ADDITIONAL OVERLOOKED STORIES
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5/28/04
3/23/04
4/29/04
| Ashcroft says Americans are at risk from a terrorist group that may not exist. (read) This same group was tied to the Madrid blasts, but likely does not exist, according to U.S. officials. (read) Report: Spain bombing suspects were police informants. (read)
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5/27/04
| Man who was arrested for plotting to kill liberals released from custody before trial. (read) |
5/26/04
| Iraq occupation has made world less safe, according to pro-war group International Institute of Strategic Studies. (read) Amnesty International report agrees. (read) |
5/25/04
5/22/04 | Police given shoot to kill authorization at G-8 summit in Georgia in June. (read) Governor declares state of emergency BEFORE events occur; feds give $25 million to patrol summit. (read) |
| 5/25/04 | Iraqis fail in an attempt to regain control of oil revenue from the U.S. (read) |
| 5/24/04 | Iraq wedding party video backs survivor claims that American soldiers killed up to 45 innocent civilians, mostly women and children. (read) |
| 5/24/04 | The Bush administration is muzzling national park superintendents by ordering them not to stray in public comments from a list of rosy stances on budget matters, an advocacy group says. (read) |
| 5/21/04 | Bush outsourced fundraising & voter operations to India. (read) |
| 5/20/04 | U.N. passes resolution condemning Israel's actions in Rafah - United States abstains from voting rather than using it's veto power, as it often does. (read) |
| 5/20/04 | Report: Rape of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers widespread. (read) |
| 5/19/04 | About two-thirds of Iraqis polled support Moqtada al-Sadr. (read) |
| 5/18/04 | Reuters staff abused by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. (read) |
| 5/16/04 | Powell admits Iraq 'mobile weapons labs' claims were false. (read) |
| 5/14/04 | Federal spending has increased $300 billion since Bush took office. (see end of article) (read) |
| 5/14/04 | Republican Rep. Steve King says the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers was little more than "hazing." (read) |
| 5/11/04 | Amnesty International: UK soldiers kill Iraqi civilians without consequences. (read) |
| 5/9/04 | Amid torture scandal, Vice President Cheney calls Defense Secretary Rumsfeld "the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had." (read) |
| 5/8/04 | Seven people were killed in Macedonia in a staged murder designed so the police and officials could present themselves as participants in the war against terror in order to impress the Bush administration. (read) |
| 5/4/04 | 53 Former U.S. Diplomats Attack Bush's Middle East Policies. (read) |
| 5/4/04 | The U.S. is hiring terrorists, mercenaries and war criminals in Iraq. (read) |
| 4/27/04 | Some of the worst human rights violators of the apartheid era, including a man who helped kill 14 civilians while they slept, have been employed as security contractors in Iraq. (read) |
| 4/27/04 | Congressman Peter King (NY) said "...80-85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists". (read) |
| 4/26/04 | Four Iraqi school children shot dead by U.S. troops. (read) |
4/26/04
4/25/04
| Former Dutch Prime Minister wants Iraq pullout - calls U.S. a "rogue state." (read) Yemeni president calls for "immediate" US pullout from Iraq. (read) |
| 4/20/04 | Egyptian President (and Bush ally) Hosni Mubarek: "Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region" (read) |
| 4/20/04 | Salem Chalabi, Ahmed Chalabi's nephew, was appointed to head a tribunal to try Saddam Hussein - has already named 7 judges and 4 prosecutors. (read) |
| 4/16/04 | NORAD had simulated Sept.11 type attacks. In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. The White House claims to have no knowledge of the simulations. (read)
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| 4/14/04 | Iraqi man refuses to remove picture of al-Sadr; U.S. troops beat him to death. (read) |
| 3/30/04 | According to a recent study, in the nine months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, president Bush never publicly spoke of al-Qaeda. (read) |
| 3/30/04 | Iraqi intellectuals flee 'death squads.' More than 1,000 leading Iraqi professionals and intellectuals have been assassinated since last April, including the president of Baghdad University. (read) |
| 3/29/04 | "Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and Muslims...America declared war on God and God declared war on America, Bush and Sharon." Comments by recently assassinated Hamas leader Rantissi following the U.S. veto of a U.N. condemnation of the assassination of Hamas leader Yassin. (read)
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3/26/04
3/12/04
