British members of the "coalition of the willing" as terrorist.

Who's Gonna Take Away Washington's License to Kill?

Manufacturing Evidence And Selective Intelligence: How the Rumsfeld Cabal produced evidence to support an invasion of Iraq.

America's weapons evidence flawed, say spies: A small number of powerful neo-conservative ideologues in the Pentagon were so determined to prove the existence of a banned weapons programme and links to al-Qaeda that they manipulated intelligence.

A Nazi in the (pocket) is worth four in the Bush (family) What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Laden…on and on it goes. 

Bush Is Not A Nazi, So Stop Saying That - Flash presentation.

German Envoy dubs US a police state

U.S. to track visitors with biometric scans: The new program is designed to allow U.S. officials to track the comings and goings of tourists, students and business travelers from overseas.

Saddam Alive!: Saddam Hussein is safe in Iraq preparing to organise resistance to US-led occupation forces.

New Tape: the voice of Saddam: "I don't want to talk in details about the occupation and why and how, and I am going to focus instead on how to face these invaders and kick them out from Iraq,"

Full Transcript of Saddam Tape: Through this secret means I am talking to you from inside Great Iraq and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country.

U.S. W.M.D. Intelligence "defective or manipulated," says U.S. Senator

Dollar Plunges As Euro Surpasses $1.14: The dollar also hit a four-year low against the Swiss franc, a five-and-half-year low versus the Canadian dollar and three-year lows against the Australian dollar.

Rumsfeld Pushes For Pentagon Total Control: A military dictatorship in the making.

In The Ethnic Foods Isle: "What’s it all about?" he asked.  I said "what do you mean?" - "The Arabs, why do they hate us so much?"

Lawmaker Ridicules Halliburton, Says It has links to "axis of evil" countries: Halliburton, the oil services giant once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has done business in Iran, Iraq and Libya for years despite US embargoes. The dealings "appear to have continued during the period between 1995 and 2000, when Vice President Cheney headed the company; 

Blank-Check Aid To Israel Costs US Taxpayers $10 Billion: Congress skillfully gives Israel $10 billion a year, in a manner that hides the amount from U.S.  taxpayers.

Issue Brief for Congress: (pdf) Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance. On March 25, 2003, the President sent to Congress a request for a supplemental appropriations that included $1 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and $9 billion in loan guarantees for Israel. 

Is Bush a War Criminal? The spin from the Administration is now all about "liberation," because it is simply too embarrassing, indeed potentially criminal, for Bush and his cronies to fess-up to their deceit.

Iraq is now the biggest construction site in the world. Devastated, taken apart, impoverished, in many respects Iraq has returned to "the Stone Age."

Malaysia will not accept US-appointed government

US troops 'encouraged' Iraqi looters: General Tommy Franks is threatened with a Belgian war crimes trial alleging US troops failed to prevent looting in Iraq. BBC News Online uncovers evidence suggesting his soldiers even egged on some looters.

Gorbachev says U.S. 'cast aside" international law to go to war with Iraq

Garner to be replaced by former diplomat: Although the change replaces a Pentagon appointee with a State Department person, Mr Bremer is thought to be close to neo-conservatives around the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Exposed: The Real Terror Network: George Bush has appointed Paul Bremer as the ‘civil administrator’ of Iraq, he’s part and parcel of the same pack of conservative wolves that run the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and of course, the Department of Homeland Security.

Pastry Chef Flown in on Iraq Mission: Pastry chef Yves Reynaud, with French colors on his collar, flew in a U.S. Air Force transport to Baghdad on a vital mission.

Iraqi welcome for US turns to fury: This is the way the war ends: not with the jubilation of the liberated but with the whimpering of ragged children. "Water! Water!" they cry, running from the roadside towards passing cars, thrusting their fingers towards their mouths in the salute of the thirsty.

