Burns: Israel and U.S. Agree Iran Must be Bombed
Kurt NimmoFeb 20
Nicholas Burns, under secretary for political affairs for Israel—er, excuse me, the United States—has told the neocon-infested Jerusalem Post “that America and Israel are on the same page when it comes to Iran,” in other words, both agree the Islamic country will be attacked, as Israel has demanded this for years now.

“We have... (more)
Headteacher in honours row 'driven to brink of suicide' by Blair
London Evening StandardFeb 20
The Downing Street adviser whose revelations sparked the cash for honours scandal accused Tony Blair of driving him to the brink of suicide.

Des Smith said he was treated like Dr David Kelly after he told a newspaper reporter that people donating money to the Prime Minister's city academies project could expect to be awarded honours.

The headmaster, who had been close to members of Mr Blair's inner circle, says he was 'hung out to dry' by Mr Blair ... (more)
The Unwanted Refugees Of The Iraq War
CBS NewsFeb 20
This story was written for CBSNews.com by Amman, Jordan-based reporter Kristen Gillespie.

In the middle of the empty, rocky desert on Jordan's easternmost flank, a group of fabric tents flap loudly in the winter wind. It's a small camp set up by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) before the war with Iraq began in the spring of 2003.

The mass exodus of Iraqis anticipated in the weeks after Saddam Hussein's regime fell didn't materialize,... (more)
An Orwellian solution to kids skipping school
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutuionFeb 20
Let's say your teenager is a habitual truant and there is nothing you can do about it. A Washington area politician thinks he might have the solution: Fit the child with a Global Positioning System chip, then have police track him down.

"It allows them to get caught easier," said Maryland Delegate Doyle Niemann (D-Prince George's), who recently co-sponsored legislation in the House that would use electronic surveillance as part of a broader ... (more)
National ID Coming In 2008
American Free PressFeb 20
There are signs of rebellion in several state legislatures against the Real ID Act, the federal law that springs from the disputed findings of the 9-11 Commission.

Liberal and conservative groups are gearing up for a fight in the coming months to keep this contentious measure from creating the first-ever national ID card in U.S. history. The Real ID Act is supposed to be implemented in May 2008, creating new national drivers licenses to function as a vir... (more)
Monks reveal brutal state crackdown
The TelegraphFeb 20
Tibetan monks suffer harassment and imprisonment at the hands of the authorities, who attempt to force them to renounce the Dalai Lama.

They are rarely able to talk openly about their experiences under Chinese rule. But The Daily Telegraph used new rules relaxing reporting restrictions in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics to meet monks without information ministry minders being present.

"The situation here is tense," said one monk. "We have ... (more)
Police to Use Surveillance Aircraft in Rallies
Korea TimesFeb 20
Police are planning to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to take photographs of demonstrators participating in unauthorized protests.

The new machines are based on military models currently in use abroad but are adapted to meet local requirements, a National Police Agency official said. The high-tech machines will incorporate an image detector allowing officers to effectively ``see’’ the face of a person wearing a mask.

The two models... (more)
Wronging Passengers With a Bill of Rights
Becky AkersFeb 20
Having trashed the Bill of Rights at airports (and everywhere else, for that matter), Our Rulers hope to palm off a parody on us: the "Passengers’ Bill of Rights." They’re using the Valentine’s Day fiasco at JFK International Airport as cover.

While ice and snow pelted New York City last Wednesday, passengers crammed aboard JetBlue planes waited for take off. They sat...and sat....and sat. Nor did the air... (more)
Snow: Politicians Warning Of Iran War ‘May Be Trying To Protect Iran’
Think ProgressFeb 20
Today on CNN, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow claimed that members of Congress who have warned about the possibility of a military strike against Iran may be “trying to protect Iran.” Watch it:

Numerous military and regional experts agree that there is no military solution for Iran. They say it would be “disastrous for the United States,” “empower reactionaries [i... (more)
Commercialization and future access to the Internet highway
Rodrigue TremblayFeb 20
“Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.” --W. Lance Bennett

“The Bush majority on the FCC has bowed to the interests of the big cable and telephone companies to strip away, or undo, the Internet’s basic DNA of openness and non-discrimination.” --Bill Moyers... (more)
Tax on 'peace and quiet' revealed
The TelegraphFeb 20
Living near a bus stop or corner shop and even enjoying "peace and quiet" will lead to a hike in council tax for householders, under Government plans.

The tax on "nice neighbourhoods" is being planned as part of the council tax revaluation, with proposals expected within weeks.

