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Syrian rebel atrocities
Beheadings
by Syrian Rebels Add to Atrocities, UN Says. Report notes that the
rebels had been recruiting child soldiers and had a child participate
in one of the beheadings (READ).
Obama admits US kills innocent civilians
"[I]t is a hard fact that U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian casualties" (READ).
People opposed to Syria action
Poll Shows Overwhelming Opposition to US Attacking Syria - Americans Across Political Spectrum Oppose Involvement (READ).
Syrian rebel cuts out soldier's heart, eats it (READ); Al-Nusra executes 11 Syrian soldiers - video (VIDEO).
U.S. troops deployed to Spain
The
first of 500 Marines have begun deploying to Spain as part of a new
rapid reaction force to respond to threats against U.S. citizens,
government personnel or installations in Africa (READ).
Obama signs the 'Monsanto Protection Act' into law (READ).
CIA in Iraq
The CIA is "ramping up" its role in Iraq, The Wall Street Journal reports. (READ).
Bradley Manning
Previously
unreleased audio recording of Bradley Manning’s speech to
the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over
700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks (READ).
Proof that Americans are the world's dumbest
99 Percent of Americans Believe Iran is Threat to U.S. (READ).
Victory for protesters
Widespread Austerity Protests Push Bulgarian Government to Resign.
"I can't watch as fences go up around Parliament... I will not
participate in a government under which police are beating people,"
resigning PM states (READ).
U.S. soldiers are in Iraq
A
unit of U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to
Iraq and more U.S. soldiers may soon be on their way, according to a
New York Times report (READ).
Mali
Obama OKs $50 million to assist France in Mali (READ).
Bomber in Chief
20,000 Airstrikes in the President's First Term Cause Death and Destruction From Iraq to Somalia (READ).
U.S. ally Bahrain
Citizenship revoked: Key US ally Bahrain strips dissenters of their nationality (READ).
US-backed
regime in Bahrain bans all protests. Obama continues to support the
brutal Bahraini dictatorship, valuing ruthless control of the Persian
Gulf over democracy (READ).
Afghanistan post-U.S. withdrawal
After U.S. Troops Leave, Armed Drones Will Patrol Afghanistan’s Skies (READ).
Al-Qaeda, U.S. & Syria
On April 10, al-Qaeda of Iraq announced it is fighting with rebels in Syria (READ); the
next day, President Obama pledged an additional $10 million in aid
to rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (READ).
Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons Is Not Enough
By
all means, let’s ban semi automatic weapons and high capacity
ammunition. But let’s get to the bottom of America the violent, while
we’re at it (READ).
Syrian chemical weapons
Jihadists, not Assad, apparently behind reported chemical attack in Syria (READ).
Syrian 'rebels' institute Islamic law
Islamic law comes to rebel-held Syria (READ).
War on Tuaregs in Mali
Rebels spokesperson: we are NOT linked to al-Qaeda, as France and the U.S. claim (READ). The bombing of Mali highlights all the lessons of western intervention (READ).
PBS promotes drones
The
PBS Nova broadcast "Rise of the Drones" was sponsored by drone
manufacturer Lockheed Martin--a clear violation of PBS's underwriting
guidelines (READ).
US childhood poverty
The United States has the second-highest rate of childhood poverty in the developed world, according to a new UNICEF report (READ).
Christmas eve announcement
A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations in early 2013 (READ).
U.S. drones in Yemen
When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it (READ).
Drones in the U.S.
Fears
Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace. Watchdog
publishes new flight map, 'takes surveillance to a whole new level' (READ).
Mali
How French raid killed 12 Malian villagers (READ). Oh No! Not Another Osama! (READ).
Drone operator quits
Drone Operator Followed Orders to Shoot a Child... and Decided He Had To Quit (READ).
Great news!
Hard-Line Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Is Stepping Down (READ).
Pentagon planning for multinational military operation in Mali
Even
though U.S. law restricts the United States from providing direct
military assistance to Mali because its democratically elected
president was ousted in a coup in March, U.S. military planners have begun to help organize a multinational proxy force to intervene next year in Mali (READ).
Remember all the children, Mr. President
Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments (with U.S. weapons).
Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006.
Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 months of this year (READ).
Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones (READ)
Sanctions on Iran
Iran sanctions 'putting millions of lives at risk'.
Western sanctions hitting import of medicines for diseases including multiple sclerosis and cancer, charity warns (READ).
Another victory for protesters!
In Quebec It's Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students
Naomi Klein: 'This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.' (READ). Other successful protests (READ).
U.S. Nukes
Obama administration to spend an estimated $350 billion on nuclear weapon upgrades (READ). (But the US doesn't acknowledge its hypocrisy in sanctioning & threatening Iran for pursuing nuclear energy).
It's not just the Koch brothers
More than $4 billion: That's how much experts anticipate have been
spent trying to win your vote. It's the most expensive election in U.S.
history. With the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United in 2010, the
floodgates opened, allowing outside groups to spend record amounts (on both parties) (READ).
Mali: Obama's first post-reelection war?
US-backed African Union troops could invade Mali within weeks (READ). (NOTE: U.S. Special Forces have been in Mali since February (READ).
In March, there was a coup in Mali led by a US-trained captain.
Following the coup, the Tuareg rebellion in the north gained traction,
and now France and the U.S. may get involved to help the junta in Mali
regain control.)
Americans are the biggest threat to Americans
About
400 people per year, or about 5,000 people since the 9/11 attacks, are
gunned down in the place they work. Also, on average, there are 32 gun
homicides each day in the U.S. (READ). Related: 23 year old ex-Marine kills 2 in NJ supermarket (READ).
Cover-up of civilian drone deaths
Detailed
information from the families of those killed in drone strikes in
Pakistan and from local sources provides credible new evidence that
the majority of the deaths in the drone war in Pakistan have been
civilian noncombatants - not "militants," as the Obama administration
has claimed (READ).
America's Pussy Riot
We are quick to loathe Putin's demand to control freedom of speech, but turn a blind eye to Obama's "act of repression" (READ).
U.S. terrorism
NATO airstrike kills 8 Afghan women out gathering firewood - some victims as young as 10 years old (READ).
Al Qaeda & U.S. on same side in Syria
Al
Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on all Muslims to back the
rebels in Syria in the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad (READ).
Syrian rebels vow Islamic state
Foreign
Islamic extremists “intent on turning Syria into an autocratic
theocracy have swollen the ranks of rebels fighting to topple President
Bashar al-Assad and think they are waging a ‘holy war,’” Reuters
reports a surgeon treating rebel fighters in Aleppo as saying. (READ).
Al Qaeda in Syria with U.S. support
According
to one US intelligence estimate, as many as a quarter of the 300 rebel
groups in Syria may be fighting under the banner of al-Qaeda, says Rep.
Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (READ). Related: Obama authorized covert support for Syrian rebels, sources say (READ).
CIA arming Syrian rebels
A
small number of CIA officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey,
helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the
border will receive arms to fight the Syrian govt (READ).
Related: Rebels Attack Syrian TV Station, Kill Seven Workers (READ);
Syria rebels accused of massacring 25 people in village (READ); Rebels responsible for Houla massacre of 90 people (READ).
U.S. military in Chile
What's behind Obama's new military base in Chile? (READ).
Photos of NATO informants
"The
NLG believes that at least two undercover police or confidential
informants, "Gloves" and "Mo," were used in a law enforcement
operation..." that resulted in terrorism charges against NATO protesters (PHOTOS).
Aurora: We shouldn't be surprised
America is a violent country – our homicide rate is four to 12 times higher than that in more civilized parts of the world...If
we faced any kind of real terrorist threat, incidents like the Aurora
shooting (except with a political motive) would happen all the time,
since there’s nothing that can be done to stop them. That they don’t
illustrates the extent to which “terrorism” is a politically useful
bogeyman (READ).
U.S. in Honduras
The U.S. DEA killed at least 4 innocent civilians in Honduras, including two pregnant women and two children (READ). More than 600 U.S. troops are in Honduras stationed at three new bases (READ).
Environmental activists
Environmentalists across the world being killed at rate of one per week, and growing (READ).
New "Underwear bomber" hoax
Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged (READ).
Anniversary of U.S. attack on Iranian jet
US Killed 290 Civilians in Attack on Passenger Jet in 1988 (READ).
Environmental activists
Environmentalists across the world being killed at rate of one per week, and growing (READ).
Iraq violence
Escalating attacks throughout the country not being covered in the media (READ).
Nation of Assassins
Jeremy
Scahill: "We have become a nation of assassins. We have become a nation
that is somehow silent in the face of -- or embraces, as polls indicate
-- the idea that assassination should be one of the centerpieces of US
foreign policy (READ).
The Drone Age
We
are sleepwalking into the Drone Age, unaware of
the consequences. Obama's policy of killing 'militants' in Pakistan may
go down well in the US, but it is provoking an extremist backlash
abroad (READ).
How Norway handles crime
Welcome to the world's nicest prison (READ).
Israeli xenophobia
Israeli demonstrators attack African migrants in Tel Aviv in a protest against refugees and asylum-seekers. Miri Regev, a member of the Israeli parliament, told the crowd "the Sudanese are a cancer in our body" (READ).
Incarceration Nation
Even
though crime has dropped 40% in the past 20 years, the U.S. has the
highest incarceration rate in the world with nearly 2.4 million people
behind bars, at a cost of $47,421 per inmate (READ).
Pakistan
The
Pakistani parliament unanimously declared that the U.S. must
immediately stop violating its sovereignty, including through drone
strikes (read). U.S. response: Drone strikes will continue (read).
More protests to be illegal
By a vote of 388-3, the
House approved a bill that makes it a federal offense to protest
in instances where some government officials are nearby (read). (Obama signed this into law a few days later).
This year make it 'No Mother's Day'
Christy
Turlington Burns: Mother's Day first pushed bringing sons home from
war. She says we should use the day to focus on health care for women
in pregnancy and childbirth because each year 360,000 women die from
pregnancy and childbirth (read).
Wikileaks: U.S. in Syria since December
Special
operations forces from the U.S. and its allies have been on the ground
in Syria since at least December, according to documents released by
WikiLeaks (read).
Secret war in Yemen escalates
America
has dramatically stepped up its "secret war" in Yemen with dozens of
drone attacks on al-Qaeda hotspots, which have also killed scores of
civilians (read).
Little US popular support for Israeli attack on Iran
A new poll finds that only one in four Americans favors Israel conducting a military strike against Iran (read). Related: Americans oppose U.S. intervention in Syria (read).
U.S. troops in 5 South Asian countries
"We
have currently special forces assist teams - Pacific assist teams is
the term - laid down in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, as well
as India," Adm Willard told a Congressional hearing (read).
Mossad & MEK assassinating Iranian scientists
Deadly
attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an
Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s
secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges
leveled by Iran’s leaders (read).
U.S. expansion in Africa
US troops now in 4 central African countries (Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic) to "fight the LRA" (read).
Syrian 'rebels' supported by al-Qaeda
Elements
of al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Iraq have been moving into Syria to
distribute weapons to the opposition and to carry out attacks against
the regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials (read). Also, al-Qaeda urges Muslims to help Syria rebels (read); and Russia accuses West of arming Syrian rebels (read).
Iran Ayatollah on nukes
“The Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons,” said Ayatollah Khamenei (read).
U.S. public on Iran
A
CNN/ORC International poll released Wednesday indicates that only 17%
of the public wants the U.S. to use military action to force Iran to
shut down its nuclear program (read). (Note:
Even though the wording of the poll question and the response choices
were biased, survey respondents were clear that they did not want
military action, so this is good news).
U.S. not leaving Iraq or Afghanistan
The
CIA is expected to maintain a large clandestine presence in Iraq and
Afghanistan long after the departure of conventional U.S. troops as
part of a plan by the Obama administration to rely on a combination of
spies and Special Operations forces to protect U.S. interests in the
two longtime war zones, U.S. officials said (read). U.S. still flying drones in Iraq (read).
U.S. weapons & personnel to South Sudan
The
White House has declared the government of South Sudan eligible to
receive weapons and defense assistance from the U.S. The announcement
came amid an outbreak of violence between two South Sudanese tribes
that may have left thousands dead and some 50,000 people needing aid (read). Obama sending 5 US military officers to South Sudan (read).
The U.S. in Africa
US Air Force Secretly Flying Armed Missions from Drone Base in Ethiopia (read). US Quietly Assumes Military Posture in Africa (read).
Obama's New Year 'Gift' to the American People
President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law (read). The NDAA's historic assault on American liberty
- By signing into law the NDAA, the president has awarded the military
extraordinary powers to detain US citizens without trial (read).
Iran
Charlottesville, Va., City Council Passes Resolution Opposing War on Iran (read).
Libya
Libya’s
‘Freedom Fighters’ Are Imposing Harsh Brand of Militant Islam. These
are the same groups that hoisted the al-Qaeda flag in Benghazi after
Gadhafi’s fall (read).
Afghanistan
UK troops arrested over child abuse claims (read). NATO forces killed five civilians, including one woman and two children (read).
NPR Propaganda
With Occupy Protests, Police Aimed For Restraint (read).
Bahrain
Following a report detailing abuses against protesters, Bahrain taps ex-Miami police chief John Timoney for police training (read). John Timoney's Bloody Journey (read).
Libya
Leaked UN report reveals torture, lynchings and abuse in post-Gaddafi Libya (read).
Iran
Iran arrests 12 'CIA spies' for targeting nuclear plans (read).
Israeli settlements
Fourteen
frustrated members of the U.N. Security Council pointed a finger at the
United States Tuesday for blocking any condemnation of Israel’s
accelerated settlement construction in Palestinian territory (read).
Iraq
U.S. Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit From Iraq (read).
US support of Islamist oil-rich regimes
In
addition to supporting the newly installed interim government of Libya
who has installed Islamic Sharia law, the U.S. supports monarchies in
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and
Oman (read). Related: Libyan leader's embrace of Sharia raises eyebrows (read).
Libyan rebels massacre
U.S. backed Libyan rebels execute 53 Gaddafi loyalists - corpses dumped in hotel garden in Sirte (read).
Arming dictators
US
state department says it will move forward with a plan to sell $53m
worth of weapons to Bahrain, who is currently unleashing a violent
crackdown on protesters (read).
