Last Thursday, word spread across Washington that U.S. trade rep Robert Zoellick would become Condi Rice’s No. 2 at State. This was followed by word that State’s super-hawk, John Bolton, whom neoconservatives had touted for No. 2, would be leaving “for the private sector.” In a Friday Washington Post piece, “Wolf at the Door,” Al …
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Already today at least 18 Iraqis have died as violence continues to escalate as the so-called elections approach. Suicide car bombers are striking Iraqi Police (IP) stations on nearly a daily basis now. Today’s target was in Tikrit, where U.S. military spokesman Major Neal O’Brien said six were killed when the police headquarters was bombed. …
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For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq. A 220-page report [.pdf], quietly released late last month by the Defense Science Board (DSB), concludes …
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Pick a week, any week, and you can now be guaranteed that yet more gruesome news will seep out about the global torture regime the Bush administration has set up around the world. Soon the leakage may reach tsunami levels in the press. Of course, last week was a special case because White House legal …
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NEW YORK – A leading civil rights group says that government records pertaining to an investigation of prisoner abuses at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba are still being withheld, and those it has received under a court order are so heavily censored that they "raise more questions than they answer." Still, correspondence handed …
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The usual spiral descent in the airplane landed me into a gray day in Baghdad … the weather the same as when I left a few weeks ago. The usual hordes of global mercenaries crowded the airport … where a person isn’t allowed to take their carry-on into the bathroom with them for fear of …
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Human rights groups and other observers remain worried about the continuing violence in the western region of Darfur, despite the signing yesterday of a final peace accord between the government of Sudan and southern rebels. They are also concerned that both major parties to the accord, the National Islamic Front (NIF) government and the Sudan …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy. “National ID cards are not proper in a free society,” Paul stated. “This …
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When Saddam was first captured, the accolades bestowed upon Mr. Bush were empirical proof enough for me that there would be a permanent presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. The successful snatching of Saddam was enough to validate the entire unconstitutional war in the minds of many Americans. Critics of the war were told to …
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