| President Bush promised the country that his drug industry backed Medicare bill would cost $395 billion. But just weeks after he signed the bill into law, his own budget office admitted that the bill would actually cost well over $500 billion. A new report shows that the President knew that the bill cost more than he had claimed, and yet he deliberately hid the information from the public until the legislation was already signed into law. (read) Also, the chief Medicare numbers expert says he was told to conceal the real cost of Medicare or face being fired. (read)
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| 3/26/04 | Louisiana court opens door to searches without warrants. (read) |
| 3/26/04 | GOP survey erroneously labels Thailand and the Philippines as countries that "harbor and aid terrorists." (read) |
| 3/25/04 | Report Details Low U.S. Army Morale, Suicide in Iraq (read) |
| 3/25/04 | Twenty-three soldiers committed suicide in Iraq in 2003 (read) |
| 3/23/04 | Why is comedian George Carlin blaming the U.S. for 9/11? (read) |
3/23/04
3/15/04
| Expansion of military bases overseas fuels suspicions of US motives. (read) U.S. sends special forces to North Africa. (read) |
| 3/22/04 | Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warns UN not to endorse Iraq's U.S-backed interim constitution. "We warn that any step will not be acceptable to the majority of Iraqis and will have dangerous consequences," the 73 year moderate cleric said. (read) |
| 3/16/04 | Seventh Iraq war veteran kills himself after returning home (read) |
| 3/15/04 | U.S. debt burden is higher now than during depression. (read)
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| 3/15/04 | Asked if the war was worth the lives of US soldiers killed, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "Oh, my goodness, yes. There's just no question . . . 25 million people in Iraq are free." (read) |
7/18/04
3/11/04
3/10/04
3/8/04
| Equatorial Guinea: Mercenaries who were captured in March have U.S. connections (the U.S. controls most of their oil.) Originally it was thought that the mercenaries were planning a coup against President Obiang, but it turns out they were there to protect the president who is not distributing it's new found oil wealth to it's citizens. (read) (read) (read) (read) (Who is Equatorial Guinea?)
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| 3/3/04 | On three occasions, the Bush administration killed plans to get suspected terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi, the man blamed for more than 700 killings in Iraq. (read) |
2/29/04
2/17/04
| Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez says U.S. was behind 2002 coup attempt and seeks to overthrow him again. (read) Chavez calls President Bush an "asshole." (read) |
2/19/04
2/18/04
| Prior to resigning from the Defense Policy Board, it was announced that Richard Perle is being investigated for failing to disclose bonuses worth about $3 million while running an investment scheme. (read) Just prior to this Perle called on the heads of the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency to resign due to faulty Iraq WMD intelligence. (read) |
| 2/12/04 | "Quack, quack" says Supreme Court Justice Scalia when asked if recent duck hunting trip with VP Cheney presented a conflict of interest. (read) |
| 2/10/04 | Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly says he was wrong about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (read) |
| 1/29/04 | The Caspian region is home to the world's largest untapped fossil fuel resources - estimated to be worth up to $4 trillion. Oil giants such as ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and British Petroleum have already invested more than $30 billion in new production facilities in the region. The Bush administration has wooed some of the region's most brutal autocrats, including Azerbaijani's Heydar Aliyev, Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf.
The most tyrannical of Washington's new allies is Islom Karimov, the ex-Communist dictator of Uzbekistan, who allowed US troops to set up a large and permanent military base on Uzbek soil during the Afghan campaign in late 2001. Ever since, the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye to the Karimov regime's brutal suppression of opposition and Islamic groups. "Such people must be shot in the head. If necessary, I will shoot them myself," Karimov once famously told his rubber-stamp Parliament. (read) |
| 1/1704 | 100,000 gather in India to denounce multinationals. (read) |
| 1/6/04 | Average household debt is $18,700, excluding mortgages. (read)
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| 1/04/04 | Group unveils banner in front of World Trade Center. (read) |
| 12/29/03 | Dan Rather co-owns a ranch in Taos, NM with Donald Rumsfeld. (read) |
| 12/24/03 | Parts of Patriot Act II secretly signed into law by Bush. (read) |
| 6/30/03 | Did Bush really say "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam"? (read) |
| 6/3/02 | Heads-up to Ashcroft suggests threat was known before 9/11 (read) |
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