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Israel urged not to turn Gaza into a prison: Israel says it will continue to control Palestinian trade and travel from the Gaza Strip even after it removes its troops and settlers from the occupied territory, a process due to begin this weekend.

Truth behind pullout: The choices is clear: Leave Gaza or maintain apartheid regime

Terrorism’s original sin : Palestinian terrorism is actually a fallout of Israeli atrocities and America’s protection of Israel

Lana Habash - Divide and Conquer: The Politics of Palestinian Human Rights

An Apology From a US Christian to Palestinians: Christian Zionist websites still peddle misinformation that has been debunked not only by Palestinian historians, but also Israeli historians.

Michael T. Klare: The Twilight Era of Petroleum: It is official U.S. policy—enshrined in the "Carter Doctrine" of January 23, 1980—to use military force when necessary to resist any hostile effort to impede the flow of Middle Eastern oil.

Dr. Steve Jonas: Iran Nukes, Revisited: I happen to think that the scariest nation having nuclear weaponry at present is the United States under the Georgites. It is well known that leading members of and top advisors to the Georgite regime have for some time openly talked about invading Iran.

Cheney + Pakistan = Iran : Bush has, spent his entire two terms in office talking tough about countries and dictators that conceal weapons of mass destruction and even tougher on individuals who supply rogue nations and terrorists with the means to build WMDs. For all intents and purposes, Pakistan and Musharraf fit that description.

Depleted uranium is WMD: I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:

Former Navy doctor tells of experiences with nuclear weapons: Melvin Lloyd McCourt returned home from the Army in 1968 with a permanent rash and spitting up blood. He became even sicker in 1981. At present, the 60-year-old sits in an area hospital, ill again.

Taliban kill Afghan woman after spying charge: The unidentified woman was shot dead in her house on Tuesday night in southern Zabul, district chief Haji Mohammad Younus said, adding Taliban fighters also kidnapped the brother and father of the victim.

US soldier killed in bomb attack in central Afghanistan : One US service member has been killed and another injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack near Ghazni, a central province of Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said on Wednesday.

Financial Times: U.S. Losing Control in Latin America: The article provides a fascinating window into the international financial communities' sober assessment of the floundering corporate agenda in Latin America -- an analysis not altogether different from our own.

Chavez extends his influence to Mercosur : Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez arrived late Tuesday night in Montevideo as part of a brief visit to the “Southern axis” which includes Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil where he’s scheduled to sign several bilateral trade and integration agreements.

Venezuela's Chavez Presents Land Titles to Indigenous Groups: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented property titles to several indigenous groups Tuesday, recognizing their ownership of ancestral lands and reversing what he says have been centuries of injustice.

Did Speaker Hastert Accept Turkish Bribes to Deny Armenian Genocide and Approve Weapons Sales?: Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is accusing the FBI of covering up improper contacts and financial dealings between certain Turkish nationals and the office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Investment firm's payments to Republican fundraiser under scrutiny: The subpoena calls for documents related to the fund, the Carlyle Group and Robert Kjellander, said sources familiar with the investigation who spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying prosecutors want details of the probe kept secret

In case you missed it: Exposed: The Carlyle Group A Must Watch Documentary

Lisa Finnegan: The Minority Report Style Pre-emptive Arrests: Cowards prefer the veil of safety to the harsh reality of a just world.

FBI, Please Protect Us from Terrorists and the ACLU : About two weeks ago, the FBI admitted in federal court to collecting thousands of documents on non-violent activist groups, including the ACLU, Greenpeace and various antiwar organizations.

Air Force colonel accused of anti-Bush vandalism: An Air Force Reserve colonel could face criminal charges for allegedly vandalizing cars at Denver International Airport bearing pro-Bush bumper stickers.

08/09/05: Four in 9/11 Plot Are Tied to Qaeda in '00: More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States

A Look Into the Mirror: Whether we like it or not, the nation’s capital is the mirror image of the rest of the country

Globalization And Its Discontents: n my America, shopping is the universal spiritual value. Maybe add flag waving and barbecues! But globalization means spreading a culture of corporate brand names and 24/7 sales pitches. Rogue States who refuse to embrace this order are targets of regime change.

It Has No Other Name: Neo-racism: Humanity has paid a high price fighting racism and discrimination over centuries; how could we loose the battle today to similar ideologies covered up in the cloaks of "freedom" and "democracy?" 

Counting The Dead: BAGHDAD: 10 Iraqi policemen were shot dead in five separate attacks in Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Three Iraqis were killed by a suicide car bomb. BAQUBA - Three pilgrims were killed and eight injured when gunmen sprayed their minivan with gunfire. ABU KHAMIS - Two people were burned to death when insurgents stopped their truck and set fire to it . LATIFIYAH - Two Iraqi civilians were killed and a third critically wounded when gunmen fired on their car. HILLA - Gunmen killed a former officer in Saddam Hussein's Baath party. BAGHDAD - One police commando was killed and another injured by an explosion. BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed when gunmen attacked their shop.

Suicide Blast Kills 7 Including U.S. Soldier: : A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy near a crowded square in Baghdad, killing at least seven people, including a U.S. soldie. A U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Division also was killed Monday in action by small arms fire in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.

Four Iraqi soldiers killed Tuesday morning in a bomb explosion in Samarra

Analysis: Iraq statistics tell grim story: If the US Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing?

Baghdad mayor 'ousted by gunmen' : Baghdad's mayor has been sacked by the Iraqi government, in circumstances that he has described as "dangerous" and "undemocratic".

Iraqi soldiers fear leaving training base: "We're all afraid. I can't go outside the base wearing these military clothes," says Sergeant Abbas, listing colleagues who have fallen victim to relentless insurgent attacks in the dusty towns and highways north of Baghdad.

Killings of civilians by U.S. troops angers Iraqi government : "The reason they shot us is just because the Americans are reckless," the general said from his hospital bed hours after the July 6 shooting, his head wrapped in a white bandage. "Nobody punishes them or blames them."

U.S. and Iraqi forces prevent Syrian trucks from crossing border: Iraqi and U.S. forces stopped more than 700 Syrian trucks from returning to Syria after unloaded produce and other merchandise in Iraq

U.S. reportedly planning to boost troop levels to 160,000 in Iraq

Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow: The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s.

Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Bush Is A Liar: A Gallup survey last week found that a majority of Americans - 51 percent - now believe that Bush "deliberately misled the people when he asserted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."

Cindy Sheehan's diary: Camp Casey Day 3- The Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford

Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine: It's truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi's Salt March to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win -- when truth and justice is on his or her side.

The King wouldn't see us: A Report from the Vigil in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan's trip to Crawford to talk to President Bush started out as just a small idea Wednesday evening.

Sheehan Draws Tears of Support: When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: “I’m going up there. We have to drop everything and go.” 

To All Conscious Americans: Get Thy Ass to CRAWFORD !!!

Tragic price of war: Who pays?: Dr. Reinhardt said the majority of Americans are insulated from the human pain and financial cost, thus it’s easy for them to back the war.

In case you missed it: Who's Paying for Our Patriotism?: Should anyone be surprised by this national resolve, given that these wars visit no sacrifice of any sort -- neither blood nor angst nor taxes -- on well over 95 percent of the American people?

Cruel Confinement of ‘Enemy Combatant’ in United States: A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.

Army Whistleblower Draws Fire : She has rained a mighty storm upon herself for standing up, before members of Congress and live on C-SPAN to proclaim things are just not right in this staggeringly profitable business.

Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 08/08/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.

Bombings survivor hits out at political rhetoric: An Australian who survived last month's bombings in London has criticised the political rhetoric that has followed them

Secret courts for terror cases : Security-cleared judges would decide how long suspects could be held

Radical cleric flees Britain after threat of treason trial : Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the Islamic extremists who faced possible treason charges over support for the London bombers, has fled to Lebanon

George Monbiot: The new chauvinism : I'm not ashamed of my nationality, but I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other

17 Taliban, US soldier die in ambush: At least 17 Afghan fighters and one US soldier were killed in a fierce clash in southern Afghanistan near the troubled Pakistan border, the US military said on Tuesday.

War Pimp Alert: Rumsfeld says Iranian weapons found in Iraq : US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that weapons "unambiguously from Iran" have been found in Iraq, and said it was "unhelpful" of Teheran to allow such weapons to cross the border.

CIA asked us to let nuclear spy go, Ruud Lubbers claims : The CIA asked the Netherlands not to detain Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan for stealing nuclear secrets from a Dutch facility, former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers has claimed.

Robert Dreyfuss: The Israeli Spy Affair: Bigger Than AIPAC: Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally?

Why AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Rove : The Franklin indictment is a sign that Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act.

The silence of the Jewish leaders : An indictment was issued against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former AIPAC employees. They are charged with passing classified security information, received during their work at the Jewish lobby, to various people, including employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington

China and Russia flex their muscles as they join forces to play the war game : Next week will see far larger war games involving Chinese and Russian troops in and around the Shandong peninsula in the Yellow sea. Regional observers say such military cooperation is unprecedented and could mark the start of something new.

Venezuela warns against US invasion: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has told thousands of visiting students that if US forces are to invade his South American country, they will be soundly defeated.

US mulls sanctions against Venezuela : The United States is considering punishing Venezuela with sanctions for breaking off work with US anti-drug agents in the world's top cocaine-exporting region, the State Department has said .

Cuban "agents" to get new trial: A federal appeals court threw out the convictions and life sentences of five accused Cuban spies Tuesday, ruling that they did not receive a fair trial because of community prejudice and extensive publicity.

Israel leads West in child poverty: Israel has bypassed the United States and now leads Western countries when it comes to child poverty figures

World in 10 Seconds: Must watch flash presentation

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Vaccines and Autism: Looking for the Truth? Study the Amish

Australian crops face 'serious genetic contamination' : Environmentalists say Australia is facing "the most serious genetic contamination event" in its history, after the West Australian government confirmed low levels of genetically modified canola had been found in non-GM canola.

08/08/05: Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. government in Iraq, establish multiple U.S military bases before the onset of global Peak Oil, and to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars"  

Why Iran will lead to World War 3: Bush, Sharon and the western media will exploit the details in a way that condemns Iran and paves the way for a preemptive attack. The drive to war will not be derailed by mere facts.

Counting The Dead: SAMARRA - The bodies of five policemen were found in Samarra. BAGHDAD - A translator working at Baghdad's Doura power station was shot dead. KIRKUK - Two employees of the Iraqi state-owned North Oil Company were shot dead by gunmen

Another Marine Killed West of Baghdad Sun: A U.S. Marine was killed in a suicide car bombing in a village west of Baghdad

Not enough U.S. troops to fight insurgents: Sen. Joseph Biden : The United States doesn't have enough military forces in Iraq to quell the insurgency and only about 3,000 Iraqi troops are reliable in combat without significant American support.

Pentagon Likely to Raise Iraq Troops: Before the Pentagon begins reducing troop levels in Iraq next year it probably will increase them this fall to provide extra security for a planned October referendum and a December election, a Pentagon official said Monday.

