US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomadsThe herdsmen had gathered with their animals around large fires at night to ward off mosquitoes. But lit up by the flames, they became latest victims of America's war on terror.
It was their tragedy to be misidentified in a secret operation by special forces attempting to kill three top al-Qa'ida leaders in south-ern Somalia.
Oxfam yesterday confirmed at least 70 nomads in the Afmadow district near the border with Kenya had been killed. The nomads were bombed at nig... (more)
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Bush's big mess in the Middle East"You [President Paul von Hindenburg] have just handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation . . ." --German General Erich Ludendorff, 1933
"He that is the author of a war (of aggression) lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." --Thomas Paine
"[I can' ... (more)
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Israel ‘spits in America’s face’ as Rice visits First, China and Russia, now israel. Everyone seems to be taking potshots at Washington this week - even its 'only ally in the Middle East.'
Israel announced a settlement expansion in the West Bank Monday, dealing a blow to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she held talks with Israel's premier on jumpstar ... (more)
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Presidential Candidate Fears "Gulf Of Tonkin" To Provoke Iran War Republican Congressman and 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul fears a staged Gulf of Tonkin style incident may be used to provoke air strikes on Iran as numerous factors collide to heighten expectations that America may soon be embroiled in its third war in six years.
Writing in his syndicated weekly column, the representative of Texas' 14th district warns of "a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident (that) may occur to gain popular support for an attack on... (more)
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Absolute PowerWhy is the United States poised to try Jose Padilla as a dangerous terrorist, long after it has become perfectly clear that he was just the wrong Muslim in the wrong airport on the wrong day?
Why is the United States still holding hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, long after years... (more)
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Robot wars The Demo III is the US Army Research Lab’s newest experimental unmanned vehicle. (Photograph: KL Vantran)
In November 2004, during the second battle of Fallujah, an American uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) -- a robot plane -- located a mortar battery that had been hampering the United States operation to retake the town. The mortar's position was logged by the UAV's operator, who was sitting at his desk in Nellis air-force base near Las Vegas, thousands of kilometres aw... (more)
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Saddam's half-brother executed in gruesome hanging Saddam Hussein's half brother has been executed in a gruesome hanging which left his head severed from the body.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the leader of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were put to death at dawn after being found guilty of killing 182 Shiite Muslims more than twenty years ago.
A government spokesman said: "In a rare case, the head of Barzan was detached from his body during the execution."... (more)
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Bush Must Go: Only Impeachment Can Stop HimWhen are the American people and their representatives in Congress and the military going to wake up and realize that the US has an insane war criminal in the White House who is destroying all chances for peace in the world and establishing a police state in the US?
Americans don’t have much time to realize this and to act before it is too late. Bush’s “surge” speech last Wednesday night makes it completely clear that his real purpose is to start wars with ... (more)
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MADD at Drunk Drivers, but Not Influential OnesA few months ago, Delaware state Rep. John C. Atkins was pulled over in Ocean City Maryland under suspicion of drunken driving. Immediately after getting pulled over, he flahsed his Delaware Legislature ID, after which the officer assured him that he wouldn't be arrested. Problem is, Atkins took a roadside breath test which came back at .14, well over the legal limit.
Atkins wasn't arrested. H... (more)
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Top Dem Wesley Clark Says 'N.Y. Money People' Pushing War With IranWashington - Retired general Wesley Clark drew harsh criticism this week after reportedly saying that “New York money people” are pushing America into a war against Iran.
By Tuesday, Clark, a past and likely future Democratic candidate for president, was working to assure Jewish groups that he was in no way attempting to advance an antisemitic conspiracy theory. But the controversy still had Jewish organizations bracing for a new wave of claims that they are the drivin... (more)
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Housing Bubble Bloodbath“The crash of the housing bubble will not be pretty. Millions of people stand to lose their homes and life savings. However, it was inevitable. The bubble created a fantasy world that could not continue. At the peak of the bubble, 160,000 people a week were buying a home, most at bubble inflated prices. The longer the bubble persists, the larger the group of people who paid way too much for their home. While it is not good that so many dreams had to be ruined, the number wil ... (more)
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Instead of "al-Qaeda," U.S. Kills Nomads in SomaliaAs usual, it takes a few days for the truth to emerge, not that the corporate media here in America notices.