Yemen
Drone strike assassinates third U.S. citizen - this time a 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki (read).
Afghanistan
General: U.S. to stay in Afghanistan a "long time" (read).
Impact of war
400,000, or 20% of Iraq & Afghan war veterans have mental health issues (read). Additionally, there have been 109,000 U.S. casualties, including 6,200 troops killed in the two wars.
Secret drone bases
U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say (read).
Somalia
U.S. drones kill 9 civilians in Somalia (read).
Reasons for 9/11
Ron
Paul on the causes of 9/11 at the GOP debate: "We’re there, occupying
their land... And if we think that we can do that and not have
retaliation, we’re kidding ourselves." (read).
Somalia
New American Ally in Somalia: ‘Butcher’ Warlord (read). (Also check out Jeremy Scahill's extensive piece on U.S. history in Somalia).
Yemen
U.S. increases Yemen drone strikes.
Unlike in Pakistan, where the CIA has presidential authorization to
launch drone strikes at will, each U.S. attack in Yemen — and those
being conducted in nearby Somalia — requires White House approval (read).
Iraq
U.S. Military and CIA Seek OK to Expand Covert Operations in Iraq (read).
US wars have killed 10 million people in the past 60 years
The
US emerged as an imperial power in the 1890s and has been at war almost
continually since then. In the past 60 years America's wars have killed
at least 10 million people. The list here is by no means comprehensive (read).
Another reason not to support Libyan 'rebels'
Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital (with executions) (read).
Palestinian statehood
U.S.: We will stop aid to Palestinians if UN bid proceeds (read).
Somalia - all sides guilty
Human
Rights Watch report says all sides in Somalia's conflict (including the
US-backed government) are committing crimes against civilians (read).
168 kids killed
2,292 people have been killed so far by US missiles in Pakistan, including as many as 775 civilians of which 168 were children (read).
US support of terrorism
A
roster of current and former influential US officials (including Howard
Dean and John Bolton) are pushing for the removal of the MEK from the
US terrorist list. The MEK is a cult-like Iranian opposition
group with a violent history (read).
Somalia
29,000 Somali kids have died in last 90 days (read).
(Note: The media blames al-Shabab for worsening the crisis in Somalia,
but doesn't mention how Obama's drone strikes and proxy war have played
a role in the humanitarian disaster.)
NATO kills more civilians
NATO's
mission to 'protect civilian lives' in Libya has been called into
question after it admitted carrying out an air strike in a coastal town
where a mother and two children were killed (read).
A secret war in 120 countries
Somewhere
on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say
that 70 times and you’re done ... for the day... (read).
Norway
Norway
to fly last Libya mission. NATO participation down to Britain, France,
Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and the United States (read).
Afghan kids
Five Afghan children shot by British forces in helicopter raid (read).
Libya
Libya's prosecutor general said that NATO air strikes have killed more than 1,100 civilians and wounded about 4,500 others (read).
CIA in Somalia
Jeremy Scahill: The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia (read).
More civilians killed
Afghan officials: Up to 16 civilians killed in NATO strike (read).
Children killed
As Americans are distracted by Casey Anthony, a US-led NATO strike that kills 8 Afghan kids draws very little attention (read).
The Democrats war in Libya
Republicans support Kucinich's bill to stop Libya war funding, Democrats oppose it (read).
U.S. drone war in Somalia
U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia (read). The airstrike makes Somalia at least the sixth country where the United States is using drones to conduct lethal attacks (read). The US is supplying drone aircrafts to Uganda and Burundi to help them fight in Somalia (read).
Sudan
U.S. millions fund world’s newest army, South Sudan’s, despite worries of abuses (read).
Iraq
14 U.S. troops killed in combat in Iraq in June - deadliest month in 3 years (read).
Pakistan
After initially rejecting demands to vacate Pakistan drone base (read), the U.S. now says the base has been idle (read).
. Half of World's Refugees are Running From US Wars
(read)
Amnesty doubts Gadhafi rape claims
An
Amnesty Int'l investigation casts doubt on claims of mass rape and
other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Moammar Gaddafi,
which have been widely used to justify NATO's war in Libya (read).
Afghanistan
Americans Who Favor Quick Withdrawal at All-Time High (read).
Libya
Editorial in the ultra-conservative Washington Times: "Defund the War in Libya" (read). A day after NATO admitted killing innocent civilians, Libya says NATO strike kills 19 more (read).
Libya war in part due to oil
Wikileaks-released
State Department cables show the real reason for the mounting U.S.
hostility to the Libyan government: Gaddafi was trying to control
Libya's oil (read).
Colombia Free Trade agreement
This
two minute clip touches on the Colombia Free Trade agreement and the
fact that aside of the harm it causes Colombians, it also affects US
people (watch).
Canadian activist
A Canadian activist who lost her Senate Page position over an unprecedented protest gets job offers (watch, read).
Didn't Obama end the war in Iraq?
Five US troops killed in Iraq attack (read).
Congress does something right
The
US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to bar US forces and
private contractors from operating on the ground in Libya (read). Related: Is Obama Above the Law? (read).
Land of the free
Report: Over 2,600 activists arrested in US protests since Obama took office (read). Medea Benjamin, Adam Kokesh and others arrested for dancing at the Jefferson memorial (watch).
Blackwater in UAE
Blackwater founder and billionaire Erik Prince is assembling secret mercenary Army for UAE (read, watch).
How Israel treats protesters
Israeli soldiers kill 13, wound hundreds of protesters (read),
US citizen sustained head injuries and an Israeli protester's arm was
broken on Friday as Israeli forces violently shut down a rally in Nabi
Saleh (watch, read).
The cost of killing bin Laden
The
U.S. government spent $2 trillion combating bin Laden over the past
decade, more than 20 percent of the nation’s $9.68 trillion public debt (read).
One NBA player on bin Laden
"Is
this a celebration?? ... Always read the fine print. ... It took
919,967 deaths to kill that one guy. It took 10 years & 2 Wars to
kill that...guy. It cost us (USA) roughly $1,188,263,000,000 to kill
that...........guy. But we #winning though. Haaaa. (Sarcasm)" (read).
Libya
Former GITMO detainee now leading Libyan rebels (read).
Pakistan
U.S. drone strike kills 25 people, including five women and four children (read).
Syria & WikiLeaks
U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show (read).
Pakistan
U.S. drones kill 957 civilian Pakistanis in 2010: report (read).
France
After Tuesday's bombing of Ivory Coast, France now engaged in 3 conflicts for first time in memory (read).
Humanitarian war?
At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces in Libya, the top Vatican official in Tripoli said (read).
Libyan rebels
Libyan rebels appear to take leaf from Gadhafi's playbook
- rounding up hundreds of their perceived political opponents and
imprisoning them without charge in Gaddafi’s former torture chambers (read). U.S. official have publicly acknowledged an al-Qaeda presence among the rebels (read). Who are the real Libyan rebels? (read).
13 innocents killed in past 3 days by US military & allies
Decorated U.S. army soldier charged with killing 4 month old girl who he was trying to adopt in New York (read). NATO airstrike kills 7 civilians; 5 others, including a child killed (read).
Another US ally killing civilians
Israel strikes Gaza targets, killing eight Palestinians, including 3 kids and their grandfather (read).
Pakistan
US drone strike 'kills 40' in Pakistan (read).
Kids in Afghanistan
Two children were killed in a NATO air attack near where nine others died in another recent strike (read). Related: Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say Afghan war isn’t worth fighting (read).
Fear Muslims or Catholic priests?
As Rep. Peter King (R-NY) begins fear mongering hearings on Muslim Americans (reminiscent of McCarthyism), 21 priests in Philly were put on leave for suspected child sexual abuse (read).
Al Jazeera
Hillary Clinton calls Al Jazeera 'real news,' criticizes U.S. media (read).
Zimbabwe activists
Police
arrest 45 people at a meeting in Zimbabwe analyzing the uprisings in
Egypt and Tunisia. They are charged with treason, which could result in
the death penalty (read).
Massacre in Afghanistan
Afghan officials allege that 64 civilians were killed in U.S. military operation - including 22 women and more than 29 children (read). Petraeus suggests Afghans might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties (read).
Genuine vs. contrived revolutions
As
genuine revolutions occur in Egypt and Tunisia, and revolutions may be
starting in Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria and Libya, the U.S. is promoting a
contrived uprising in Iran. See these older articles: "US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran" (read), and "The CIA is conducting "black-ops" inside Iran" (read).
US "freedom" hypocrisy
Obama Admin Touts Internet Freedom While Targeting Twitter, WikiLeaks (read).
House votes to extend Patriot Act (while telling Egyptians and others to pursue freedom) (read).
Egypt & WikiLeaks
Egyptian 'torturers' trained by FBI (read).
Attack in Russia
Georgia's President (a US-ally) says terror attack in Moscow was 'payback' (read).
Global food prices
The 25 Countries Whose Governments Could Get Crushed By Food Price Inflation (read).
Mass Protest of US Drones in Pakistan
Thousands
of tribesmen marched in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal
region against the U.S. drone strikes, which they said killed innocent
people (read).
Soldier & mercenary atrocities
The daughter of an Afghan politician has reportedly died of her injuries after being raped by American soldiers (read).
WikiLeaks reveals that military contractor DynCorp hired 8-15
year old boys to dance and perform sexual acts in Afghanistan (read).
1st Gulf War
WikiLeaks
reveals a smoking gun: U.S. Ambassador gave implicit green light to
Sadaam to invade Kuwait in 1990, which led to the U.S. invading Iraq (read).
Free Speech
Four
activists were forced to leave an art gallery in New York for wearing
T-shirts in support of the besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (read).
Bad news/good news about Iran
While
70 percent of U.S. residents incorrectly believe Iran has a nuclear
weapons program, only 24 percent would use force to stop it, an Angus
Reid public opinion poll indicates (read).
Iraq war not over
Despite
official US claims that the Iraq War is “over” massive numbers of
civilians continue to be killed, with the latest study showing 3,976
civilians killed in 2010 alone (read).
Big Brother getting bigger
The
FBI is building a database with the names and certain personal
information, such as employment history, of thousands of U.S. citizens
and residents whom a local police officer or a fellow citizen believed
to be acting suspiciously (read).
Israel
Israel's
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told French officials in Paris on June 15,
2009 that Israel has a "secret accord" with the US government to
maintain the "natural growth" of settlements in the West Bank (read).
Afghanistan
Record 60% say Afghan war has not been worth fighting (read). Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the U.S. can't let public opinion sway its commitment to Afghanistan (read).
Walmart & Homeland Security
Walmart
will join the Department of Homeland Security in a program called "If
You See Something, Say Something" which encourages the American public
to take an active role in ensuring the safety and security of the
nation (read).
The Portland "Bomb" Plot
Fabricating Terror: Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? (read).
Student uprising in England
Burning with anger: London streets in flames again as 25,000 go on rampage in new student fees riot (read).
Airport screening
Report: Body Scanner Makers Doubled Lobbying Cash Over 5 Years (read). ACLU Fielded Over 900 Complaints About TSA in November (read).
Nazis & the CIA
American
intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the US for Nazis after
World War II for intelligence gathering purposes, according to a New
York Times report (read).
Afghanistan
The
U.S. military has destroyed hundreds of Afghan civilian homes, farm
houses, walls, trees and plowed through fields and buildings using
explosives and bulldozers in war-torn Zhari district (read).
Guam & Diego Garcia
The
US is building a $12 billion super military base on the Pacific island
of Guam. Another $200 million will go for upgrades to U.S. base in
Diego Garcia (read).
Arms Proliferation
Obama administration to sell $60 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia (read).
The sale, which is the largest overseas deal in U.S. history, is part
of a strategy spearheaded by the George W. Bush administration and
expanded by Obama (read).
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council—the USA, UK,
France, Russia, and China are responsible for 88% of reported
conventional arms exports (read).
“We can’t have it both ways. We can’t be both the
world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading
supplier of arms.” Former US President Jimmy Carter, presidential campaign, 1976
Pakistan
Pakistan: No Justification For US Drone Attacks - "We believe that they are ... a violation of our sovereignty" (read).
Pakistani
Senator Mohammad Saleh Shah stands with activists during a protest in
front of the parliament in Islamabad against the US drone attacks in
Pakistan. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
Israel/Gaza
Flotila Findings
A
UN probe said there was clear evidence to back prosecutions against
Israel for killing and torture when its troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid
flotilla in May. The vote was 30-1, with the U.S. as the lone
dissenter (read).
Soldier Suicides
Army's largest base reeling from four apparent suicides in one weekend; 14 other suicides on the base this year (read).
CIA Assassins
New Bob Woodward book: The CIA has a team of 3,000 assassins in Afghanistan and Pakistan (read). The book also claims that Americans have been killed by CIA drones in Pakistan (read).
Censorship
Former CNN war correspondent speaks out on alleged war crime CNN refused to air (read).
Iraq
An operation involving US forces has left at least seven civilians dead in Iraq (read).
Afghanistan
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies' (read).
Iraq
AP editor: 'Combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is' (read). Obama Lauds Fake End to Iraq War as 'Historic Moment' (read).
Somalia
Uganda will send thousands of troops to Somalia if the U.S. provides promised funding for the mission (read).
Afghanistan
U.S. toll rising in Afghanistan: 22 soldiers killed in five days (read)
Demonization of Muslims
Dem leaders join in the condemnation of 'Ground Zero' Islamic community center (read).
Immigrants
Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital (read).
.
Support the Troops?
Neo-Nazis
are in the Army now -- Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own
regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks (read, listen).
U.S. Prisons
Colbert 1, U.S. State Department 0 (read).
Afghanistan
Fury over SUV driven by DynCorp International contractors that killed four Afghans (read); locals attack the mercenaries, torch their vehicles (read).
Somalia
4,000 More US-Funded Troops Headed to Somalia (read).
Iraq
Five months after elections, Iraq has yet to form a government and violence is escalating - 396 civilians killed in July (read).
Wikileaks
Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories (read).
Pakistan
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich) said the U.S. should be more aggressive in conducting airstrikes inside Pakistan (read).
4th of July
Remembering
Howard Zinn: On July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and
all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its
insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed (read).
