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6/01 The lies that led us into war ... How the UK and the US manipulated UN reports - and conjured an anthrax dump from thin air Bush Remarks Confirm Shift in Justifying War : Standard of Proof For Weapons Drops. Blair: I Have Secret Proof of Weapons Of Mass Destruction The Great Pretender As Blair’s web of lies disintegrates, the cynics say ‘what difference does it make? He (Blair) has all the power, what can I do?’ Former Cabinet Minister Clare Short last night accused Tony Blair of duping the nation over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction I was silly to trust America Even by the standards of the Bush Administration, last week was a remarkable one for diplomatic folly. Iraq's arms: Australia raises new doubts A Tangled Web of Neocon Lies: The Frauds of War War crime threat to Blair The mother of a soldier who died in the Gulf has said that Tony Blair should be prosecuted as a war criminal if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq. Wolfowitz says Saudi troop withdrawal was 'huge' reason for war with Iraq Revealed: the cluster bombs that litter Iraq The shocking extent of unexploded cluster bombs dropped by American and British planes, which litter Iraq eight weeks after the conflict, is revealed in detail for the first time today. U.S. prison population largest in world With a record-setting 2 million people now locked up in American jails and prisons, the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its citizens behind bars than any other country. 275,000 veterans are homeless on any given night: US Urges Jakarta to Rethink Aceh Assault 5/31 The Lies Continue: Bush: 'We Found' Banned Weapons Citing two trailers that U.S. intelligence agencies have said were probably used as mobile biological weapons labs, Bush said U.S. forces in Iraq have "found the weapons of mass destruction" Washington Post But aren't those mobile trailers evidence of an Iraqi bioweapons program? Short answer: NO. Bush Tours Auschwitz, Says 'Evil' Must Be Resisted: Reuters BUSH FAMILY HISTORY Bush Is Not A Nazi, So Stop Saying That U.S. Insiders Say Iraq Intel Deliberately Skewed: Reuters Secret transcript revealed Straw & Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims Jack Straw and his US counterpart, Colin Powell, privately expressed serious doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq's banned weapons programme at the very time they were publicly trumpeting it to get UN support for a war on Iraq. The Guardian Sean Penn: Kilroy's Still Here: We see dead young Americans. We see no WMDs. We see dead Iraqi civilians. We see no WMDs. We see chaos in the Baghdad streets. But no WMDs. Who Really Rules This World: What if it were possible to find the root of all problems? Is there a single factor, which effects all men's actions and are at the core of his decisions? ICH Where Are Saddam & Osama? Where are Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction? Where is al Qaeda? Where is the CIA? CBS News Iraqi oil could fund rebuilding - FT Report The report said the funding plan was being pushed by a coalition of large companies including oilfield services provider Halliburton Co. and privately held construction company Bechtel- Reuters Halliburton's Iraq bill nears half a billion: The Army has given a Halliburton Co. subsidiary more than $425 million in troop support work, much of it related to the Iraq war, over the past 14 months under a contract that Vice President Dick Cheney's former company won in 2001
Privatizing
Iraq: Halliburton’s Kellogg Brown & Root
subsidiary received a contract worth up to $7 billion over
two years. Bechtel has a contract worth $680 million the
first 18 months and perhaps as much as $100 billion overall.