Questions lingering on the battlefield: As the fog of war and propaganda begin to dissipate, isn't it time for some real journalism? Or are we becoming a mirror of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Israelis fire on parents of injured British peace activist

Where Is The Opposition? Democratic dissent has folded in the face of Republican hegemony, but not because the Republicans have won the political argument: it is because the Democrats have picked up their principles and left the battlefield.

Man on Horseback: George Bush's "Top Gun" act aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln — c'mon, guys, it wasn't about honoring the troops, it was about showing the president in a flight suit — was as scary as it was funny.

Campaign Documents Show Depth of Bush Fund-Raising: The documents, which surfaced in the courtroom fight over the new campaign finance law, offer new details about Mr. Bush's most active fund-raisers — including his top three, who were awarded plum jobs as ambassadors.

Normal? The sanctimonious attitude of those who claim to speak for us through ‘our’ mass media, on the benefits of ‘our’ brand of freedom is staggering. More staggering is the absolute acceptance by the media pundits of the official view on what constitutes normalcy.

Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners: A data-gathering company is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.

Robert Fisk: So he thinks it’s all over... When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, “they see strength and kindness and goodwill”. Untrue, Mr Bush. They see occupation.

US admits it cannot stop North Korea's nuclear programme

Humor: The Great Debate - Bush VS. Bush: 

"America: The failed experiment" Today, it is the most powerful nation on earth in every sense of the word, except moral. The moral authority of the United States comes from the barrel of a gun.

Abu Mazen: Waiving Right of Return an Israeli ‘Dream’ We absolutely refuse to waive the (Palestinian) right of return as a precondition for Israel’s approval of the ‘roadmap’,”

WHOSE 'ROAD MAP'? George W. Bush has a 'road map' to peace in the Middle East – and so does would-be ethnic cleanser Benny Elon.

Jordan Not Enthusiastic About Being Palestinians' Alternative Homeland 

George W. Christ? Here is a man intent upon making war on as much of the Muslim world as he can put his hands around, while wrapping around himself the image and prophesies of Jesus Christ. What is next?

The Biggest Bomb in Bush's Arsenal "It was absolutely a photo-op created for (US President George) Bush's re-election campaign commercials," according to MacArthur. "CNN, MSNBC and Fox swallowed it whole."

Theatre director attacked over critical US play One man held him down, while another cut his face.

Scott Ritter is calling for regime change in Washington. “I want the president impeached because he lied to the Congress of the United States,” Ritter said.

Our National Priorities Defense Spending = 49.2% Education, Training, Employment and Social Services = 9.9% 

Global Menace: The U.S. spends more on what they euphemistically call "defense" than all the countries who are members of the Security Council combined. As a matter of fact the U.S.spends more on it's military than all the countries of the world combined.

Did The Iraqi Army Take A Dive For The U.S.? Le Monde's correspondent in Baghdad wrote that Sufyan ordered his troops to lay down their arms and go home. A short time later, an Apache helicopter escorted Sufyan from the Al Rashid camp, east of Baghdad, to an undisclosed safe haven.

Paying cash triggers alert for terrorism in new world

US soldier shot in Baghdad: A United States soldier patrolling the streets in the Iraqi capital has been shot in the head and wounded by an unidentified Iraqi civilian

Scottish MP Tam Dalyell: 'Zionist cabal runs policy on Israel' TONY Blair has been accused of surrounding himself with a "cabal" of Jewish advisers in an astonishing attack by Scotland’s most senior MP.

Sharon orders Mossad to intensify spy operations against Islamic organizations in the UK.

Israeli envoy heads for US to lobby against 'road map'

UK: Peace Force for Iraq May Take Half the Army

The Bush Doctrine: Exporting democracy benefits the U.S. at the barrel of a gun if necessary.

Understanding The War On Terrorism: "Pax Americana" And Preemptive Force. PDF File

Big Brother Is Still Watching:  On Thursday of last week, someone inside a secret meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee spotted a new paragraph in the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 2004.

