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BAGHDAD – On what was to have been the day of the handover of sovereignty back to the Iraqi government, another symbolic handover took place. The U.S. army formally transferred Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein to the legal custody of the new government. “I know just what I want done to Saddam,” says Hamid Faraj … Continue reading “Saddam Dragged to His Past”

Page one and page two But How Could She Have Been Hired? CD: Why was she allowed to stay, and keep her security clearance? Were they trying to protect someone higher up? SE: I don’t know. Is it possible? Yes. But I just don’t know. But at the unclassified meeting between the senators and FBI … Continue reading “An Interview with Sibel Edmonds”

Page one Incompetence, Corruption and Cover-ups: The Kevin Taskasen Affair CD: In your October 25 2002 interview with 60 Minutes, “Lost in Translation,” you charged the FBI with incompetence and greed – and also of allowing infiltration by foreign intelligence outfits. Some of these charges have also been substantiated by other sources, both congressional and … Continue reading “An Interview with Sibel Edmonds”

Growing international demands to suspend the use of cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of small “bomblets” over a wide area and are blamed for thousands of civilian deaths around the world, appear to be falling on deaf ears among the governments that stockpile them. “The war in Iraq has sharpened the call for action on … Continue reading “Clusters of Death”

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Boris Tadic won the second round of the Serbian presidential elections Sunday, beating Radical rival Tomislav Nikolic by 8 percentage points, or some 250,000 votes. The Empire, which openly cheered … Continue reading “Jackals and Jackasses”

Washington’s Foreign Policy I just want to express my profound gratitude for Antiwar.com. While I don’t agree with everything everybody says. I agree strongly that we had no business sending troops to Iraq and that this administration lied about WMDs. I am a patriotic American and would die for America – only when AMERICA’s borders … Continue reading “”

BOGOTA – Shrouded in silence in Colombia, the Plan Patriot has begun to emerge as the most ambitious military offensive to date against the leftist guerrillas, in which the U.S. military is providing tactical and logistical support. Taking part in the operation, which according to press reports involves 17,000 soldiers deployed in southern Colombia, are … Continue reading “US Increases Colombian Involvement”

Hundreds of U.S. military and government officials routinely leave their posts for jobs with private contractors who deal with the government, a process that has eroded the lines between government and the private sector, according to a report released by a watchdog group on Tuesday. “There is a revolving door between the government and large … Continue reading “The Revolving Door Spins Away”

In a new rebuff to the administration of Pres. George W. Bush, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 215-year-old anti-piracy law can continue to be used by foreign victims of serious human rights abuses access to U.S. courts for redress. Although the majority decided that the abduction of a … Continue reading “Supreme Court: Foreign Victims of Abuse May Sue in US”