Those beating the drum about Iran’s nuclear program should be made aware that the United States has been complicit in the Iranian program since the Ford administration. Then Secretary-of-State, Henry Kissinger offered a ‘strange deal’ to Pakistan that had been...
The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.
"WASHINGTON — Senior Pentagon lawyers played a more active role than previously known in developing the aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use in 2002 at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,...
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On Wednesday 28th May 2008, George Monbiot, columnist and author, attempted a citizen’s arrest of John Robert Bolton, former Under-Secretary of State, US State Department, for the crime of aggression, as established by customary international law and described by Nuremberg...
If one of the six men set to face murder trial charges for involvement in the 9/11 attacks can have the charges against him dropped, is it possible that the remaining five men might as well?" SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Pentagon is dropping charges against a Saudi at...
"Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax Published on Thursday, May 08, 2008. Source: George Washington's Blog Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the...
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On this day in 1989 the Exxon Valdez runs aground off the coast of Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of oil into the water. On to today's top stories:
"2 McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned" (Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times) Moment One: In 2001,...
I can't remember
why or how I first started reading al Jazeera on the net. It might have been because I was trying to find out about the airstrike during which Tariq
Ayoub, an al Jazeera reporter was killed and three...
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" Guantanamo as a Symbol
Thursday 17th of January 2008 06:09:32 PM
By RAMZY BAROUD
11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large cargo...
"Afghan Prison Looks Like Another Guantanamo
By William Fisher
A sketch by Thomas V. Curtis, a former Reserve M.P. sergeant, showing how a 22-year-old Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was allegedly chained to the ceiling of his cell. He later died in custody.
NEW YORK, Jan...
Acquiescence to Turkish Incursion May Signal Change In Bush Policy
A condemnation of the Turkish military incursion into Iraq will not come from the United States, reported French daily Le Figaro today. At...
This is pretty embarassing for the Bush administration. Former Sec. of Defense "There are known unknowns" and "Stuff happens" D. Rumsfeld is apparently not welcome by Wichita, Kansas conservatives while retired...
While he meandered between decrying the harms of democracy, global warming, high taxes, and globalization bin Laden made it clear that he just really just wants to be your friend. Albeit that weird friend with a...
"A second key British general has criticised US post-war policy in Iraq.
Maj Gen Tim Cross, who was the most senior UK officer involved in post-war planning, told the Sunday Mirror US policy was "fatally flawed".
His comments came after Gen Sir Mike Jackson, head of the Army...