America's
`laserkrieg' "If Syria doesn't
behave according to our explicit My horror at PoW sex abuse pics: The shocking pictures showed male Iraqis apparently forced into sexual positions by their British captors. The Sun 5/30 A MUST READ Is There Anything Left That Matters? The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people. It may be time for us to realize that in a country that prides itself on being democratic, we are our government. And the rest of the world is figuring that out very quickly. Your Bill of Rights repealed: We were proud to be citizens of a country where peoples' rights were guaranteed, protected against even the government. We foolishly believed those rights would last as long as the United States. Today, through presidential fiat, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is no longer in force. ICH
Murdered with impunity, the street children who live and die like vermin The Guardian A lack of intelligence: Australia's spies knew the United States was lying about Iraq's WMD programme. So why didn't the Government choose to believe them? Sydney Morning Herald Next act in America's grand imperial drama set to unfold in Iran: How exactly is that confrontation to be waged? Here we approach the interesting part. Chicago Tribune 'Torture' snaps: man held A BRITISH soldier has been arrested over sickening “torture” photos of an Iraqi prisoner. The Sun POW 'torture photos' investigated: Allegations Iraqi prisoners of war were mistreated by UK troops are being investigated, after photographs allegedly showing the abuse were discovered. BBC UK: Allied use of cluster bombs illegal, minister admits Cluster bombs were dropped on "built-up areas" in Iraq in an attempt to protect British servicemen. After initially denying the charge in an interview with the BBC, the minister said the unguided weapons, which release hundreds of bomblets, were used. The Independent Robin Cook: Britain must not be suckered a second time by the White House: The British government needs to concede that we went to war for reasons of US foreign policy and Republican Party politics. The Independent Ministers 'distorted' UN weapons report: British intelligence sources expressed fury at Downing Street's behaviour. They were deeply reluctant to allow Downing Street to use their intelligence assessments because they feared it would be manipulated for political ends. The Guardian Official explodes key WMD claim: Downing Street doctored a dossier on Iraq's weapons programme to make it "sexier", according to a senior British official.The Guardian Read the Original UK dossier in question PDF File The American Confession: Le Monde | Editorial Reassessing Miller: U.S. intelligence on Iraq's WMD deserves a second look. So does the reporting of the New York Times' Judith Miller. Slate A History Of Lies: WMD, Who Said What and When ? Waggy Dog Stories: It's now also clear that George W. Bush had no intention of reaching a diplomatic solution. According to The Financial Times, White House sources confirm that the decision to go to war was reached in December: "A tin-pot dictator was mocking the president. It provoked a sense of anger inside the White House," New York Times Is truth a victim? Dan Rather of CBS, says the US media has stopped asking tough questions of the Bush administration since 11 September. And he blames a climate of extraordinary patriotism. BBC Nazi Germany's War On Terrorism: Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a “war on terrorism,” establish his legitimacy as a leader (even though he hadn’t won a majority in the previous election). Heard the local news? It may soon be harder to find: If you think local TV news is bad now, if you think there's a stultifying sameness to most of what passes for news and commentary in the electronic media today, wait till you see what happens when Rupert Murdoch and Mickey Mouse rule the world. Los Angeles Times Rumsfeld pushes for regime change in Iran: Financial Times Embracing the True Nature of Patriotism: Before sending young Americans to kill and die in foreign lands, a democracy has a sacred obligation to permit full and searching discussion of the issues. There is no obligation to bow down before a reloaded imperial presidency. Seattle Times Big Brother is Back...but in a Nice Way Flash presentation. Village Voice Graphic, but legal: War of words and images at Farmers Market. The Tribune 5/29 Behind the victory, a power struggle that drains life from a weary people The untold stories of how no electricity means no water, which means disease. More Lies Exposed No Bunker where U.S. Bombs Targeted Saddam-CBS The Baghdad bunker which the United States said it bombed on the opening night of the Iraq war in a bid to kill Saddam Hussein never existed. Foreign envoys in Iraq no longer enjoy diplomatic status, immunity: US: The United States would discourage attempts by any country to send diplomats to Baghdad and had the authority to bar them from coming in. US military killed two Iraqi civilians U.S. Military Plan Against Iran Ready: Russian Paper Pentagon Eyes Massive Covert Attack on Iran The proposal, which would include covert sponsorship of a group currently deemed terrorist by the U.S. government, is not new, and has not won favor with enough top officials to be acted upon. U.K. Dossier On Iraq Weapons 'Unreliable' Britain's dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was rewritten on orders from Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to make it look more dramatic. The case for war is blown apart: Tony Blair stood accused last night of misleading Parliament and the British people over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. There's the news and then there's the news and then