Yesterday the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies issued a report saying that Iran is 2 to 3 years away from having a nuclear weapon. In August, 2005, the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate judged Iran to be roughly ten years away from having a nuclear weapon. Yet the ... (more)
The Pentagon is expected to send Congress a $622.6 billion defense budget for 2008. The sum includes $141.7 billion to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The numbers were confirmed by a Pentagon official Feb. 2.
The spending plan, to be delivered to lawmakers Feb. 5, is $6.2 billion more than the $616.4 billion the Pentagon is spending this year. But there are greater differences in the budget than those numbers alone suggest.
Earlier today, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) was heckled at the DNC winter meeting by audience members who are unhappy with her stance on the war in Iraq.
Clinton, who voted in 2002 to give President Bush the right to use force to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime, spoke today of the non-binding resolution that will appear before the Senate next week as the first time the Democrats will "tell the president, 'no!'"
WCVB-TV in Boston has photoshopped the extended finger from the Mooninite LEDs. Compare the before-and-after photos of the uniformed and helmeted LED disposal expert as he carefully removes the deadly object. Link
“Who stole my orange” is the plangent cry of Mike Wong, my computer technician as he bangs a hand on my desk. I don’t take it personally because I know he’s making a point. “Only two year ago I could buy four oranges for a dollar,” he says. “Today, one orange for one dollar. Who stole my orange? Where did it go?” “Down the rabbit hole,” I answer, “with pension plans.”
The question Mike asks could be answered f... (more)
More than 18 million men in the United States, about 18 percent of them, are affected by erectile dysfunction, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The prevalence of problems was strongly linked with age, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and a lack of physical activity, the researchers said in a news release.
They also said that increased physical activity and measures to prevent cardiovascular disease may als... (more)
President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century.
Armed with a powerful moral case against Bush, whose lies are responsible for a war that has caused thousands of U.S. casualties and killed vast numbers of Iraqi civilians, Democratic leaders are damning Bush's war because it did not succeed!
The Bush regime lied and fabricated "evidence" that was used to deceive Congress, the American people, and the United Nations. The vice pres... (more)
NAJAF, Iraq, Jan 31 (IPS) - Iraqi government lies over the killing of hundreds of Shias in an attack on Sunday stand exposed by independent investigations carried out by IPS in Iraq.
Conflicting reports had arisen earlier on how and why a huge battle broke out around the small village Zarqa, located just a few kilometres northeast of the Shia holy city Najaf, which is 90 km south of Baghdad.
One thing certain is that when the smoke cleared, more than 200 people lay ... (more)
Unnamed officials from two different US government agencies have told CNN that the Pentagon is looking at possible Iranian ties to a "brazen attack" on a meeting in Karbala which left five American troops dead.
As reported here previously, the attackers wore American combat fatigues, drove black GM Suburbans, carried American weapons and spoke English. The attack was bold and swift... (more)
So far, there are 2 things that we can say with certainty about the massacre of the 250 Iraqis outside Najaf on Monday. First, we know that there is no substantiating evidence to support the official version of events. And, second, we know that every media outlet in the United States slavishly provided the government’s version to their readers without fact-checking or providing eyewitness testimony.
This proves that those who argue that mainstream news is “filtered&rdq... (more)
In an excellent story Keith Olbermann exposes the four claims president Bush made in his State of the Union regarding foiled Al Qaeda plots. Every one of the mentioned plots were non exsistent, yet presented as truths by Bush. By Way Of Deception Thou Shalt Do War, is the motto of the of the Israeli spy agency Mossad, but it could as well be the motto of the Bush government.
The deceptions keep on coming, despite researchers like Olbermann exposing them for what they are. Through... (more)
Several speakers at the event emphasized the importance of "deepening economic integration," "integrating the energy infrastructure" and "the development of new institutions" between the three North American nations.
Participants promoted the idea of using popular issues, such as concern over climate change, to push integration of energy and environmental governance and the possibility of imposing a carbon tax.
Judicial Watch released yesterday the documents it rece... (more)
US officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence "dossier" this week detailing evidence of Iran's alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street's dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war.
Nicholas Burns, the senior US diplomat in charge of Iran policy, says Washington "is not looking for a fight" with... (more)
An alleged conspiracy to kidnap a British Muslim who served in Iraq and decapitate him on video is the latest terror merry-go-round to be unleashed on the British public. From past examples we can safely predict that within a month this supposed plot will hold about as much credibility as yesterday's scare in Boston where electronic advertisements for a cable cartoon were mistaken for bombs.
"Police are continuing to question nine men arrested over what se... (more)
A group of British soldiers yesterday described their frantic attempts to stop an attack on their convoy by "rogue" US warplanes that left one dead and four injured.
Oxfordshire coroner's court heard that two US A10 planes opened fire on a patrol in southern Iraq in March 2003, killing Lance Corporal of Horse Mattie Hull three days before his 26th birthday.
Yesterday his colleagues told the court that the "friendly fire" incident had happene... (more)
"On the Holy day of Eid, the world watched in horror at the barbaric lynching of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, allegedly for crimes against humanity. This public murder was sanctioned by the War Criminals, President Bush and Prime Minister Blair.
The entire trial process was a mockery of justice, no less a Kangaroo Court. Defence counsels were brutally murdered, witnesses threatened and judges removed for being impartial and replaced by puppet judges. Yet, we are
“The Fed should have tightened earlier to avoid a festering of the housing bubble early on. The Fed is facing a nightmare now: the recession will come and easing will not prevent it.”
- Nouriel Roubini, “Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady as Slowdown Outweighs Inflation”, Wall Street Journal
I’m really baffled by the e-mails I’ve been getting lately. A lot people have been blasting my predictions that the housing bubble will burst in 2007 a... (more)