Australia: Cosgrove backs 2006 Iraq pullout: Former defence chief Peter Cosgrove says foreign troops should ideally leave Iraq before the end of next year.

Australia: Listen to Cosgrove on Iraq exit: Beazley: Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley is urging the Government to take the advice of former defence force chief Peter Cosgrove and pull troops out of Iraq.

Terrorism: Italy's Withdrawal From Iraq "Not Enough" : ''Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi loves money, and he will realise that following the Americans in their military expeditions is not profitable," he said. And, withdrawing from Iraq won't solve the issue unless the step is followed by a similar decision in Afghanistan

Abuse Cases Open Command Issues at Army Prison: a former guard charged with maiming and assault said that he and other reservist military policemen were specifically instructed at Bagram how to deliver the type of blows that killed the two detainees

A Soldier Speaks: Iraq combat veteran talks about his motivations for joining the army, the horrors of war and the anguish of returning home.

Slain soldier’s mother keeps protest vigil at Bush's private country estate: “I plan on staying here the entire month of August or until he comes out to talk to me,” she says. Bush is spending five weeks at his ranch.

Ex-POW Jessica Lynch says US used her as Iraq war symbol : Lynch, who has previously criticized the official US government portrayal of her rescue, said her book "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," written by Rick Bragg, allowed her to "set the record straight"

Report: Bin Laden To Enter Iraq During Ramadan: US troops in Iraq have seized documents that suggest fugitive al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden is planning to enter Iraq during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, an Iranian news agency reported on Monday.

Terrorism 'radiating' from Iraq - German spy chief: German intelligence fears terrorism is "radiating" from Iraq around the Middle East and expects further attacks across the region, its spy chief said on Monday.

UK says Saudi attacks in 'final stages' of planning: Britain warned on Monday that militants were in the final stages of planning attacks in Saudi Arabia as Washington shut its missions there for two days and Australia told its citizens to avoid travel to the kingdom.

Eric Margolis: U.S., Saudis play same old game: The death of King Fahd won't change much in Saudi Arabia --and that's just how the Bush administation wants it

London Bombing Suspects Formally Charged: Three suspects in the failed July 21 London bombings were formally charged Monday with attempted murder

London Detainee Charged In NY Court: A man detained in connection with the July 7 suicide bombings in London has been charged in a New York court with providing material support to terrorism in the United States, according to court documents unsealed Monday.

French report warned of al Qaeda attack on Britain: French intelligence issued a report shortly before the London suicide bombings saying al Qaeda planned to attack Britain and would use Britain's large Pakistani community to strike, Le Figaro reported on Monday.

Tony Blair cannot be allowed to sell our rights and freedoms : Muslims should not be alone in their fears for the future. If Mr Blair is allowed to construct the Britain that he has mapped out, it is not the rules that will have changed, but our society.

Gilad Atzmon; The Tyranny of Pronouns on the Road to Fascism: Blair was very quick to surrender to terror. His endorsement of the ‘we’ and ‘they’ philosophy, is exactly where his enemies want him to go.

Why I cannot be part of this divisive war : This is an extract from Robin Cook's resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.

What Are Moral Values?" : Don't be afraid to speak out. Don't back down when your friends begin to tell you that the cause is righteous and that the flag should be wrapped around the cross

Anglo-American Absolutism: Myths and slogans are preferred over explanation and analysis. "Sentiment" for our way of life, "inspiration" from the myths of an imaginary enemy, "passion" for combating evil, "intuition" as a justification for going to war, "force" as the only solution

Israel: Will Bibi Bring Sharon Down?: Finance Minister Netanyahu's exit may disrupt economic reforms and cause splits in the ruling party, allowing a leadership challenge

Palestinians say peace with Israel is no longer within the realm of possibility: The proposed expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank has convinced many Palestinians, intellectuals and laymen alike, that peace with Israel is no longer within the realm of possibility.

Iran 'resumes nuclear work': Iran has resumed uranium conversion in a move which EU officials have warned will probably see its nuclear case sent to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

Iran: Revolution, Unrealistic : This National Intelligence Estimate, issued by a unit of the new National Intelligence Director's office, reported that Iran is not in a prerevolutionary state and that near-term regime change appeared unlikely

Mike Whitney : Why Iran will lead to World War 3 : Bush, Sharon and the western media will exploit the details in a way that condemns Iran and paves the way for a preemptive attack. The drive to war will not be derailed by mere facts.

War pimp alert: Is Iran our new target? Intelligence seems to say so :

Mickey Z. : Vermin and Souvenirs How to justify a nuclear attack : In order to inflict inhumane punishment, it is necessary to convince oneself that the enemy is not fully human. Once that belief is established, slavery, genocide, and the boiling of flesh off of Japanese skulls to be saved as souvenirs have all the justification they will ever need.

Canadian general predicts 20-year mission in Afghanistan : Canadian troops could stay in Afghanistan for at least 20 years, predicted one of the top generals amidst public criticism of the government decision to expand troops deployment from the Afghan capital to other regions.

Plainclothed Russian Commandos to Retake Uzbekistan Airbase After Americans Leave: Russian soldiers have been staying in Uzbekistan for more than a month preparing to take charge of the Khanabad airbase after the U.S. troops withdrawal, Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily reported.

Stakes are High in New 'Great Game' Being Played by West in Iraq and Afghanistan: The loss of more American soldiers may mark the beginning of the end for the occupation of Iraq

Strategic Chess Moves Across Eurasia : It is quite clear that the US War on Terror, beginning with the attack on Afghanistan was exploited by Washington to place its forces for strategic control of regions , as spelt out by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a controversial organization whose members dominate the echelons of power in Washington.

U.S. strategic interests rise in West Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea : Far from home, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter plows its white bow through the seas of West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, where an oil boom could outpace Persian Gulf exports to America in a decade.

'Thousands will die in Niger hunger' : Thousands of tons of international food aid are needed for Niger within the next few weeks if tens of thousands of people are to be saved from starvation, humanitarian groups are warning.

Niger: senior UNICEF official sees death firsthand: “Only now has the world at last woken up to the reality that thousands of children in Niger could soon die,”

Venezuela accuses DEA of spying, suspends ties : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of using its agents for espionage, and said Venezuela was suspending cooperation with the U.S. agency.

US drafts plans for responding to terror attacks: : The US military has reportedly devised its first war plans for responding to terrorist attacks in the United States that envision 15 potential crisis scenarios, including simultaneous strikes around the country.

Israeli Spy Affair: Israel lobbyist bragged about Pentagon source: A former official of a pro-Israel lobbying group indicted last week boasted that his Pentagon source was a "real insider" and promised to "do what I can" to help the source get a job with the National Security Council, court records show.

Bush removal ended Guam investigation: A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.

"The Voting Rights Act and Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts" : Considering what the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplished, it's disturbing to learn that President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge John G. Roberts, opposed it in 1981 while serving as an assistant to Attorney General William French Smith in the Reagan administration.

9/11 panel claiming documents withheld: The White House has failed to turn over any of the information requested by the 10 members of the disbanded Sept. 11 commission in their renewed, unofficial investigation into whether the government is doing enough to prevent terrorist attacks

08/07/05: George Bush Knows Why They Hate Us: Our government, media and schools start burnishing the false notion of American moral superiority into our brains at a very young age.

Intelligence chiefs warn Blair of home-grown ' insurgency': Intelligence chiefs are warning Tony Blair that Britain faces a full-blown Islamist insurgency, sustained by thousands of young Muslim men with military training now resident in this country. 

Bush and Blair’s “way of life”: Fascist dictators have generally acted under Machiavelli's principle that "if the act accuse him, the result will excuse him.

Straight-shootin' George Galloway: He fired-off another barrage, landing a direct hit on Prime Minister Milquetoast and his Texas-twin. He said, "There's far more blood on the hands of George Bush and Tony Blair than there is on the hands of the murderers who killed those people in London." 

Counting the dead: TIKRIT - Bomber killed at least five people in an attack on police headquarters : BAQUBA - Bomb kills two Iraqi policemen and a civilian. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two Ministry of Oil employees. TAL AFAR - Bomb kills two Iraqi civilians. SAMARRA - The bodies of two police officials were found in Samarra.

IED Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers Near Samarra :

U.S. Soldier killed in Mosul:

Police, Kill Protester In Iraqi Town: Witnesses said police opened fire on the crowd.

Photographs From Iraq: July 15 - 29, 2005: WARNING Pictures show the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Mom Protesting Iraq War Meets Bush Aides : Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, ``W. killed her son!'' Cindy Sheehan told reporters: ``I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?'''

Update On Dead Soldiers Mom's Protest At Bush's Country Estate: Iraq Veterans Against War turned out in support of Cindy Sheehan in Crawford

Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away : In his book—titled "Jawbreaker"—the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora

Saudis warned UK of London attacks : Saudi Arabia officially warned Britain of an imminent terrorist attack on London just weeks ahead of the 7 July bombings after calls from one of al-Qaeda's most wanted operatives were traced to an active cell in the United Kingdom.

The hunt continues for terror’s new breed: Police said they had found no evidence linking the four July 7 London bombers to Al-Qaeda or any other known terrorist organisation. Instead, investigators involved in the painstaking reconstruction of the lives of the men have provisionally concluded they were “unaffiliated terrorists” who were most likely inspired rather than directed by Al-Qaeda.

Special forces turn sights from Iraq to hunt terrorists in Britain: BRITAIN’S special forces commanders have temporarily switched the main thrust of their attention from Iraq and Afghanistan to hunting down suspected terrorists at home.

Clerics facing new law jail threat : Three prominent Islamic clerics face possible prison sentences after the government's most senior lawyer announced last night he was considering bringing charges over comments made by them last week. 

Mosque chairman sparks fresh row : A Muslim leader says there are "similarities" between new powers to tackle Islamist extremism and Hitler's demonisation of the Jews.

Israel's Netanyahu Resigns to Protest Gaza Withdrawal: Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government, saying he opposed plans to evacuate Jewish settlements from Gaza.

Gunman's body to lie near his racist hero: The Jewish gunman who killed four Arabs last Thursday may be buried next to the killer he tried to emulate.

Eight "suspected" Taleban killed by US-led coalition, Afghan troops: US-led coalition and Afghan forces attacked a "suspected" Taleban hideout in southeastern Afghanistan, killing eight militants

Gunmen kill five civilians in Afghanistan : Gunmen in a car killed five Afghan civilians including a woman when they sprayed their vehicle with bullets in an attack in the country’s southeast, an official said yesterday.

This is not just another act of God : In this eyewitness account from Niamey, the capital of Niger, acclaimed British singer-songwriter Tom McRae finds nature and economics pursuing a relentless assault on the hungry millions

'Shared threats' bring Syria and Iran together: Ahmadinejad : Iran's new President Mahmood Ahmadinejad welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran on Sunday, vowing to strengthen ties between the two countries brought together by "shared threats".

I Have Seen Big Brother – And He Is Us: Having been recently appointed Anti-Money Laundering Officer at my investment firm, I now have the official, government-sanctioned power to scrutinize our clients' account activity and report almost anything I deem "suspicious activity" to the federal government. Be worried, friends – be very worried

U.S. falls behind EU in data security: The personal information of more than 50 million consumers has been lost, stolen and even sold to thieves.

