Month: September 2004

I write to ask that the Judiciary Committee commence an immediate full investigation and examine substantial and credible evidence that Pentagon officials have engaged in criminal wrongdoing in their handling of classified material and have engaged in unauthorized covert activities. Press reports have recently disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently examining whether … Continue reading “Congress Must Investigate Spy Scandal”

Slobodan Milosevic’s defense at the Hague Inquisition began this week, after several delays. Reporters in The Hague, who are without exception partial to the Tribunal and scornful of Milosevic, described his opening statement as “defiant” but pointless, as he supposedly did not address the actual charges. But the prattling of Tribunal camp-followers notwithstanding, even the … Continue reading “The Hague Showdown”

The conviction of British mercenary Simon Mann by a Zimbabwean court could not have come at a worse time for Tim Spicer, Mann’s fellow former Scots Guards officer and erstwhile colleague in security firm Sandline International. Mann’s alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea drew unprecedented scrutiny to the international mercenary trade, in the same week … Continue reading “Kerry Joins Campaign Against Iraq Contract”

BAGHDAD – Saboteurs attacked an oil pipeline in southern Iraq over the weekend, sending up pillars of smoke and bringing a slowdown in supply. It was by no means an isolated incident. Another pipeline 150km (93 mi.) north of the southern port of Basra was attacked. Yet another was set ablaze in the desert region … Continue reading “Iraq’s Oil Is Still Flowing, Somehow”

Fear of being linked to U.S.-backed regimes that lack authority has inhibited potential recruits in violence-prone Iraq and Afghanistan from heeding calls to join nascent or rebuilding national armies, say U.S. academics and political and military analysts. "The challenge of creating national armies in both countries is fundamentally linked to the challenge of legitimacy for … Continue reading “US-Backed Armies Firing Blanks”

Kerry: Unwavering Support of IsraelAs a wounded WWII U.S.M.C. combat machine gunner, 2 years in combat, 19 island landings, Okinawa the last, and a voting Democrat, I think Kerry is nuts with his support of Israel and their atrocities against the Palestinians.Kerry should be a Republican and run against that jerk Bush. I am going … Continue reading “Backtalk, September 2”

Lawyers of detainees allegedly abused at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison say two recently released U.S. reports strengthen their cases that employees working for private firms that supplied translators and interrogators for the military took part in the shocking abuses. The reports, one by the U.S. Army that probed the actions of the military units directly … Continue reading “Victims’ Lawyers Laud Abu Ghraib Reports”

“A lobby is like a night flower,” wrote Steven Rosen, a top official of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.” With the light of day shining brightly on AIPAC’s spy mission for Israel in the Pentagon, will one of the most powerful lobbying groups in … Continue reading “Traitorous ‘Conservatives’”

The burgeoning scandal over claims that a Pentagon official passed highly classified secrets to a Zionist lobby group appears to be part of a much broader set of FBI and Pentagon investigations of close collaboration between prominent U.S. neoconservatives and Israel dating back some 30 years. According to knowledgeable sources, who asked to not be … Continue reading “Spy Probe Scans
Neocon-Israel Ties”