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GUIDE TO SOME OF BUSH REGIME CRIMES
Coercive interrogation Can any Bush officials be prosecuted for the policies that paved the way for secret imprisonment, rendition to other countries that torture, or American torture of terrorism suspects? These government lawyers and
Read More »MILITARY HEAVILY CENSORING PHOTOS OF THE WAR
By MICHAEL KAMBER and TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them
Read More »British MPs ‘Misled’ Over Iraq Interrogation
MPs and peers have said they may have been misled over UK troops’ use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq. Not all troops had known “conditioning” techniques such as hooding and sleep deprivation were
Read More »Lawyer asks Taoiseach for information on CIA flights
THE LAWYER representing a British resident detained in Guantánamo Bay has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen seeking information on CIA flights involved in his client’s “extraordinary rendition” which landed in Shannon in 2002 and
Read More »Pakistani journalist in US jail on terrorism charges
WASHINGTON: Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what
Read More »Pentagon eyes sending hundreds of troops to Afghanistan
AP | WASHINGTON – Top Pentagon leaders are expected to recommend soon that Defense Secretary Robert Gates order hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a
Read More »ACLU Obtains Key Memos Authorizing CIA Torture Methods
Memo Instructed CIA To Document Both Torture Techniques And Agents Participating In Interrogations NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today obtained three redacted documents related to the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation policies,
Read More »Driver told FBI agents U.S. could have killed bin Laden
By Carol Rosenberg | GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden’s driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America’s fault that
Read More »Iraq war’s total cost nearing Vietnam’s price tag
The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War’s expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it. The new report by the Congressional Research
Read More »Time To Exit The Empire Game
By Patrick J. Buchanan | As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, Lee’s retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur’s retreat from the
Read More »Marijuana Special: Jorge Cervantes Interview – The Cannabis Guru
Jorge Cervantes, the World’s leading expert on Cannabis cultivation, has watched and influenced an entire sub culture that sprang from a relatively unexplored science. In 1983 he authored the first complete book about indoor cultivation
Read More »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
Read More »Vaccines and Autism – The science and the politics
Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 were required. Through vaccinations, children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA. The Hep B routinely
Read More »Kucinich: impeachment will be heard Friday
A message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Will Congress listen? IMPEACH NOW! Bush is a Threat to Peace. http://kucinich.us to sign the petition
Read More »Colony Collapse Disorder Debunked: Pesticides Cause Bee Deaths
By Heidi Stevenson | The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to
Read More »Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers
By Andy Worthington | Wake up, America! On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (PDF) that the
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