The Department of Homeland Security: When The Phoenix Comes Home To Roost: Information management is key in the Bush Regime’s effort to make terror the organizing principle in American society, while at the same time making its homeland security apparatus appear to be legal, moral, and most importantly, popular. A Must Read

"Go Out From Our City..."Okay, so you skip the National Museum and the National Library, the local hospitals and the various governmental ministries, but the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility? Not a patrol, not a tank, not a single guard? Earth to Bush administration…

Horror in your own home: We are raising a generation of kids to whom morality and fairness, as well and truth and honor, are no longer important.

Neoconservatives: They emerged from behind the scenes politically to change American foreign policy. But they've always been there, and Iraq is only one of their goals.

US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction' The Bush administration has admitted that Saddam Hussein probably had no weapons of mass destruction.

Real American Agenda Now Becoming Clear: A superpower like the United States does not invade a pipsqueak power like Iraq — outside the framework of international law and against worldwide opposition — only for its publicly stated reasons.

Corporate Colonialism: Like one of the 19th-century European colonial empires, the Bush government is calling on Bechtel, Halliburton, and other major corporations to take over the job of running the Iraqi colony. These companies are to act in the name of the government. They are to be paid out of our taxes. It might just as well be the British East India company.

U.S.-Backed Iraqi Exiles are working for SAIC, a defense contractor: The team will live and work in compounds guarded by American soldiers. But technically, they are working for SAIC, a defense contractor, and their heavily guarded offices outside Washington have been equipped with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses that betray no hint of a Pentagon link.

Why does this stink so badly to so many people? The reality is that the majority in the United States is relishing every ill-concealed motive, sucking greedily at every image of an Arab nation being destroyed, nodding self-righteously at every clip of the jubilantly 'liberated' - and stamping in indignant outrage at every perceived 'thwarting' by an ungratefully ignorant lower form of life.

Neoconservatives push for a new world order: Kristol refuses to strut his stuff, because he knows how fast the high and mighty can be brought low in this town; after all, he was once Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff. Still, he can't resist contending that Sept. 11 made all the "neocons" look like prophets.

Bush fires warning at US 'enemies': In an apparent warning to North Korea, Iran, Syria and other countries accused by Washington of helping terrorists or pursuing weapons of mass destruction, Bush said the United States would not stand idly by in the face of serious danger from the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical arms.

Powell Demands Syria Cooperate with U.S. in Mideast: "We've provided some other suggestions to the Syrians that they have taken under advisement, and I expect to hear back from them in the future," he told reporters. 

Cuba: Criticism of trials of subversives misplaced: The accused (so-called "journalists," "intellectuals," and "dissidents") had, indeed, been organized, paid, supplied and rewarded by James Cason, head of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana. A Must Read

Cuba's Crackdown on Government Opponents Triggered by Washington's Funding of Dissident Groups: Interview with Philip Agee,
former Central Intelligence Agency officer who resides in Havana, Cuba

Israel: Dead Cameraman 'Carried White Flag' Israeli soldiers who killed a British television cameraman, James Miller, in southern Gaza could have been in no doubt about his identity as a journalist.

The "Separation Wall" Separating Palestinians from their land.

Weapons of mass distortion: The concept of WMD is dishonest. When they are in friendly hands we call them defence forces

Where is the feared Iraqi arsenal? When Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations in February - he put his reputation on the line.

Rice actions on Syria disputed UPI's report, published Friday afternoon, quoted unidentified administration officials as saying that a combination of Pentagon hawks and senior Israeli officials had been pressing the United States to expand the ground war to Syria.

Israel Plans Palestinian Statehood In Jordan: Jordan can be the new homeland of Palestinians in return for allowing it to have lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq, revealed an Israeli plan Saturday, May 3.

Right-wing think tanks rule DC: CONSERVATIVE thinktanks exert a considerable influence over the Bush administration and the US media.