Honduras
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused the United States of being behind the 2009 coup that ousted him (read).
Iran
G-8 'fully believes' Israel will attack Iran, says Italy PM (read). Iran is Surrounded by US Troops in 10 Countries (read).
Afghanistan
Obama administration awards Blackwater $120M contract in Afghanistan (read). Ten Afghan civilians, including at least five women and children killed in U.S/NATO airstrike (read).
Democrats on Gaza
Democrats demand flotilla "terrorists" be denied entry into U.S. (read). Dem. Sen. Charles Schumer on Gaza: 'Strangle' them economically (read).
BP & The Pentagon
Fueling War: Pentagon Still Buying Most of Its Oil and Gas from BP (read).
Afghanistan
Thirteen U.S. soldiers killed in past 72 hours (read). Poll: US Public Turning Further Against Afghanistan War (read).
Yemen
A
US cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was behind a December attack
in Yemen that killed 55 people, most of them civilians, Amnesty
International reported (read). More on Yemen.
Gaza Flotilla
15,000 rally in Tel Aviv (read).
Israel's 'friends' also to blame (read).
U.S. blocks Security Council criticism of Israeli massacre of humanitarian workers (read).
International Leaders' Reactions to Flotilla Attack (read).
Covert ops
Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world (read).
Afghanistan
Afghans protest after U.S. raid kills 10 civilians (read).
Israel
Obama Seeks $205 Million to Fund Israeli Missile Defense -
Funds Would Be in Addition to Billions in Annual Aid (read).
Nukes
Obama Seeks $80 Billion for New Nukes (read).
Pakistan
Obama gives CIA authority to expand strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles in Pakistan (read).
Immigration
Senate
Democratic leaders followed up the draconian immigration law in Arizona
with a proposal that would require all workers in the U.S. to carry an
ID card with biometric identifiers at all times (read).
Okinawa
90,000 people rally in Japan's southern island of Okinawa demanding that a US military base be moved off the island (read).
Afghanistan
U.S. retreat from Afghan valley marks recognition of blunder (read). Related: Taliban moves onto abandoned U.S. base (read).
Kyrgyzstan
Afghanistan
NATO
launched an investigation into whether its forces had killed four
civilians -- two women, a child and an elderly man -- in an air strike
overnight on a compound in southern Afghanistan (read). Related:
"We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none
has ever proven to be a threat," says U.S. commander Stanley McChrystal
(read).
Indonesia
US-backed
Indonesian armed forces, who carried out a series of assassinations of
civilian activists in late 2009, are slated for renewed aid by the
Obama administration (read).
Pakistan
61 killed as US-backed Pakistan bombs schools, mosque -- many civilians reported slain in attack on pacifist seminary (read).
Somalia
US-Backed Somali Troops Prepare Major Offensive (read).
Diego Garcia
Chagossians Fight for a Home in Paradise (read).
Pakistan
One in three killed by US drones in Pakistan is a civilian, report claims (read).
Iran
Iran Says Capture of Rebel Is Blow to U.S. (read).
Afghanistan
The
Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements within the governing
coalition on extending troop deployments in Afghanistan (read).
Afghanistan
UN: 131 children killed in 2009-NATO air raids (read).
Uruguay
Former US-backed dictator of Uruguay sentenced to 30 years (read).
Sept. 11
Evidence from
various sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department
documents, shows that the Taliban tried to prevent bin Laden from
carrying out any plots against the United States (read).
Lebanon
Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri: government will support Hezbollah if a new war breaks out with Israel (this was not the case in 2006) (read). Syria's President Assad vows to stand by Lebanon in any conflict with Israel (read).
Iran
Iran arrests 7 people accused of being hired by the CIA (read).
Pakistan
School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan (read).
Russia
U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border (read).
Pakistan
Blackwater in Pakistan: Gates Confirms (read).
Haiti
Haitians Dying By The Thousands
As US Escalates Military Intervention (read).
France accuses US of 'occupying' Haiti as troops flood in (read). Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid (read).
Anger at US builds at Port-au-Prince airport (read)
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says the US has taken advantage of
the massive quake in Haiti and deployed troops in the country (read).
ANSWER: What the U.S. government isn't telling you (read).
US Policy in Haiti Over Decades Lays the Foundation for Why Impact of Natural Disaster Is So Severe (watch).
Gaza
Egypt allows through Gaza aid convoy after protests (read).
Pakistan
A
teacher and his 9-year-old son were killed by a suspected U.S. drone, a
Pakistani administration official and an intelligence official told CNN
(read).
Afghanistan
American-led
troops were accused of dragging innocent children from their beds and
shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.
Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were
killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals said that some
victims were handcuffed before being killed (read).
A U.S. military convoy opens fire on a civilian vehicle, killing a child, two women and a man (read).
Iran
US, UK behind terrorist attack in Iran that killed 31, according to Iran's armed forces (read).
Afghanistan
Two innocent teens killed by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan (read).
CNN Poll: Afghan War’s Popularity Continues to Fall - down to 39% among Americans (read).
Eight U.S. soldiers killed in one day - 4 in Iraq (read), 4 in Afghanistan (read).
12/3/09- For
the first time in the Pew Poll’s 40 year history, most Americans
supported a policy of “minding its own business internationally.” (read).
11/30/09- Venezuela Refuses to Recognise Honduran Elections, Congratulates Uruguayan President-Elect (read).
11/9/09- Global Poll: Widespread Dissatisfaction with Free-Market Capitalism (read).
11/9/09- 20,000 Japanese protest U.S. military base (read).
10/24/09- Thousands march in London against Afghan war. British poll: 62% said end the war, 84% think US/UK are 'losing' (read).
10/24/09- A U.S. military convoy opens fire on a civilian vehicle, killing a child, two women and a man (read).
10/19/09- US, UK behind terrorist attack in Iran that killed 31, according to Iran's armed forces (read).
10/3/09- Two innocent teens killed by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan (read).
9/19/09- New poll finds strong domestic support for Iranian government (read).
9/15/09- CNN Poll: Afghan War’s Popularity Continues to Fall - down to 39% among Americans (read).
9/8/09- Eight U.S. soldiers killed in one day - 4 in Iraq (read), 4 in Afghanistan (read).
.
Pakistan
8/13/09- Gallup Poll of 2,600: Pakistanis see US as biggest threat. Only 9% approve of US drone attacks (read). Pew Poll: Only 13% have favorable view of Obama (read).
8/31/09-
Argentina and Mexico have taken significant steps towards
decriminalizing drugs amid a growing Latin American backlash against
the US-sponsored "war on drugs". Argentina's supreme court has ruled it
unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal
consumption (read).
8/13/09- Report: Israeli Troops Killed Unarmed Gazans Carrying White Flags (read).
8/11/09- Ill. man faces 6 months in jail for yawning (read).
8/7/09-
The Obama administration has extended a contract with the company
formerly known as Blackwater for more than $20 million for “security
services” in Iraq. The company's owner, Erik Prince, "views himself as
a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic
faith from the globe", according to sworn testimony by former
Blackwater employees (read).
Pakistan
8/5/09- US
drone strike in a South Waziristan remote village killed at least four
people today, including one of the wives of a Tehreek-e Taliban
Pakistan chief and wounded five others, including four children (read).
7/28/09- The Military Spies on Anarchists in Olympia (read).
Afghanistan
7/26/09- The Big Lie of Afghanistan (by Malai Joya, the youngest woman elected to Afghan parliament) (read).
Honduras
7/26/09- Chavez: US seeks to legitimize Honduran coup (read). US continues to train Honduran soldiers at the SOA (read).
Afghanistan
7/16/09- US Strike Kills at Least Six Civilians in Kandahar Province of Afghanistan (read).
7/13/09- 10 meanest cities in the US to the homeless: #2 St. Petersburg, FL (read).
7/10/09- Dispute over upside down flag protest erupts in Wisc. village (read).
7/8/09- Seeing Obama as Norwegians See Him (read).
IRAN
7/6/09- Israeli
officials have welcomed comments by US VP Joe Biden that America would
not stand in the way of an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear plants (read).
IRAN
6/26/09-
USA Today: "US grants support Iranian dissidents" - The Obama
administration is moving forward with plans to fund groups that support
Iranian dissidents... continuing a program that became controversial
when it was expanded by President Bush (read).
IRAN
6/25/09-
The CIA may have been behind the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, the
26-year-old Iranian woman whose fatal videotaped shooting made her a
symbol of opposition to the presidential election results, the
country's ambassador to Mexico said (read).
IRAN
6/24/09- Eric Margolis discusses the Western media’s hyping of a new color-coded revolution in Iran (listen).
6/24/09- Dozens of Civilians, No Militant Leaders, Killed in US Drone Strike on Pakistan Funeral (read).
IRAN
6/21/09- Iran finds US-backed MKO fingermarks in riots (read).
IRAN
6/21/09- Voice of America and BBC guiding unrest in Iran, according to Foreign Minister (read).
6/10/09- Defense Dept. policy: Lawful protests are 'low-level terrorism' (read).
6/12/09- Air Force, Navy and other coalition warplanes dropped a record 478 bombs in Afghanistan in May (read).
6/11/09- JOKE OF THE WEEK: CIA chief says bin Laden in Pakistan (read).
6/11/09- Afghan Official Says US Air Strike Kills 10 Civilians, Including Children (read).
6/7/09- UN: 60% of Pakistan's Swat schools destroyed (read).
6/5/09- Jeremy Scahill discusses Obama's wars on Bill Moyers Journal (watch).
6/2/09- Appalachian Apocalypse: Obama OK's Mountaintop Removal (read).
5/18/09- Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting
to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has
emerged (read).
5/20/09- Obama embraces Bush's immigration policy (read).
5/19/09- Naomi Klein: Obama’s Wall Street bailout the greatest heist in monetary history (read).
5/14/09-
An Afghan government investigation has found that 95 out of 140
civilians killed in US air strikes a week ago were under 18 years old (read).
5/12/09- Pakistan President Zardari: US, Pakistan gave birth to Taliban (read).
5/7/09- Obama's response to US massacre in Afghanistan: send more troops (read).
4/23/09- Who are the real "pirates" in Somalia? (read).
4/23/09- 6 years in prison for airing Hezbollah TV in NYC (read).
4/10/09- U.S. drones in Pakistan have killed 14 al-Qaeda, 687 civilians (read).
4/6/09- Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy (read).
3/31/09- Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion (This is more than the U.S. has spent on education in its 233 years of existence) (read).
3/31/09- Hundreds
of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar plant,
are holding company executives hostage in their office, the third time
this month workers facing cutbacks have held their bosses captive to
demand negotiations (read).
3/24/09- The Czech government, which represented the interests of the US military industry has fallen. The
no confidence vote came after the center right government was
criticized for the way it handled the economic crisis and for
supporting a controversial American anti-missile defense system (read). Related: Other recent gov't. collapses in Hungary, Latvia, and possibly Ukraine (read).
3/17/09- Obama quietly gave Blackwater $70 million in February, despite Iraq saying it doesn't want the company there (read).
3/15/09- Army
veteran who shot and killed three teenagers last summer is so
indifferent to his killing spree that he compares it to spilling a
glass of milk."Do you get all upset about it? No, you just clean it up
and get another glass of milk," (read).
3/12/09- Obama
declared that the US “will maintain our military dominance. We will
have the strongest armed forces in the history of the world. And we
will do whatever it takes to sustain our technological advantage and to
invest in the capabilities that we need to protect our interests and to
defeat and deter any conventional enemy” (read).
3/15/09- US-backed Pakistani govt. clamps down on protest, arrests opposition leader (read).
3/9/09- Hamas makes Islamic Jihad vow not to fire rockets at Israel (read).
3/9/09- Even
though Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban congressional earmarks, his
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth about $8.5
million in the bill the Senate is considering (read).
3/9/09- Obama to step up attacks on Pakistan (read).
3/9/09- Hamas's popularity rises after Israel's Gaza war (read).
3/6/09- Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and 30 others urge Obama to not allow U.S. interference in next week's election in El Salvador (read).
3/6/09- 50,000 taxpayers furious with budget cuts take frustration to streets of NYC (read).
2/23/09- Secret U.S. Unit Trains Commandos in Pakistan (read).
2/20/09- Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners (read).
2/20/09- Obama Expands Missile Strikes Inside Pakistan (read).
2/18/09- US finds 13 civilians died in Afghanistan strike (read).
2/16/09- At least 31 killed as US drones attack Pakistan (read). A couple days earlier, a US drone attack killed 30 in Pakistan (read).
2/13/09- 14 year old Palestinian killed by Israel Border Police (read).
2/10/09- Obama backs Bush 'state secrets' position (read).
2/8/09- Iraqis Say U.S. Patrol Killed Girl, 8, in Crowd (read).
2/5/09- Why Is Obama Adopting Bush’s Blustery Stance on Secret Documents about Rendition? (read).
2/3/09- Kyrgyzstan Closing US Base Key to Afghan Conflict -
Major Blow to Obama's Plan to Escalate Afghan War (read).
2/3/09- The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We? (read).
1/29/09- One million people protest, clash with police in France against government's handling of economic crisis (watch).
1/29/09- Hamas
official: “We accept a state in the ‘67 borders. We
are not talking about the destruction of Israel.” (read).
1/29/09- CIA chief in Algeria accused of drugging and raping Muslim women (read).
Assault on Gaza
1/27/09- Israeli troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say (read).
1/25/09- Afghan president: U.S. forces killed 16 civilians (read).
1/23/09- Obama orders airstrikes in Pakistan - 22 killed (read). Pakistan urges Obama to halt missile strikes, says latest attack killed civilians (read).
Assault on Gaza
1/23/09- Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis “Approximately the Bush Position” (watch).
1/22/09- UN official: Evidence of Israeli war crimes; Gaza events evoke memories of Warsaw Ghetto (read).
1/16/09- Secret List of U.S. Military Bases to Replace Gitmo (read).
Assault on Gaza
1/16/09- Gaza: 10 Arrested at Senator Durbin's office in Chicago (read).
1/16/09- Turkish PM Erdogan: Bar Israel from UN over Gaza offensive (read).
1/14/09- Jewish group shuts down Israeli consulate in LA (read).
