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Pilger: How Britain wages war
By John Pilger | The military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid legal scrutiny Five photographs together
Read More »U.S. military to patrol Internet
UPI | The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web. “If someone wants to blow us
Read More »Iran’s top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties
Iran Focus | Iran’s judiciary has arrested several executives of a privately-owned oil drilling company over their dealings with the U.S.-based oil giant Halliburton and one of the country’s top nuclear negotiators is facing
Read More »9/11 defendant argues to see classified evidence
By Carol Rosenberg | An alleged al Qaida fighter accused of training the Sept. 11 hijackers sought access to classified evidence Thursday, reassuring the war court here that, once convicted, he’ll take U.S. secrets
Read More »Double standards of our ‘war on terror’
Truth about our covert alliances shatters the West’s cosy moral universe, says Matthew Carr Western governments like to depict terrorism as a uniquely moral evil which democratic states do not engage in. But history
Read More »Whistleblower Says Pentagon Putting KBR Above Soldiers
By DAVID IVANOVICH | The Pentagon’s oversight of Houston-based KBR’s work in Iraq and Afghanistan has been “irregular and highly out of the ordinary,” a former Army contracting official told Senate Democrats Wednesday. Charles
Read More »The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims
By Juan Cole | The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have
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