Jesus Plus Nothing: Undercover among Americas secret theocrats. A Must Read

A mean-spirited America: Today, I fear my own government more than I do terrorists

Establishing democracy in Iraq? Let’s fix it here first: The 'divine right of kings' has been modified into a kind of ‘divine right of elected leaders.

TV-Friendly Bush Visit Caused A Few Changes: Ari Fleischer, dismissed any suggestion that the overnight trip was custom-ordered to provide campaign footage for Bush's re-election campaign.

No Grasp: Why a far-reaching American empire will not serve anyone's interests, least of all ours.

The US economy has lost two million jobs in the last two years.

Do We Really Have Free Speech? In the U.S., we can allow people to talk freely. We don't need to stifle speech to stifle dissent. We just have to block our ears.

This Week In Gross Hypocrisy: That Jeane J. Kirkpatrick is today speaking on the necessity of human rights proves that life as we know it is about to end.

Garner Out in Iraq Shuffle: "They [the White House] lost confidence in Garner's ability to supervise the transition to Iraqi democracy.”

The battle for Baghdad cost the lives of at least 1,101 Iraqi civilians: The hospital records say that another 1,255 dead were "probably" civilians, including many women and children.

Roadmaps, Principles And A Broken Mirror: We are a decent people for sure, forever desiring to do good but unaware of what is done in our name abroad.

Afghanistan: Launchpad for terror: New cells are in place in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates and they will be responsible for carrying out attacks - including suicide attacks - against United States interests in a number of regions. This will be the new face of al-Qaeda, which will emerge soon with a new name and under new command.

Israeli troops kill British cameraman: Israeli troops shot and killed a British cameraman late Friday as he filmed Israeli bulldozers razing Palestinian houses.

What's it like to have your home demolished by Israeli terror squads

Because They Can "Target of opportunity", the phrase that was used to describe the opening salvo pretty much sums up "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

The Iron Triangle: The Secret History Of The Carlyle Group. President Bush Senior. President Bush Junior. Former British Prime Minister John Major. Former Secretary of State James Baker. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The half brother of Osama Bin Laden. These are just some of the high profile figures who have played a direct role in the rise of one of the most powerful and influential and secretive firms in Washington.

Carving Up the Homeland Security Pie: Only to the most naive did the Department of Homeland Security sound promising. To seasoned observers of government, the idea of a new $40 billion DC bureaucracy means only one thing: billions for those who somehow manage to get their hands on the cash. Who are these people?

One Coalition soldier was killed and several were injured during separate incidents that have taken place since yesterday morning.

Soldier killed by blast takes British toll to 33

For Bush, the Military Is the Message for '04 The president, in linking Iraq closely to al Qaeda, implied that Hussein had a hand in the September 11 attacks -- a connection has been widely described by intelligence analysts as tenuous, if it exists at all.

Moussaoui Includes Quiz for Ashcroft: Accused terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui included a multiple-choice test for Ashcroft in some of the 17 handwritten motions released Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema.

Cleric's Killing Setback to U.S. CIA lost an ally and $13M

War on Terrorism: Democrats reject expanded CIA powers: Requiring Internet providers, credit card companies, libraries and a variety of other groups to produce such things as phone records, bank transactions and e-mail logs.

12 massacred in raid on Gaza City: A Palestinian baby was shot in the head in a new Israeli onslaught on Gaza City.

Punishing France: U.S. shoots itself in the foot

Intelligence Officers Challenge Bush: We write to express deep concern over the growing mistrust and cynicism with which many, including veteran intelligence professionals inside and outside our movement, regard the intelligence cited by you and your chief advisers to justify the war against Iraq.

An insult to British intelligence: Ministers doctored secret service briefings to get their way over Iraq.

Inside my CIA diaries: Two axioms still play out as absurd stories are supplied by men with bad teeth and bloody hands.

American denials enrage Fallujah: American Central Command has dismissed reports that US troops shot dead 13 civilians at a demonstration in Fallujah as "allegations" that are unlikely to be proved.