1/14/09- Bolivia cuts Israel ties over "genocide" in Gaza (read).
1/8/08- U.S.-led raid kills 17 civilians in Afghanistan (read).
Assault on Gaza
1/8/09- UN: 257 Palestinian children killed in Gaza (read).
1/8/09- The Red Cross: Israel is breaking international law by letting children starve in Gaza (read).
1/7/09- Hugo Chavez: Gaza operation is a Palestinian 'holocaust' (read).
12/29/08- World Rallies Around Palestinians Amid Gaza Offensive (read).
12/22/08- Stossel on Bailout: Show Me the Money (watch).
12/16/08- Cheney lauds Obama's choice of national security team (read).
12/13/08- Iran says has proof U.S., UK back police killer group (read).
12/9/08- Musicians protest use of songs by US jailers (read).
11/28/08- Karl Rove praises Obama's economic team -
"Thanksgiving Cheer From Obama - He's assembled a first-rate economic team" (read).
11/26/08- With Gates, Obama Opts for Empire - Matthew Rothschild (read).
11/24/08- Potential Cost of US Financial Bailout: Over $8 Trillion (read).
11/21/08- Obama to delay repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' (read).
11/20/08- Iraq War resister Tony Anderson sentenced to 14 months (read).
11/15/08- Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel (read).
11/13/08- Russian President: No missile deployment if Obama drops anti-missile shield (read).
11/13/08- More than two-thirds of Britons believe British troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan next year (read).
11/8/08- Iran slams Obama's tough language on nuclear arms (read).
AFGHANISTAN
· 11/6/08 - US airstrike kills 7 civilians (read).
· 11/5/08 - US airstrike kills 40 civilians at Afghan wedding party (read).
· Airstrikes in Afghanistan increase 31% (read).
· In the first seven months of this year coalition forces had already killed 577 civilians, the majority of them in air-strikes (read).
10/30/08- The
Israeli military seized 15 students from the Palestine Technical
College in the West Bank after opening fire on the campus (read).
SYRIA
10/28/08- Syria's foreign minister calls U.S. attack "criminal and terrorist aggression" (read).
10/25/08- According to assistant secretary of defense Mike Vickers, the U.S. has "Special Operations Forces" in sixty countries around the world (read).
10/27/08- Congress
grew 13 percent richer in 2007; nearly two of every three senators are
millionaires - only 1 percent of all Americans are considered
millionaires (read).
PAKISTAN
10/26/08- Pakistani Senate unanimously condemns U.S. attacks (read).
10/22/08- The Fed will make up to $540 billion available to buy assets from money-market mutual funds (read).
10/22/08- Thailand's
prime minister was forced to flee one of his own government
ministries as protesters demanding his resignation taunted him, tossing
sandals and plastic bottles at his entourage (read).
10/22/08- Of 30 "rich" countries, the U.S. has the largest gap between its wealthiest and poorest households (read).
AFGHANISTAN
10/16/08- Disillusioned Afghans turning on Karzai (read).
AFGHANISTAN
10/16/08- A
NATO airstrike on a village near the embattled provincial capital of
Lashkar Gah killed 25 to 30 civilians, Afghan officials in the area
said (read).
10/13/08- Banking crisis challenges US superpower status (read).
AFGHANISTAN
10/9/08- French army chief agrees Afghanistan 'cannot be won' (read).
10/8/08- Latin Leftists Gloating Over 'Comrade' Bush's Bailout (read).
PAKISTAN
10/8/08- U.S. missile strike kills nine people in North Waziristan (read).
10/7/08- "This
was the largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of
this country," - Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal (read).
10/7/08- A
general strike by workers in Belgium has brought much of the country to
a virtual standstill, with transport, schools and government services
hit (read).
10/4/08- Canadian PM Admits Iraq War a Mistake (read).
PAKISTAN
10/4/08- U.S. missile strikes killed 24 people in Pakistan's restive tribal region (read).
PAKISTAN
10/1/08- US Drone Strike Kills at Least Four in Pakistan (read).
9/29/08- Israel
will have to give up virtually all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem
if it wants peace with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
said in a farewell interview (read).
9/27/08- Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for "Israel Lobby" (read).
PAKISTAN
9/26/08- Pakistan Tells U.S. To Keep Out (read).
PAKISTAN
9/23/08- Tariq Ali: Why was the Marriott Targeted? (read).
BOLIVIA
9/22/08- An Open Letter to the U.S. State Department Regarding Recent Violence in Bolivia. (read).
9/17/08- U.S., NATO and Afghan forces have killed 645 civilians in Afghanistan this year. (read).
PAKISTAN
9/17/08- Another U.S. missile strike in Pakistan provokes anger. (read).
BOLIVIA
9/16/08- South
American presidents from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,
Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela issued a strong statement giving
Bolivian President Evo Morales their support. (read).
BOLIVIA
9/14/08- Nicaraqua's President Daniel Ortega accused Washington of trying to foment a coup against Bolivia's Evo Morales. (read).
PAKISTAN
9/14/08- There
have been four American attacks on Pakistani soil in the past two
weeks. Dozens of innocent women and children have been killed, and
outrage is growing (read). The Pakistani army has been ordered to fire back at the next U.S. unilateral strike (read).
GEORGIA/RUSSIA
9/14/08- Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili had long planned a military strike of
South Ossetia, Saakashvili's former defence minister said. (read).
9/14/08- CIA was involved with Uzbekistan's leader Karimov in torture. (read).
BOLIVIA
9/13/08- Opponents
of President Evo Morales have recently seized government buildings and
a human rights NGO, and cut off Bolivia's natural gas supply to
Argentina. A week prior, the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, Phillip
Goldberg met with anti-Morales supporters. (read).
GEORGIA/RUSSIA
9/10/08-
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (CA): military actions in
South Ossetia were started by Georgia. "The Russians are right! We're
wrong! Georgia started it, the Russians ended it," (read).
9/6/08- Obama declared
-- on Fox News, no less -- that Bush's 'surge' in Iraq has "succeeded
beyond our wildest dreams." He also proclaimed his "absolute" belief in
the "War on Terror," and pledged, once again, "never to take a military
option off the table" (not even the nuclear option) against the "major
threat" of Iran. (read).
PAKISTAN
9/6/08- About 3,000 Pakistani's chant "Death to America" in protest of recent ground invasion by U.S. that killed 15 (read).
8/26/08- U.N. says has evidence U.S. air strikes killed 90 Afghans - mostly children (read).
GEORGIA/RUSSIA
8/21/08- South Ossetia independence rally blasts Georgia (read).
8/21/08- More than a dozen Afghan civilians were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops (read).
GEORGIA/RUSSIA
8/16/08- Conservative Pat Buchanan says Georgia, not Russia is the aggressor (listen).
5/20/08- As US Threatens Iran Over Enriching Uranium, Bush Promises to Give Enriched Uranium to Saudi Arabia (read).
5/18/08- Iran busts CIA terror network (read).
5/15/08- Another US airstrike in Pakistan kills civilians (read).
5/7/08- Gorbachev:
US could start new Cold War. "The United States cannot tolerate anyone
acting independently." "I sometimes have a feeling that the United
States is going to wage war against the entire world." (read).
5/6/08- U.S.
backed Ethiopian troops in Somalia: slitting throats of civilians,
gouging eyes, and gang raping according to Amnesty Intl. (read).
4/17/08- Jimmy
Carter: 'For every Israeli killed...between 30 to 40 Palestinians are
killed because of the extreme military capability of Israel'. (read).
4/30/08- Iran Ends Oil Transactions In U.S. Dollars. (read). This follows the U.S. sending a second carrier to the Persian Gulf as a 'reminder' to Iran (read).
4/11/08- The
US is providing military aid to six of the countries cited in the US
State Department’s latest series of human rights reports for recruiting
and using child soldiers. They are Afghanistan, Chad, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda. (read).
2008 Annual Arab Public Opinion Poll
·83% have an unfavorable view of the US;
·Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah is the most popular world leader;
·Only 6% of Arabs polled believe that the American surge has worked;
·About 90 percent named Israel and the U.S as their biggest threat
·Nearly
three out of four Saudi respondents said that if Iran acquired nuclear
weapons, it would have a "positive" influence on the region
·The poll included 4,000 respondents in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (read pdf poll results)
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4/10/08- Members
of Congress invested nearly $196 million of their own money in
companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from
Pentagon contracts. (No wonder Congress keeps voting to fund wars) (read).
4/9/08- Israel places seven employees of a pro-peace radio station under house arrest. (read).
3/29/08- (US-installed) Somalia Govt. Teeters on Collapse (read).
3/29/08- Gaddafi blasts the US - warns that US allies could suffer same fate as Saddam (read).
3/29/08- US airstrike in Basra kills 8 civilians (read).
3/27/08- Pakistan's new leaders tell US: We are no longer your killing field (read).
3/22/08- 12 US soldiers electrocuted in Iraq - KBR blamed (read).
3/14/08- Bush says he would fight in Afghanistan if he were younger (read).
3/12/08- A scant three percent of news stories in February were devoted to the Iraq war (read).
3/11/08- Afghan death toll soars to 8,000 last year (read).
3/11/08- Ten war protesters arrested in Senate (read).
3/5/08- Obama Glosses Over Colombian Attack in Ecuador; Clinton Calls for Escalation Against Venezuela (read).
3/4/08- Somalis protest over US bombing (read).
2/29/08- Israeli minister vows Palestinian 'holocaust' (read).
2/29/08- US
troops under curfew in Okinawa after protests following a series of
incidents involving American troops, including two alleged rapes (read).
2/20/08- Iraq war vet faces trial on charge of raping 3 month old girl (read).
2/19/08- Earth First! Blockades Power Plant Construction Site, 27 Arrested (read).
2/19/08- Thousands of protesters greet U.S. wargames in Phillipines (read).
2/12/08- Israeli official: 'IDF should wipe out parts of Gaza' (read).
2/2/08- Berkeley city council: Marines "unwelcome intruders"; protestors chain themselves to Marine recruitment doors (read).
Somalia
1/29/08- Somalia is worst humanitarian crisis- UN official. "...even worse than Darfur." (read)
This crisis follows U.S. military action in Somalia that went largely unnoticed:
12/26/06 - "In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war"(read).
1/9/07 - US Special Forces in Somalia (read).
1/20/07 - US and Ethiopian air strikes in Somalia killed 70 nomadic herdsmen (read). |
1/24/08- Chalmers Johnson: "How to Sink America" (listen to 30 min. interview).
1/28/08- Vermont town to vote on indicting Bush & Cheney (read).
1/30/08- Vermont lawmakers seek National Guard withdrawal from Iraq (read).
1/14/08- The coddled "terrorists" of South Florida (read).
1/10/08- Bush demands end to Israeli 'occupation' of Palestinian territories (read).
1/9/08- Report Reveals Vietnam War Hoaxes, Faked Attacks (read).
1/2/08- Twelve Arrested in Des Moines as Obama Campaign Hinders Press Coverage of Protest (read).
12/30/07- CODEPINK: Let's Toast Ten Good Things About 2007 (read).
12/20/07- 80,000 in Italy march against construction of US military base (read).
12/12/07- The
UN's independent investigator on human rights urged the US to release
all people detained as "enemy combatants," close the detention center
at Guantánamo Bay and abolish military commissions (read).
12/4/07- Medea Benjamin arrested at gunpoint in Pakistan (read).
12/4/07- Peace Group Barred From Florida Schools (read).
11/28/07- More than 12 million children in America went hungry last year (read).
11/19/07- There were at least 7,880 hate crimes in the U.S. last year (read).
11/16/07- Miami Police kill four unarmed African men in less than one month (read).
11/16/07- Basra attacks down 90% since British troops left (read).
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War Weary
11/18/07- Australian defense expert: Coalition 'cannot win' in Afghanistan or Iraq (read).
11/18/07- General: British forces can't go on like this (read).
10/30/07- Japan pulls troops from 'war on terror' (read).
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11/15/07- The US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at a rate of 120 a week (read).
11/14/07- Senator: US has become haven for war criminals (read).
11/8/07- Democrats who voted to confirm new Attorney General Michael Mukasey (who, in addition to refusing to answer if waterboarding is torture, was recently an advisor to Rudy Giuliani's campaign) were: Senator's Evan Bayh (IN), Tom Carper (DE), Mary Landrieu (LA), Charles Schumer (NY), Diane Feinstein (CA) and Ben Nelson (NE).
Florida Senator Bill Nelson opposed Mukasey.
Not voting were Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd and Barack Obama. All four had said they opposed Mukasey's nomination. (read) |
· Kucinich: Time to question Bush's mental health (read)
· Chavez: Take Bush to madhouse (read)
· Straitjacket Bush - Rosa Brooks, LA Times (read) |
10/29/07- Secret Move to Upgrade Diego Garcia Air Base for Iran Attack (read).
10/27/07- "We must bomb Iran" says founder of Neo-Con movement (and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom winner) (read).
10/12/07 - White House won't fund mental health services for Katrina-scarred children (read).
10/10/07 - US ally Pakistan bombs bazaar full of civilians (read).
10/10/07 - US troops backed by attack aircraft kill 15 civilians, including nine children in Iraq (read).
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| 10/9/07 - Flying surveillance devices at Sept. 15 Mass March and Die-in (read). |
10/8/07 - 200,000 Italians march for peace (read).
10/5/07 - AP: Iraqis Say U.S. Targeted Civilians in Air Attack (read).
| 10/2/07 - Arrested for reading the Constitution (read). |
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9/24/07 - Iran's president: I don't deny Holocaust (read).
9/28/07 - Active duty soldiers to join Syracuse peace rally, speak against Iraq war (read).
9/28/07 - US air raid in Baghdad kills 10 civilians, including women & children (read).
9/28/07 - Soldier:
I was told to shoot unarmed man -- sergeant laughed and told the
trooper to finish the job as the man convulsed on the ground. (read).
9/23/07 - Country Music Deserts George Bush (read).
9/23/07 - Seven
CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report - Official Account of
9/11 a “Joke” and a “Cover-up” (read).
9/20/07 - Nearly
one of five US Army recruiters was under investigation in 2004 for
offenses varying from "threats and coercion to false promises that
applicants would not be sent to Iraq." (read).
