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By Associated Press
A European Parliament investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons could ask Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify, although it has no legal power to subpoena them, a member of the panel said Thursday.

     “Very senior people” would be asked to answer the allegations of human rights violations […]

By Rickwrites
Whether or not one believes a single word of absolutely anything emanating from anyone, anywhere within the current US maladministration isn’t really important right now.
But this is important.
This shows the shocking but true state of the current neo-con maladministration’s American nation. Watch it and weep. Then ask not for whom the bell tolls — […]

Capitol Hill Blue
Sadly, the President of the United States is a criminal. In fact, he should be arrested, tried and sentenced to life in prison as a repeat offender.
He is a war criminal who led this nation into an illegal conflict based on lies. His criminal conduct in the invasion of Iraq has led […]

AFP
A journalist who helped expose a series of police errors in the shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber has been arrested on suspicion of theft, a newspaper said.
The scoop in August by television broadcaster ITV News was based on leaked statements from the official inquiry into the killing of Jean Charles […]

By SoB

What were a cadre of Sudanese People Liberation Army rebels doing on the morning of 9/11 ? Posing as journalists they dropped by the Florida resort where US president George W. Bush was staying - just hours before Bush and his entourage arrived at Booker Elemmentary where he received word that the 9/11 attacks […]

By Joe Kay
The Bush administration has initiated a campaign to defend its illegal spying program, employing its well-established technique of brazenly lying to the American people.
The campaign began last week with a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney on January 19 and one by White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove on January 20. […]

By Eric Lipton
The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional committees investigating the storm response.
The White House this week also formally notified Representative Richard H. Baker, […]

By Claire Cozens
The Daily Telegraph has lost its appeal against a £150,000 libel award to the MP and Big Brother contestant George Galloway.
The court of appeal today upheld a high court judgment in 2004 that the Telegraph libelled Mr Galloway in an article alleging that he received money from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s […]

By William R. Clark
The invasion of Iraq may well be remembered as the first oil currency war. Far from being a response to 9-11 terrorism or Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, Petrodollar Warfare argues that the invasion was precipitated by two converging phenomena: the imminent peak in global oil production, and the ascendance of […]

By Robert Burns
Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.
Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of […]

By Paul Hales in Jerusalem
IT’S OBVIOUS, REALLY, that the best way of penetrating users’ PCs to see what they get up to online would be to become a Firewall maker. Like, when I wanted a Firewall and was too tight to pay for one, I turned to Checkpoint’s little freebie Zone Alarm. It sits there […]

By John Oates
Google has been basking in good publicity from refusing US government demands to hand over search results but in China it is happy to create a search engine based on government specifications.
Google will offer a censored version of its search engine running on servers in China. It will remove results on "sensitive" topics […]