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Attack on US Convoy in Afghanistan Injures One

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

America's `laserkrieg' "If Syria doesn't behave according to our explicit
expectations, we will attack it," the very senior American officer stated. Haaretz

My horror at PoW sex abuse pics: The shocking pictures showed male Iraqis apparently forced into sexual positions by their British captors. The Sun

Imperial America

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

Democracy Now! Broadcasts for the First Time a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him.

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

Arrogance of Rumsfeld

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

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."

Neo-cons move quickly on Iran

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. This picture is taken from a U.S. military web site. It describes "The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise", which occurred on Oct. 24-26, 2000 in the Office of the Secretaries of Defense conference room, 10 months prior to 9/11/01. This article shows that the U.S. Government was not only aware of terrorist threats by passenger aircraft, but had practiced  how best to deal with the resulting casualties. Continued

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 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.

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
Complex Speech.

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 Democracy Now! Talks with the Widow of the Al Jazeera Journalist Who Died When U.S. Forces Shelled His Office in Baghdad

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 Israel Moving Toward Permanent Control of Palestine

5/20 Saddam Plotting Return to Power, Ex-Generals Say

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."

One Nation, Under Informed: 

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.

Child Drug Abuse, Crime on the Rise in Iraq: A boy who looks no older than four, high on glue, is slapped by a friend who is trying to wake him. Dry tears stain his cheeks.

4 killed, 12 injured in Jerusalem bus bombing

Israel - Palestine: Facts Worth Noting: What Palestinians need to do to realize their own "state"

Join the Resistance: We don't know if you're ready to see what we have to show you...

Bin Laden triggered bombings in tape

If Bush Was Popular, We Wouldn't Need Polls to Convince Us

Women in Afghanistan Fear New Taliban-Like Rule: Afghan women still suffer under fundamentalist persecution--and the United States has not kept  its promise of liberation.

Terror's myriad faces: It is dangerous in the world. In fact, it is becoming more dangerous with every passing day. This is because the President and the men who answer to him and his allies are not winning the war on terror, they are losing it.

Morocco death toll rises to 41

Iraqi POWs tell Amnesty they were tortured: Former Iraqi prisoners of war have accused British and American troops of torturing them in custody, blindfolding them before kicking and beating them with weapons for long periods.

Iraqi Detainees Claim Abuse by British and U.S. Troops

Extent of UK snooping revealed: Officials in the UK are routinely demanding huge quantities of information about what people do online and who they call, say privacy experts.

New Front Sets Sights On Toppling Iran Regime: A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran.

US accuses Iran of stockpiling chemical arms: Iran, already accused by the Bush administration of hiding attempts to build a nuclear bomb, faces fresh allegations about its chemical and biological weapons programmes.

David Nelson, could you step aside for a few moments? "There is a 'no-fly' list," he says. "That's people who cannot fly, period," because they've been determined to be or are suspected of being "a threat to civil aviation or to national security."

Helen Thomas: Bush's Snub Endangers Existence Of U.N: The presidential snub raises the threat that the United States will, for the second time, destroy an international organization designed to protect world peace.

Fatal attraction: Why everybody now wants the bomb: Nuclear disarmament is dead as the United States flaunts its weapons superiority and small nations rush to make their own bombs. The second cold war is here.

The Fall of Corporate America: It appears the polls have never been so wrong or so desperate to convince us they are right.

House Armed Service Committee voted to continue funding for "nuclear bunker buster"

Saudi Arabia: For expats, life's an endless round of parties: For Westerners seeking the good life, Saudi Arabia offered easy money, sunshine and an alcohol-driven party scene where casual sex was taken for granted.

Saudis' Quicksand of Poverty: This country with pockets once so deep that it bought billions of dollars of U.S. weapons and helped finance U.S.-led military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, is now deep in debt.

More Of The truth about Jessica: John Kampfner discovers the real story behind a modern American war myth.

In Iraq, Water and Oil Do Mix: Of all the reasons for invading Iraq, securing water rights was never mentioned because it implicates too many countries.

A Nation of Fear: Ashcroft and Rumsfeld are almost like a new type of supreme court unto themselves.

From The Archives: Reviewing The Lies - War is Sell: How this war was sold – how much was fact and how much was fiction.

Out From Its Cocoon, the All Professional Military: Let us stop coddling our all-mercenary military. - What kind of men would imprison a hundred -year-old man in an outdoor cage exposed to the elements for a full year, or 14-year-old boys on the pretext that they are "dangerous terrorists?"

U.S. Army Creates Video Game to Train Soldiers: "If you enroll in the army of the future, you'll get your helmet, your gun and one of these discs,"

In Bed with Bush – The Bechtel Story: A little research into the history of the Bechtel Corp reveals almost a 'classroom example' of how the links between big business and government work.