9/11/07 - Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip-Hop Caucus arrested and hospitalized at Petraeus hearing (watch video). Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and 8 others also arrested at hearing (read).
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9/7/07 - Three antiwar activists arrested in front of White House for putting up posters promoting Sept. 15 march.
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| Those arrested include an Iraq war vet and the mother of an Iraq war vet (read, watch video). |
9/5/07 - CBS Early Show Removes Anti-War Protesters from View in Kansas City (read).
9/4/07 - George
W. Bush is prone to bouts of crying ... and claims to have seen ghosts
emerge from the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, according to a new
book on his presidency (read).
8/28/07 - US
in Fallujah: Cars are not allowed on the road, men are executed without
trial, hospitals are not provided medicine, and unemployment is at 80%
(read).
8/22/07
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| Fox Attacks Iran - Robert Greenwald's four minute film (watch). |
8/22/07 - New
group, Freedom's Watch, launches ads in support of further war in Iraq.
Mel Sembler is a board member and donor. The $15M ad campaign is "for
people who believe in peace through strength". Former White House
spokesperson Ari Fleisher is founding member. (read)
8/17/07 - Man arrested for holding IMPEACH sign (read).
8/20/07 - US is detaining nearly 800 juveniles in Iraq. (read)
8/20/07 - Sadr pledges to work with UN if it replaces US, Britain in Iraq. (read)
8/14/07 - The country’s top government inspector: Learn
from the fall of Roman Empire - The US government is on a
‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices. (read)
8/9/07 - Listen to US soldier in Iraq tell Air America the war is "bogus" and "genocide" (listen) (via Civilianism.com).
CHINA
8/9/07 - US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance (read).
8/8/07 - China Threatens "Nuclear Option" of US Dollar Sales (read).
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8/3/07 - Bush’s Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq.
Anyone who engages in any act—violent or nonviolent—against the
government of Lebanon can now have his or her property frozen. And it
also gives the Treasury Secretary the authority to freeze the assets of
“a spouse or dependent child” of any person whose property is frozen. (read).
8/3/07 - About 50 Afghan civilians wounded in US-led airstrike (read).
7/31/07 - Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested for Flying and Upside Down U.S. Flag (read).
7/26/07 - Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour (read & watch video).
7/29/07 - After scoring winning goal in Asia Cup final, Iraqi soccer captain calls for US withdrawal (read).
7/25/07 - FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants (read).
7/25/07 - Italy calls on US to withdraw from Afghanistan for "morally unacceptable" civilian casualties (read).
7/25/07 - The United States Finds Few Non-Iraqis Among Insurgents (read).
7/11/07 - Pentagon: U.S. troops shot 429 Iraqi civilians at checkpoints in past year (read).
7/18/07 - One in four Israeli men dodges the draft (read).
7/18/07 - Republican Sentator: Bush has 'fucked up' the Iraq war (read).
7/15/07 - Marine:
Beating of Iraqis routine. In one incident, Marines dragged an innocent
man from his house, fatally shot him, and then planted an AK-47 near
the body to make it appear he had been killed in a shootout (read).
7/8/07 - NY Times calls Iraq a 'lost cause' (read).
7/3/07 - America’s Approval Rating Takes a Hit (read).
6/26/07 - Pat Robertson: "[M]ore and more people are saying to me, 'I think you were right' " to call for assassination of Hugo Chavez. (read & video).
6/22/07 - US air strike kills 25 Afghan civilians, including 9 women and 3 babies (read); 90 civilians killed in past 10 days (read).
6/17/07 - Gulf
Arab countries will not be used as a launch pad for any military attack
on Iran, a powerful Saudi royal was quoted as saying (read).
6/15/07 - CAIR: Anti-Muslim bias in US up 25% (read).
6/11/07 - NY Times: The US is arming Sunnis in Iraq (read). (This confirms Seymour Hersh's story that the US is siding with Sunnis to fight Shia throughout the Middle East (read), and puts to rest the idea that what's happening in Iraq is a 'civil war.')
6/11/07 - Democrats Barack Obama, Joe Biden & Christopher Dodd don't vote on Alberto Gonzales (read).
6/8/07 - Blackwater sues slain employee's families to silence them (read).
5/28/07 - Putin issues sharp warning to US - vows to counter 'imperialism' (read). Gorbachev Criticizes US ‘Empire’ (read).
5/30/07 - New Peace Index Ranks US Among Worst Nations. Israel ranks 119th out of 121 countries (read).
5/28/07 - The US Empire in Africa:
The creation of the Defense Department Africa Command has heightened
concerns among African countries and in the US government over the
militarization of US foreign policy (read).
5/22/07 - Spring Hill protester arrested for holding a sign (read).
5/24/07 -
Seymour Hersh: US joining with Britain, Israel, and other 'moderate
Sunni governments' (Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt) to fight the Shia
(Hizbollah, Hamas, Iran, and Shia in Iraq) (read, listen).
5/24/07 - Israeli terror continues: Israel arrests (kidnaps) 30 democratically elected Hamas officials (read). Israel considers assassinating Palestinian Prime Minister (read). Last year Israel 'arrested' 60 Hamas politicians (read). Israel killed 650 Palestinians last year, 120 of which were children (read).
5/18/07 - US role in Palestine:
In addition to supporting Israel's occupation of Palestine, the US is
spending $86 million to help arm and train Palestinian Fatah members
who are trying to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Hamas (read).
Bush's Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams said in January
that there should be a "hard coup" to overthrow Hamas (read).
Additional evidence of US involvement was unveiled when a Jordanian
newspaper obtained a US document outlining plans for undermining and
replacing Hamas (read). |
5/9/07 - US airstrike kills 21 Afghan civilians. (read)
5/8/07 -
A US commander in Afghanistan has said that he is "deeply ashamed" by
the killings of 19 Afghan civilians by US Marines in early March. (read)
5/8/07 - US helicopter attack in Iraq kills a number of children at a primary school. (read)
4/26/07 - US-supported Ethiopian tanks kill hundreds of Somali civilians. (read)
5/5/07 -
One in ten US troops admit abusing Iraqis. Two-thirds of Marines said
they would not report a member of their unit for killing or wounding an
innocent civilian. (read)
5/5/07 - 13 Afghan civilians die in US raid (read)
5/2/07 - Women Leading Grassroots Movement in Italy to Oppose U.S. Military Base (read)
4/27/07 - Sen. Durbin says he knew the public was being lied to about Iraq, but he didn't say anything (read)
4/26/07 - The Lies of the Times: NYT Pushes Bush Line on Somalia (read)
4/11/07 - Russia threatening new cold war over US missile defence (read)
4/11/07 - Hizbullah accuses US of secret war and arming opponents (read)
4/8/07 - We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans (read)
4/9/07 - US backing Pakistani terrorist attacks against Iran (read) 4/9/07 - US accused of using neutron bombs in Iraq (read)
3/29/06 - Rosie O'Donnell's 9/11 views reach 30 million viewers (read)
3/29/07 - MC Rove - Karl Rove rapping and dancing as the country goes to hell. (watch)
3/27/07 - Senator McCain gets slammed by a CNN journalist and laughed at by the military after claiming the Iraq surge is working. (read & watch)
3/19/07 -
A new ABC News/USA Today poll of Iraqis has found that 78% oppose the
US presence in Iraq. By a margin of more than 3 to 1, Iraqis say the
presence of US forces is making the security situation worse. (read)
3/16/07 - Donald Trump: Bush "probably the worst president in the history of the United States" (read)
3/12/07 - 69% of respondents to a Wall Street Journal poll think the war in Afghanistan is not going well (read)
2/28/07 - Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet (read)
2/25/07 - US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran (read)
2/25/07 - Seymour Hersh: Bush Funneling Money to al Qaeda-Related Groups (watch video & read)
2/25/07 - More than 1,000 GIs petition Congress to end Iraq war (read)
2/23/07 - UN report compares Israel's actions to Apartheid South Africa (read)
2/16/07 - USA Today founder calls Bush worst president of all-time (read)
2/12/07 - Putin accuses US of wanting to dominate the world (read)
2/15/07 - Neo-Nazi rally in Orlando was organized by FBI informant (read)
2/14/07 - Urgent call for support for the struggle for freedom in Guinea, by Omali Yeshitela (read)
12/8/06 - Saudis reportedly financing Sunni insurgency in Iraq (read) (This story resurfaced at the time the US began making claims that Iran is giving weapons to Iraqis)
2/10/07 - New York Times Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran Claims (read)
2/7/07 -
KKK growing, fed by anti-immigrant feelings. Current membership
estimated to be up to 8,000 nationwide. In the 1920's, the Klan
numbered about 4.5 million (read)
2/8/07 - U.S. airstrike kills 45 civilians in Iraq (read)
2/3/07 - Six "Grannies" Arrested at Anti-war Protest (read) Grannies do Heavy Lifting, by Cindy Sheehan (read)
2/3/07 -
War a Calamity, former Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski Tells US
Congress - warns of a terrorist act or some provocation blamed on Iran (read)
2/2/07 -
Justifications For Attacking Iran On Shaky Ground -- A new US
intelligence report concluded that Iranian meddling is "not likely" a
major cause of the bloodshed in Iraq (read)
2/1/07 - Iraq "surge" could actually total 50,000 (read)
1/23/07 - Israeli President to Be Indicted on Rape, Abuse of Power Charges (read)
1/15/07 - Report: U.S. GIs Fighting in Philippines (read)
1/20/07 - US and Ethiopian air strikes in Somalia last week killed 70 nomadic herdsmen (read)
1/16/07 - '24': a neocon sex fantasy? (watch video)
1/12/07 - Condi Rice loves 'her' Fox News anchors (read)
1/10/07 - CIA gets the go-ahead to take on Hizbollah (read)
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SOMALIA
1/9/07 - US Special Forces in Somalia (read).
1/9/07 - US strikes in Somalia reportedly kill 31 civilians (read). Another report says 100+ killed (read)
1/5/07 - American Passports Found on Bodies of Al Qaida Fighters in Somalia (read).
1/4/07 - US warships guard Somali coast (read).
12/26/06 - "In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war" - Int'l Herald Tribune (read).
12/28/06 -
COMMENTARY
US involvement in Ethiopia's attacks in Somalia (read). |
1/1/07 - US troops kill Iraqi family of 4 (read) 12/31/07 - Afghans protest killing of 2 civilians by US troops (read)
12/28/06 - Many Soldiers Say Iraq Troop Surge a Bad Idea (read)
12/28/07 - Arrested Mexican president was CIA agent (read)
12/23/06 -
A Florida congress woman has acknowledged calling for Castro's
assassination after previously claiming a video clip of her making the
comments was fake (read)
12/23/06 - A Bad Year for Empire (read)
12/23/06 - Indonesian cleric who blamed CIA for Bali '02 bombings (read) has his conviction overturned (read)
12/15/06 -
The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to
their jobs at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Kansas (read)
12/13/06 - Iran's President says Israel's "Zionist regime" will be wiped out' NOT 'Israel will be wiped out' as was reported (read)
12/5/06 - Bush Sr. sobs while talking of Jeb (watch video)
12/5/06 - Top
Democrat Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to
30,000 U.S. troops in Iraq (read)
12/5/06 -
America's first Muslim congress member, Keith Ellison should not be
allowed to take oath with Quran because it "undermines American
civilization," said radio host & Bush appointee to Holocaust
Memorial Museum (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
12/1/06 - The
US plans this month to launch the nation's first airport screening
system that takes potentially revealing X-ray photos of travelers (read)
12/1/06 - US government quietly rates millions of travelers for 'terrorism potential' (read)
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11/26/06 - Survey Says: "US Most Unfriendly Country To Visit" (read)
11/18/06 - CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuclear weapons drive (read)
11/18/06 - Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman wants Hamas leaders killed (read). Same official previously said he wanted to "ethnically cleanse" Israel of its Arabs (read), and that all Palestinian prisoners should be drowned in the Dead Sea (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
11/14/06 - House
passes Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which makes it a felony for
animal rights activists to engage in non-violent protests that result
in businesses losing money (read - scroll down) 11/13/06 - Bush: Immigrants may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism (read) 11/13/06 - Administration: Gitmo Detainees Have No Rights (read)
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11/10/06 - Cities For Peace - 162 out of 162 communities vote to get out of Iraq (read)
11/8/06 - 18 civilians killed by Israeli shells (read). Related - 57 unarmed Palestinian minors killed by Israel since June (read)
11/1/06 - Top
neocons now regret supporting war. "..the idea of a tough foreign
policy.., the idea of using our power for moral good in the world"—is
dead, at least for a generation (read)
11/1/06 - Growing anger
as US accused of being behind Madrasa attacks in Pakistan that killed 80 (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
11/1/06 - US near the bottom of privacy study - determined to be an "extensive surveillance society,” (read)
10/24/06 - US Rank of Press Freedom Slides Lower (53rd) (read)
10/20/06 - US admits (and defends) use of propaganda in Iraq (read)
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10/24/06 - About 12% of Iraqis have fled since start of war; in Syria alone they are arriving at the rate of 40,000 a month (read)
10/22/06 - Israel: Flights over Lebanon to continue (read)
10/22/06 - Poll: Iraqi Youth Want US to Leave (read)
10/20/06 - Bush's Paraguay Land Grab - Hideout or Water Raid? (read)
10/20/06 - Hillary says the president should have "some lawful authority" to use torture ... in a so-called ticking-bomb scenario (read)
10/17/06 - "Bodies
arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured." Gaza doctors say
patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks (read)
10/16/06 - Police say  Israel's President should face rape charge (read)
10/12/06 - U.S.
Neo-Cons Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change. "This crisis is not
just about North Korea, but about Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba as
well," (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
10/12/06 - Surveillance
of Florida Peace Activists - Defense Department Tracked Quakers,
Student Groups Nationwide. Report cites acts of civil disobedience and
vandalism as cause to label anti-war protests as “radical” and
potential terrorist threats (read)
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10/6/06 - Greenpeace Warns of Toxic Risks to Two Million in Lebanon (read)
10/6/06 - Meet the "Whack Iran" Lobby (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
10/5/06 - Bush
Signings Called Effort to Expand Power - part of his
"comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive
power." Bush: 800 signing statements; all other U.S. presidents: 600 combined (read) -- A day after this report, Bush does it again (read)
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10/3/06 - Bill Frist: Afghan war against Taliban can't be won militarily (read)
9/21/06 - THE NATION: Pentagon
has reportedly issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships to
head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
10/3/06 - Software
Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S. - the software would let
the government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its
leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas (read)
9/26/06 - Military Commissions Act: Almost anyone who actively opposes the President or the government could be locked up indefinitely. 