Pictures of massacre at Fallujah, Iraq

U.S., U.K. Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says

US NAVAL WAR COLLEGE: The Top 100 Rules of the New American Way of War. The United States Stands Ready for Any Type of War.

U.S. government purchase data on Mexico’s 65 million registered Voters: ChoicePoint was commissioned by the U.S. government to obtain the data.

Greg Palast: BBC Investigation Into How Voter Data Was Used To Prevent Democrats From Voting In The Last Presidential Elections.

A road to nowhere or is it Tehran?

Israeli Troops Raid Gaza, 15 Palestinians Killed:  Those killed Included a toddler and a boy aged 13.

Eyewitness Report: I watched in horror as American troops opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 unarmed people here yesterday.

Crowd control, American-style: The 37 people who were carried into them from 10pm onwards last night -- all shot with 50mm high caliber bullets -- blowing off legs, ripping open abdominal cavities, shattering bones, tearing through muscles.

Pakistan Government Wont Allow Public Hearing Investigating Possible War Crimes By President Bush 

Letter Of Protest From The Mayor Of Hiroshima To President Bush: I demand that you immediately begin demonstrating a willingness to implement the "unequivocal undertaking" to eliminate your nuclear arsenal

The Secrets of September 11: By refusing to declassify many of its most significant conclusions, the administration has essentially thwarted congressional plans to release the report by the end of this month.

A Simple Request - Put My Son's Name on a Bomb: Another proud moment for the Bush Cabal and the US military.

US Marine investigated for war crimes after newspaper interview 

Condoleezza Rice has talked her way into a U-turn

Plans to set up UK military base near Basra - Jane's

The Plot Thickens: Goodbye NATO – Hello EDF?: The less developed countries in Europe are now the ‘new Europe’ according to Rumsfeld. Black is white and white is black. The world is turned on its head as USUK rewrites reality.

US Tells Iraq Oil Ministers Not to Act Without Its OK

FULL TEXT: ROAD MAP TO A PERMANENT TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

A Road Map to the Road Map: Commentators See No Alternative to a Plan With Dismal Prospects.

One Person, One Vote, One State: The Only Hope for Lasting Peace in Palestine-Israel: More than any other government in the world today, Israel violates the principle of equal rights for all under its jurisdiction. 

The Case for Binationalism: Why one state—liberal and constitutionalist —may be the key to peace in the Middle East

The One State Solution: The only thing that Israelis have to give up is their racism.

What's Going On? What are the political classes of the Anglo-Saxon Alliance afraid of? Is it really a handful of messianic terrorists or WMDs or ‘rogue states’, the ‘axis of evil’ and the other convenient comic book caricatures that have been trundled out ad nauseum for consumption by the masses?

Former Iraqi nuclear scientist: ''The mirage of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction''

Text of 'Saddam Hussein Letter' The text of a letter allegedly written and signed by Saddam Hussein, published by the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.

NEOCONS IN DENIAL: It's a 'conspiracy theory' to blame neocons for the war – even though they spent the last decade agitating for it 

US Troops Fire on Falluja Crowd, Iraqis Say 2 Dead: U.S. troops opened fire on Wednesday for the second time this week on an angry crowd in the Iraqi town of Falluja, near Baghdad.

Dogs Of War: Living On Lies And Death: "A Lie of Peace" Flash presentation.

War Crimes Case Against US "Going Ahead" The suit, brought by 19 Iraqis, accuses General Franks of war crimes during the Iraq conflict.

To the US troops it was self-defence. To the Iraqis it was murder

Patriot Raid: Two weeks ago I experienced a very small taste of what hundreds of South Asian immigrants and U.S. citizens of South Asian descent have gone through since 9/11, I was held, against my will and without warrant or cause, under the USA PATRIOT Act.

Phantom WMDs Where are they? The world is waiting. The sour joke is: "Of course we know the Iraqis have weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts."