Elite Power Broker's Secret Talks: Critics accuse Bilderberg of being sinister and conspiratorial - if what the delegates are discussing is really for the good of ordinary people they ask, then why can't they publicise it?

Paths of Glory: How is the war on terror going? A respected British think tank with no discernible anti-Bush animus, declared that Al Qaeda is "more insidious and just as dangerous" as it was before Sept. 11. So much for claims that we had terrorists on the run.

New Gallup Poll: Other than USA, Albania, and Kosovo all other countries think that as a result of recent military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, the world is a more dangerous place.

Baghdad pays the postwar price: 242 die in three weeks

Survey: Israel yet to grasp concept of democracy: More than half the Jewish population of Israel - 53 percent - is opposed to full equal rights for Israeli Arabs, according to a survey conducted last month by the Israel Democracy Institute.

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Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians in Gaza Raid:

Case proven - war does not eradicate terrorism: The Saudi bombs are being attributed to the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. If so, we might reasonably ask for an inquiry into why two colossally expensive and destructive wars were fought by the West yet left unscathed the architect of all this woe.

Bush Officials Change Tune on Iraqi Weapons: "The administration seems to be hoping that inconvenient facts will disappear from the public discourse. It's happening to a large degree"

The Guantánamo Scandal: The Department of Defense has held more than 600 male prisoners, some as young as 13 — and of 42 different nationalities, including citizens of our closest allies — in a concentration camp.

Saudi Bombing - A Calculated Act With a Political Message: A thorough understanding of the incident -- a repeat of a similar attack that took place in 1995 -- might help the United States to act in a responsible and measured manner.

Vinnell Corporation: The Link Between Oil Fields, Saudi Troops, “No Jews” Clauses, Coup Attempts in Grenada, and Monday’s Car Bombings in Saudi Arabia.

US company has long history with Saudis: Vinnell has a sometimes controversial history with the Saudis. It includes a congressional investigation of its activities, questions about whether it has ties to the CIA, and past links to President Bush and his father, President George H. W. Bush.

The New Mercenaries - Corporate Armies For Hire

The Role of Private & Mercenary Armies in International Conflict

Baghdad's blundering victors: Is Washington's new hard-nosed viceroy in Iraq — diplomat Paul Bremer — a stand-up comic? Blind as a bat? Or an artful liar? Shell-shocked Iraqis have been mulling the possibilities. On balance, liar may be the least obnoxious answer.

Dirty bomb victims may be shot: POLICE could be forced to shoot members of the public to maintain order in the event of a terrorist "dirty bomb" or biological attack on Britain.

Remains of toxic bullets litter Iraq: A 3-foot-long DU dart from a 120 mm tank shell, was found producing radiation at more than 1,300 times background levels. It made the instrument's staccato bursts turn into a steady whine.

The long reach of Leo Strauss

Some Audience Members Told Not to Wear Ties for Bush Speech: President Bush came to Indianapolis to send the message that his tax cut plan will help everyone and not just the wealthy. That's why all those people sitting behind him were instructed on what to wear.

Rumsfeld: U.S. Used New Missile in Iraq that kills people without destroying buildings

U-S military tells Iraqis to turn in all guns or face arrest

U.S. Forces Struggle to Disarm Baghdad: "U.S. troops are doing nothing yet,'' Saad Fadiel Ail said. ``This is my livelihood. ... How can I manage without a gun?''

Apologies - remember to remind me: Iraqis are turned into ‘Arabs’ and ‘Arabs’ turned into ‘Muslims’ and ‘Muslims’ become ‘terrorists’, they depart the world of humanity and enter a demon world, where only monsters live. Once dehumanised, they can be destroyed without the ‘inconvenience’ of a conscience.

Learning Curve: The war has actually just begun. It may take decades and become global, but the outcome has never been in question. History is moving and we are helpless witness to the final bloody gasp of colonialism.

N. Korea Has Dozens of Nukes, Top Defector Says

Deaths In Custody: There has been a series of incidents in Australia occurring over the past few years of which the rest of the world seems to have no knowledge.

The Guaranteed Failure Of The Road Map: The U.S. is ruled today by hawks whose vision is an unending war. Israel, whose leaders are always eager to go on another war, is an asset in this vision. 

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Step Forward, Tony Blair: It took just a few hours for US Secretary of State Colin Powell's mission to implement the road map to founder on the rocks of Israeli intransigence. Ariel Sharon's "gestures" to humor his American guest lasted barely longer than the visit itself.

Anti-terrorism pillars show signs of wear: Colin Powell essentially got the Middle East "road map" shoved down his throat by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

China threatens to execute SARS spreaders

Terrorists planning fuel bomb in UK, says report

US warns of new terrorist onslaught

Richard Butler, former chief weapons inspector in Iraq Speaks Out Against US Development Of Mini Nukes. "George W. Bush and the people around him want to have nuclear weapons in the regular battlefield arsenal of the United States armed forces."