Dallas law cracks down on feeding the homeless: Under a new ordinance, charities, churches and individuals will be allowed to serve food only at approved locations. Violations will be punishable by fines of $200 to $2,000.

08/06/05: The myths of Hiroshima: The bomb was dropped, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, said in November 1945, on "an essentially defeated enemy." 

Counting the dead: A car bomb killed two policemen near the town of Iskandiriya. A U.S soldier, was killed in Mosu. A key bridge at Haditha had been blown up by U.S. forces, witnesses said, and soldiers raided homes. A doctor at Haditha hospital, said he had seen three civilians killed in military operation. Gunmen Killed One Policeman near Baquba. Gunmen killed two Iraqis including a senior official in the Iraqi National Congress party

US warns Iraq Shi'ite Islamists not to impose will: The United States' envoy in Iraq delivered a warning on Saturday to Shi'ite Islamist leaders, propelled to power by U.S. forces, not to use a new constitution to impose discriminatory laws by majority rule.

Iraq's Kurds vow no compromise on constitution: Iraqi Kurds rejected suggestions the country should be proclaimed an Islamic state in the new constitution and said there would be no compromise on the incorporation of oil-rich Kirkuk into their autonomous northern region.

Iraq Sunnis reject federal proposal: Sunni members of the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution have rejected Kurdish demands for a federal state, saying it cannot be implemented under foreign military occupation and an unstable security situation.

AK Gupta: Civil War In Iraq, Made In the USA: Breaking up Iraq may be part of the plan to cut U.S. forces.

Probe rejects claims U.S. troops fired on civilians after bombing in Iraq: Iraqi police, doctors and residents said some survivors of the suicide bombing were shot after the attack when U.S. and Iraqi soldiers opened fire at the scene.

Troops Allegedly Extorted Iraqi 'Rent': U.S. military officials say California Army National Guard troops charged Iraqi merchants illegal rent

Dahr Jamail': "What Have We Done?": "I see this guy in the most prestigious office in the world, and this guy says ‘bring it on.’ A guy who ain’t never been shot at, never seen anyone suffering, saying ‘bring it on?’ He gets to act like a cowboy in a western movie…it’s sickening to me.”

Truth Gathers In Dallas: It's time to open the door, Mr. President. Our nation is knocking. If you turn Gold Star families and other REAL heroes away, what is that going to tell the "free press," and what is it going to tell all those veterans who have paid the price?

Mom of Slain Soldier Stages Bush Protest a Bush's Country Estate:

The War on Terror Explained in Plain English: Terrorism is the product of injustice and can only be stopped by stopping the injustice.

Ex-Employees Faulted Halliburton Role in Iraq: As a food manager at a U.S. military camp, Mayberry said he witnessed KBR employees serving spoiled food to American troops, including items whose expiration date was more than a year old

I am a lawyer, not a bomber : Asians should not be prejudged because of the way we look : An open letter to the person I sat opposite on the train yesterday.

Doug Ireland : The Real Aipac Spy Ring Story -- It Was All About Iran: When, for purely electoral reasons with the Iraq occupation going so disastrously, the White House decided against a direct attack by the U.S. on Iran, the neo-cons went to Plan B -- an attack on Iran by proxy, from Israel.

Israel: Fragmented beyond repair?: The continuation of the settlement enterprise is an act of suicide for the Zionist dream. It is not only about demographics. It is perhaps even more so about values, morality and lessons that we, as Jews, should understand better than anyone else.

Israeli army 'missed warnings about gunman' : The 19-year-old who killed four Israeli Arabs on a bus deserted the army to protest Israel's impending withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and took refuge in a militant Jewish settlement with his military-issued rifle.

Gilad Atzmon: 'Ha-Mechabel': For the first time the Israeli public is labelling a Judeo terrorist ‘mechabel,' a title reserved solely to Arab freedom fighters. - Is there really any categorical difference between Eden Natan Zada, a 19 year old, newly religious settler and an Israeli Air Force F-16 pilot who drops bombs on Palestinian cities?

Double standards: Until we can sympathise with the victims of terrorism regardless of their nationality, skin colour or religion -- whether they are Egyptian or British, Palestinians or Israelis, Iraqis or Americans -- all of us are in store for a great deal of more anguish.

Presbyterians pressure 2 state firms on Mideast: A Presbyterian Church (USA) committee announced plans Friday to try to dissuade five companies, including two based in Illinois, from making money off the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Israel's secret bomb : According to the Monterey Institute, as well as 50 Jericho 2 missiles targeted at the Middle East, Israel has also Ra'am planes (range 4,500km) and Shavit space launchers (4,800 km) that have the capability to strike targets in the EU, western Russia and north Africa, as well as central and south Asia.

Video: Israel's Secret Weapon: This film is the story of the bomb, Vanunu and Israel's wall of silence. 

Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 08/05/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.

The bomb didn't win it : The idea that it was militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb in 1945 is now discredited. - The use of atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not provide the US with the free hand it had wanted and has proved disastrous for the world.

The birth of 'mere terror' : Hiroshima wasn't uniquely wicked. It was part of a policy for the mass killing of civilians

Never again? How the war in Iraq spurred a new nuclear arms race : The threat of American nuclear attack, albeit veiled, did not deter Saddam Hussein from invading Kuwait. On the other hand, North Korea's boasting of a nuclear arsenal saved it from invasion.

Charley Reese: John Bolton: The reality is that the United States has and will use the United Nations to accomplish its own purposes or, in other cases, simply ignore it. Whenever we decide to ignore it, there is nothing the U.N. can do about it except talk.

Rove Was Fired By Bush Senior In '92: Mr. Rove was fired from the state campaign to re-elect the first President Bush on suspicions that Mr. Rove had leaked damaging information to Mr. Novak about Robert Mosbacher Jr., the campaign manager and the son of a former commerce secretary.

Anonymous Lies From Anonymous Sources: The Valerie Plame affair exposes more than just Karl Rove's dirty tricks -- it exposes the press.

Mark Crispin Miller: Excerpt: None Dare Call It Stolen: Ohio, the election, and America's servile press.

The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, empire, Jesus, and the death genes: A vision: Across a blacktop highway, beneath a weather-flayed billboard that proclaimed "One Nation under God—Bush/Cheney 2004," in a field of desiccated corn stalks, gaunt, bearded, mullet-haired, crackhead Jesus rose from the shrouds of coke-smoke and drifted across the blacktop highway to raise the roadkill from the dead.

08/05/05: The responsibility we share for Islamist shock and awe: Citizens in democracies will be held to account for what is done in their name

Bush's dirty war: Bush's dirty war is having a counterproductive effect, just as dirty wars did in Vietnam, Algeria and Argentina. 

Chris Floyd: Blood and Gravy: The war on Iraq is "largely a matter of loot

The Hiroshima Cover-Up: A STORY THAT the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. 

Video: Iraqi Resistance Attacks And Kills U.S. Marines: - WARNING -This video shows the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Counting the dead: 13 Killed across Iraq : Four Iraqi soldiers were killed when their patrol came under attack near Samarra, while a woman and her infant son were killed in a bomb blast near Al-Dawr, both towns north of Baghdad.

Marine Injured In Iraq Dies After Feeding Tube Removed: Staff Sgt. Chad Jerome Simon, 32, died Thursday afternoon. He suffered a brain injury when he was injured by a roadside bomb in Fallujah last November

Back From Iraq, Colorado Soldier Kills Himself, Wife: A Colorado soldier who just returned from duty in Iraq fatally shot his wife and then himself, according to a Fort Carson spokesman.

Elusive sniper saps US morale in Baghdad : They have never seen Juba. They hear him, but by then it's too late: a shot rings out and another US soldier slumps dead or wounded.

U.S. Launches Attacks in Western Iraq: Residents in the area said U.S. and Iraqi forces had cordoned off Haqlaniyah, about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, and began conducting house to house searches. American warplanes were hovering overhead and a number of heavy explosions were heard. Witnesses said 500-pound bombs were being dropped in the area.

Veteran roiled by Army's interrogations: The retired brigadier general was crushed, last year, when he learned his nation's flag had flown over prisons where U.S. troops abused suspected enemy fighters.

Over 50 LA Soldiers Prosecuted in Iraq: At least 55 soldiers serving in Iraq with the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Brigade have been tried and convicted of criminal charges

Poll: Disapproval of President Bush's Handling of Iraq at 62%: A new opinion poll indicates that Americans' approval of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq is at its lowest level since the conflict began in 2003.

War pimp alert: Shipment of high explosives intercepted in Iraq: Most sophisticated of roadside bombs reportedly coming from Iran

War Pimp Alert: US's Bolton warns Iran, Syria over Iraqi border: - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, in his debut in the U.N. Security Council, pressed Syria and Iran on Thursday to do more to stem the flow of terrorists, arms and funding into neighboring Iraq.

War Pimp Alert: Rumsfeld says Syria 'not behaving in wise manner': Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday criticized Syria's leaders for "not behaving in a wise manner" by aiding Iraqi insurgents and warned that such conduct could come back to haunt them.

CIA at work in Iran?: Iran sends in troops to crush border unrest : The Iranian government has deployed large numbers of troops in cities in the northwestern region which borders Iraq in an effort to quell three weeks of civil unrest that has left up to 20 people dead and more than 300 wounded, according to reports from "dissident groups."

British general says talk of Iranian influence in Iraq is based mostly on speculation: The remark by Maj. Gen. Jim B. Dutton of the British Royal Marines contrasted with criticisms of Iran by U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who have said repeatedly that Iran is interfering in Iraq's internal affairs.

Iran rejects "unacceptable" EU nuclear proposals: "The proposals are unacceptable," top nuclear negotiator Hossein Moussavian said, describing them as a "clear violation" of agreements between Tehran and the EU. "They negate Iran's inalienable right," he added.

Five soldiers killed in North Waziristan blast: Five soldiers were killed and two others sustained injuries on Thursday when their military vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Al-Qa'ida deputy warns of more bombings and blames Blair : Al-Qa'ida has warned that Britain can expect more terrorist attacks because of the foreign policies pursued by Tony Blair.

Al-Qaida is now an idea, not an organisation : Bin Laden may not be capable of organising terror attacks directly, but then he does not need to

British police charge two sisters in London bombings investigation : The women -- sisters listed under separate addresses in south London -- were charged with failing to disclose information that could have helped police in a terror-related investigation.

UK shakes off qualms about deportation : Prime Minister Tony Blair, said radical websites would be closed, firebrand clerics thrown out of the country and the human rights legislation amended, if necessary, to make all this easier.

The dirty war in London: As we learn a little more about the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, it is becoming clearer that this was a military operation, involving a special unit set up, in April, to combat terrorism, which included members that were trained by the SAS

London mosque leaders say they warned police in 2003 about bomb suspect : A trustee of a London mosque says he warned police two years ago about one of the suspected July 21st subway bombers.