Instead of killing Fazul Abdullah Moham-med, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Abu Taha al-Sudani, supposedly “al-Qaeda” operatives responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the Pentagon killed “herdsmen … gathered with their animals around large fires at night to ward off mosquitoes” in Somalia, according to the In... (more)
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Escalation is Hardly the Answer Mr. Speaker, A military victory in Iraq is unattainable, just as it was in the Vietnam war.
At the close of the Vietnam war in 1975, a telling conversation took place between an NVA Colonel named Tu and an American Colonel named Harry Summers. Colonel Summers reportedly said, “You never beat us on the battlefield.” Tu replied, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.” It is likewise irrelevant to seek military victory in Iraq.
As condition... (more)
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Bush Speech: Full Steam Ahead on Iran AttackSpeaking through the unitary decider—sort of like a ventriloquist speaking through a dummy—the neocons have once again issued threats against Iran and Syria.
“In his speech to the American nation yesterday, President George W. Bush issued a warning to Iran and Syria, accusing them of taking deliberate action against U.S. forces in Iraq and enabling aid transfers to insurgents,” reports Haaretz.
“Bush said the U.S. intends to tak... (more)
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Iran’s IEDs: Made in AmericaNow that Bush has delivered Kristol’s speech, we can expect a full-court press in the corporate media to demonize Iran in preparation for an attack against that country.
“U.S. officials tell CBS News that American forces have begun an aggressive and mostly secret ground campaign against networks of Iranians that had been operating with virtual impunity inside Iraq,” CBS News reports, or rather reads from the neocon script.
“According... (more)
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Get Your War On: Bush Plays Casus Belli Card Against Iran That there will be war with Iran is now virtually guaranteed. The Bush Administration set out a clear casus belli over the weekend in two stories – masterworks of warmongering propaganda – appearing in two major basions of the "liberal media." The argument for this new war – buttressed with "facts" that as usual went unchallenged by the corporate scribes – is actually stronger and cleaner than the collection of conflicting mendacities that led to the invasion of Ira... (more)
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Officials: Pentagon Probed FinancesThe Defense Department has used a long-standing authority to acquire the personal financial records of American citizens in military-related criminal and other investigations as part of an expansion of the Pentagon's gathering of counterterrorism intelligence at home, officials said yesterday.
"There are certainly types of information and transactions that are valuable to the department when conducting counterintelligence and counterespionage investigations," said Pentagon spokesm... (more)
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Keeping all eyes focused on Iraq while Bush and Israel plot attack on IranEven a cursory review of Bush’s speech shows that the president is less concerned with "security" in Baghdad than he is with plans to attack Iran. Paul Craig Roberts was correct in his article Wednesday when he questioned whether all the hoopla over a surge was just "an orchestrated distraction" to draw attention away from the real war plan. ("Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan")
Apparently, it is.
As Roberts noted, "The US Congress and the media ... (more)
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MI5 braced for fresh 7/7 disclosuresThe 7 July bombers who killed 52 people in terrorist attacks in London in 2005 were once described by Britain's security service as 'clean skins'.
The vivid phrase implied that a gang of homegrown terrorists had come from nowhere, without an intelligence trail. But Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director-general of MI5, is bracing herself for embarrassing revelations on the full extent of what the British intelligence community knew about the bombers, and in particular the ring... (more)
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Woman sues Ottawa over CIA brainwashing at Montreal hospital MONTREAL -- Five decades after unwittingly participating in brainwashing experiments that were funded by the CIA and the federal government, 78-year-old Janine Huard went to Federal Court yesterday to try and persuade a judge she is entitled to compensation.
"They demolished me," Huard told reporters yesterday before her court hearing. "They gave me terrible drugs, electroshocks and made me stay in a bed with a mask over my face listening to recordings for hours."
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Guantánamo inmates ‘driven insane’Prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba are being driven insane by a tightening of conditions and the situation of their indefinite detention without trial, according to lawyers and rights activists involved with the US camp.
The lawyers and activists also doubt whether the Bush administration intends to carry out its stated desire to close the facility.
Protesters around the world plan to mark Thursday’s fifth anniversary of the fir... (more)
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