Benny Elon's long, strange trip: Israel's radical-right tourism minister, who wants Palestinians transferred to Jordan, came to Washington to huddle with his best American friends -- not Jews, but the Christian right. 

Elon's Plans For The Palestinian People Show A chilling Similarity To The Nazi Party Plans For Jewish People In 1939

If This Is Freedom, What Exactly Is Dictatorship?

"How, you gonna export something you ain't even got at home?"

A New Kind of Democracy A 22 year old Iraqi college student at Baghdad University speaks out about "democracy" and the occupation of Iraq.

No WMDs after all: Turns out it really was all a big joke after all. The war, that is. All a big fat nasty murderous oil-licking lie.

Six Iraqi children killed playing with bomb

Risk of stock market crash in Europe and US grows: The estimated probability of a crash involving a 25 percent slide in a major stock market index has risen.

Belgian Lawyer Files War Crimes Complaint Against U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks

New Policy in Iraq to Authorize G.I.'s to Shoot Looter On Sight

Here's What's Being Said: The United States cannot turn back now. It has set itself on a path of no return. - Having stored up so many enemies, the bully must now remain forever a bully to ensure his own survival. 

The war that Bin Laden is winning: The US withdrawal from Saudi Arabia will not save the regime.

Gore Vidal on the "United States of Amnesia," 9/11, the 2000 Election and the War in Iraq.

Israeli army kills three Palestinian policemen: 

U.S. won't push peace map on Sharon

Firm Was 'Cover for CIA'

Riyadh Target Was Al-Qaeda hated corporation: For five years until 1997 it was owned by the Carlyle group, a defence and investment house close to the Bush family.

Transition to an empire: The neo-imperialism of the US revives the Roman concept of moral domination, based on the conviction that free trade, globalisation and the diffusion of Western civilisation are good for the world.

Democracy NOW! Interviews Britain’s Longest Serving MP Tom Dalyell, Criticized for Calling Bush Administration a "Cabal"

Exposed: Defense Dept Secretly Tapped Halliburton Unit To Operate Iraq's Oil Industry In Nov: Months before the United States military showered Iraq with bombs and missiles, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton Corp.

The Press and the Myths of War: It allows us to suspend individual conscience, maybe even consciousness, for the cause. And few of us are immune.

Al-Qaida Operative Warned of Attacks: An al-Qaida commander warned that the terror network was about to carry out major attacks in Saudi Arabia in an e-mail just a day before the deadly assault in the Saudi capital.

AFI Intelligence Report: Is The West About To Reap a Terrorist Whirlwind? Bush and Blair targeted for assassination?

The Manipulation Of America: Notice a pattern yet? If not, keep watching the news and you will.

U.S. asks citizens to leave Saudi Arabia: The American school in Riyadh also has been closed.

After the Iraq war: As one satirist noted recently, the despotic oil sheiks of the Gulf have lost their fear of democracy after witnessing the way in which it is practiced by George W. Bush.

Achtung!  Are We the New Nazis? Soldiers, God and Empire.

Britain has capitulated to US hawks over UN resolution

Riyadh bombings toll rises to 90: US

Sharon: No Settlement Retreat Despite Peace Plan: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday rejected any talk of dismantling Jewish settlements.

Why friends of Israel should see Gaza

U.S. Expels 14 Cuban Diplomats

Court will decide if police need warrant for GPS 'tracking': The Washington Supreme Court will decide soon whether police agencies throughout the state may use the device freely -- without a warrant.

Video: The U.S. Has Committed The Most Serious Act Of Aggression In It's History: Ramsey Clark Speaking At The National Press Club: May 12, 2003

Bush Should Be Impeached and Tried for War Crimes: The American people should be clear about two things. History never judges kindly a rich, powerful nation that attacks a small, poor one.

A New Holocaust: The Genocidal Policies of the US.

Faith and freedom: With a tradition of justice and secularism, there is no reason to fear Iraq's Shia resurgence.

"Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein"

To Those Americans Who Waved The Flag And Cursed Those Who Didn't, Welcome to the new America you helped create...

From Cold War to Holy War: The war was about eliminating the will of any state to defy US global intentions, which neo-conservatives define as faith-based benign hegemony.

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Iraq in danger of starvation, says UN: Iraqi agriculture is on the brink of collapse, with fears that many of its 24.5 million people will go hungry this summer.

Habits and Attitudes of Free People America is a “free country”, the “freest country in the world.”  At least, that is what is almost universally accepted here simply due to the fact that it is repeated over and over again. Or is it?

UK: Short Launches Broadside On Blair "The assurances you gave me about the need for a UN mandate to establish a legitimate Iraqi government have been breached."