London Launches Massive Security Operation : In a show of force to calm an edgy London, officers armed with submachine guns patrolled uncrowded subway stations and police helicopters hovered over city streets

Galloway says Blair and Bush 'have blood on their hands' : Tony Blair and George Bush have "far more blood on their hands" than the terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings, George Galloway said today.

Sydney unveils evacuation plan in case of attack: Text messages on mobile phones will alert hundreds of wardens to begin evacuating office workers and shoppers from Sydney's central business district in the event of a terrorist attack, authorities said on Friday.

Australia: Be alert ... and very alarmed: The Attorney-General departed from the Howard Government's long-held motto of "be alert, not alarmed" in reaction to the number of people in the country who have trained with extremist organisations.

PM to reveal tougher counter-terror laws: Prime Minister John Howard is expected to announce tougher counter-terrorism laws within days, giving authorities greater power to monitor "extremists."

Lawsuit filed to halt 'publicity stunt' transit bag searches : Five city subway riders and a civil liberties group sued the city Thursday to stop random police scrutiny of bags in subways, calling the searches ineffective, unconstitutional and a publicity stunt that does not enhance safety.

Israeli soldier opens fire, killing 4 : The windows of the bus were shattered. Blood stained some of the seats. A policeman with a bullhorn, standing near the body, addressed a crowd of thousands at the scene.

Settlers threaten to destroy greenhouses : Eytan Hadari, said he ordered bulldozers to destroy 1,000 acres of greenhouses next week after failing to secure $15 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

MP Galloway standing by comment : "It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony," he said.

U.S to transfer hundreds of Afghan prisoners: The United States will return about 110 Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo, Cuba, to Afghanistan, where the Kabul government will decide whether to detain or release them, the two countries said on Thursday.

Israeli Syp Affair: Lobbyists for Israel indicted by U.S.: U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty said the men were attempting to influence U.S. foreign policy.

Chavez denies aiding Colombian rebels, accuses U.S. of spreading lies : Chavez responded to statements by State Department officials who accused Venezuela of backing Colombian guerrillas with weapons and funding "antidemocratic groups" in Bolivia, Ecuador and elsewhere.

What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay?: The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and reportedly building a new base there. Human rights groups and military analysts in the region believe trouble is brewing.

U.S. will monitor Beijing-Moscow military exercises: U.S. military officials said yesterday they will be watching closely as China and Russia prepare for unprecedented joint military exercises later this month to be staged on a Chinese province close to the Korean Peninsula.

Keep Away From Washington: South Korea is right to distance itself from Washington to avoid ending up on the losing side in a new Cold War-like standoff between the United States and China, a renowned American expert on Northeast Asian politics advised.

Video: Pressure getting to Novak?: Robert D. Novak stormed off CNN's set after using vulgar language during a live discussion with CNN contributor James Carville on the "Strategy Session" segment of the August 4 edition of CNN's Inside Politics.

CNN Suspends Novak After He Walks Off Set : CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he swore and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville.

Film Suppressed: The US Government Hides Hiroshima Nagasaki Footage For Decades: Footage of the devastation after the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that was commissioned by the US occupying forces was suppressed for decades.

Hiroshima Cover-up: Stripping the War Department's Timesman of His Pulitzer: : The New York Times reporter who covered the bombings was on the US government payroll. Journalists Amy Goodman and David Goodman call for the Pulitzer Board to strip Laurence and his paper, The New York Times, of the undeserved prize.

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: The National Security Archive publishes the most comprehensive on-line collection to date of declassified U.S. government documents on the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific. 

08/05/05: Skin in the Game: August is 3 days old and 22 soldiers and Marines have died in Iraq already.

A View Of Iraq From A Soldier: My view of the situation in Iraq will differ from what the American People are being told by the Bush Administration. My opinions on this matter come from what I witnessed in Iraq personally.

Gangs threaten revival of civil war in Sudan : 84 killed in clashes after leader's death

Counting The Dead: Nine Iraqi security personnel were also killed in scattered attacks Thursday. Another American Marine was killed in action in a city in the Euphrates River valley. Gunmen killed four Iraqi troops. U.S. soldiers killed five "insurgents". Two Iraqi soldiers from the elite Wolf Brigade were killed Thursday in a car bombing. Three other policemen were killed in a drive-by shooting in Kirkuk.

Gunmen Kill Iraqi Soldiers Wife And Children: Gunmen stormed the home of an Iraqi soldier near the town of Baquba, killing his wife, his 12 year-old daughter and his six-year-old son as they lay asleep on the floor, police and survivors said.

Three National Guard's killed in Iraq: Military officials says the three, who were members of the guard's 48th Brigade, were killed yesterday in a car bomb attack. Another was seriously wounded.

2 Iraq veterans stationed at Fort Hood kill themselves : Two young soldiers who served in the Iraq war have killed themselves in separate incidents in Killeen since the weekend, post officials said Wednesday.

Marine Killed by Small Arms Fire in Ramadi: An American Marine was killed in action during operations in a volatile city west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Unofficial de-Baathification process targets Sunnis in Basra: The assassins have targeted mostly men who are thought to have been connected to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which was dominated by Sunni Muslims. About 950 people have been killed since Saddam's regime was toppled in April 2003

Al-Zawahri warns Britain, US of more attacks: "What you have seen in New York, Washington and Afghanistan, are only the initial losses and if you (United States) continue the same hostile policies you will see what will make you forget those horrors," he said in reference to the 11 September 2001 attacks

Mike Whitney : Hot in Crawford; Hot in Hell : Fourteen Marines will touch down at Dover Air Force Base tomorrow; their lives cut-short in a brutal war that has yet to produce a rationale. The architect of that war will be landing at nearly the same time at his vacation home in Crawford, Texas; resting up from the grueling task of sending other-mother's-sons to die for nothing. Where's the outrage?

Family Members Of U.S. Military Killed In Iraq To Protest At Bush's Country Estate.: George Bush said, "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." Members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) are going to George's vacation home in Crawford, Tx this Saturday, August 6th at 11:00 am to confront him on these two statements.

Ohio families reeling after battalion loses 21 in six days : Rosemary Palmer and her husband were making plans to attend memorial services for six Marine reservists killed earlier this week-- five of them from the same battalion as her son, Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder-- when two uniformed servicemen came down her street.

Marine killings in Iraq send new warning sign to Bush : Another day of carnage in Iraq threatened to deal a new blow to brittle public backing for President George W. Bush's handling of the war, as 14 Marines perished in a roadside bombing.

William Rivers Pitt: A Feast of Death: Those who would defend Mr. Bush and his deranged war policies are fond of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic, un-American cowards.

GI Pleads Guilty to Mistreating Detainee: A military intelligence soldier pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that she mistreated a detainee in Afghanistan who later died. Salcedo said that while questioning Dilawar on Dec. 8, 2002, she kicked him, grabbed his head and forced him against a wall several times.

Pentagon Relases More Photos Of War Casualty Honor Guards: Freedom of Information Lawsuit Removes Secrecy for Flag-Draped Casket Ceremonies

War is Fun as Hell: With enlistment plummeting, the U.S. military has resorted to flashy marketing and controversial information gathering to pad its numbers.

The Plight of Pvt. Jonathan Barriga, USMC: Jonathan was a young man in high school when the Marine recruiter approached him about joining the Marines “Delayed Entry” program. 

US challenged over 'secret jails' : Two Yemeni men claim they were held in secret, underground US jails for more than 18 months without being charged, Amnesty International has said.

Australia: Hicks trial 'abuse of rule of law': FORMER High Court judge Mary Gaudron believes the trial process faced by Australian terror suspect David Hicks in the United States is an abuse of the rule of law.

A new credo for the hyperpower : To improve its influence and image in the world, the US should refrain from building new nuclear weapons, scrap the Bush doctrine of preventive war and regime change, break its climate-changing oil habit, and recommit to international rule-making organisations such as the UN.

Respect Islamic world's contributions : The astonishing blind spot in Western mentality that paints Islam as being a religion of violence is so bizarre as to be perplexing. How has it become so easy to overlook centuries of Christian aggression and blood-letting

Bomb made only of flour, says suspect's Italian lawyer : One of the July 21 bomb suspects claimed yesterday the devices used in the alleged attacks contained only flour, according to his lawyer.

London put on highest alert as first man is charged over terror attacks : The first person to be charged in connection with the July 21 attacks will appear in court this morning as London prepares to go on high alert again, with a massive armed police presence on the streets.

Asylum Briton found with 452 fake passports: A Briton arrested in Thailand sits at a table with 452 fake European Union passports that were found in his luggage.

Frustration mounts among UK Muslims: Only days after the first London bombings you wrote in The Guardian, "The bloody trail of blame leads straight to 10 Downing Street." Were you suggesting in any way that Britain's role in the Iraq war may have justified those attacks? FAISAL BODI: Absolutely.

Britain's Muslim scapegoats : Huge rise in race attacks on all ethnic minorities across Britain. Senior Tory MP tells Muslims: 'If you don't like our way of life, get out'. Senior Muslim tells women not to wear veils in public for fear of assault

Ken Livingstone : Three ways to make us all safer : Support the police, treat Muslims with respect and pull out of Iraq

In case you missed it: John Pilger hails the Brigaders: The legacy of the International Brigades helps us understand not only the nature of fascism, but that even those who are not fascists have similar goals.

Jewish terrorist murders four people in Israeli Arab town : A Jewish settler in army uniform opened fire on bus passengers in a Druze neighborhood of the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram in northern Israel Thursday afternoon. Four people - the driver another male and two women - were killed and five injured

Jewish Extremist Kills 3 Israeli Arabs : A Jewish extremist opened fire inside a bus Thursday, killing three Israeli Arabs before being slain by an angry crowd, police said - an attack that could be linked to Israel's upcoming pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

Jewish Extremist Kills 3 Israeli Arabs : A Jewish extremist opened fire inside a bus Thursday, killing three Israeli Arabs before being slain by an angry crowd, police said - an attack that could be linked to Israel's upcoming pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.

Israel Housing Ministry Issues Tenders : Israel's Housing Ministry said Thursday it has issued tenders to build 72 housing units in a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem.

Amira Hass: What business is it of Chirac?: Europe bears historic and moral responsibility for both peoples living in our land - the occupied Palestinian people and the Jewish-Israeli people - the occupier. This should be enough to obligate Europe not to assist Israel in implementing its master plan, regardless of whether or not that plan jeopardizes the security of the region and the world.

Israeli economic corruption rises: Jewish state scores low marks with regard to government corruption and influence, leadership efficiency, implementation of law and political stability; Ranks far lower than most developing countries

Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 08/03/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.

Jordan uncovers al Qaeda plot to attack U.S. troops: Jordan has arrested 17 militants linked to the al Qaeda network in Iraq and an affiliated Saudi group who were plotting to attack U.S. military personnel in the kingdom, security sources said on Thursday.

UN Food Agency Triples Niger Food Aid Request To $57.6 Million : The U.N. World Food Program tripled the amount of emergency aid it is seeking for southern Niger to $57.6 million Wednesday, saying more is needed to save 2.5 million people from extreme hunger and malnutrition.

