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Pentagon plays down fears over Afghan violence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon Wednesday sought to play down the seriousness of growing violence in Afghanistan but declined to say the United States and NATO were winning their fight against Taliban insurgents. On
Read More »Son of Iraq journalist shot dead by US forces
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) – The son of a journalist at a popular weekly newspaper in northern Iraq was allegedly shot dead by US troops when his car appeared to veer wildly, local police said
Read More »Pentagon Auditors Pressured To Favor Contractors, GAO Says
By Dana Hedgpeth | Auditors at a Pentagon oversight agency were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on major defense contractors to make them look more favorable instead of exposing wrongdoing and charges of
Read More »How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?
State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona’s DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles. The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on
Read More »G8 to Poor Women: Let Them Eat Dirt
Real Women, Real Voices | Last week, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort
Read More »Exposing Bush’s historic abuse of power
The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are
Read More »Former Gitmo Prosecutor Says Trials Rigged
By Jeff Stein | Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis, who resigned last year after two years as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, today described the military commissions system as fatally “tainted” by politics and designed to produce guilty verdicts,
Read More »Gitmo ‘Justice’ for US Citizens?
By Robert Parry | A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens – as well as non-citizens – into a legal
Read More »US Lawyer Seeks To Sue US Over Iran Threats
An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran. Francis
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