9/29/06 - Hundreds Arrested in Week of Antiwar Actions (read)
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9/27/06 - Iraqi poll: Majority tells U.S. to leave - immediate exit would improve safety, they say (read)
9/21/06 - Only 11% worldwide favor military strikes against Iran (read)
9/21/06 - Democrats
Charles Rangel and Nancy Pelosi blast Hugo Chavez over Bush is
'the devil' remarks - "...don't condemn my president" (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
9/18/06 - Congress Considering Strip Searching Students (read)
9/19/06 - Gonzales: ISPs must keep records on users (read)
9/16/06 - IRS goes after church for anti-war sermon (read)
9/12/06 - Military Wants to Use Microwave Weapons on American Citizens (read)
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9/14/06 - Washington Post Hires Top Bush Speech writer (read)
9/12/06 - Israeli commander says his own actions in the bombing of Lebanon were insane and monstrous; 1.2 million cluster bomblets released (read)
9/10/06 - 62,006: The Number Killed in the "War on Terror" (read)
9/13/06 - Neo-Con favorite Newt Gingrich declares World War III (read) (Bush's prior remark about WWIII)
9/12/06 - Iraq's
political process has sharpened the country's sectarian divisions,
report says Also, in spite of a sharp increase in Sunni-Shiite
violence, attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces are still the primary
source of bloodshed in Iraq (read)
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FASCISM WATCH
· 9/10/06 - War's Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney Says (read)
· 9/8/06 - Miami
airport to train all 35,000 workers to spot suspicious people - even
Starbucks coffee servers may be trained to watch travelers for
suspicious movements (read)
· 9/8/06 - BYU professor put on leave over 9/11 claim (read) |
9/8/06 - 36 percent suspect the US government promoted the 9/11 attacks or intentionally sat on its hands (read)
9/6/06 -
Most
French and Americans would support military action against Iran as a
last resort, a major transatlantic opinion survey showed (read)
8/31/06 -
Republican
Senator Conrad Burns (MT) says the U.S. is up against a faceless enemy
of terrorists who "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night" (read)
8/29/06 -
 Abu Bakar Bashir says the CIA was involved in the 2002 Bali bombings. "The bomb ... it was an American (micro nuclear) bomb" (read 1, 2)
8/30/06 -
Israeli Raid in Gaza Kills 9 Palestinians, including a 14 year old (read) 8/28/06 - Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians on Monday (read)
8/23/06 -
 Israeli president allegedly coerced a female employee to have sex with him (read)
8/24/06 -
New Yorker arrested for broadcasting Hizbollah TV (read)
8/18/06 -
"Nicole and stars unite over terror" -- Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis,
Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sly Stallone, Danny De Vito, Don
Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston and William Hurt condemn Hamas and
Hizbullah (read)
8/20/06 - More
than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in
the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were
raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and
groped en route to entrance exams (read)
8/14/06 - US bomb kills 12 Afghan cops; Karzai 'shocked, angry' (read)
8/14/06 - The
Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the "green light"
to Israel's military strikes against Hizbollah - with plans drawn up
months before two Israeli soldiers were seized - it has been claimed (read)
7/25/06 - Nobel peace peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush (read)
8/1/06 - Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon - CS Monitor opinion (read)
(9/29/03) - (recently referenced) "(Iraq)
was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan...and there
were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan." From four-star general Wesley Clark's 2003 book Winning Modern Wars (read original)
8/2/06 - More Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza: 14 and 15 year old boys, a 14 year old girl, and a 24 year old woman (read 1, 2)
8/1/06 - Col.
Michael Steele, whose "heroics" were portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk
Down," is under investigation for allegedly encouraging his men to go
on a killing spree (read) (more on US soldier violence)
8/1/06 - NATO Takes Command of Security in Southern Afghanistan (read)
7/30/06 - You're all targets, Israel tells Lebanese in South:
Israel's justice minister said everyone remaining in southern Lebanon
must evacuate, and those who don't would be regarded as terrorists and
subject to attack (read),
and
as promised, two days later an Israeli airstrike in the southern
Lebanese village of Qana killed 56 people, including at least 34
children (read). Israelis shrug at Qana massacre (read) |
7/21/06 - US
sergeant witnessed a plot by his fellow soldiers to kill three
handcuffed Iraqis; squad leader threatened to kill anyone who talked
about it (read)
7/21/06 - Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns British general (read)
7/21/06 - Teacher under fire for his Cheney-9/11 theory (read)
7/18/06 - Progressive Democrats of America reiterate call for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestine (read) but Senator Feingold (read) and and all but 7 Reps. (read) support the Israeli assault on Lebanon
7/18/06 - Hillary Clinton Speaks Up for Israel at U.N. Rally (read 1, 2). The day before, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch threw a fundraising breakfast for Clinton in New York (read)
7/17/06 - Nearly
nine out of 10 Israelis say the country's aerial campaign in Lebanon is
justified and almost 60 percent say Israel should fight until Hezbollah
is destroyed (read) 7/18/06 - Antiwar protests in Israel (read)
7/17/06 - Former CIA director Woolsey calls for US airstrikes on Syria (read)
7/11/06 - Afghans say civilians killed in US force bombing (read) 15 Afghan civilians killed in US strike (read)
7/10/06 - Family barbecue in Gaza ends in tragedy - three killed including 6 year-old girl (read) Three Palestinian teens killed while playing soccer (read)
7/7/06 - Palestinians have captured one Israeli soldier, but Israel holds more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners (read)
7/5/06 - Thousands of troops say they won’t fight; Pentagon says 40,000 have deserted (read)
6/25/06 - US admits that 350 innocent Iraqis were killed by US troops on checkpoint and convoy duty last year (read, 2nd paragraph)
6/23/06 - For
the fourth time in two weeks, Palestinian civilians (including a
pregnant woman) have been killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli air
strike (read)
6/20/06 - Thirteen Iraqis (in Baquba) Killed in Alleged US Fire on Poultry Farm (read)
6/9/06 - "War Criminal Nation" (read)
UPDATED 6/9/06 - Three women (no children) killed in Zarqawi strike (3rd to last paragraph)
5/31/06 - One year ago Dick Cheney said the insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes". Since then: 799 U.S. fatalities and 5013 wounded (read)
5/29/06 - Bush "Planted Fake News Stories on American TV" (read)
5/27/06 - Protest tunes bubble up as war's popularity sinks (read)
5/27/06 - Chavez Spreads His Oil Wealth in Bolivia
(read)
5/24/06 - Canadian newspaper apologizes for fake Iran story (read)
5/24/06 -
London Police Target Anti-War Protester and Make off with Banners (read)
5/18/06 - U.S.
expanding behavior profiling at airports - TSA agents to monitor
passengers for signs of ‘stress, fear and deception’ (read)
5/18/06 - Congressman says Marines killed at least 30 Iraqi civilians 'in cold blood' (read)
5/17/06 - U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia (read 1, 2)
5/5/06 - John Pilger: US death squads trying to create civil war in Iraq (read)
5/5/06 - Rupert Murdoch (Fox News) backs Hillary Clinton (read)
5/5/06 - Bush says fight against terror is 'World War III' (read)
5/5/06 - Poll: Republican right abandoning Bush - 45% of self described conservatives disapprove of president (read)
4/16/06 - U.S. aims to up nuclear warhead production capability to 250 a year (read)
4/13/06 - Iraq unrest forces 65,000 to flee (read)
4/10/06 - Wash. Post: US propaganda magnifies Zarqawi threat (read)
4/5/06 - British man held as terrorism suspect over punk song (read) Woman gets $100 ticket for "BUSHIT" bumper sticker (read)
3/31/06 -
Photographer Canned In Scalia Flap (read) (original story)
3/30/06 -
Jamaica's first female prime minister to be sworn in (read) Syria: woman named vice president (read) South Korea: woman named prime minister (read)
3/23/06 -
US-led forces round up whole Iraq village in security sweep (read)
3/21/06 -
Cuba to give WBC prize money to Katrina victims (read)
3/23/06 -
Bush's 'Uncle Bucky' Earned Millions in War Firm Sale (read)
3/16/06 - Five Iraqi children killed so far in "Operation Swarmer" say Iraqi police (read) Related: "Iraqi police have accused American troops of executing 11 people, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant" (read)
3/13/06 - Chile to Give Seniors Free Hospital Care (read)
3/13/06 - Secretary
of Health and Human Services: Americans should start storing canned
tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly
bird flu outbreak approaches the U.S. (read)
3/6/06 - '14,000 detained without trial in Iraq' (read)
3/7/06 - Cindy Sheehan and three others arrested at the UN (watch Real video - 7 mins.)
3/6/06 -
World in Peril, Chomsky Tells Overflow Crowd (read)
2/28/06 -
Seven Arrested at White House Protest against Iraq War (read)  3/1/06 - 15 Arrested at White House in Anti Torture Protest (read)
2/28/06 - A poll of US troops currently serving in Iraq shows that 72% advocate a US pullout within a year (read) CBS Poll: Support for the war & Bush at an all-time low (read)
2/22/06 -
Latin Americans dismayed by a bill approved by the U.S. House
which calls for a 700-mile wall along the border with Mexico (read)
2/22/06 - Leading neo-con and PNAC charter member denounces Neoconservatism (read)
2/17/06 - US Church Alliance: Washington is 'Raining Down Terror' with Iraq War, Other Policies (read)
2/17/06 - "If you like your freedoms, don't thank a soldier, thank a protester." (read)
2/13/06 - U.S. Money Aids World’s Worst Dictators (read)
2/12/06 - Two Pakistani women killed (4 children injured) in US strike - third incident this year in which civilians killed (read)
2/11/06 - Environmentalists
& anarchists protest at Olympics - bearers of the Olympic torch
repeatedly had to change course to avoid confrontation (read)
2/11/06 - Mideast
boycott a ‘nightmare’ for Danish firms - exports of Danish products to
the Middle East and North Africa have come to a virtual standstill (read)
2/4/06 - Chavez says Bush worse than Hitler (read)
2/3/06 - Police Officers Sue over Police Surveillance of Their Protests (read)
2/2/06 - A 9/11 Conspirator in King Bush's Court?
Sheehan Wasn't Welcome But a Saudi Accused of Support for al Qaeda Was (read)
1/31/06 - New Patriot Act Provision Creates Tighter Barrier to Officials at Public Events (read)
1/27/06 - Survey: 57% Americans support military action in Iran (read)
1/27/06 - Pentagon exposing US public to propaganda (read)
1/24/06 - Jury orders reprimand, no jail time for U.S. soldier who killed an Iraqi general during interrogation (read) Judge sends war protester to prison for six months for throwing his own blood in a military recruiting office. (read)
1/20/06 - Activists Vow to Shut Down Army Recruiting Sites (read)
1/19/06 - Hillary Clinton calls for Iran sanctions - says Bush administration has 'downplayed' Iranian threat (read)
1/19/06 - Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on UCLA professors (read)
1/17/06 - Children Can’t “Opt Out” of Pentagon Recruitment Database (read)
1/14/06 - Thousands of Protesters Tear-Gassed After US Airstrike Deaths in Pakistan (read)
1/11/06 - Judge Demands Police Video of Grandmothers' Protest (read)
1/9/06 - U.S. can open private mail in terrorism fight (read)
1/9/06 - 28 US troops killed in 4 days in Iraq (read)
1/8/06 - US Missile Blamed as 8 Pakistani Villagers Killed (read)
1/2/06 - US military 'shuts down' soldiers' blogs (read)
12/28/05 - Latin American mercenaries guarding Baghdad’s Green Zone (read)
12/23/05 - Italy warrants for 22 purported CIA operatives (read)
12/19/05 - Ohio Bill Would Allow Arrests For No Reason In Public Place (read)
12/19/05 - Congress Acceptable for Only 1/4 of Americans (read) Sen. Reid Calls US Congress 'Most Corrupt in History' (read)
12/18/05 - Air Force Pilot Accused of Anti-Bush Graffiti (read)
12/11/05 - Former Republican Congressmember Bob Barr says America is in danger of slipping into a totalitarian society (read)
12/5/05 - Hillary Clinton Co-Sponsors Anti-Flag Burning Law. (read) Code Pink to Hound Hillary (read)
12/5/05 - In Venezuela, Chavez' Party Sweeps Legislative Vote (read)
11/23/05 - Israel drops bombs on civilian areas of Lebanon (listen) (related)
11/29/05 - Miami Police Plan New Tactics on 'Terror' (read)
11/27/05 - Iraq abuse 'as bad as Saddam era' (read)
11/24/05 - Baywalk owner Mel Sembler takes charge of Scooter Libby's defense fund (read)
11/23/05 - US intelligence classified white phosphorus as 'chemical weapon' (read)
11/17/05 - Attacks on oil costing Iraq at least $28 million a day (read)
11/21/05 - Children killed as US troops fire on van at roadblock (read)
11/16/05 - U.S. Has Detained 83,000 in 'War on Terror' (read)
11/4/05 - Claim: US Created al-Zarqawi Myth (read)
11/15/05 - U.N. Report: 10,000 Iraqi families displaced by recent US-led attacks on Syrian border (read)
11/4/05 - For
the 12th straight year, the UN voted overwhelmingly (179-3) against
Washington's four-decade old economic embargo against Cuba (read)
11/9/05 - US admits killing civilians in bombings along Iraq/Syria border (read)
11/6/05 - Source of impeachment banner remains unknown (read)
11/3/05 - Bush approval rating now 35% - CBS poll (read)
11/2/05 - US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border - 40 killed, most women & children according to hospital (read)
10/31/05 - Rumsfeld cashing in on bird flu scare (read)
10/29/05 - Syrians tense as Iraq war laps at Border (read)
10/24/05 - Stop the Troops! No Glory or Honor in Iraq (read)
10/25/05 - Cindy Sheehan: "It's time to start practicing non-violent civil disobedience ( C.D.) on a large scale." (read)
10/24/05 - Pat Tillman: anti-Iraq war, pro-Chomsky (read)
10/23/05 - 82% of Iraqis "strongly opposed" to presence of coalition troops, according to British military survey (read)
10/18/05 - Catholic High School Teacher Forced Out Over Flag (read)
10/18/05 - Iraqi Civilians Killed in US Raid - at least 39 according to witnesses (read)
10/16/05 - Iran blames UK for bombings - reports (read)
10/15/05 - GIs and Syrians in Tense Clashes on Iraqi Border (read)
10/12/05 - "They're determined to have martial law." Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation (read)
10/12/05 - At least 2,225 Children Sentenced to Life without Parole in U.S. (read) The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world (read)
10/12/05 - Two mainstream polls: Bush approval below 40%, two-thirds think U.S. headed in wrong direction (read 1, 2)
10/7/05 - Ex-marine says soldiers committed atrocities in Iraq - including shooting unarmed protesters (read)
10/6/05 - BBC: Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan; White House denies claim (read)
WHO'S BEHIND THE BOMBINGS IN IRAQ?