Starvation in Niger: the role of the west: Even before the current emergency, 40% of children were malnourished and the north-west African country had the second highest global mortality rate among children under five

Chevron paid Nigerian troops after alleged killings : Nigerian soldiers guarding Chevron oil rigs billed the company for $109.25 a day after they allegedly attacked two villages in the volatile country, killing four people and setting fire to homes.

U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: A roadside bomb exploded Thursday near a U.S. military vehicle near the Afghan border with Pakistan, killing an American service member and wounding another, the military said.

Taliban kill Afghan spy official in volatile south: Taliban guerrillas killed a local intelligence chief in a volatile southern Afghan province on Thursday in the latest incident of violence ahead of next month's parliamentary elections, local officials said.

UN Warns Of Afghan Maternal-Mortality 'Emergency': The UN Children's Fund says that rates of infant and maternal mortality amount to an "acute emergency" in Afghanistan.

Former Ambassador Urges U.S. Officials To Leak More Memos: The former ambassador to Afghanistan, Ann Wright, called on U.S. federal employees to leak more secret memos on the lead-up to the war in Iraq like Downing Street memos uncovered by the British press this last May.

How Britain helped Israel get the bomb : Robert McNamara, President John F Kennedy's defence secretary, has told Newsnight he is "astonished" at the revelation that Britain kept this secret from America.

Two Charged in Pentagon Information Leak : An indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., names Steven Rosen, formerly the director of foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Keith Weissman, the organization's former senior Iran analyst. 

Exclusive: New Information May Reveal Key Details on Judith Miller's Role in the Rove/CIA Scandal

Bush Fills Senior Pentagon Post : President George Bush made a second recess appointment August 2, filling a senior Pentagon post with an official whose nomination had been blocked in the Senate.

Vanity Fair: Turks Boasted of Payments to Hastert: Turkish officials boasted of giving “tens of thousands of dollars in surreptious payments” to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) in exchange for political favors.

Call the President an "SOB," Win Votes : Hackett's near-win came after a remarkable campaign in which he blunted Republican efforts to exploit national security issues and provided food for thought for Democrats as they prepare for 2006 Congressional races nationwide.

New Documents Show FBI Targeting Peaceful Protesters : The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado today released new documents that it says confirm that the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) is inappropriately treating people who engage in peaceful protest as potential terrorists.

08/03/05: Noam Chomsky : Revisiting Hiroshima: Robert McNamara, Kennedy’s defence secretary, endorses the judgment of William Perry, President Bill Clinton’s defence secretary, that "there is a greater than 50 per cent probability of a nuclear strike on US targets within a decade." 

Former CIA worker analyses bin Laden threat: This Is A Must Watch Interview

Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs: It was inside a sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. 

Where the heck is our sense of empathy?: Cheering for the underdog is as American as fatty food. Why, then, don't we pull for the Iraqi insurgents? 

Bomb kills 14 U.S. Marines in Iraq: A roadside bomb explosion tore through a U.S. assault vehicle in Iraq on Wednesday, killing 14 American Marines and a civilian interpreter in the deadliest attack of its kind against U.S. forces since the war began.

American Journalist Killed In Basara: In Basra, an American journalist was found shot dead a few days after he wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times criticising the spread of Shi'ite Islamist fundamentalism in the southern Iraqi city.

Iraq group says captures U.S. Marine after clash : An Iraqi insurgent group said on Wednesday it has captured a U.S. Marine who was wounded in a clash in western Iraq in which eight other Marines were killed.

Pentagon denies U.S. Marine captured in Iraq

Before the War, CIA Reportedly Trained a Team of Iraqis to Aid U.S.: Before the war in Iraq began, the CIA recruited and trained an Iraqi paramilitary group, code-named the Scorpions, to foment rebellion, conduct sabotage, and help CIA paramilitaries who entered Baghdad and other cities target buildings and individuals.

David Clark: Even when we leave Iraq, we face years of blowback: Escalating violence and the rise of theocratic rule bode ill in Baghdad

Saddam's team boycotts Iraqi tribunal: Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer has said the former president's legal team will boycott proceedings until a man it claims attacked the former dictator at a hearing is brought to justice and the court apologises.

Iraqis Accuse Kuwait of Stealing Oil: Iraqi legislators accused Kuwait of stealing their oil as well as chipping away at their national territory on the border — allegations similar to those used by Saddam Hussein to justify his invasion of Kuwait that began 15 years ago Tuesday.

US asked to interrogate ‘ghost prisoners’: British security forces think many of the ‘ghost prisoners’ held by the US Central Intelligence Agency ‘may have crucial information about the events in London’, it said.

Senior Tory says that suicide attacks are 'totally explicable' : The Tory leadership distanced itself from Dominic Grieve, the shadow Attorney General, after he said the link between the Iraq war and the terror campaign could not be ignored.

Australia: War in Iraq raised terror risk: Most Australians back much tougher anti-terrorism measures. A majority would be happy to see terrorist suspects detained without charge for up to three months, deportation of suspects, random bag searches and more security cameras. A national ID card is also backed by more than six in 10 people in the poll, conducted by ACNielsen.

PM avoids Iraq risk issue: Rudd: PRIME Minister John Howard was denying Australia's involvement in Iraq had increased the risk of a terror attack at home because it would be politically uncomfortable for him to say otherwise, the Opposition said today.

Australia: Hysteria, racism behind new terror laws: After a hysterical campaign led by the Murdoch press and radio shock-jocks, Attorney-General Philip Rudduck has floated the possibility of new laws to ban books “promoting” or “justifying” terrorism.

New York Officials Back Terror Check Profiling : Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said. - ``They all look a certain way,'' said Hikind, a Democrat from Brooklyn. ``It's all very nice to be politically correct here, but we're talking about terrorism.''

The Faulty Logic of "Terrorist" Profiling: As it turns out, profiling is not only ethically questionable; it is also unlikely to prevent terrorism.

In case you missed it: Despotism & Democracy : Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?

Bush wants alternatives to Darwinism taught in school: President George W. Bush stirred the debate on the teaching of evolution in schools when he said this week that he supported the teaching of alternative viewpoints - such as the theory of Intelligent Design

n case you missed it: Uncurious George: Despite what is unfolding before us, the majority of this country's honest, freedom-loving people seem ever less interested in knowing, and ever more inclined toward believing that what we're being shown and what we're being told and what is being carried out in our name, is truth.

Insurgents kill eight Afghan soldiers, police in attack on post: Elsewhere a shootout left five people dead, while suspected militants also killed on election worker in the latest violence to hit the country ahead of next month's landmark elections.

Juan Cole: Fisking the "War on Terror": Once upon a time, a dangerous radical gained control of the US Republican Party. The American Right, having created the Mujahideen and having mightily contributed to the creation of al-Qaeda, abruptly announced that there was something deeply wrong with Islam, that it kept producing terrorists.

Ray McGovern: Preempting Cheney: Whatever plans Dick Cheney and his neo-conservatives may have had to conjure up a nuclear threat from Iran as "justification" for military action have been sharply undercut by some timely leaks to the Washington Post. 

Zambia agrees to deport London terrorism suspect to Britain : Zambia officially announced it would deport to Britain the alleged mastermind behind the July 7 London bombings after arresting Briton Haroon Aswat in Lusaka two weeks ago.

Inconsistencies in the War on Terror: In what legal limbo can a terrorist who is accused of 73 counts of premeditated murder find shelter? What is the status of Venezuela's request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles?

'I was living fiction' : A former CIA agent talks to Stephen Moss about what makes a terrorist

Third terror trial prosecutor quits: A THIRD US military prosecutor has quit the military commission process under which Australian David Hicks will be tried over concerns it is unfair.

Hicks can be tried in Aust, lawyers say: Two leading academic lawyers say Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks could be charged and tried in Australia.

Paul Craig Roberts: When Armageddon Gets No Press: Now that we really need them, the watchdog media has hired out as public relations and propaganda shills for the Bush administration and the neocon network.

Old enemies' wargames send a powerful message to the US: Russia and China hope to sign a massive arms deal after staging joint exercises for the first time

Why the US won't admit it was jilted : President Karimov of Uzbekistan has served notice to quit on the US base in his country. This completes a process of diplomatic revolution as Karimov turns away from the west and back into the embrace of Russia, with coy sideways glances at China.

''The 'Great Game' Heats Up in Central Asia'': The "Joint Statement of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation Regarding the International Order of the 21st Century," signed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 2, addresses U.S. hegemony in several less-than-oblique passages.

Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed : I was told by people in the Pentagon that they didn't want those [film] images out because they showed effects on man, woman and child. ... They didn't want the general public to know what their weapons had done

SA mercenaries off to Haiti? : South African mercenaries are said to be involved in Haiti in the run-up to that country's elections later this year, News24 reported on Tuesday.

Wave of protest condemns UN massacre of poor in Haiti : Emergency protests were held July 21 in Brazil, France and 13 U.S. and Canadian cities to express the world’s outrage at the massacre of at least 23 Haitian civilians on July 6 in the popular neighborhood of Cité Soleil by UN troops under Brazilian command.

After 10-Year Hiatus, Pentagon Eyes New Landmine : The George W. Bush administration may soon resume production of antipersonnel land mines in a move that is at odds with both the international community and previous U.S. policy on the weapons, says a leading human rights organization.

2 Aides to Rove Testify in C.I.A. Leak Inquiry: Two aides to Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, testified last Friday before a federal grand jury investigating whether government officials illegally disclosed the identity of an undercover C.I.A. operative, according to a person who has been officially briefed on the case.

Shaping politics from the pulpits : Ohio race shows how Christian right is changing the GOP

High Court Nominee Roberts a Millionaire : ohn Roberts is a multimillion-dollar man, with a fancy golf club membership and some hefty investments, according to a financial statement filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Book Review: How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage, and Crimes Against Humanity : By Michael Mandel

I'm sorry, but the world's still round: Review of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat – A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century

08/02/05: The Banner has been risen for Jihad inside the UK: We talk exclusively with two Islamic extremists about the London bombings. 

War Of The Phantoms:: Who Is ‘The Secret Organization Of al-Qaeda In Europe’?

'One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony': Benyam Mohammed travelled from London to Afghanistan in July 2001, but after September 11 he fled to Pakistan. He was arrested at Karachi airport on April 10 2002, and describes being flown by a US government plane to a prison in Morocco. These are extracts from his diary.

13 Killed As Car Bomb Targets US Convoy: At least 13 people have been reported killed in attacks in Iraq including a car bomb that exploded near a US milltary convoy in Baghdad.

9 Killed In Iraq Violence: Five civilians were killed and one wounded when gunmen ambushed their car in Shu'la district, western Baghdad, A car bomb blew up near an Iraqi police patrol, one child was killed and eight policemen and a civilian were wounded.

At Least 7 U.S. Marines Killed: Six of the Marines, assigned to Regimental Combat Team-2 of the 2nd Marine Division, died Monday in Haditha, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. Insurgents posted handbills in Haditha, claiming to have killed 10 U.S. troops, seizing some of their weapons.

