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US Combat Missions in Iraq Will Continue After ‘Pullout’
By Jason Ditz Just one day after reports came out regarding the Obama Administration’s 19 month withdrawal plan from Iraq, the Pentagon was detailing the enormous number of troops that would remain on the
Read More »Prisoners tortured to death
By Stephen C. Webster The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail
Read More »How Credit Unions Survived the Crash – Casino Capitalism
CounterPunch While the reckless giant banks are shattering like an over-heated glacier day by day, the nation’s credit unions are a relative island of calm largely apart from the vortex of casino capitalism. Eighty
Read More »Experts: U.S. ‘war on terror’ globally eroded human rights
GENEVA, Feb 16 – Washington’s “war on terror” after the Sept. 11 attacks has eroded human rights worldwide, creating lingering cynicism that the United Nations must now combat, international law experts said on Monday.
Read More »US Soldiers Investigated Over ‘Fraud’ Bigger Than Madoff
The Independent In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn)
Read More »Rep: Punish Those Who Lie Us Into War
U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that would impose fines or prison time on presidents or executive-branch officials who “knowingly and willfully” mislead Congress to gain authorization to use U.S. military forces. Jones,
Read More »US intelligence chief: World capitalist crisis poses greatest threat
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Intelligence Thursday, Washington’s new director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, warned that the deepening world capitalist crisis posed the paramount threat to US national security and warned
Read More »Blackwater tries to rebrand itself
Blackwater Sheds Name, Shifts Focus By Dana Hedgpeth Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company whose work in Iraq was plagued by trouble, said yesterday that it is changing its name to Xe as it
Read More »Poll: Most want inquiry into anti-terror tactics
By Jill Lawrence WASHINGTON — Even as Americans struggle with two wars and an economy in tatters, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds majorities in favor of investigating some of the thorniest unfinished business from
Read More »Congress on bended knee before Wall Street executives
By Jerry White Chief executive officers from the eight largest banks in the US, which have collectively received $125 billion in bailout money, appeared before the House Financial Services Committee Tuesday. The hearing was
Read More »Amy Goodman: Obama’s Afghan Trap
President Barack Obama on Monday night held his first prime-time news conference. When questioned on Afghanistan, he replied, “This is going to be a big challenge.” He also was asked whether he would change
Read More »NSA’s meta-data email surveillance program exposed
WMR has learned details of one of the most important components of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program code named “STELLAR WIND.” The highly-classified STELLAR WIND program was initiated by the George W.
Read More »Lives Have Been Destroyed by the Federal Government
Lew Rockwell — – One of the hardest things to deal with in the current economic depression is the disgusting hypocrisy of the U.S. congress, the new president, and the members of the Federal
Read More »Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs”
By Kevin Kearney The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFC), charged with anticipating global threats to US imperialism, issued a report last November entitled “Joint Operating Environment 2008 naming Pakistan and Mexico as the
Read More »THE STORY THE MEDIA WON’T TOUCH
By Sam Smith Based on media coverage at least, name the largest industry in America that never contributes to political campaigns, never tries to influence politicians, never is involved in political corruption and has
Read More »Evidence of Torture ‘Buried by Ministers’
Judges condemn secrecy over files detailing treatment of suspect by CIA Richard Norton-Taylor | The Guardian Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, the legal charity and human rights group which acted for Mohamed, said
Read More »Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found; Could be made public
By John Byrne Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by a public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about
Read More »WERE SPECIFIC REPORTERS TARGETED BY NSA WIRETAPS?
Center for American Progress - Fewer than 24 hours after the end of the Bush presidency, a former analyst at the National Security Agency revealed on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” that Bush’s National
Read More »European Activists Call For Bush To Be Tried For Torture
By Julio Godoy, IPS Now that former U.S. president George W. Bush is an ordinary citizen again, many legal and human rights activists in Europe are demanding that he and high-ranking members of his
Read More »Gaza Invasion: Powered By The U.S.
Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military — at a time when Israel doesn’t need it and America does. By Robert Bryce Editor’s note: Generous support for
Read More »President Obama — It’s time to stop illegal spying on all Americans
Dear President Obama; I know you have a full plate right now but there’s something I need to talk to you about. Does anyone on your staff remember former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst,
Read More »Obama’s green plan must include Native Americans
To accomplish the green energy goals he talked about in his inaugural address, President Obama must work with Native Americans. “Each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries
Read More »No Random Drug Tests, No Foodstamps
Via Don’t Tase Me, Bro! Call it the Great Recession meets the War on Drugs. West Virginia ponders law mandating compulsory random drug tests for anyone applying for food stamps or unemployment benefits. The
Read More »Saddam-Qaeda Conspiracy Theorist Surfaces Writing Iraq Reports For The Pentagon
By Justin Elliott It’s a truism that neoconservatives have a talent for failing upward: for repeatedly getting important things wrong and not seeing their careers suffer – for, in fact, being handed new opportunities
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