Lincoln B. Justice, Seymour
George W. Bush was appointed in 2000 by one vote of the Supreme Court. In 2004 he was reappointed by the most fraud-filled election in American history through the use of electronic voting machines that are unprotected from computer hacking.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 have been used as justification for […]

By Kim Sengupta
The trial of Saddam Hussein descended further into chaos as the chief judge in the case was replaced for the second time in a week.
Just days after assurances by US and Iraqi officials that the case would proceed without further alterations, Sayeed al-Hamashi, the latest presiding judge who replaced Rizgar Amin, was […]

By David Lindsay
Governments across the European Union have “collaborated, tolerated or looked away” from the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine operations on their countries’ soil for the last two to three years. This is expected to be one of the main findings that will be revealed on Tuesday when a Council of Europe (COE) […]

John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. […]

insightmag
The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.
"A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.
Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. They said the hearings would focus on the secret electronic surveillance program […]

Gulliver

I had always understood that when my GP was making an assessment of any illness I presented, he would base his judgement on his medical skills and experience. Under new government proposals this may no longer be the case.

Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton has confirmed that under new proposals to save money, GPs […]

By Carl Zimmer
Are brain parasites altering the personalities of three billion people? The question emerged a few years ago, and it shows no signs of going away.
I first encountered this idea while working on my book Parasite Rex. I was investigating the remarkable ability parasites have to manipulate the behavior of their hosts. The […]

National Vanguard
Alert: If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" (aka ‘web bugs’) to track every Yahoo Group user. It’s similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group you visit, even when you’re not connected to Yahoo. Look at their updated privacy […]

By Earl J. Prignitz
I was deeply troubled when President Bush thumbed his nose at our treaty obligations under the United Nations Charter and Geneva Conventions. Torture scandals and violations of U.S. criminal laws at the highest levels of our government were even more troubling. These concerns were compounded by growing evidence the president deliberately misled […]

By Marc Perelman
Could Paris teach Washington a thing or two about protecting civil liberties while tracking down terrorists at home? In the United States, revelations that the Bush administration mandated domestic spying have caused a political uproar. France, however, has been spying on its citizens for years, as part of its effective, albeit controversial, counterterrorist […]

By John Caylor
According to confidential sources, UnumProvident the nations largest disability and long term insurer is operating in a state of chaos while executives struggle to cash in their chips. Insider trading by the millions, exactly $144 Million according to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Insider & Rule 144 transactions reported period February […]

By Jacob Weisberg
A frequent complaint about the Clinton administration was that it tried too hard to “spin” everything in its own favor. Clinton’s spin doctors had a variety of individual styles but shared a grating habit of relentlessly coloring the news to support their side in any argument. George Stephanopoulos, with whom the technique was […]

By James Petras - Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University
There is a consensus among U.S. Congressional Investigators, former bankers and international banking experts that U.S. and European banks launder between $500 billion and $1 trillion of dirty money each year, half of which is laundered by U.S. banks alone. As Senator Carl Levin summarizes the record: […]

Corporate Watch

Corporate Watch scrutinises the companies angling to be involved in implementing the ID cards scheme if it becomes law, and looks at what IT industry insiders have said about ID card technology and the planned National Identity Register.
"Corporate Identity - A critical analysis of private companies’ engagement with the identity cards scheme"
The government’s […]

By Ryan Singel
On Thursday, The Mercury News reported that the Justice Department has subpoenaed search-engine records in its defense of the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. Google, whose corporate credo famously includes the admonishment "Don’t Be Evil," is fighting the request for a week’s worth of search engine queries. Other search engines have already […]