4 Killed In Baghdad Blast: At least four people were killed and 24 wounded when a suicide car bomber blew himself up close to a United States military convoy in central Baghdad on Tuesday, medics said.

Marine Killed By Car Bomb: A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed near Hit, Iraq.

In case you missed it: The Unfeeling President: This president does not know what death is. - He does not mourn. He doesn't understand why he should mourn. He is satisfied during the course of a speech written for him to look solemn for a moment and speak of the brave young Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

In case you missed it: Video: Hijacking Catastrophe : 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire: In a single meticulously organized hour of evidence and analysis, viewers are treated to a thoughtful explanation of modern American empire, neo-conservatism as a driving force for the current Bush administration. This is a must watch video

Polish PM: Iraq Nation-Building 'Failed': "It failed totally," Belka said at a panel discussion on nation-building at an international forum in Sweden. "Many mistakes, major mistakes, have been committed."

British Foreign Secretary: US-led troops 'part of Iraq problem': THE presence of British and US troops in Iraq was fuelling the Sunni-led insurgency that had killed hundreds of people, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said in comments published today.

Norman Solomon : Operation Withdrawal Scam : A few days ago, the White House launched a new phase of its propaganda siege for the Iraq war.

Suspect's tale of travel and torture : For two and a half years US authorities moved Benyam Mohammed around a series of prisons in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan, before he was sent to Guantánamo Bay in September last year.

Gitmo's Kangaroo Court: First Torture Them, Then Rig Their Trials

Defence Force lawyer lashes Hicks court: Australia's top Defence Force lawyer has lambasted the US military court David Hicks faces as "unobjective" and "wrong" following the release of sensational emails of US prosecutors which describe it as rigged.

Howard, Beazley sell out on Australian law and courts: The Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kim Beazley are wrongly giving legitimacy to the US law and courts over the Australian rule of law, Greens Senator Bob Brown said today.

US terror hearings rigged, say prosecutors: The military commissions set up by the United States to try terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay are rigged, fraudulent and based on "half-assed" evidence, according to leaked e-mails.

Insiders confirm obvious: the Hicks fix is in: Australia's Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, would do well to carefully read the leaked memos from the US prosecutors on the flawed military commission trial that will judge David Hicks.

British government saves Briton from "extraordinary rendition" by the U.S.: British and American intelligence services are said to be in hot dispute over the importance of Aswat. So let's see what we can figure out—

London Bombings Mastermind is MI6 Asset?: Terrorism "Expert" John Loftus revealed that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspect wanted by British Police for "masterminding" the July 7th London bombings and July 21st attempted bombings is in fact an asset of MI6, the British Secret Service.

Religous Hatred Fuels Attacks: Faith hate crimes have soared by 600% in London since the July 7 bombings.

Israeli 'helped suicide bomber' : An Israeli Jew has been charged with helping a Palestinian suicide bomber enter Israel, where he blew himself up last month, killing five people.

The FAQ: Israel's Unilateral "Disengagement" : What is the Israeli "Disengagement" Plan?

This is a must watch video: Promises and Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the Holy Land : An intriguing look at how the British double-dealing during WWI ignited the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. A disturbing picture of a duplicitous wartime government.

Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 08/01/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.

George Monbiot: The treaty wreckers : Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The nuclear powers are commemorating it in their own special way: by seeking to ensure that the experiment is repeated.

Taleban say three beaheaded for “spying”: Taleban insurgents beheaded three Afghans on Tuesday after accusing them of spying for US forces, a Taleban spokesman said.

Central Asia: What Does Closure Of U.S. Military Base In Uzbekistan Mean?: “If I was a government of Kyrgyzstan, what I would do now is to revise that and demand a very large rent for the base, because that base becomes essential to the United States,

Russia To Increase Defense Spending By 20 Percent: President Vladimir Putin has repeated the need to modernize Russia's military, including its nuclear weapons.

Russia will help Iran despite nuclear moves: Russia will maintain support for Iran's nuclear program despite Tehran's decision to restart the enrichment of uranium, Russian news agencies quoted sources in Russia's atomic agency, Rosatom, as saying on Tuesday.

France warns Iran on nuclear activities: France has warned Iran that its decision to resume its nuclear activities could spark a major international crisis.

War pimp alert: Israel Warns of Iran Nuclear Plans: Israeli officials expressed alarm Monday over Iran's decision to resume uranium processing, warning that unless the international community steps up pressure on the Islamic state, Iran will develop nuclear weapons.

US intelligence says Iran 10 yrs away from nuclear bomb - report : The report also expresses uncertainty about whether Iran's ruling clerics have made a decision to build a nuclear arsenal

Judge shot dead in Tehran : A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead an Iranian judge today who tried the case of a prominent journalist now on a hunger strike, a judiciary spokesman said.

Bomb explodes outside British firms in Tehran: A small bomb exploded outside the offices of British Airways, BP and DaimlerChrysler in the Iranian capital Tehran yesterday, but there were no casualties, witnesses said.

Niger: Famine Warnings Unheeded: Niger's problem now, the experts say, is that many of the country's poor are remote, landlocked and little known, and desperately, desperately hungry.

Compassionate Priest is Beaten, Jailed in Haiti : What kind of world do we live in where a priest is locked up on false charges of inciting violence while the real violence of weapons and lies and oppression and power rage on in Haiti seemingly unchecked?

Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S.: A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50,000 bounties for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to protect loads of cocaine and marijuana being brought into America by Mexican smugglers, authorities said.

Gonzales balks at release of Roberts document: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Monday he would have "very serious concerns" about sharing internal documents requested by Senate Democrats in the debate over John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court.

Some Europeans Angered by Bush's Summer Surprise: The controversial John Bolton is now US President George Bush's right-hand man at the UN. Europe is stunned.

Trouble in the Land of the Free : Hundreds of billions of dollars and nearly two thousand American dead to bring democracy to Iraq, but no need to go overboard with that freedom stuff here at home, thank you.

Bush gives pep talk to disaster-hit Scout jamboree: The president twice postponed his visit to the Scout gathering, which at times had the air of a U.S. Army recruitment drive.

In case you missed it: "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Support,": .PDF : This active, layered defense is global, seamlessly integrating US capabilities in the forward regions of the world, the global commons of space and cyberspace, in the geographic approaches to US territory, and within the United States. It is a defense in depth.

World turning its back on Brand America: The US is increasingly viewed as a "culture-free zone" inhabited by arrogant and unfriendly people, according to study of 25 countries' brand reputations.

08/01/05: Deep Background: The same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.

Leaked emails claim Guantanamo trials rigged:: "The process is perpetrating a fraud on the American people"

GI exposed abuses at prison: He had witnessed a soldier shoot a 14-year-old boy in the back during a raid - as the boy was running away. That matter, he claimed, was never thoroughly investigated. 

The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism.: This presentation by eminent researcher Ahmed was recorded at the American University during the Washington, D.C. Emergency Truth Convergence Saturday, July 23 Real Video. Click here to watch

21 Killed In Iraq Violence: The bodies of 20 people, one of them beheaded, were found dumped in southwest Baghdad. Interior ministry official Brigadier Salam Lutfi was killed on a highway in eastern Baghdad.

Gunmen killed a brigadier in the Iraqi security forces on Monday, opening fire on his car as he crossed a Baghdad bridge, an interior ministry source said.

Ohio soldier killed in Iraq questioned U.S. role there : A Columbus area soldier who died Friday in Iraq had told relatives that he feared he would not make it home alive and was questioning the purpose of the U.S. military presence.

'America will never leave Iraq', US solider says: A US soldier holidaying in Ireland speaks candidly about the war in Iraq and says bases his country are building there are permanent...

UK: Could this ‘police officer’ be a soldier?: The man, wearing civilian clothes with a blue cap marked “Police”, was carrying a specially modified Heckler & Koch G3K rifle with a shortened barrel and a butt from a PSG-1 sniper rifle fitted to it — a combination used by the SAS.

Bomb suspect 'has no international terror links' : The suspect arrested in Rome over the failed July 21 London bomb attacks has no wider links to large international terrorist groups, an Italian police chief said today.

London faces lockdown to thwart third terror strike: THOUSANDS of police marksmen will be on London’s streets and rooftops again today after warnings that another team of suicide bombers is plotting a third attack on the capital. The new group is believed to be made up of British Muslims who were understood to be close to staging an attack on the Underground network last week.

Blair is a liar, say Muslim leaders: Tony Blair was accused of “lies, lies and damned lies” by Muslim leaders who claimed that he was silencing legitimate political expression while befriending Muslim dictators who oppress their people.

The real reason Blair opposes withdrawal : Their problem is that they want a pliable puppet regime in Baghdad, and they know that immediate withdrawal will undermine that aim.

Mike Whitney : Burying Blair; the post-mortem for the British PM : Blair has spent the better part of the last 5 years affixed to Bush like a tick on a rhino; riding piggy-back on the coat-tails of his Crawford-twin. He's even taken on the apocalyptic lingo of his mentor; braying about "evil ideology" and the "defense of civilization".

Iraq war prompted attack on Australian embassy: suspect: The key conspirator arrested for the bombing of Australia's embassy in Jakarta last September says the attack was launched because of Australia's involvement in the invasion of Iraq.

Awaiting Justice: The annual death rate of under-5 year old infants is 5.8 per 100 in US-occupied Afghanistan and 2.6 per 100 in US-occupied Iraq due to gross Coalition violation of the Geneva Conventions for protection of civilians

Spy's Notes on Iraqi Aims Were Shelved, Suit Says: The Central Intelligence Agency was told by an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned a major element of its nuclear weapons program, but the agency did not share the information with other agencies or with senior policy makers, a former C.I.A. officer has charged.

Red Sea bombing suspect shot dead - govt: Egyptian police shot dead one of the prime suspects in the bombings which killed at least 64 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on July 23, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Origins of the Species Neo-Con: Tracking the genealogy of the cabal of neo-conservatives who have so disastrously dominated foreign policy under George W. Bush, journalists have followed a political bloodline back to the 1960s, to cold war pamphleteers like Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, and-more respectably if also more tenuously- to the postwar University of Chicago political theorist Leo Strauss.

Justin Raimondo : Taking Down the Neocons : Federal probes will be their downfall

Contractors, military in 'bidding war': The U.S. military has hired private companies at a cost approaching $1 billion to help dispose of Saddam Hussein's arsenal in Iraq

In case you missed it: How The CIA Looted $40 Billion Of Military Equipment From Iraq

On Farthest U.S. Shores, Iraq Is a Way to a Dream: From Pago Pago in American Samoa to Yap in Micronesia, 4,000 miles to the west, Army recruiters are scouring the Pacific, looking for high school graduates to enlist at a time when the Iraq war is turning off many candidates in the States.

Paul Krugman: Triumph of the Machine: The campaign for Social Security privatization has degenerated into farce. The "global war on terrorism" has been downgraded to the "global struggle against violent extremism" (pronounced gee-save), which is just embarrassing. Baghdad is a nightmare, Basra is a militia-run theocracy, and officials are talking about withdrawing troops from Iraq next year (just in time for the U.S. midterm elections).

