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Americans Are Finally Waking Up to the Failure of US Policy in Iraq
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Where Is Accountability?
Over four years ago, more than four months prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990 provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information...
US Moral Authority in ‘Free Fall,’ Senators Warn
As Amnesty International urged the George W. Bush administration to "close Guantánamo and disclose the situation in the USA's shadowy network of detention centers around the globe," a subsidiary of Halliburton, the oil services group once led by U.S....
Backtalk, June 20, 2005
Indictment Shows Washington Is 'Israeli-Occupied Territory' As an aging veteran and avid reader, I'd like to nominate Justin Raimondo for a Pulitzer Prize. About time someone from the Last Bastion of a Free Press – the Internet – won the award. And what...
The WMD Commission’s Shame
By now, all members of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction ought to have fallen on their swords. Why? Here is the way the commissioners began their report [.pdf] made to President Bush just a month...
US Hawks Try Preemptive Strike on Iran Vote
A familiar clutch of hardline U.S. hawks who led the march to war against Iraq have tried to carry out yet another preemptive strike. But this time it wasn't military. As millions of Iranians prepared to vote for the successor to President Mohammed Khatami Friday, the...
Smoking Signposts to Nowhere
Imagine that the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate scandal had broken out all over the press – no, not in the New York Times or the Washington Post, but in newspapers in Australia or Canada. And that, facing their own terrible record of reportage, of years of...
Upheaval Ahead
Who is the Gene McCarthy of this generation? For those too young to recall, in late 1967, Gen. Westmoreland came home to ask LBJ for 200,000 more troops for Vietnam, in addition to the 500,000 already committed. LBJ told him no. Vietnam was the issue of the day. And...
The Great Awakening
to the Iraq Deception
The Downing Street memos have created such a stir that even Congress is rubbing its eyes and awakening from its long slumber to ask questions about the Iraq war: a hearing convened by antiwar Democrats, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), has created...
The Damning Downing Street Memo
No thanks to the domestic and international neo-crazy media sycophants, you probably now know about the "Downing Street memo." The memo is actually the minutes – stamped "Secret and Strictly Personal – UK Eyes Only" – of a meeting between...