10/2/05 - FBI: Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks in Iraq (read)
9/19/05 - Two
British Marines disguised as Arabs carrying out a "special security
task" arrested for firing on civilians in Basra, Iraq; may have been
planting a car bomb (read) (more 1, 2)
10/13/05 - Al-Qaeda: Letter is a U.S. fake (read)
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10/5/05 - Fox's Bill O'Reilly calls for assassination of Syrian leader Assad (read)
10/5/05 - Israeli Defense Minister: US 'aiming at Syria regime change' (read)
10/1/05 - GOP Senators want Negroponte to head spies (read)
10/2/05 - Iraq's President Calls for Prime Minister to Step Down (read)
10/1/05 - A 'Dear Judy' Letter from 'Scooter'--With 'Admiration' (read)
9/30/05 - Israeli lawmakers: use force to stop Iran's nuke goals, if necessary (read)
10/2/05 - Torture of Iraqis Was for 'Stress Relief,' Say US Soldiers (read)
9/29/05 - Survey: 6 in 10 Military Women Harassed (read)
9/29/05 - Army captain calls prisoner abuse ‘systemic’ (read)
9/28/05 - U.S. military treatment of journalists 'out of control', says Reuters chief (read)
9/28/05 - Free speech victory in Miami (read)
9/27/05 - FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure (read)
9/24/05 - Tal Afar Residents Return to Ghost City, Razed Homes (read)
9/25/05 - GI: anything short of death was acceptable in abusing Iraqis (read)
9/26/05 - Top Democrats Flee Peace Protests (read)
9/21/05 - Bush Waives Saudi Child Sex Trafficking Sanctions (read)
9/23/05 - Prisoners in New Orleans city jail were 'abandoned' (read)
9/20/05 - Hurricane Contractors Get Affirmative Action Exemption (read)
9/20/05 - Afghan president wants end to many U.S. operations (read)
9/14/05 - Hugo Chavez tells Ted Koppel he has proof U.S. is planning Venezuelan invasion. (article) (transcript)
9/12/05 - Norway elections: Christian right out, left-leaning gov't in. (read) [watch Norwegian video 'Banned by the Feds']
9/14/05 - More Gitmo detainess join hunger strike - now 128 (read)
9/11/05 - Draft U.S. Defense Paper Outlines Preventive Nuclear Strikes (read)
9/8/05 - Court Rules U.S. Can Indefinitely Detain Citizens (read)
9/3/05 - Fox News reporters rail government response to hurricane victims (link to video: "Horror Show")
8/28/05 - Protest Warriors mistreated at a pro-war rally in Crawford (video - IE req'd)
9/1/05 - "Spying on the Protesters" - The Nation (read)
8/30/05 - U.S. airstrikes kill 56 civilians, 7 'insurgents' (read)
8/26/05 - 5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness a machete massacre of up to 50 victims by national police (read)
8/26/05 - Nine of 10 people surveyed in the U.S. say it's OK to protest the Iraq war (read)
8/25/05 - American Legion Declares War on Peace Movement. ALSO: MSNBC Journalist Calls Crawford Protesters ‘Anti-war Extremists’ (read)
8/24/05 - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez offers cheap gas to poor in U.S. (read)
8/20/05 - Pittsburgh counter recruitment demonstrators shot with tasers, bitten by dogs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) SPfP SOLIDARITY STATEMENT
8/19/05 - Free Speech & The War on Terror - Thomas Friedman's Blacklist (read)
8/16/05 - 26 Iraqi workers wounded as US troops mistake them for 'rebels' (read)
8/14/05 - Angered farmer fires shots near Cindy Sheehan's Iraq war protest at Bush ranch (read) (more)
8/15/05 - The Iraqi constitution under Saddam prohibited all forms of discrimination and guaranteed freedom of expression. (read)
8/12/05 - Voices in the Wilderness refuses to pay U.S. gov't $20,000 fine for bringing medicine to Iraqi citizens (read)
8/9/05 - Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US (read)
8/10/05 -
5 died in recent taser police shootings. This brings the total number
of people killed in the United States by stun guns to at least 147 (story near bottom of page)
8/11/05 - A series of massacres by Haitian death squad police leave dozens wounded and dead, including a pregnant woman and a teenager (read) (more)
8/5/05 - Karl Rove was fired from 1992 Bush Sr. campaign reportedly for leaks to Robert Novak (read)
7/31/05 - New U.S. military base at Syria-Iraq border (read)
8/1/05 - Cheney orders contingency plan for a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons (read)
7/26/05 - Who's Taking Blame for Christian Violence? (read)
7/31/05 - U.S. forces recruiting overseas (read)
7/21/05 - News Flash: The Military Doesn't Protect Our Freedom (read)
7/29/05 - Pakistan rounds up 600 Muslims - can be detained without charge for 1 year. (read) Pakistan says 1,400 foreign students at religious schools must immediately leave country (read)
7/28/05 - 30% of Returning GIs Have Mental Problems. (read)
7/28/05 - Targeting the 15 Democratic Sellouts Who Passed CAFTA (read)
7/27/05 -
US majority doubts America will win Iraq war; 51% now think that Bush
intentionally misled on WMD's; 58 to 37% believe the U.S. will not be
able to establish a stable democracy in Iraq - USA Today/Gallup poll (read)
7/27/05 - Iraqi Prime Minister: "The great desire of the Iraqi people is to see the coalition forces on their way out." (read)
7/26/05 - Bush Administration Files 11th Hour Papers Blocking the Release of More Photos and Videos Of Abu Ghraib Torture (read)
7/26/05 - 'Die America!' chants Afghan mob at U.S. base (read)
7/26/05 - Innocent Iraqi civilians are increasingly being killed by US troops (read)
7/26/05 - Iraq constitution may erode women's rights (read)
7/22/05 - Haitian Priest Assaulted by Mob at Funeral and Arrested for Murders (read)
7/19/05 - Bush: U.S. probes possible IRAN links to 9/11 (read)
7/21/05 - Yemen: 13 Dead in Riots Over World Bank-Backed Price Hikes (read)
7/17/05 -
Study by Israel and Saudi Arabia: the vast majority of foreign fighters
in Iraq are not former terrorists and became radicalized by the war
itself (read)
7/15/05 - Iran Ayatollah says Blair government could have bombed London (read)
7/12/05 - Democrats (including Hillary Clinton) aim to increase size of Army (read)
7/9/05 - The claim of responsibility for the London attacks was first posted on a website that is hosted in Houston, Texas. (read)
7/12/05 - 128,000 Iraqis have been killed - of which 55% were women and children according to an Iraqi humanitarian organization (read)
7/11/05 - Protesters not allowed to distribute leaflets. (read)
7/7/05 - Israeli Embassy in London was warned minutes before blasts. (read)
7/5/05 - Afghanistan condemns US airstrike - up to 17 Afghan civilians killed. (read)
6/28/05 - The USA: World's Biggest Prison. (read)
6/28/05 - Two FL 'anarchist' teens arrested in flag burnings. (read)
6/29/05 - Patriots owner gives Super Bowl ring to Russia's Putin as Rupert Murdoch looks on. (read)
6/27/05 - Chavez says Venezuela has "the largest petroleum reserves in the world.". (read)
6/27/05 - Former Iraqi PM Allawi: Militants from Syria not backed by Damascus. (read)
6/27/05 - Bogus Analysis Led to Terror Alert in Dec. 2003. (read)
6/26/05 - U.S. General Admits to Secret Air War. (read)
6/25/05 - Cheney's Gitmo resort comment rebuked (read)
6/23/05 - Ecuador Refuses to Sign U.S. Immunity Pact (read)
5/12/05 - UN: "Daily living conditions in Iraq dismal." (read)
6/20/05 - Uzbek units linked to deadly crackdown got U.S. training. (read)
6/19/05 - 82 members of Iraqi Parliament demand U.S. pullout. (read)
6/17/05 - U.S. military drops nine 500 pound bombs on Iraq. (read)
6/18/05 - Bush says U.S. in Iraq because of 9/11. (read)
6/17/05 - Police in Haiti continue the killing. (read)
6/19/05 - New U.S. Move to Spoil Climate Accord. (read)
6/16/05 - Senate's No. 2 democrat Dick Durbin compares Gitmo to Nazis, gulags, and Pol Pot. (read) But later apologizes (read)
6/16/05 - Ex-Marine detained by U.S.: "I was more worried about my life from the (U.S.) military than from the insurgents". (read)
6/15/05 - Only 4 of Gitmo's 520 detainees have been charged. (read)
6/14/05 - Antiwar protesters face federal conspiracy charges. (read)
6/14/05 - Sept. 11 WTC Collapse Likely Due to Controlled Demolition, "Inside Job" According to Former Bush Team Member. (read 1, 2)
6/14/05 - Marines, Iraqis kill five civilians. (read)
6/14/05 - US Blocks Probe of Uzbekistan Killings. (read)
6/9/05 - Repression 101: Anti-War Students Sanctioned at San Francisco St. (read)
6/9/05 - Former CIA director calls for Iraq withdrawal (read)
6/8/05 - Ethiopia: Another Pro-U.S. Ruler Goes Berserk, Massacres Protestors (read)
5/18/05 - Iraqis Endure Worse Conditions Than Under Saddam, UN Survey Finds (read) (survey)
5/31/05 - Six Burnt Alive as Protesters Torch US Fast Food Outlet in Pakistan (read)
5/31/05 - Israel's leading TV anchor: "Since 1967, we have been brutal conquerors, occupiers, suppressing another people" (read)
5/31/05 - Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi admits Israel comes first; denounces Iran (read)
5/25/05 - U.S. Selling More Weapons to Undemocratic Regimes (read)
5/30/05 - U.S. ally Azerbaijan bans protests of its president (read)
5/28/05 - Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded (read)
5/19/05 - Nazi-like Experiments at N.I.H.
Testing AIDS Drugs on Unwitting Foster Children (read)
5/24/05 - North Carolina church puts up sign "Koran Needs to Be Flushed" (read)
5/23/05 - Afghan president Karzai says recent protests "not related to the Newsweek (Koran) story." (read); Richard Myers previously made a similar statement. (read) .
