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The Tragedy of a Complicit Media
Standing before a German cameraman in Biloxi, Miss., Christine Adelhardt, spoke to her countrymen: "Two minutes ago, the president drove past in his convoy. But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly...
Hunger Strike Spreads at Guantanamo Camp
A hunger strike started in June by terror suspects imprisoned by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo) and reportedly settled has been restarted and is growing, with 15 detainees hospitalized and 13 being fed through tubes. The number of...
Will Neocon Fanaticism Destroy America?
The "cakewalk war" is now two and one-half years old. U.S. casualties (dead and wounded) number 20,000. As 20,000 is the number of Iraqi insurgents according to U.S. military commanders, each insurgent is responsible for one U.S. casualty. U.S. troops in Iraq number...
The Rights of Detainees: Who Is Protecting Whom From What?
Detaining suspects indefinitely without charging them is not easily reconciled with democracy. Worry about such methods seems to be migrating across political and religious lines. The public has reason to suspect that many detainees held at U.S. detention facilities...
Today, the Antiwar Movement Goes on Trial
"If you fall on the side that is pro-George, and pro-war, you get your ass over to Iraq and take the place of somebody who wants to come home. And if you fall on the side that is against this war and against George Bush, stand up and speak out." - Cindy...
Covering the Tracks of the Anthrax Attacks
Four years ago today, letters containing anthrax were postmarked from Trenton, N.J., to five major American media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, the New York Post, and AMI Media, a publisher of supermarket tabloids. Thus began a series of attacks...
Backtalk, September 18, 2005
Why This Soldier Can't Support This WarDear Sirs: Just as I heard the truth about Vietnam from veterans who were there, it is always refreshing to read an article like Justin Gordon's. Wars built on lies, deceit, and greed will always fail and so will empires fall! I...
Sheik Beaten, Blinded, Tasered, Released Into the ‘New Iraq’
Sixteen months ago, I published a special investigative report on a deadly U.S. military raid. On May 2, 2004, American soldiers raided a Human Rights Office in the ancient city of Babylon while a peaceful meeting was in process. American forces shot two sheiks...
Gaza Withdrawal Is Not Enough
Now that Israel has evacuated from the Gaza Strip, we can forget about any serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has done all he is going to do. In the words of a close adviser published some months ago in Haaretz, an...


