Monthly Archives: August 2007 »
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
Read More »America and Venezuela – Constitutional Worlds Apart
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Although imperfect, no country anywhere is closer to a model democracy than Venezuela under President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias. In contrast, none is a more shameless failure than
Read More »Why Rove and Cheney Really Are That Bad
By Don Williams Remember Scott Ritter, the US arms inspector and military man accused of being a traitor and much worse for reporting there were no WMDs in Iraq before we bombed, invaded and
Read More »Nazi Death Documents Given to Museums
By Ed Johnson An international body documenting Nazi atrocities against Jews during World War II sent millions of files to Holocaust museums in the U.S. and Israel, as it prepares to open its archive
Read More »‘US pushing Israel to attack Syria’
JPOST Washington is preventing Israel from making peace with Syria and instead is pushing it to wage war, the Arab country’s government-owned daily Tishrin read on Monday. The paper said that recent moves made
Read More »CIA ‘launches Facebook for spies’
BBC New ways are needed to share information, US officials say The CIA is to open a communications tool for its staff, modelled on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the Financial
Read More »Liberal Democrats launch attack on Brown’s ‘surveillance society’
By Colin Brown Liberal Democrat leaders are to mount an attack on Britain’s “surveillance society” that threatens to wreck Gordon Brown’s hopes of a cross-party consensus on measures to tackle the threat of terrorism.
Read More »Judge Orders Bush Administration to Issue Global Warming Report
By Karen Gullo The Bush administration violated U.S. law by failing to produce a study on the impact of global warming and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled. District Judge
Read More »Psychologists in denial about torture
By Amy Goodman This weekend, the American Psychological Association rejected a moratorium that would have prevented its member psychologists from participating in interrogations at U.S. detention centers at places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and
Read More »Former Chief of NIST’s Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review of World Trade Center Investigation
By Alan Miller James Quintiere, Ph.D. James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation
Read More »CIA blew chances to spot 9/11 threat, says report
· Information on hijackers kept from key personnel · Former director George Tenet criticised for failings Ed Pilkington in New York Wednesday August 22, 2007 The Guardian George Tenet. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty As
Read More »Local ID Cards would be another move towards a ‘database state’
New Labour think tank, the New Local Government Network, today calls for ID cards to be introduced and policed by town halls. Conservatives have attacked the proposals as another move towards a ‘database state’
Read More »Ian Brown – Illegal Attacks
(Feat. Sinead O’connor) So what the fuck is this UK Gunnin’ with this US of A In Iraq and Iran and in Afghanistan Does not a day go by Without the Israeli Air Force
Read More »Top US lawmaker threatens contempt proceedings against Bush administration officials
AP A top Senate Democrat on Monday threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information about the legal justification for President George W, Bush’s secretive wiretapping program.
Read More »Shock toll of British injured in Afghan war
· Half of frontline troops ‘patched-up’ · Senior officers fear exodus Mark Townsend, defence correspondent Sunday August 19, 2007 The Observer A British soldier patrols in poppy fields in Sangin, a district Helmand province,
Read More »Lily Allen slams George Bush at gig
ANI Pop star Lily Allen has slammed US President George W. Bush during her gig at England’s V Festival. Hitting out at Bush and immigration officials, the 21-year-old, whose US Visa was revoked at
Read More »Bush is delivering Depleted Uranium to us all
By John Blacker Want to know why there are so many terrorists and who is arming them with Depleted Uranium WMDs to drop in our water, our air & poison our cities and kill
Read More »People of Canada Protests Bush Visit
By Andrew Thomson A loud, but peaceful, crowd gathered Sunday on Parliament Hill to oppose talks on continental integration while anarchists claimed responsibility for weekend vandalism against Ottawa businesses connected to the Security and
Read More »BUSH TERROR weapons – Murders untold civilians, many children – states Doctor
By Dave Lindorff The idea that the U.S. could be considering classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a “terrorist” organization, based upon some dubious evidence that the organization is supplying some weapons — in
Read More »Seven-year-old Muslim boy stopped in US three times on suspicion of being a terrorist
By JAYA NARAIN For seven-year-old Javaid Iqbal, the holiday to Florida was a dream trip to reward him for doing well at school. But he was left in tears after he was stopped repeatedly
Read More »How Far Will the Crash Go and What Do we Do Now?
The “Crash of 2007-8” is underway By Richard C. Cook The immediate triggers are being described quite well: the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market; the vulnerability of the rest of the economy
Read More »Deadly New York Scraper Fire Near Twin Towers Site but no collapse
By Ann Baker Nearly six years after the tragedy of 9/11 and two New York City firefighters have died in a blaze inside a skyscraper abandoned after the World Trade Center attacks. The fire
Read More »Only ‘virtual protests’ allowed at North American summit
Agence France-Presse Protesters will be “seen and heard” when North American leaders meet next week in Montebello, near Ottawa, but only virtually — via an audio-video feed set up by organizers. And the heads
Read More »Bush rocked as another key aide resigns
By Sarah Baxter THE White House press secretary Tony Snow has announced that he will be leaving his job before the end of President George W Bush’s term in office “for financial reasons”. Snow,
Read More »SILENT WMDs EFFECTS OF DEPLETED URANIUM
By Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat Former Chief of the Naval Staff, India Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot ..that it do singe yourself. - William Shakespeare This brief presentation is aimed at
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