there's damn lies! Blair and co scramble to cover their tracks over just one of the more obvious fabrications created to justify the (illegal) invasion, the real issues still seem to escape examination by the media even when it runs them over. Rumsfeld's new line on missing arms Hey! Iraq lost! Feelin' safer yet? If virtually none of what this administration said about Iraq - from nuclear weapons to imminent threat - has been borne out, why should we believe what is now being said about Iran? Wolfowitz reveals Iraq PR plan: Mr Wolfowitz says that stressing Iraq's alleged chemical and biological weapons as the main argument for going to war with Iraq was the only one that all arms of the bureaucracy could agree on. U.S. Soldier Shot Dead in Iraq -Centcom: A U.S. soldier was killed on Thursday when he came under hostile fire in Iraq, the United States Central Command said. Operation Iraqi Eradication: The Rise of a Bigger, Better Taliban Iraqi Shi'ites Protest at Alleged U.S. Arrests: "We warn them that the promised day for the Intifada ... is approaching, when we will turn our bodies into bombs to blow up the wheels of the invading occupiers," Riot Chases Troops Out of Iraqi Town: 'They were terrifying the women and children,' one protester says after U.S. soldiers search homes for weapons. U.S. troops raid Palestinian mission in Baghdad, arrest 11 Villagers fall ill amid fears of nuclear contamination US gunfire kills three teens at wedding: US soldiers opened fire on a festive wedding parade earlier this week, killing three teenagers and wounding seven others after the celebrants fired weapons in the air. White House shelved deficit report: The study asserts that sharp tax increases, massive spending cuts or a painful mix of both are unavoidable. US states face long-term budget shortfalls The shortfalls will force permanent tax increases, spending cuts or both. Gold reaches 15-week high as US dollar slips "Gold has come into its own and we are going to see it going up much farther than this." Anti-U.S. Russo-Chinese alliance may be in works Chinese President Hu Jintao called today for a "multipolar world" and a strategic partnership with Russia to counter U.S. dominance. The CIA in Iran The Oily Business of Regime Change Syria Asks Palestinian Groups’ Officials To Leave
5/28 At Death’s Door: American Woman Travels Door to Door to Count Iraqi Casualties Democrats: Profiles In Spinelessness Despite Thin Intelligence Reports, US Plans To Overthrow Iranian Regime At Death’s Door: American Woman Travels Door to Door to Count Iraqi Casualties Supreme Court pares Miranda rights: Authorities can force the unwilling to speak, jurists say in 6-3 ruling. Helicopter Downed, 4 US Soldiers Killed In Iraq: Jazeera: Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, May 28. Jazeera Unable Confirm U.S. Helicopter Crash in Iraq Morale Lags For Some US Troops In Iraq: "Those who did the killing should not be the ones keeping the peace," said one soldier, who asked to remain anonymous. Through A Glass Darkly: An Interpretation of Bush's Character White House insider cleans up Bush's image on film
War
on terror has boosted insecurity: report
Amnesty International says the conflict has
weakened human rights protection.
Is a military junta ruling Iraq? Why is it so difficult find out who the people are who are running Iraq? What does the Bush administration have to hide? Saddam letter claims resistance More Attacks Raise Worries of Violent Resistance in Iraq U.S. Plan Targets Iran Clerics "We don't like giving groups designated as terrorist groups money," the State Department official said. "We've done that before; it's not a play with a long record of success." US denies its use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq pose any health hazard: Major Doug Rokke, Army Reserve Major and Health Physicist in charge of DU cleanup after the Gulf War exposes the lies America Goes Backward: A technique that the administration has used brilliantly is the manipulation of fear. What if There's No Such Thing as "al-Qaeda"? The world's most infamous terror group: global conspiracy, or just good friends? U.S. has gained little if Bush lied about reason for war: It is beginning to look as though the skeptics in this case were right. If so, I was taken in by this administration, and America and Great Britain were led to war under false pretenses. Officials 'Never Thought of an Airplane Being Used as a Missile' "With all due respect to Secretary Mineta, either he's incredibly in denial or just simply not the sharpest tool in the woodshed," See Also "The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise" In The Kingdom Of Forgetting Memory can be an embarrassing thing. In politics, it's often more convenient to forget. U.S. Provocations Give Momentum To Falluja Resistance 5/27 How We Got Into This Imperial Pickle: A PNAC Primer: Once presented with it, this conservative icon understood immediately the implications of what would happen if the American voting public found out about these policies. US finds evidence of WMD at last - buried in a field near Maryland US 'Pays Offshore Firms $1bn': Companies which have moved offshore to avoid paying US taxes are making a billion dollars a year from US government contracts. Greg Palast, Exposes The U.S. Master Plan For Reorganizing The Economy Of Iraq Post-War Iraq Quiz: Test your knowledge The strange death of liberal America: A professor of history from Yale, told me he was earnestly praying for a dreadful downturn in the American economy. "Otherwise we are stuck with this administration for the next five years and I don't know what damage that is going to do to America's standing in the world." US money funding Uzbeki torture chambers: Last year Washington