Secret manuals by the Valuation Office Agency, an arm of HM Revenue and Customs, used in the controversial 2005 council tax revaluation in Wales, reveal... (more)
Labour will force everyone to give fingerprints at ID card interview centres
Sunday TelegraphFeb 20
Ministers plan to force all adults to travel miles at their own expense to fingerprint scanning units so their details can go onto an identity card database. From 2009, everyone will have to attend one of 69 "interview centres", whose locations are revealed today for the first time.

People without their own transport, such as the elderly and the less well off, will be hit hardest by having to make round trips that in some cases will be more than 100 miles. Somebody living in Cambr... (more)
Geared for war: U.S. ready to attack Iran
The New StatesmanFeb 18
American preparations for invading Iran are complete, Dan Plesch reveals. Plus Rageh Omaar's insights from Iran and Andrew Stephen on fears George Bush's administration will blunder into war

American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using conventional weapons... (more)
Bush Administration's smoking gun on Iran Misfires
Inter Press ServiceFeb 18
The first major effort by the George W. Bush administration to substantiate its case that the Iranian government has been providing weapons to Iraqi Shiites who oppose the occupation undermines the administration's political line by showing that it has been unable to find any real evidence of an Iranian government role.

Contradicting recent claims by both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defence Robert Gates that U.S. intelligence had proof of Iranian governm... (more)
The U.S., Not Iran, is Wrongfully “Meddling” in Iraq
Randy ShawFeb 18
The United States has 140,000 troops occupying Iraq, a country thousands of miles from its borders. Iran borders Iraq. Which nation has the greater interest in Iraq’s future?

According to the U.S. media, the Bush Administration, and many Democrats, the answer is the country whose borders are thousands of miles away. And while America is free to invade, bomb, and kill thousands of Iraqis, many believe that Iran’s “meddling” in the affairs of its neighbor j... (more)
Next Stop: Tehran
American ConservativeFeb 18
By the time President Bush finally announced it, his surge strategy was old news. But an unexpected section of the speech jarred the normally somnolent mainstream media: “Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. … And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.” Speculation that Bush was already plotting his next war nearly stole the story of how ... (more)
Attack On Iran Will Hit India Most - Scientist
The Asian AgeFeb 18
NEW DELHI -- An American geoscientist has warned that India is "downwind" of Iran and is, therefore, predisposed to the harmful, radiation-laded winds that will blow eastwards if the United States were to attack Iran using depleted uranium in dirty bombs or bunker busters like it did in 2003 in Iraq. A bunker buster is said to contain about two tonnes of depleted uranium.

Ms Leuren Moret, a former employee of the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in the US, who now works as an... (more)
Documents show new secretive US prison program isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners
Raw StoryFeb 18
The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating "high-security-risk" Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law, according to documents obtained by RAW STORY.

Quietly implemented in December, the special "Communications Management Unit" (CMU) at a federal penitentiary in Indiana targeting Muslim and Middle-Eastern inmates was not implemented thr... (more)
Moon/Bush 'Ongoing Crime Enterprise'
Consortium NewsFeb 18
From petty local scams to international money-laundering, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s political/media/business/religious empire has all the looks of a global “ongoing criminal enterprise,” albeit one with enough powerful friends in Washington to protect it from serious consequences.

Benefiting from relationships with the Bush family and other prominent Republicans, Moon’s Unification Church slips away from one illegal scheme after another &ndas... (more)
Lawmakers and Lawyers Challenge Bush Administration Military Commissions
William FisherFeb 18
In the face of multiple legal and legislative challenges, President George W. Bush this week issued an executive order to allow cases against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to move forward to trials by military tribunals.

The challenges are to the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), which Bush signed into law last October. The first three cases to be tried under the law involve an Australian, a Yemeni, and a Canadian, all held at Guantanamo.
... (more)
Blackmailing Bush - How the "Dear Leader" Duped "The Decider"
Mike WhitneyFeb 18
The Bush foreign policy is predicated on one simple axiom: “We will stop the world’s most dangerous men from getting their hands on the world’s most dangerous weapons”. By that standard, Bush’s dealings with North Korea have been a wretched failure. After 6 years of fruitless saber rattling and belligerence, the North detonated a nuclear bomb in early October and put region on notice that there’s a new member in the nuclear weapons club.

For the... (more)
Pentagon Red Tape Keeps Medical Records From Doctors of the Wounded
Washington PostFeb 18
Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are furious over a recent decision by the Pentagon to block their access to medical information needed to treat severely injured troops arriving at VA hospitals from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The VA physicians handle troops with serious brain injuries and other major health problems. They, rely on digital medical records that track the care given wounded troops from the moment of their arrival at a field hospital through their evacuation to the U... (more)

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