Tom Engelhardt : Stop Thief! : Assessing the Reaction to the Roberts Nomination : If the Democrats were an actual opposition party, if they were really a party at all, the Roberts nomination would be an open-and-shut case, no need to consider Roberts' record on abortion or anything else. - It seems, however, that the Democrats in Congress, after much shuffling and hemming and hawing, will take the sharpened razor handed them by the President and slit their own wrists.

Jim Lobe: Dating Cheney's Nuclear Drumbeat: Framing the Plame Case: It is worth noting the first moment that the specter of an advanced Iraqi nuclear-weapons program was propelled into post-9/11 public consciousness.

Arianna Huffington : The Judy File: Ever since I started blogging about Judy Miller's role in Plamegate (and in the selling of the war in Iraq), I've been showered with tips and tidbits about the jailed reporter

The Source Beyond Rove: Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal

Anti-Mubarak protesters clash with police in Cairo: Wielding bamboo batons and small leaded clubs, Egyptian security agents attacked and beat protesters on Saturday as they tried to rally in the central Tahrir Square here, chanting slogans calling for the end of Hosni Mubarak's 24-year-reign as president.

Russian Defense Minister Says Taliban Control Most Of Afghanistan... : Ivanov said the situation in Afghanistan is very "contradictory" because while the Taliban roam free in most of Afghanistan there are "no active military" operations taking place.

US and Russia split over allies in Asia : THE beginning of a United States-Russia divide in Central Asia has opened with Uzbekistan's announcement that it will close an American airbase on its territory.

Venezuela's Chavez Says CAFTA Is 'perverse' Deal That Will Harm Central America: Chavez says that is the wrong strategy for small countries with a history of domination by the United States.

Japan imposes trade sanctions on US: Japan has decided to impose its first-ever retaliatory sanctions against the United States on 15 goods, including steel, in response to a controversial US anti-dumping law.

Sweden donates more than the US : The Swedish donation to the survivors of the devastating disaster in South East Asia is more than twice the amount donated by the United States, the world’s richest nation

Immigrants' arrests leave their children stranded: About 30 children, some as young as 3 months old, were left behind with no parents after the arrests, officials said.

07/31/05: Exclusive: Secret Memo—Send to Be Tortured: This memo appears to be the first that directly questions the legal premises of the Bush administration policy of "extraordinary rendition"—a secret program under which terror suspects are transferred to foreign countries that have been widely criticized for practicing torture.  

Terror attacks are response to military actions: Terrorism is actually a response to military interventions perpetrated by western governments.

bin Laden must be a very satisfied man: Gen. Musharraf and Pakistan should know a thing or two about terrorists , having incubated and nurtured Muslim militants , Jihadis and terrorists including Al Qaeda and the Talebans since early 1980s. 

Not a Matter of Religious Belief: : "Righteous murderers may claim they're spreading democracy and defending human rights, but clearer heads and common sense can distinguish faith based motivation of fanatics, who have killed 128,000 people so far because God told their commander in chief to go to war.

Morality, Terrorism and the Laws of Motion: Civilian fatalities in Muslim cities must be tolerated, we are told, because no war is clean in killing. But terrorists are different. They have no other intention but to terrorize our civilians and cities. Hence we are good and they are evil, the logic goes, because they have no moral claim to violence as we do.  

13 Killed In Iraq Violence: : A car bomb exploded south of Baghdad, killing seven civilians. Gunmen opened fire on a group leaving a military base in Baquba, killing one.

11 killed as US Marines use tanks, aircraft to battle anti-occupation forces in western Iraq : The military says U-S Marines killed eleven insurgents using tanks and aircraft today in western Iraq after the Americans came under attack from a village schoolhouse.

Five GIs killed by roadside bombs in Iraq: Five U.S. soldiers were killed by roadside bombs in two separate incidents in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday.

Guard killed in Chalabi convoy attack: An attempt has been made on the life of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi.

Iraq Constitution Framers Seek Extension : The committee writing the new Iraqi constitution decided Sunday to ask parliament for a 30-day extension to finish the draft, members said. The decision marks a setback to U.S. efforts to maintain political momentum to combat the insurgency.

Iraq is the new 'epicenter' of global terrorism: Al-Qaeda expert: "Like Afghanistan produced the last generation of terrorists, Iraq will produce the next generation," he said.

Terror suspect gives first account of London attack : · Rome captive 'says Iraq sparked plot' · Security chiefs fear new wave of assaults · Huge hunt for bomb mastermind · Death gangs were linked, say police

Extraordinary admission to interrogators by London bomb suspect : The would-be bombers watched films, "especially those in which you saw women and children killed and exterminated by the English and American soldiers, or widows, mothers and daughters who were crying". "We never had contacts with the Bin Laden organisation.

Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out : Over the past fortnight Israeli intelligence agents have noticed something distinctly odd happening on the internet. One by one, Al-Qaeda’s affiliated websites have vanished until only a handful remain

Gwynne Dyer: A few obscenities for Blair and company to chew on: Let's talk dirty. The 9/11 suicide hijackers — all Arabs — attacked the U.S. instead of Brazil or Japan because the U.S. government has been neck-deep in the politics of the Arab world for a generation, whereas the Brazilian and Japanese governments haven't.

Carter: Guantanamo's an embarrassment, war unjust: I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. 

Cheney's boundless Iraq profiteering: Things are going well in Iraq for the invaders. Well, at least for some people, such as US Vice-President Richard Cheney. He is receiving more than $US1 million ($A1.3 million) a year from Halliburton, the company of which he was CEO from 1995 to 2000, in "deferred remuneration" while he is VP. He is worth every penny.

5,000 US Troops Have Gone AWOL: Getting Out of Iraq...One Way or Another

David Antoon : The Reality Of War: When the Bush twins are drafted, along with the children of Senators, Congressmen, corporate "fat cats", neocons, and the "media cheerleaders" for this war, perhaps then, and only then, will the cost of war be borne by all.

U.S. territories hotbed for Army recruits: High school graduates from places like Micronesia and the Philippines are signing up in droves, looking for a good paycheck.

In case you missed it: The Silence of the Blonds : How did Tony Blair, George Bush and Malcolm Fraser of Australia not understand the primeval wickedness they had let loose in Iraq? The answer was simple.

In case you missed it: Iraq's Child Prisoners : A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees – some as young as 10 – are also being subjected to rape and torture

‘Israeli terror is worse’: Former Education Minister Shulamit Aloni blasts ‘megalomaniac’ Prime Minister Sharon in interview with Arab-Israeli newspaper, says he should face justice. Aloni also charges Israel a racist state that commits war crimes

Israel Threatens Massive Ground Operation: Israel would launch a massive ground operation if Palestinian militants fire on Israeli soldiers and settlers during next month's Gaza pullout, the deputy defense minister said Sunday.

Israeli Spy Affair: FBI seeks to probe senior Israeli diplomat in Pentagon spy case : The American request was discussed a few weeks ago at an interministerial meeting in Jerusalem. The consensus was that neither Gilon nor other officials should be allowed to undergo investigation by the FBI

Iran says ready to restart nuclear work Monday: Iran said it would restart some nuclear activities on Monday unless it receives European Union proposals on Sunday to break a diplomatic impasse.

Iran warns U.S., Israel against attack: Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said Friday that Iran is ready to confront any military attack by Israel and the United States.

David Ray Griffin : 9/11 and the Mainstream Press : You might assume that the 9/11 Commission would have played the role of an impartial jury, simply evaluating the evidence for the competing conspiracy theories and deciding which one was more strongly supported.

Flawed Assumptions: 9/11 in Historical Perspective: Deep Politics: Drugs, Oil, Covert Operations and Terrorism. A briefing for Congressional staff

Roberts' radicalism needs media scrutiny: Roberts argued to the Supreme Court that Roe vs. Wade should be "overruled." • He won a case blocking doctors in many cases from even discussing reproductive options with their patients. • He has ruled in favor of sweeping powers for the president in this state of perpetual war -- with frightening implications for our civil liberties.

Roberts Had Larger 2000 Recount Role : The role of US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the 2000 election aftermath in Florida was larger than has been reported. Roberts helped prepare the Supreme Court case.

Dodd: Bolton Lacks Support for U.N. Post : ``He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility,'' said Sen. Christopher Dodd, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

07/30/05: Car Bomb Kills 7: The blast in Baghdad apparently was aimed at police. Officials say three policemen were killed and four wounded.

Bodies of Baghdad airport employees, driver found; Sunni official: Police and hospital officials say the bodies of two Baghdad International Airport employees and their driver have been discovered in a field in southwestern Baghdad.

Security incidents in Iraq, July 30: A roadside bomb killed two Britons . An Iraqi health ministry official, Eman Naji, was kidnapped by gunmen. A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy killed one Iraqi civilian in Baghdad. The bodies of three people who were blindfolded and shot were discovered in the Hay al-Amil area of Baghdad.

Two Local Marines Killed In Iraq: Three members of the Ohio-based Marine Forces Reserve's Lima Company, third Battalion, 25th Regiment have been killed in Iraq.

U.S. Soldier Killed In Baghdad, An American soldier and an Iraqi civilian were killed in a roadside bombing, authorities said.

Blast survivors hit by gunfire: Some survivors of a suicide bombing targeting Iraqi army recruits were shot and wounded immediately afterward when U.S. and Iraqi soldiers opened fire at the scene, police, doctors and witnesses said Saturday.

Sunnis Demonstrate in Baghdad: 1 Million Iraqis say "US Out"!

Parliament speaker warns troops not to attack Tel Affar: Parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani has warned both U.S. and Iraqi troops against the use of military force in solving the tense situation in Tel Affar.

Man attacks Saddam in court -defence team: "As the president stood to leave the courtroom one of those present attacked him and there was an exchange of blows between the man and the president," the statement said.

Report uncovers U.S. fraud in Iraq : A special auditor monitoring billions of dollars spent by the U.S. on Iraq's reconstruction found millions of dollars worth of fraud by American officials and companies.

Garbage in Fallujah Brings Iraqis Together: "We worked with our bare hands. It was Shiaa and Sunni and Christians working together.”

Carter Blasts Guantanamo Detention Camp : Former President Jimmy Carter on Saturday said the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States.

Douglas Hurd: You cannot divorce Iraq from the terror equation : We removed a cruel dictator and substituted a scene of carnage and anarchy

UK bomb suspect arrested in Zambia: Zambian police have confirmed they are holding British national Haroon Aswat, suspected to be linked to the 7 July London bombings.

Death of a Brazilian : In order to justify the murder of Menazes it is necessary to ‘massage’ the facts to fit the crime.

Now armed police patrol city's roads : Patrol cars carrying armed police will hit the streets of Bradford in response to the terror attacks on London.

Italy extends anti-terrorism powers: The Italian parliament has given final approval to measures that will give the state greater powers to combat terrorism

Was it Al-Qaeda?: In investigations of the Sharm El-Sheikh attacks, the spectre of Al-Qaeda may be a bogeyman concealing the real culprits

Taliban kills parliamentary candidate, 6 bodyguards in Afghanistan : Taliban insurgents who vowed to derail the upcoming Afghan legislative polls killed a parliamentary candidate along with his six bodyguards in the restive Uruzgan province.