gave Uzbekistan US$500 million in aid. The police and intelligence services -- which the US Department of State's Web site says use "torture as a routine investigation technique" has received US$79 million of this sum. Attack in Iraqi Town Kills Two US Soldiers, Wounds Nine Others: Gunmen opened fire on American troops at a checkpoint early Tuesday, killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding nine others. Sharon backtracks on term "occupation" in face of internal rebellion CIA training PA antiterror force: The CIA operatives are training a new PA antiterror force ahead of a possible confrontation with Hamas and Islamic Jihad The Saddam intifada: The Iraqi Intifada already has a starting date: July 27. And guess who's the rebel with a cause in charge? None other than Saddam Hussein. He seems to be alive, well and in hiding. Stating the Obvious: "The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum." So wrote the normally staid Financial Times, traditionally the voice of solid British business opinion, when surveying last week's tax bill.. On the roads of ruin: Tony Blair vowed that the West would not walk away from Afghanistan. Peter Oborne found a nation left to fend for itself - and Taliban thugs undeterred. Tehran defies US with nuclear program: President Mohammad Khatami said Iran had the right to develop a nuclear energy program. Pentagon Adds to Despair of Iran's Reformers: The Pentagon's pronouncement that it would seek to "destabilise" Iran's Islamic republic has given the country's clerics ammunition to portray their liberal opponents as traitors. A White House Fluent In Language Of Fanatics: The defining trait of the fanatic -- be it a Marxist, a fascist, or, gulp, a Wolfowitz -- is the utter refusal to allow anything as piddling as evidence to get in the way of an unshakable belief. US wants money for bombs AUSTRALIA is to be billed several million dollars by the United States for bombs dropped on Iraq. Pyongyang threatens South Korea with 'disaster ' Turkey's military chief warns pro-Islamist government of possible coup: The head of Turkey's armed forces warned the government yesterday that the possibility of military intervention still existed. US adds power to India's Israel links Iraq needs more troops: the top British military official in Baghdad has acknowledged. UN chief warns of anti-American backlash in Iraq: US attempts to rebuild the country were overly dominated by "ideology" and risked triggering a violent backlash. The story of Hiba, 19, a suicide bomber. Can the road-map put an end to all this? Advertising Private Enterprise: What is interesting about the media’s coverage of the post-invasion situation is precisely the almost complete lack of reporting of the situation. Israeli settlers vow: 'We will never leave' Reviewing The Lies. Since our government was aware of this specific threat, how can they be taken seriously when, 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. Continued Why does our government continue to lie and portray the recent invasion of Iraq as :"Operation Iraqi Freedom", when a report submitted to Vice-President Dick Cheney in April 2001 advocated using force against Iraq ... to secure control of its oil. U.S. Charged With War Crimes: Court case against General Franks in Brussels: The Evidence File
5/26 “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death,” Part 2: 5/26 Trouble in the Hinterlands The permanent war in its first throes of crisis 5/26 US soldier killed, 4 wounded in Iraq ambushes 5/26 US Central Command: Soldiers kill woman 5/26 Baghdad Chief 'Betrayed Saddam' 5/26 Saddam betrayed by relatives 5/26 Bush makes poor pay for military might and tax cuts While the US is at the zenith of its global power, its health and education systems would be grounds for a scandal in poorer countries. 5/26 US plans death camp 5/26 Israel Approves U.S.-Backed Peace Plan But it left itself an escape hatch from unwelcome parts of the plan. 5/26 Israelization of America The US again caved in to the administration of the war criminal Sharon by agreeing to let him decide the "implementation" phase of the so-called "Road Map". 5/26 U.S. Terror Tribunals: Fair Trial or Kangaroo Court Donald Rehkopf, co-chair of the military committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, called the planned military commissions "an embarrassment to democracy." 5/26 The next domino: Iran or Syria? 5/26 U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq; Saddam In-Law Seized 5/26 Spanish Peacekeepers Killed in Turkey Plane Crash A plane carrying 62 Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan crashed in Turkey early on Monday and all aboard, including 13 crew, were killed. 5/26 Explosion Hurts Three U.S. Soldiers in Baghdad Three U.S. soldiers were wounded and their Humvee military car destroyed when a blast ripped through a U.S. convoy in Baghdad on Monday. 5/26 Summary executions become routine in Aceh as Jakarta's generals break their promises: 5/26 Aceh unable to cope as bodies pile up 5/26 Maureen Dowd: Iran, Al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction 5/26 Missile kills three in Baghdad 5/26 Act Two: The ‘Victim’ Enters, Stage Right Having successfully dehumanised them through turning them into victims, the media no longer has the problem of looking to causes, the ‘victims’ are the cause all by themselves. 5/26 In Iraq, U.S. Troops Are Still Dying -- One Almost Every Day 5/26 The Died For A Lie. Flash presentation 5/26 Senator Robert Byrd "The Truth Will Emerge" It appears to this Senator that the American people may have been lured into accepting the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, in violation of long-standing International law, under false premises.