Dear Tony: Short Resignation Letter. Full Text

A minister quits, buildings burn, rubbish rots. So much for the 'reconstruction'

Foreign forces must go, insists Shia ayatollah

Bush ally set to profit from the war on terror James Woolsey, former CIA boss and influential adviser to President George Bush, is a director of a US firm aiming to make millions of dollars from the 'war on terror'

Bechtel And Blood For Water What the past month has revealed is the total and rotten corruption on which the new world order is based.

Just Another Week for The Bush Administration and the U.S. Media: These stories are headlines around the world, and in the alternative media in the United States, but as usual, these stories escape the headlines of ANY newspaper or television news.

Powell meeting disappoints Palestinians "A waste of time," said one Palestinian who took part in the Jericho talks.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Crosses The New York Times' Line of 'Strict Neutrality': Judith Miller, Daniel Pipes and the Middle East Forum.

Releases raise questions over Camp X-ray purpose After nearly a year of interrogations at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, they were set free without compensation or even an apology.

Mexicans Outraged by Immigration/Oil Move: A move in the U.S. Congress to link immigration with opening up Mexico 's state oil company to U.S. investment has outraged Mexicans.

Islamic Extremism May Save Western Civilization It would shock and probably offend most Americans to learn the truth that the reason they are here, their power, their affluence and position in the world is directly because of the Islamic religion and the Arab culture.

Eye Witnesses: Two Israelis who witnessed Palestinians being shot by the IDF could not believe their eyes.

"Christian Zionism" and the Myth of America

Iranian Rebels Surrender to US Military in Iraq "In the agreement, we are not calling it a surrender or a capitulation. It's a 'disarmament,' which is lawyer-speak so that the MEK (Mujahideen) don't lose face,"

US rivals turn on each other as weapons search draws a blank Was the war fought on a platform of lies?

Frustrated, US Arms Team to Leave Iraq Task Force Unable To Find Any Weapons.

Knock-Knock! Land of the free and home of those who keep their mouths shut?

U.S. Army Recruiter Crosses Mexico Border An Army recruiter from San Diego did indeed come into Tijuana ...

Israel, We Bless Thee I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for us, since I am quite sure most Americans are unaware of just what kind of friend she has been to us.

Exposed: "Go in, Ali Baba, it's all yours!"- called the Americans: American soldiers broke open the door of the main building (Baghdad Museum) , and stayed in the exhibition halls unobserved for about two hours. Eventually they brought out objects and transported them off. A Must Read

Is this the kind of Country we want to live in? Secret Service Questions Students:  Two weeks ago certain ideas led to two students being taken out of class and grilled by the United States Secret Service.

Well there you have it, ‘The Coup de Grace’ Iraq is officially an ‘occupied country’

"Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." Huge corporations now control America's body politic by reason of their bald-faced purchases of the three branches of the American government and America's major media. A Must Read

US Army Patents Biological Weapons Delivery System, Violates Bioweapons Convention which explicitly prohibits development of bioweapons delivery devices.

SARS: Quarantined people will be monitored with GPS system

Exiled Shia leader returns to Iraq - Iran?  Deja Vu - All over Again!

The Other "F" Word: Dare we say it?

US Helicopter Down in Iraq, Three Killed

Cheney’s Old Company Continues To Break Law’s While Profiting From Terror Halliburton Corp., the second largest oil services company in world, is the poster child for corporate greed and terror.

Drunk on Power: George Bush is an alcoholic. Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic, according to neuroscientists. Bush's brain was changed by his substance use. And his brain did not return to its "normal" or predrinking state after he stopped drinking. 

A Nation of Cowards We seem to have become a nation of cowards celebrating illusions.

The Two Faces Of Rumsfeld 2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change.

On Thomas Jefferson, Revolution and the Biometric ID Card:  What has become of us? Are you that ungrateful, and compliant, fat and complacent, that you're willing to ignore the steady, noose-like actions of our nation's government?

Bush Gives Terrorists U.S. Military Uniforms

Junk History Nothing exemplifies the topic of junk history better than the made-for-mass consumption notions concerning Islam and its relationship to the "Judeo-Christian West"

The Real Casualty Rate from America's Iraq Wars: "Wealthy people don't go into the military or take risks, why should they?

Cholera: Kids throng hospitals: "I believe my son caught cholera from the drinking water; I believe the water in the tanker truck was contaminated," she says.

Ten Reasons to Oppose the United States Occupation of Iraq

Time to stop pretending America, these atrocities were about the OIL A readers Commentary

Liberation, one month on: Chaos on the streets, cholera in the city and killings in broad daylight.

Chaos, Crime Reign In Baghdad: One more body bag weighing against the triumph of liberation.

U.S. General May Censor Iraqi TV Station's Programs: "Yes, what we are looking at is censorship," he said

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