Roadside blast kills Afghan official and two bodyguards: An Afghan district governor and two of his bodyguards were killed on Saturday when a remote-controlled roadside bomb hit their car in south-central Afghanistan

U.S. Evicted From Air Base In Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan formally evicted the United States yesterday from a military base that has served as a hub for combat and humanitarian missions to Afghanistan since shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Pentagon and State Department officials said yesterday.

US Army to pull out of 13 German bases: Eleven bases in and around the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg will be handed over to the German government by September 2007. Two more bases near Wuerzburg will close and be handed over in subsequent years.

Hungry in the Middle of Nowhere: Niger has about eleven million people. Perhaps four million of them could starve to death if they don't get help, right now.

France says world was late to help starving Niger: France blamed a food crisis gripping its former colony Niger on a late response by the entire international community on Saturday, saying it was not the only country responsible for aiding the world's poor.

Iran to put nuclear “spies” on trial: "The [MeK] had the main role in this and they have boasted before about spying against Iran in a press conference in America," Younessi said. "We have identified and arrested dozens of spies on various grounds."

The truth behind the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal : In opening the door to nuclear commerce with India, Washington has confirmed how much an alliance with New Delhi is worth to it. But is anybody on the Indian side doing the math

Free-trade plan splits Caribbean nations at unity conference: Almost all commerce flows north and south, mainly involving the United States, and only about 8 percent of trade is between Caribbean nations, a fact Panamanian President Martin Torrijos attributed to "historic trends of domination."

Why the U.S. and France hate Haiti : Like Sandinista Nicaragua and Castro’s Cuba, liberating itself was Haiti’s original sin. Two centuries later, the forces of counter-liberation are still relentlessly applied against it.

Military classes are off course; In the suburbs, the armed forces are welcomed for more than just visits. They're teaching some of the classes.

Marine Corps New: Some to Lose Hundreds in Pay Monday: Untold numbers of servicemembers residing off base will see their next paycheck shrink by as much as $250 -- and many of them may not even know the blow is coming.

The Angry American: Polls say most Americans believe the President lied to gain approval for the war in Iraq and also believe the majority of members of Congress are corrupt and don’t serve their constituents.

The Price of an Ambassadorship: Like administrations before it, the Bush White House is rewarding campaign fund-raisers with plum diplomatic posts. But is now the right time to risk alienating Europe? Plus, the two faces of John Roberts.

Dems Field Another Pro-War Candidate: Meet Hack the Hawk: The latest Congressional candidate to be peddled by the pro-war Democratic establishment, including Howard Dean, James Carville, the Daily Kos, Democracy for America, Al Franken on Air America Radio, etc., is Paul Hackett in southern Ohio.

07/29/05: George Galloway: Americans losing in Iraq and Lebanon is on brink of civil war: “I believe that the resistance will grow stronger and stronger, and the occupiers will pay dearly”, he said referring to foreign forces in Iraq.

Tony Benn: Time to end nuclear defence policy:: The most immediate danger may well be US — or even Israeli — air strikes against Iran, justified on the grounds that Tehran is in breach of the non-proliferation treaty, while protecting, and arming, Israel which is the most fully equipped nuclear power in the Middle East. 

White House Redefines The Meaning Of "Torture":  Congress may approve funding for the gulag. But the people's representatives must have no say whatsoever in the gulag's operations. To give way on this point would reintroduce the rule of law and genuine democracy to U.S. government. 

Suicide bomber kills 25 in northern Iraq - police: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Iraqi army recruits in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 35, police said.

9 Iraq "insurgents" killed in U.S. bombing: U.S. Marine jets Thursday dropped laser-guided bombs and other ordnance on insurgent positions in a village northwest of Baghdad, killing nine insurgents - five of them Syrians, the U.S. Military said.

Seven beheaded bodies found near Iraqi capital : The murder victims were five police officers and two Iraqi civilians who worked for the US Army

Two Marines Killed: Two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action July 28 when their unit came under attack by small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades.

One killed in Baghdad car bombing : The vehicle exploded near a bridge in the Attafiyah district of the capital and an AFP journalist saw three cars ablaze.

Report From Falluja: "We Regard Falluja As a Large Prison" : Doctors Ahmed and Salam, says Ahmed, they see one or two dead civilians every day, and that hundreds have been killed by coalition forces since the city was taken over by the US.

Philippine diplomats pulled out of Iraq: Philippine diplomats in Iraq have left their Baghdad mission indefinitely pulling back to Jordan due to a rash of kidnappings of foreign diplomats.

US troops may protect envoys in Iraq: The US military is to consider protecting foreign diplomats in Baghdad after al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the killing of three Algerian diplomats this month, the new American ambassador said.

Iraqi Kurds demand say over northern oil fields: Iraq's Kurds want at least partial control over northern oil resources in a post-war political system that ends uneven distribution of wealth, Planning Minister Barham Salih said on Friday.

Mike Whitney : Don't count on early Withdrawal from Iraq : We can expect to hear a lot about civil war in the next few weeks; and federalism, too. Don't believe a word of it. The Pentagon is moving forward with its plan to divide Iraq into three parts and it's using the pretext of civil war to justify its strategy.

Security costs slow Iraq reconstruction: Efforts to rebuild water, electricity and health networks in Iraq are being shortchanged by higher-than-expected costs to provide security and by generous financial awards to contractors, according to a series of reports by government investigators released yesterday.

Army charges 11 'Night Stalkers' in abuse of captives: Eleven men from the Fullerton, Calif.-based Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion of the 184th Infantry Regiment are charged with abusing four Iraqi insurgents captured while trying to attack a power plant in southern Baghdad.

Dutch Asked to Extradite Accused Iraqi: The United States has charged a Dutch citizen with conspiring to kill Americans in Iraq, the first U.S. criminal case connected to terrorist activities there, the Justice Department said Friday.

Iraq Affecting Mental Health of Troops: 30 Percent of Troops Develop Mental Problems After Coming Home From Iraq, Military Says

Majority in U.S. Feels Bush Misled on Iraq War: 51 per cent of respondents believe the Bush administration deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction

Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President : A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.

Ray McGovern: Iraq-Niger: Cheney and the Forgery I believe this helps to explain the highly unusual role Vice President Dick Cheney played regarding the forged “intelligence” about Iraq seeking to acquire uranium from Niger—the source of that particular lie.

Bob Herbert : Oil and Blood : The whole point of this war, it seems, was to establish a long-term military presence in Iraq to ensure American domination of the Middle East and its precious oil reserves, which have been described, the author Daniel Yergin tells us, as "the greatest single prize in all history."

Army Mechanic Acquitted of Desertion: Sgt. Kevin Benderman, an Army mechanic who refused to go to Iraq while he sought conscientious objector status was acquitted of desertion Thursday but found guilty of a lesser charge and sentenced to 15 months behind bars.

State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed : John Bolton, President Bush's nominee for U.N. ambassador, neglected to tell Congress he had been interviewed in a government investigation into faulty prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials in Africa, the State Department said.

W.House gives strong signal on Bolton appointment: President Bush will soon bypass the Senate and appoint John Bolton to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Madrassa foreigners 'must leave' : Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says all foreign students at madrassas, or religious schools, some 1,400 pupils, must leave the country.

U.S., Afghan forces kill six suspected guerrillas: U.S. and Afghan troops killed six suspected militants in the latest spate of growing violence by Taliban insurgents ahead of parliamentary polls, the U.S. military said on Friday.

Italy says it arrests fourth London bomb suspect: The fourth man suspected of trying to detonate bombs on London's transport network on July 21 has been arrested in Rome, Italy's interior minister said on Friday.

Further attacks likely, says police chief : The risk of another terror attack remains very high, Sir Ian Blair warned yesterday as an unprecedented security operation began on Britain's transport system.

Shooting to kill: Londoners, don't let your bobbies grow up to be cowboys, which would compound the terrorist toll.

Inside the Minds of Suicide Bombers: What inspires young men and women to become suicide bombers? Religious fanaticism? Nationalism? Alienation? Or some toxic mix of all three?

War pimp alert: U.S.: Iranian Cadre Training Hezbollah : A top State Department official informed Congress on Thursday that Iranian cadre were training Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.

32,000 children in Niger face ‘mortal threat’: UNICEF appeals to the world community for an additional US$14.6 million to save children’s lives in Niger

Niger diary I: Arriving on the ground : Mark Snelling is a member of the British Red Cross Society's Emergency Response Unit in Niger. He has been keeping a diary for the BBC News website.

Mauritania also at risk of hunger : The combination of the locust invasion and drought which has brought a food crisis to Niger is set to affect the entire Sahel region of West Africa.

Basayev broadcast enrages Russia : Russia says it is outraged by an interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev broadcast on America's ABC television network.

New post to help Castro 'demise' : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the creation of a new post to help "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba.

Australia releases children from detention camps : Australia on Thursday began releasing the last 42 children from razor-wire immigration detention camps

CAFTA Voting Irregularities: After Congress passes CAFTA by one vote in a midnight count, questions are being raised about the process. We speak with the Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch about the GOP leaders' round-up of House votes to approve trade agreement.

Jonathan Tasini: Spanking The CAFTA 15: Enough is enough. The 15 so-called Democrats who voted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement must pay a heavy price for turning their backs on labor: None of them should receive a dime from labor unions and each one should face a labor-backed primary challenger next year.

FBI wants more subpoena power: Director says bureau shouldn't have to seek court approval

07/28/05: They Just Never Meant Very Much To Us: Samples From An Ocean Of Suffering

The Globalization of State Terror: The expression of Bush's maligned vision is now evident everywhere; from the gun-towers over Guantanamo, to the concertina wire surrounding Falluja

The victim and the killer: Yasser Salihee was an Iraqi journalist. Joe was an American sniper. On June 24, 2005, fate brought them together on a Baghdad street.

Six Iraqi soldiers killed in clashes: - Six Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes with insurgents in two towns north of Baghdad on Thursday, security sources said.

Violence claims more lives in Iraq: Five people, including three U.S. troops, were killed in separate incidents in various parts of Iraq Thursday. A man was killed when a bomb exploded under a train carrying oil products to the refinery of Dora in Baghdad. In Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, gunmen assassinated Saleh Jabbouri, a member of the local Arab Consultative Council

Security incidents in Iraq, July 28: The assistant chief of Haditha police station was shot dead by gunmen, Two Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday when their patrol struck a bomb in north Baghdad, A captain at Azzuhur police station was assassinated on Wednesday night

Two U.S. Soldiers killed by IED : Two Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device at 2 p.m. July 27 in north Baghdad .

One U.S. Soldier killed, five wounded by IED : One U.S. Soldier was killed and five were wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated near a combat patrol at about 11:00 a.m. July 27 in Salah Ad Din Province.

US plans Iraq troop cuts as revolt rages : The commander, made clear he did not expect the insurgency to have dropped by then significantly below its current level. 

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