5/25 U.S. SOLDIER KILLED, SECOND INJURED IN AMMUNITION EXPLOSION 5/25 Classified: Censoring the Report About 9-11? 5/25 Lawmakers: Iran Rulers Should Be Removed 5/25 Washington has cut ties with Iran, may try to destabilise it 5/25 Congo death toll: 2,500 per day No end in sight for deadliest conflict since WW II 5/25 Israel: Cabinet approves Mideast road map by margin of 12 votes to 7 but attached a number of conditions. 5/25 Israeli assassins likely to pose as Canadians: expert 5/25 U.S. Security Plans Threatens EU Privacy-Watchdog 5/25 Let's Cut to the Chase! "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." - President George W. Bush. 5/24 Red Cross denied access to POW's Up to 3,000 Iraqis - some of them civilians - believed to be gagged, bound, hooded and beaten at US camps close to Baghdad airport. 5/24 Gun gangs rule streets as US loses control 'Before, we had no freedom, but we had security,' muses Kadem Hashem - in the ruins of the house in south Nasiriyah, where he lost all 14 members of his family during a bombing raid. 5/24 Inside the despair machine that grinds down Suspected terror captives 5/24 Afghan demonstrators hurl stones at U.S. Embassy to protest shooting of three Afghans 5/24 Oil Slick: Bechtel, Halliburton, and the White House:A look at a controversial pipeline deal that now-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally negotiated with Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bechtel Corporation during the Reagan administration. 5/25 UN, it’s your Noble duty The United Nations should, on the basis of the principles of its Charter, condemn the powers, however super they may be, for their military aggression of sovereign nations and the violation of the rights of the their people. 5/24 US army chief says Iraqi troops took bribes to surrender 5/24 Pentagon sets sights on a new Tehran regime 5/24 Washington eyeing bases in Australia: 5/24 Congress completes $984 billion borrowing boost 5/24 Scary Times: Global meltdown? You bet! When Big Capital gets worried you know things are looking bad 5/24 Israel accept the US road map for peace in the Middle East without intending to implement it fully 5/24 Israeli public relations establishment enlisted the services of spinmeisters 5/24 US and Israel look set to embrace assassination: Targeted killings, worldwide, may be developing as the policy option of choice. 5/24 Bill Moyers on Being a Journalist: I know some of you are curious as to why journalists like me keep opening the Pandora's box of democracy; why we come round and round to what ails America. 5/24 Some mainstream journalists still stand up to censorship: Big Brother Bush-Cheney have yet to totally break our spirits 5/24 Expert: suicide bombers are not crazy and are often seen as models of exemplary behaviour in their societies 5/24 US blamed for Baghdad tension: Britain says US failure to secure capital threatens reconstruction. 5/24 US Now Has Its Own West Bank
John Pilger: "Palestine is Still the Issue" Why Has This Documentary, Never Been Shown On U.S. Broadcast Media ? Watch It online. 5/23 Blair faces war crimes suit The Athens Bar Association says it will file a suit against Britain at the International Criminal Court - the recently created tribunal for cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. 5/23 Afghan Leaders In Talks With The Taliban Hamid Karzai has held top secret talks with members of the former Taliban government. The dramatic move could see a return to power of some of the most senior members of the Taliban, once described by Tony Blair as the most evil, brutal regime in the world. 5/23 Afghans Uranium Levels Spark Alert Researchers suggest new types of radioactive weapons may have been used in Afghanistan. 05/23 Convoy of Death: Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary? In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops. Watch the entire movie 5/23 US truck bomb warning: The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a bulletin warning of the possibility of a truck bomb. 5/23 Russia 'Sold' UN Iraq Vote For Oil and Debt: Press: "Russia 'sold' its vote in exchange for the respect of contracts and debt," the Izvestia daily said, quoted by Agence France-Presse. 5/23 A humanitarian crisis is exploding in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 23,000 children have been displaced and nearly 300 schools destroyed because of renewed fighting in the province.
5/23 Pygmies
plead not to be
eaten UN human rights activists reported this
year that rebels had carried out acts of cannibalism.