Saddam letter sent to Arab newspaper: A LONDON-BASED Arabic newspaper says it has received a handwritten letter signed by Saddam Hussein.

Putin,We are not with you and we don't believe you: The Russian president, refused to lift UN sanctions and mocked the possibility that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq..

Blair warns rifts could lead to new cold war: The prime minister, who has always advocated a strong relationship between the US and Europe, said the war had highlighted the dangers of a Europe that aspired to rival America.

Battling for the soul of the American republic  A battle for the soul of the American republic has begun in Washington. This is a battle of ideas being waged by people with an imperial concept of American power, or "flag conservatives"

Shi'ites in Revolt: Why Paul Wolfowitz Is in a State of Shock

Bush Appointee Daniel Pipes, Americas Leading Islamophobe Calls For A Dictator In Iraq

Game of nerves in Northeast Asia What would happen if tomorrow a few US fighters bombed all known North Korean facilities engaged in the production of nuclear weapons? Would Pyongyang retaliate? Would it fire missiles at Japan or bombard Seoul?

U.S. eyes Japan's help in possible N Korea blockade

Americans Not Giving Much to Help Iraqi Children: Many Americans might be under the impression their government and military were taking care of humanitarian needs in Iraq and therefore did not need to contribute.

Four EU States Agree on Force HQ: Four European Union countries that opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq agreed on Tuesday to create a multinational force headquarters next year, in what they called a drive to boost European defense integration.

US pulls out of Saudi Arabia: The United States has said that virtually all its troops, except some training personnel, are to be pulled out of Saudi Arabia.

Bin Laden's main demand is met: America's announcement of its intention to withdraw its military bases from Saudi Arabia answers Osama bin Laden's most persistent demand.

Intel worker accused of aiding terrorists: The government asserts that Hawash traveled to China in the company of suspected terrorists and attempted to enter Afghanistan so he could fight for the Taliban.

Iraqis Say U.S. Troops Kill at Least 13 Protesters: Between 13 and 17 people were killed and many wounded when soldiers occupying a local school fired on unarmed demonstrators.

Did our leaders lie to us? Do we even care? "Everyone knows he lied about weapons of mass destruction being the point of the war.''

There may be NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw admitted yesterday: He told the Commons that war was declared because the regime had ONCE been in possession of them.

Matters of Emphasis: We were not lying," a Bush administration official told ABC News. "But it was just a matter of emphasis." The official was referring to the way the administration hyped the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States.

Rumsfeld heralds 'first strike' era: Donald Rumsfeld has said that his country has entered a new era in which it must pre-emptively seek out and prevent attacks by terrorists and terrorist states.

US threatens Belgium over planned war crimes indictment

Spooked: The whole strange thing began nearly two years ago, when an acquaintance e-mailed me, wondering why the Secret Service had contacted him to ask if he thought I was a threat to George W. Bush.

Security checks on local officials raise civil liberties alarms

Privilege Revoked: The government says it can pry into the attorney-client relationship all it wants.

Woman Who Dated The President Lands Plumb Job: The White House made a number of recess appointments last week as Congress fled for spring break. One was April H. Foley, a "homemaker."

Robert Fisk: Did the United State murder journalists? I don’t believe this. General Blount lied about his tank crew on the Tigris river. “General” Powell went along with this lie.

Americans have good reason to be afraid of their leaders

Newest US Colony Ruled by Air Power: America now controls the Mideast's second largest oil producer.

We don’t need your help: I was asked by a concerned American what she could do to help the Palestinian people. For the first time, I understood how Malcolm X would have felt when he was asked by a white American what she could do to help blacks in America. Malcolm X’s answer was "Nothing."

Depth of Wall Street corruption exposed: A two-year investigation into Wall Street corruption drew to a close yesterday with a $1.4 billion settlement, fraud charges against major banks and disgrace for some of the financial world's leading figures.

US Propaganda Exposed "So Who Really Did Save Private Jessica?" The rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, was not the heroic Hollywood story told by the US military. Democracy NOW, Interviews Richard Lloyd Parry, foreign correspondent for the London Times.

