• U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals

  By ANDREW E. KRAMER | A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing...

   

• Leaks, focus on single suspect undercut anthrax probe

  By David Willman | The federal investigation into the deadly anthrax mailings of late 2001 was undermined by leaks and a...

   

• Iraq Criticizes Attacks by American Troops

  By ALISSA J. RUBIN | Iraqi government officials on Sunday criticized the American military for two recent attacks in which...

   

• U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran: report

  U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation...

   

• The ‘W.’ Stands for ‘War Criminal’

  By Nat Hentoff | In a June 6 letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey—largely ignored by a press immersed in the future...

   

• Guantanamo’s days numbered, tough choices ahead

  ANDREW O. SELSKY | This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept....

   

• Secret U.S. operation kills Iraqi, strains relations

  By Hannah Allam | BAGHDAD, Iraq — Senior Iraqi government officials said Saturday that a U.S. Special Forces counterterrorism...

   

• Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must ‘kiss my ass’ for his support

  By Tim Shipman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in New York | Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first...

   

• Guantanamo detainees made to feel like ‘nomads’

  Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into “nomads” to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules,...

   

• 30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009

  AP News | The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the...

   

• Neil Young on Impeaching Bush

  Billboard | QUESTION: A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano...

   

• Along For Fluoride

  SchNews | If you knew that someone was putting poison into your water supply, what would you do? Call the authorities? Well...

   

• The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

  By Scott Ritter | I am a former U.N. weapons inspector. I started my work with the United Nations in September 1991, and...

   

• The Big Outcome of the ’60s: The Triumph of Capitalism

  By Slavoj Zizek | In 1968 Paris, one of the best-known graffiti messages on the city’s walls was “Structures...

   

• New Global Energy Order Emerging

  IPS | By bringing together the world’s major oil producers and consumers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia marked a turning point...

   

• Creating the Next Society: Your Revolutionary Ideas Needed Now

  By Mike Adams | It’s fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that the American Empire, as currently configured and...

   

• Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up

  By Paul Rockwell | There are two kinds of courage in war – physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is...

   

• Senate Passes Broad War Funding Measure

  By Paul Kane | In a 92 to 6 vote, the Senate yesterday approved unrestricted funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

   

• Society is Indeed Broken

  Independent Working Class Association | …and we all know who broke it When submerged under a veritable deluge of ideologically-driven...

   

• MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat

  By Michael McCarthy | MI5 and flood risk experts are at odds over whether to publish inundation maps highlighting areas under...

   

• CCTV doesn’t keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere

  By Bruce Schneier | Pervasive security cameras don’t substantially reduce crime. There are exceptions, of course, and...

   

• We can strike back

  Socialist Worker | Gordon Brown says we must all take a wage cut – but up to 800,000 local government workers are set...

   

• EU Constitution author says referendums can be ignored

  By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels | Future referendums will be ignored whether they are held in Ireland or elsewhere, Valéry...

   

• Agents seize Blackwater firearms

  RALEIGH, North Carolina: Federal agents raided Blackwater Worldwide this week as part of an investigation into whether the...

   

• Police chiefs against universal DNA database

  The majority of police chiefs are against a universal DNA database for the people of Britain. At a meeting during the Association...