5/23 Bush 'is on brink of catastrophe' Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that Washington was in danger of creating “an incubator for terrorist cells and activity” 5/23 So much for the liberation of Iraq Saddam Hussein did not threaten the United States. That, however, was not important to the ideologues in Washington who wanted to overthrow him. 5/23 Victims of the Peace Decide Americans Are Worse Than Saddam 5/23 CIA to Review Iraq Intelligence Questions of Accuracy, Bias Spur Studies. 5/23 Blix Suspects Iraq May Have Had No Banned 5/23 Robbers And Killers Stalk City Of Terror I WATCHED first hand as Baghdad spiralled into lawless anarchy thanks to US troops. 5/23 Mixed Reaction Among Iraqis to End of Sanctions 5/23 US contracts come under scrutiny Reconstruction offers rich pickings, but must you be a Bush supporter to benefit? 5/23 White House Bends to Israeli 'Road Map' Demands The Bush administration pledged Friday that it will consider "fully and seriously" Israel's concerns about what steps it would have to take under a new Mideast peace plan. 5/23 The Useful Idiots of Osama bin Laden If the Saudi royal house falls, who and what do they think would replace it? 5/23 Bush Weighs Effort to Overthrow Iranian Leadership 5/23 A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation 5/23 U.S. 'Negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad The nation's largest intelligence agency, NRO is talking openly about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time—not just adversaries, but even longtime allies. 5/23 The F.C.C. proposal remains officially secret 5/23 Murdoch disclaimer provokes mirth at US senate Rupert Murdoch prompted laughter from senators in Washington yesterday when he said that he did not plan to take advantage of the upcoming relaxation in America media ownership laws. 5/23 Owning the Airwaves: The politics of media ownership rules 5/23 Your Bill of Rights Repealed Today, through presidential fiat, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is no longer in force. The government can take liberty from American citizens without a trial.
5/22 Algerian Quake Kills 1,000, Rescuers Use Bare Hands: Rescue teams used bare hands and bulldozers in a frantic search through rubble on Thursday for survivors from an earthquake in Algiers and nearby towns that killed more than 1,000 people and injured some 7,000. 5/22 Blair was told it would be illegal to occupy Iraq: The Attorney General warned the PM nearly two months ago that, without a specific UN mandate, attempts at postwar reconstruction would be unlawful. 5/22 Blair denies new claims that reforms in Baghdad are illegal: Clare Short stepped up her attack on the Prime Minister by seizing on a leaked memo by Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, suggesting that British actions would be illegal without a new UN Security Council resolution. 5/22 Legal doubts on post-war Iraq 5/22 Indonesian Army kill 17 villagers: Indonesian troops were accused of murdering at least 17 villagers, most of them young men. 5/22 Indonesia: Aceh could become an Asian Chechnya Donor countries must pressure the Indonesian army to prevent them from committing atrocities. 5/22 10 Russians killed in Chechnya attacks 5/22 Lifting the Fog Intrigue in the Middle East Oil, wars, superpowers. Britain, France, Germany and the US have fought for almost a century to control the vast petroleum wealth of the Middle East. Intrigue unravels a history little know by Americans or Europeans.
5/22 Surveys
pointing to high civilian death toll in Iraq: Evidence
is mounting to suggest that between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi
civilians may have died during the recent war.
Chaos in Iraq: Just What the US Wanted? 5/22 UN lifts sanctions on Iraq 5/22 Text of UN Resolution on Iraq 5/22 Patriot Act used for more than anti-terror 5/22 For Three Nuns, A Prairie Protest And a Price to Pay; 5/22 Death's Head: Piracy, Plunder and Foreign Policy 5/22 Blair 'Ignored Advice That Occupation is Illegal' 5/22 Blair 'Broke His Promise Not to Tap MPs' Phones' 5/22 On rescuing Private Lynch and forgetting Rachel Corrie: The Israeli army got away with murder - and now all activists are at risk. 5/22 An American Hero? Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie could have passed for sisters. Private Jessica Lynch, the soldier, was born in Palestine, West Virginia. Rachel Corrie, the activist, died in Israeli-occupied Palestine.
