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25 USA Military Officers Challenge Official 9/11 Account
Pakistan Daily | Twenty-five former U.S. military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. They include former commander of U.S. Army Intelligence, Major General Albert Stubblebine,
Read More »Schneier: Our Data, Ourselves
By Bruce Schneier | In the information age, we all have a data shadow. We leave data everywhere we go. It’s not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing
Read More »The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
By Vincent Bugliosi | With respect to the position I take about the crimes of George Bush, I want to state at the outset that my motivation is not political. Although I’ve been a
Read More »Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
By Sam Gardiner | Earlier in the week the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) issued another of its dossiers. This one addresses nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Remember the IISS track record
Read More »“Immoral Hazard” – A review of Jeremy Grantham’s book
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | So says Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based investment firm Grantham, Mayo and Van Otterloo, now known as GMO. Some call him the philosopher king of Wall Street because
Read More »Billions of Dollars Unaccounted For in Iraq
MotherJones | Want to see a signature worth $320 million? Click here. It belongs to Jack Gardner, an official with the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, who in July 2003 authorized that amount to be transferred
Read More »Rice’s Lies About Torture
By Dave Lindorff | Is anyone surprised that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush/Cheney administration’s authorization of torture of captives has been consistently legal and in compliance with all treaties the
Read More »FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
By Bill Van Auken | The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a
Read More »Burma ‘to allow in all aid workers’
AP | Burma’s ruling junta has agreed to allow “all aid workers” into the country to help cyclone survivors, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today. Mr Ban’s comments came after a crucial two-hour
Read More »After Gitmo: The Government’s Responsibility
By Aziz Huq | After Gitmo: The American Government is Legally and Morally Responsible for Giving Innocent Prisoners a New Life in the U.S. The US Supreme Court has yet to rule on the
Read More »Iraqi TV station says U.S. troops killed cameraman
By Aseel Kami and Khalid al-Ansary | An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops on Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home. Colleagues of Wisam Ali
Read More »How the Government Is Passing Secret Laws
By Sean Gonsalves | Once upon a time, a team of federal attorneys went before the Supreme Court only to discover that their entire case was based on a revoked executive order and therefore moot.
Read More »Is Amsterdam turning into a prudish backwater?
By Frank Scimone | The owners of cafés in the centre of Amsterdam are again up in arms against what they say is the umpteenth attempt to turn the city into a prudish provincial
Read More »Here Come the Trials: A Military Commissions Cheat Sheet
By Joanne Mariner | In the more than six years since President George Bush first announced the creation of military commissions to prosecute detainees allegedly responsible for terrorism, war crimes, and other misdeeds, there
Read More »Criminal DNA left unchecked for 13 months
PSCA | A report has found “significant shortcomings” in the Crown Prosecution’s Service’s (CPS) data handling. In January 2007 Dutch police sent a disc containing 2,159 DNA profiles from crime scenes so the UK
Read More »Olmert to U.S.: Impose naval blockade on Iran
By Barak Ravid and Amos Harel | Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed in discussions with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, that a naval blockade be imposed on Iran as
Read More »DU Shells Used by U.S. Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
NaturalNews | The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War
Read More »U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese Interrogators
By JUSTIN ROOD | U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or
Read More »Heart experts warn Tasers deadly
By Suzanne Fournier | Tasers can cause fatal cardiac arrest and are even more dangerous if the subject is agitated, stressed and experiencing pain from the high-voltage device, two top Vancouver heart specialists said
Read More »Consciousness of Guilt: Genocide in Iraq?
Counterpunch | Despite the precipitous plunge in his popularity and growing criticism of his competency, character, and style, George W. Bush is not really that much different from other presidents with respect to his hegemonic
Read More »UK may store all phone calls and emails
New Scientist | The UK government is considering a massive database to store every person’s emails, phone calls, text messages and internet use. The plan was suggested as a tool to help security forces
Read More »FBI Report Details Guantánamo War Crimes
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE | In 2002, as evidence of prisoner mistreatment at Guantánamo Bay began to mount, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at the base created a “war crimes file” to document
Read More »CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan
By Joe Kay | A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign
Read More »Why should we pay the Orwellian licence fee?
By Patrick West | Some government public information services or advertisements on behalf of state services never change. Drink-driving awareness adverts invariably feature a before-and-after narrative, beginning with people shown having a merry old
Read More »Firms await verdict on £2 billion ID cards project
The Independent | The technology industry will next week learn who the Government has awarded contracts to supply the £2bn biometric identity card programme, the last and among the most secretive of the recent
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