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Report: U.S. military chief to urge Bush to cut troops in Iraq
Xinhua The U.S. military chief is expected to call on President George W. Bush to reduce American troops in Iraq next year, a newspaper reported Friday. General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Read More »Last stand for Bush’s ‘stay the course’ crowd?
By Bill Berkowitz Freedom’s Watch, a new group of former ambassadors and Bush pitchmen are targeting dozens of congressional representatives with $15 million worth of pro-war radio and television advertisements It’s been a long
Read More »Bush: is the president imploding?
By Andrew Stephen His aides are jumping ship, his inner circle is torn apart by feuds and his orders are being ignored. Bush has 17 months left in the White House, but he is
Read More »North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic
By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research RINF Alternative News The Battle for the Arctic is part of a global military agenda of conquest and territorial control. It has been described as a New Cold War between
Read More »Market Efficiency Hokum
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News You know the story triumphantly heard in the West. Markets work best when governments let them operate freely – unconstrained by rules, regulations and taxes about which noted
Read More »Bush Administration Ignores Mossad-Al Qaeda Terrorist Link
By Tom Heneghan It can now be reported that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified an Israeli Mossad cell operating in duality with alleged Al Qaeda types in Washington State
Read More »British Army deploys new weapon based on mass-killing technology
By John Byrne Parliament not told, minister says A new ‘super-weapon‘ being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the “thermobaric” principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted
Read More »More WMD lies exposed
By Chris Ames Observations on WMD Alastair Campbell placed the September 2002 WMD dossier in the hands of the propaganda unit that later produced the plagiarised “dodgy dossier”, the New Statesman can reveal. New
Read More »Man Dies After Incident On Parkway West
A man died Thursday after an incident on the Parkway West. Police said they responded to a man they first believed was lying in front of the inbound side of the Fort Pitt tunnels. When
Read More »Fingerprint scanning at nursery
A fingerprint scanning system is being introduced at a nursery in Bath to allow only parents and staff access. The biometric controls are being introduced at the First Steps nursery to “enhance existing security
Read More »Iraq Government doomed to weaken: US intelligence
In a bleak outlook of the political situation in Iraq, US intelligence officials warned that Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s Government will become “more precarious” in the coming months. “The IC [intelligence community] assesses that
Read More »‘Put CCTV in addicts’ homes to protect children’
LUCY ADAMS A controversial plan for CCTV to be used to protect children in the homes of chaotic drug-abusing parents has been proposed by one of Scotland’s most eminent drugs experts. Professor Neil McKeganey,
Read More »CIA publishes pre-9/11 intelligence errors
We’ve long known that the left hand of the Bush Administration (if there is one) has seldom known what the right hand is doing, and that both hands can’t grasp reality but it is
Read More »Miami Five’s defense exposes errors and jury intimidation during trial
Granma International flamesong 21st August 2007 On August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States.
Read More »Castro: Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks
Yahoo [via Granma International] flamesong 20th August 2007 The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a check in almost
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