5/22 Police Investigate Possible Ethnic Intimidation: "Yelling 'kill the Muslim girl. Get her, that's what she deserves'... 5/22 'Fed Up' With US, a Top Palestinian Bolts 5/22 Guilty of War Crimes – or Victim of a Feud with US Soldiers? 5/22 Journey to the Dark Side of Baghdad: reporters witness victims of the city's chaos firsthand. 5/22 Full text: the 'Ayman al-Zawahri' tape Translation of the text of a purported audio tape by Osama bin Laden's top aide. 5/22 Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception 5/22 "If we cannot rise to oppose empire, the movement deserves to fail," 5/22 judge's remark sparks outrage An Arab-American woman who fainted in village court said she suffered an anxiety attack after the judge asked if she were a terrorist. 5/22 Indonesia will intern civililians in war against Aceh rebels The Government has said that up to 200,000 people are to be taken from their homes and put into tented camps guarded by soldiers. 5/22 Philippines: Govt Warned to Be Wary Of US Military Partnership 5/22 Pakistani role in Afghan War brings anger 5/21 Sen. Byrd says Americans lured into illegal war, "The Bush administration appeared to deceive the American people into launching an illegal, unprovoked attack on Saddam Hussein's government." 5/21 Blast at Yale University , No Injuries - Officials 5/21 Some Iraq nuclear material missing, says US: About 20% of the known radioactive materials stored at Iraq's largest nuclear facility are unaccounted for. Six French journalists detained on arrival at Los Angeles, sent back to France "These journalists were treated like criminals - subjected to several body searches, handcuffed, locked up and fingerprinted," 5/21 Israeli troops kill two children and 65 year old woman 5/21 The masters of the universe: It may be instructive to learn what US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle were doing last weekend. 5/21 I want to speak to you today about war and empire An anti-war graduation address resulted in New York Times reporter Chris Hedges being booed off stage. 5/21 Chris Hedges, Talks With Democracy Now! About His Experience at Rockford College and tells how his microphone was cut twice as he gave a graduation speech. 5/21 The Children's Teeth: Let there be no illusions: Sharon's final goal is turning the whole country, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan river, into an exclusively Jewish state. In this vision there is no place for Arabs, whether in the occupied territories or in Israel proper.5/21 Soros sells US dollar, raps Bush policies 5/21 Al-Zawahiri calls for suicide attacks against Westerners Bin Laden's deputy calls on Muslims to attack Western targets, emulate September 11 suicide hijackings. 5/21 US Military on Highest Domestic Terror Alert 5/21 280 Multilated Bodies Found in Eastern Congolese Town 5/21 British officer faces war crimes investigation 5/21 Afghan soldiers 'shot by mistake' American troops have shot dead four Afghan soldiers outside the US embassy in Kabul. 5/21 Drunken U.S. Troops Kill 4 Afghan Soldiers: Al-Jazeera 5/21 Plan to Capture Bin Laden Before 9/11 Was Called Off The FBI made secret plans to capture and arrest Osama bin Laden five years ago, long before the terror leader's deadliest plan came to fruition. 5/21 A Spy Machine of DARPA's Dreams The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person's life, index all the information and make it searchable. 5/21 Surveillance State: Since September 11, a flood of federal legislation has reduced American freedom without increasing our security. 5/21 Eisenhower's
Valiant Warning To America The
Military-Industrial 5/21 State monitored war protesters: Intelligence agency does not distinguish between terrorism and peace activism. 5/21 Help: A Readers Commentary
5/21 Police chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo 5/21 Security Council Resolution Silent on Human Rights: The new U.N. draft resolution on Iraq contains no explicit plans for protecting human rights or setting up an international tribunal for past abuses. 5/21 Hired Guns: While lobbyists and their employers in 39 states spent more than $715 million wining, dining and generally influencing state lawmakers in 2002, many details about how those dollars were spent remain hidden from public view. 5/21 At Least 4 Dead in Blasts at Myanmar Border Town 5/21 Judged By The Company You Keep: If on the SUSPICION of a terrorist connection any American citizen can be arrested and detained without charge, public disclosure, or legal counsel shouldn’t the same apply to our government? Or more appropriately, how well would you or I fare if we had the following SUSPICIOUS connections? 5/21 Canada reveals case of mad cow disease 5/20 Blair’s Grand Mistake: The war crimes case in Belgium illustrates the folly of Blair’s belief that the US is interested in justice. 5/20 Convoy of Death: Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary? In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops. Watch clips from this documentary or download the entire movie 5/20 Al-Qaeda threatens 'stunning blows' against US, Israel "The next strikes will stun the Americans and Israelis," Abu Mohammad al-Ablaj, "coordinator of the al Qaeda-affiliated Mujahedeen Training Centre." 5/20 Thousands of al-Qaida suspects ready to attack, warns US official 5/20 Are the United States and the world safer since Saddam's regime toppled? No. No. No. And more no. 5/20 Iraq war helped boost Al Qaeda The U.S.-led war on Iraq gave Al Qaeda the opportunity to reinvigorate its weakened terrorist network with new recruits and more funding, say experts on terrorism. 5/20 Iraq 'First battle of a wider US war' Syria had been "elevated" up the axis of evil, with Iran also in the firing line - with Israel's support. 5/20 Pentagon Readies Massive Spying System The Pentagon is developing a computer surveillance system that would give U.S. agents fingertip access to government and commercial records from around the world that could fill the Library of Congress more than 50 times. 5/20 Spy Plan Faces Critical Deadline "The TIA technology will give the federal government the capability to operate the most massive domestic surveillance program in the history of our country."