5/21/05 - Afghan prisoners 'tortured to death' by American guards. (read)
5/20/05 - Muslim protesters called for the bombing of New York
in a demonstration outside the US embassy in London. (read)
5/20/05 - Iraqi Government, in Statement with Iran, Admits Fault for 1980s War. (read)
5/16/05 -
Marine-led Campaign Killed Friends and Foes, Iraqi Leaders Say - "The
Americans were bombing whole villages and saying they were only after
the foreigners. (read)
5/9/05 - 84 percent of Iraq's higher education establishments were "destroyed, damaged and robbed" ; 50 University teachers assassinated according to U.N. study (read)
5/11/05 - Eight civilians killed by U.S. in Afghanistan (read) U.S. Army mistakenly kill innocent Iraqi (read)
5/11/05 - Real Wages Fall at Fastest Rate in 14 years (read) Ford and GM Now Junk Bonds (read)
5/11/05 - Jay Shaft: 'When Silence Becomes Betrayal' (read)
5/6/05 - Palestinian Local Elections - Hamas wins 23 of the 84 contests (read)
4/30/05 - Student 'sting' leads to Army recruiter's suspension (read)
4/29/05 - Pepper Spray Trial Jury Agrees Excessive Force Used by Officers Against Protesters (read)
4/28/05 - Ahmad Chalabi named Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq; his nephew named Finance Minister (read)
4/27/05 - Marine hung 'death sign' by bodies, witnesses testify (read)
4/26/05 - U.S. Inspectors find no proof Iraq hid weapons in Syria (read)
4/21/05 - Greenspan Warns Senate of 'Unsustainable' Budget (read)
4/21/05 - Condi Rice calls for change in Belarus (read)
4/15/05 -
There were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than any year since 1985 - in
response, the State Dept. will stop publishing the annual report (read)
4/15/05 - 73 Democrats Side With Credit Card Industry Over Consumers (read)
4/13/05 - TV ad portrays Iran nuking the U.S. (read) (watch video) Washington gives $3m to 'boost democracy' in Iran (read)
4/11/05 - U.S. Funds to Promote Democracy in Iran (read)
4/9/05 - Mexico mounts huge protest over threat to left wing presidential candidate. (read 1, 2, 3)
4/5/05 - UC Santa Cruz students kick miliary recruiters off campus. (read)
4/4/05 - NYU antiwar protesters force CIA to cancel appearance. (read)
4/5/05 - Afghanistan likely to have permanent U.S. military. (read)
3/16/05 - Seventeen leading democrats: 'winning the war against jihadist extremism the party's first priority.' (read)
4/1/05 - Government searches and wiretaps up 75 percent. (read)
3/30/05 - Woman, children killed by U.S. attack in Afghanistan. (read)
3/29/05 - US admits killing Arab journalists in Iraq. (read)
3/16/05 - At least 108 people have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them violently. (read)
3/29/05 - U.S. backed UN forces prevent pro-democracy demonstrations in Haiti. (read)
3/30/05 - General Ricardo Sanchez Approved Extreme Interrogation Methods. (read)
3/28/05 - Mexicans boo the U.S. national anthem and a spattering of fans chanted "Osama! Osama!" at a World Cup soccer game. (read)
3/29/05 - US to sell F-16 fighter jets to rivals India and Pakistan. (read)
3/28/05 - Howard Dean Still Selling Out the Antiwar Movement. (read)
3/23/05 - Florida Aims to Control 'Leftist' Professors. (read)
3/18/05 - Preemptive Strikes Now Official U.S. Policy. (read)
3/10/05 - Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction. (read)
3/11/05 - MoveOn.org Makes Peace With The War. (read)
3/7/05 - Iran tells U.S. to 'back off or suffer oil shock.' (read)
3/1/05 - One in Four Americans Would Use Nukes Against Terrorists, Gallup Finds. (read)
3/1/05 - Uruguay Veers Left, in a Latin Pattern. (read)
2/15/05 - U.S. contractors tell MSNBC they witnessed shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians. (read)
2/11/05 - F. Yoo! UC Irvine protesters humiliate torture-memo author. (read)
2/11/05 -
The New Republic magazine has decided to publish an article that
fantasizes about torturing and murdering antiwar activists, including
Arundhati Roy and Stan Goff. (read)
2/6/05 - VA: On any given day, as many as 250,000 veterans (male and female) are living on the streets or in shelters. (read)
1/28/05 - Project for a New American Century letter to Congress: at least 25,000 more troops per year needed for "missions in the Middle East." (read)
1/24/05 - Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi was Captured, Then Released. (read)
1/21/05 - Cable
News Inauguration Coverage: Republican and conservative guests and
commentators outnumbered Democrats and progressives 19 to 7 on FOX, 10
to 1 on CNN , and 13 to 2 on MSNBC. (read)
2/2/05 - CNN: U.S. Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling. (read)
1/26/05 - Two
Ocala special education students, ages 9 and 10, were charged with
felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making
violent drawings of stick figures. (read)
1/26/05 - The
U.S. Air Force is flying combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an
apparent attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars,
thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future
targeting data. (read)
1/19/05 - U.S. Building Forts On Iraq Border. (read)
1/13/05 - James Baker advises administration to consider a phased withdrawal of troops. (read)
1/13/05 - 16 Dems Urge Bush to Start Pullout From Iraq. (read)
1/9/05 - Conservative Rep. Howard Coble, R- N.C. suggests Iraq withdrawal. (read)
1/6/05 - Jesse Jackson , Jr. (D-Ill.) "Americans don't have the right to vote in their Constitution!" (read)
| 1/4/05 |
History Channel spinoff to have military theme. (read) |
| 12/31/04 |
The Top Ten War Profiteers of 2004. (read) |
| 12/30/04 |
Analysis: U.S.-Russia teamwork unraveling. (read) |
| 12/28/04 |
Asian Disaster May Affect Two Civil Wars. (read) |
| 12/27/04 |
Pat Buchanan: 'Staying the Course' Won't Do. (read) |
| 12/23/04 |
USA Today founder Al Neuharth: bring the troops home from Iraq. (read) |
| 12/18/04 |
U.S. soldier admits he killed Iraqi teenager after sex. (read) |
| 12/21/04 |
Poor Health Care Access Cost 900,000 African American Lives in Past 10 Years. (read) |
| 12/19/04 |
UK Army: Antiwar Movement Causing Drop in Recruits. (read) |
| 12/21/04 |
2004 Media Follies!
The Most Overhyped and Underreported Media Stories of the Year. (read) |
| 12/12/04 |
Scottish Anti-War Protesters Call for Wave of Civil Disobedience. (read) |
12/16/04
12/9/04
12/6/04
11/26/04
11/26/04
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UKRAINE SITUATION
How the U.S. funded Ukrainian opposition via the National Endowment for Democracy. Note: Senator John Kerry and other leading Democrats have staunchly supported the NED and its covert interventions. (read)
Republican congressman Ron Paul (TX) says the U.S. is guilty of trying to influence Ukrainian elections. (read)
Conservative Pat Buchanan says it appears the U.S. is intervening in Ukraine election process. (read)
Other: (read) (read)
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| 12/8/04 |
The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war started in Iraq. (read) |
| 12/6/04 |
Pakistan President Musharraf says Iraq war a mistake and has made the world more dangerous. (read) |
| 12/3/04 |
Russia's Putin Calls U.S. Policy 'Dictatorial;' criticizes U.S. for giving refuge to Chechan terrorists. (read) |
| 12/3/04 |
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) think tank president, Will Marshall signed on with the Project for a New American Century. (read) |
| 11/26/04 |
Turk lawmaker says US in Iraq worse than Hitler. (read) |
| 11/26/04 |
CIA Knew of Plot Against Venezuela's Chavez. (read) |
| 11/19/04 |
Mounting evidence of US destabilisation of Sudan. (read) |
| 11/17/04 |
CIA Plans Riskier, More Aggressive Espionage. (read) |
| 11/14/04 |
AP Photographer Witnessed U.S. Helicopters Firing on and Killing Iraqis who Were Trying to Flee Falluja. (read) |
| 11/12/04 |
Bush Snubs Spain's Leader Zapatero and Instead Courts Former PM Aznar. (read) |
| 11/12/04 |
Osama
bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against
Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking
down the Saudi terrorist. (read) |
| 10/14/04 |
Saudis blame U.S. role in Iraq for rise in terror. (read) |
| 10/13/04 |
25 Chechen terrorists said to have entered the U.S. from Mexico in July. (read) |
| 10/11/04 |
U.S. to double military in Colombia. (read) |
| 10/8/04 |
Bush to aid 'moderate' parties in Iraq election. (read) |
| 10/8/04 |
U.S. airstrike on wedding party in Falluja - groom among 14 killed. (read) |
| 10/6/04 |
Video: U.S. pilots celebrate as they target unarmed Iraqi civilians. (read) (watch video - authenticity not confirmed)
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| 10/4/04 |
41 of 70 killed by U.S. in Samarra were women and children. (read) |
| 10/1/04 |
Barack Obama would consider missile strikes on Iran. (read 1, 2) |
9/30/04
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Pentagon wants 'uplifting accounts' about Iraq. Bush administration will 'curtail' bad news about Iraq. (read) |
| 9/28/04 |
Crisis looms due to weak dollar. (read) |
| 9/25/04 |
Mikhail Gorbachev: Iraq war was a mistake. (read) |
| 9/25/04 |
Pakistan
President and key U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf: U.S. NOT welcome in
Iraq. Also, the Israeli/Palestine issue causes anti-American feeling
in Muslim world and is the root cause of terrorism. (read) |
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Project Censored 2005
The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-04 |
| 9/15/04 |
U.S. underwriting terrorism in Indonesia? (read) |
| 9/15/04 |
Sharon says Israel will not follow Bush's "road map." (read) |
9/13/04
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Students undeterred as FBI targets activists around the country. (read) |
9/13/04
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House Republicans and Democrats Unite in Linking Iraq and 9/11. (read) |
| 9/7/04 |
Israeli rabbis: Don't Spare Civilians - killing enemy civilians during war is 'normal'. (read) |
| 9/1/04 |
Anti-Bush Sticker Gets Terrified Teen a Visit From Secret Service. (read) |
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| 8/31/04 |
NPR leads the charge for war with Iran. (read) |
| 8/30/04 |
The
State Dept. recently gave $30 million to a dissident movement in Cuba
to help overthrow Fidel Castro, according to the co-Chair of the
Republican campaign in Florida. (Sorry, only available via Real Audio. Listen to this on Free Speech Radio at the 19:45 mark). RELATED VIDEO: Panama slaps Cuba in the face. |
| 8/30/04 |
70%
of Iraqis prefer a "religious" state, 57% positively view Moqtada
al-Sadr according to U.S. poll done by an offshoot of the Republican
Party chaired by John McCain. (read) |
| 8/30/04 |
John Edwards said a Kerry presidency would confront Iran on it's nuclear plans. (read) |
| 8/30/04 |
Half
of New Yorkers believe US leaders had foreknowledge of impending 9-11
attacks and “Consciously Failed” to act, according to Zogby poll. (read) |
| 8/28/04 |
Kissinger Backed Dirty War Against Left in Argentina. (read) |
| 8/23/04 |
North Korea: "Bush is a tyrant [who] puts Hitler in the shade." (read) |
| 8/23/04 |
U.S. journalist hostage was released at the request of Muqtada al-Sadr. (read) |
| 8/20/04 |
Iraqi
Olympic soccer players warn Bush not to use their success in his
campaign. "How will he meet his god having slaughtered so many men and
women?" (read 1, 2) |
| 8/18/04 |
NYC Mayor says protesting is a 'privilege.' (read) |
| 8/16/04 |
Kerry appoints former AIPAC member Mel Levine to be top Middle East Advisor. (read) |
8/16/04
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NYC - Police Raid on IndyMedia Fundraising Event. (read)
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| 8/12/04 |
US Plans to Expand in Okinawa Spark Furious Resistance (read)
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| 8/6/04 |
Tennessee
Republican candidate for Congress admits supporting Eugenics - the fake
science that resulted in thousands of people being sterilised in an
attempt to purify the white race (read), wins GOP Primary. (read)
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3/9/04
Posted 8/5/04
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Kerry opposes Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. (read)
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| 7/29/04 |
Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior. (read) Sullen, Depressed President Retreats Into Private, Paranoid World. (read) NOTE: We are not able to determine the credibility of these two stories, both of which come from the same source, Capitol Hill Blue)
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| 7/28/04 |
Disgraced judge picked for Homeland Security post. (read)
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| 7/27/04 |
Democracy in Iraq? Iraq sets up committee to impose restrictions on news reporting. (read)
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| 7/27/04 |
U.S. using Darfur crisis to topple the Sudanese gov't according to Khartoum's envoy to the African Union (AU). (read)
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| 7/27/04 |
USA Today Censors Ann Coulter's Coverage of Democratic Convention. (read)
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| 7/27/04 |
Spain Gov't Puts 'Social' Back in Socialism. (read)
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| 7/23/04 |
U.S. policy on Israel a key reason for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. (read) |
| 7/20/04 |
Sen.
John W. Warner's office acknowledged yesterday that the Virginia
Republican arranged for religious activists to use a Senate office
building last March for a ceremony in which the Rev. Sun Myung Moon
declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler
and Stalin be "reborn as new persons." (read) |
| 7/19/04 |
Alabama Doctor Reactivated for Iraq War at 68. (read) (video, Real Player required, excuse the 15 second CBS commercial) |
| 7/19/04 |
Anti-war
protestor groups growing: "Protest Warrior" is now growing at rate of
five to six new members a day, with chapters in 13 cities. (read) (video, Real Player required, excuse the 30 second Fox commercial) |
| 7/18/04 |
Downing
Street admits that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies
had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000
corpses have so far been uncovered. (read) |
| 7/15/04 |
Two people arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts at the president's July 4th rally - charges eventually dropped. (read) |
| 7/14/04 |
Foreigners Face Slavery-Like Life in Saudi. (read) |
| 7/14/04 |
Life expectancy in various African countries now less than 40 years (read) |
| 7/6/04 |
Sexist
Judge Confirmed by Senate - "The wife is to subordinate herself to her
husband" and "the woman is to place herself under the authority of the
man." (read) |
| 7/6/04 |
Foreign Detainees are Few in Iraq. Data Suggest Administration has Overstated Role of Jihadists in the Insurgency. (read) |
| 7/3/04 |
Congressman McDermott suggests Bush is hiding Osama. (read) |
| 7/3/04 |
Army stage-managed fall of Hussein Statue. (read) |
| 6/29/04 |
Iraq is worse off than before the war began, GAO reports. (read) |
| 6/29/04 |
More than 4,000 scientists have signed a petition accusing George Bush of twisting their work to further his political agenda. (read) |
| 6/28/04 |
President
Bush said that coalition forces in Iraq would support a possible
decision by the new Iraqi leadership to declare martial law to deal
with escalating violence and terror attacks. "Iraqis know what we
know, that the best way to defend yourself is to go on the offensive,"
he said. (read) |
| 6/27/04 |
U.S.
to control much of Iraqi Gov't even AFTER elections take place - Bremer
has issued 97 legal orders which are "binding instructions ... to the
Iraqi people" that will remain in force even after the transfer of
political authority. A seven-member commission will be given the power
to disqualify political parties and any candidates they see fit.
Bremer also appointed at least two dozen Iraqis to government jobs with
multi year terms who will remain in place even after elections are
held. (read)
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| 6/22/04 |
Ashcroft
accused by then acting-FBI Director off brushing off terror warnings
before 9/11 - may have lied about it to 9/11 Commission. (read) |
| 6/17/04 |
Pentagon
seeks OK to spy on Americans - new bill would allow Pentagon to gather
intelligence on US residents without their knowledge. (read) |
| 6/15/04 |
A
Coalition Provisional Authority poll of Iraqis reveals anger towards
the U.S. Fully 92% of Iraqis consider the U.S. an occupying force, and
more than half believe they would be safer if U.S. troops simply left. (read) |
| 6/10/04 |
The
State Department is revising its annual report on terrorism amid
concerns that it significantly undercounted the number of attacks last
year. Administration officials had hailed the reduced number of
incidents as a sign the war on terrorism is working. But the
department says now revised figures could be "up sharply" from those
first reported — according to the Los Angeles Times, the new number
could be a 20-year high. (read) |
6/8/04
5/27/04
12/14/03 |
New Iraqi leader Ayad Allawi helped CIA launch terrorist attacks (read). Allawi was responsible for bogus 45-minute WMD claim (read) and he claimed Saddam was connected to al-Qaeda and Sept. 11. (read) NOTE: the supposed Atta/Iraq link was refuted by the 911 Commission. (read) |
| 6/8/04 |
More Enron tapes, more gloating. (read)
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| 6/4/04 |
U.S. told Saudis to let al-Qaeda gunmen escape after they killed 10 hostages in the oil hub of Khobar, Saudi Arabia. (read) |
| 6/3/04 |
U.N.'s
Brahimi: Paul Bremer is the "dictator of Iraq... I will remind
you that the Americans are governing this country." (read) |
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