Monthly Archives: June 2008 »
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 up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil
Read More »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 premature fixation on a single suspect, according to investigators and scientists involved in
Read More »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 soldiers killed people who the government said were civilians. One death occurred during a raid
Read More »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 of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The
Read More »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 of Hillary Clinton—56 Democrats in the House of Representatives asked for “an
Read More »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. 11 attacks — and it may soon become one
Read More »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 unit conducted the raid that reportedly killed a relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al
Read More »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 time since he won the nomination in the next few
Read More »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, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday. Sami al-Haj said
Read More »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 U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through
Read More »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 Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in
Read More »Along For Fluoride
SchNews | If you knew that someone was putting poison into your water supply, what would you do? Call the authorities? Well don’t bother cos it’s the government wot’s doing it! If you live
Read More »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 between that date and my resignation in August 1998, I participated in
Read More »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 do not walk on the streets!” In other words, the massive student and workers demonstrations of
Read More »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 in the negotiations for a new global energy order that is emerging under the
Read More »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 operated, is simply not sustainable. Financial collapse is inevitable (and accelerating, it seems), and even
Read More »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 very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their
Read More »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 that allows continuation of the current military course of action through
Read More »Society is Indeed Broken
Independent Working Class Association | …and we all know who broke it When submerged under a veritable deluge of ideologically-driven ‘reforms’, it takes something especially imbecilic to provoke a double-take. Louise Casey, the mouthy
Read More »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 threat if any of the country’s dams were to collapse. The Security Service
Read More »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 that’s what gets the press. Most famously, CCTV cameras helped catch James Bulger’s murderers in 1993. And
Read More »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 to walk out over pay. Gordon Brown, chancellor Alistair Darling, and
Read More »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 Giscard d’Estaing, the architect of the European Union Constitution said. The former President of
Read More »Agents seize Blackwater firearms
RALEIGH, North Carolina: Federal agents raided Blackwater Worldwide this week as part of an investigation into whether the private security company sidestepped federal laws prohibiting the private purchase of automatic assault rifles, the company
Read More »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 of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) annual conference, 61 per cent of police
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