Welcome to the Sars camp: 1,000 solitary, sterile, white rooms: The white, sterile rooms will soon become an enormous camp where the city's victims of Sars will be shut away.

Halliburton Defends No-bid Iraq Contract: “Why would a defense secretary, former chief of staff to a president and former member of Congress with no business experience become the CEO of a multibillion-dollar oil services company,” asks Lewis. “He was brought in to raise their government contract profile and he did.”

Who Fund$ The Neocon$?: Bradley Foundation is epicenter of Neocon warmongering.

The Next President: This is how America chooses its presidents—through money, media, polling, and more money.

Israeli Calls for 'Regime Change' in Iran, Syria

Eyewitness Report: US Soldiers Stripped Four Iraqi Men And Forced Them Into The Street: Democracy NOW interview with the Norwegian Reporter Who Broke The Story.

Did The US Gas Its Own People? YES: A short clip from Investigative Reports - concerning biological testing on US cities (5 minutes)

Secret exposure: U.S. tested chemical weapons on own citizens

Operation Northwoods: acts of terrorism that never happened: In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Richard Perle: We won't stop in Iraq "We are not going to stop there. We shall continue to fight against countries who harbour terrorists and develop weapons of mass destruction."

Occupation and Iraqi Intifada: Now the Real War Starts

Road to Syria An Open Book:  The rape of Iraq (or as future historians will doubtless call it, "The Dawn of the Shiite Empire") was planned openly several years ago by Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Now it turns out that the recent Syria -- threats of sanctions, "surgical" strikes, and "regime change" -- was also carefully planned, by many of the same people, long before the Bush Regime seized power.

Shi'ite Clergy Take Charge in Iraq: Young men authorized by the Hawza seminary in Najaf are standing guard at street corners in plain gray uniforms, wielding Kalashnikov rifles.

Peaceful' nuclear power fuels spread of weapons: The "domino theory of the 21st century may well be nuclear," 

Murdoch helped start war on Iraq, says Turner

More about Conspiracies and Oil: It’s fashionable to decry opponents of the invasion of Iraq (and other points East) who cite oil as the basic rationale as ‘conspiracists’.

A War on Enlightenment: The deadly rain of missiles on Baghdad has dealt a major setback to what historians someday may call the Age of Human Rights

U.S. Soldier Killed in Tikrit

How Many Wars Are in Us? The quick success of U.S. and British forces on the battlefield in Iraq, against minimal resistance, encourages the notion that the Bush administration's policy of pre-emptive war can work.

Fighting is over but the deaths go on: Mines have killed up to 80 civilians since the conflict ended.

Women and children die in Afghan factional fighting: Factional fighting claimed the lives of 38 civilians, including women and children, as well as 26 soldiers executed in a remote province of north-western Afghanistan, the UN said yesterday.

Paris and Berlin prepare alliance to rival Nato

Al-Qaida links still dubious: Western intelligence officials are playing down the significance of documents appearing to show that Saddam Hussein's regime met an al-Qaida envoy in Baghdad in 1998.

British Intelligence Saddam link to al-Qaeda in doubt

Scott Ritter: US lied about WMDs 

Is America Becoming Fascist?

Librarians Bristle At Patriot Act: Across the country librarians and bookstore owners are worried that reading the wrong book could make them suspect.

U.S. Corporate Media and Homeland Security Move towards Total Information Control: Freedom of information in American society is in danger because corporate media needs to maintain access to official sources of news.

Police Get Power to Check Prints On The Spot: Portland police may soon be asking for more than a license when making a traffic stop, but also requesting a motorist to stick out a thumb and forefinger.

Iraq 'may have to quit Opec' And nationalize oil industry: In the right hands the output of 7 million barrels a day is achievable in about six years. Such high production would, however, place a strain on Iraq's relations with Opec and threaten a slump in world oil prices.

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