5/20 Zionist meeting brands 'Road map' as heresy: "George W. Bush, I think, is with us in his heart and in his soul." 5/20
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Moving Toward Permanent Control of Palestine 5/20 The pressures of spin Just a couple of hours after White House press secretary Ari Fleischer announced he was standing down, the UK's prime minister's official spokesman Godric Smith revealed he too was quitting. 5/20 Greg Palast takes a bipartisan swipe at democratic icons Palast believes the U.S. media have largely given up asking tough questions and making officials squirm in favor of rewriting government press releases. 5/20 Plans for network of biodefense labs raise concern for safety Some are concerned that dangerous organisms could escape from the labs and sicken residents in surrounding communities. 5/20 Anxious in Alabama In one American town, chemical weapons aren’t the stuff of news reports from far away places, but the reality of their own backyard. Nobody needs to tell the residents of Anniston, Alabama, anything about weapons of mass destruction. Oil wars Pentagon's policy since 1999: A top-level United States policy document has emerged that explicitly confirms the Defence Department's readiness to fight an oil war. Exposed: US Removes Evidence That President Musharraf Lied To The Pakistani People: U.S. Centcom cleans its web site of incriminating evidence that suggests, President Musharraf may well be a CIA asset. Arundhati Roy: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free” "Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes, available to be used and abused at will." Text & Audio: This Is a Must Read: Antiwar stance led to eviction: Pop quiz: In which country can a tenant be evicted for protesting against the government? With Patriot Act, companies forced to play informant on customers Who Exactly are the Paranoid anti-Americans? "I envision 100 million Americans looking for indicators of terrorism and promptly reporting it to a central database where it would get analyzed." A Catalogue of Failures: G8 Arms Exports and Human Rights Violations: At least two thirds of all global arms transfers in the years 1997-2001 came from five members of the G8.(1) The top supplier of weapons to the world was the United States, accounting for 28 per cent of global arms transfers. Military waste under fire: $1 trillion missing, not to mention dozens of tanks, missiles and planes. More Texas links to Iraq oil revealed: The Texan businessman installed to run the country's oil industry admitted having financial links to a company bidding for reconstruction work. Al-Qaeda ‘Planning More Attacks’ The Al-Qaeda network has reorganized and could be planning more attacks in Africa, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, Germany’s BND intelligence service has warned. Joystick Mayhem: "Shouldn't I be blowing the limbs off of some goddamn foreigners?" US threatens to move Nato after Franks charged With War Crimes: U.S. soldier killed in Baghdad Who cares? A readers Commentary Old Memos Detail Link of Money to Influence Who is the U.S. trying to fool? It is hard to see where the Bush administration thinks it is going in Iraq, or whether it grasps how much its dissimulation and bad faith over the Israeli-Palestinian "road map" will cost it. THE GREAT DEBATE: BUSH VS. BUSH Shortage of supplies, doctors leaves Iraqi patients without care: Along with all public services, this country's once-proud health system has collapsed in the aftermath of the U.S.-led war. Troops 'vandalise' ancient city of Ur: One of the greatest wonders of civilisation, and probably the world's most ancient structure. the Sumerian city of Ur in southern Iraq - has been vandalised by American soldiers and airmen. Bombings Bring U.S. 'Executive Mercenaries' Into the Light: Former CIA operative Wilbur Crane Eveland described using his title as Vinnell vice president as a cover while working in Africa and the Middle East in the early 1960s.
Robert Fisk: So what was the war for? Was it not President Bush who boasted to us of how America had struck a devastating blow in the "war on terror" in Iraq? Was it not Vice-President Cheney who informed us that al Qaeda was reeling from America's bombardment of Afghanistan? 1,700 Baghdad Civilians Killed in the battle for the Iraqi capital: Dogs Of War Inc. – A $300 Billion Dollar Business: "Since 1994, Pentagon contracts signed with just 12 companies totaled more than $300 billion." Exposed: Do you want to know who the Americans running Iraq really are? They are people with a background in the far-right of the Republican Party, the Israel lobby, Perle and Wolfowitz henchmen, central to the war on terror, to the Homeland Defence authorities, to anti-ABM and pro-Ballistic Missile Defence (Star Wars), close to conservative think tanks, affiliated with mercenary companies. US Adviser Says Iraq May Break With OPEC: The U.S. executive selected by the Pentagon to advise Iraq's Ministry of Oil suggested today that the country might best be served by exporting as much oil as it can and disregarding quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Villagers vs oil giant: Ashcroft to the rescue: US Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court in effect to nullify a 214-year-old law that has provided foreign victims of serious abuses access to US courts for redress. |
