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John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps
By Damien McElroy | Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests
Read More »Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online
By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a
Read More »Roads blocked in Beirut anti-gov’t protests
Press TV | Demonstrators have blocked roads in and around Beirut with burning tires, protesting against the govt’s economic and social policies. Witnesses said the main road leading to Beirut’s international airport was among
Read More »The Pentagon vs. America
By Scott Ritter | I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail included the following query: “I told you about how I
Read More »Data fear haunts ID card scheme
By Mark Ballard | THE UK government has been warned that it should deal with the risk of data loss from its Identity Card Scheme before it proceeds any further.The latest data warning follows repeated
Read More »Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
By Gareth Porter | Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning
Read More »Gov set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis
By Alan Travis | The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will today stress the dangers of more potent strains of cannabis as she is expected to defy medical opinion by announcing that the drug will
Read More »Nuns are turned away from Indiana polls
By Scott Martelle - Los Angeles Times | A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana’s stringent voter ID law since it
Read More »FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers
AFP | FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be a probe into political misuse of the agency, the Wall Street
Read More »‘Torture memo’ author, former attorney general, to testify
AP | A former Justice Department lawyer who wrote a now-repudiated memo allowing harsh interrogations of military prisoners has agreed to testify to Congress about those practices, say House Judiciary Committee officials who spoke
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