|
Top Stories |
|
Survivors
join world leaders at Auschwitz
 Anatoly
Shapiro, commander of Soviet troops first to enter Auschwitz said.
"I saw the faces of the people
we liberated -- they went through hell."
Like Hoess' words, aren't these interesting
in a Iraq context? |
This
so-called ill treatment and
torture in detention centers, stories
of which were spread everywhere...
-- were not, as some assumed,
inflicted methodically,
but were excesses committed
by individual prison guards,
their deputies, and men who laid
violent hands on the detainees."
--Rudolf Hoess,
SS commandant,
Auschwitz. source
|
| |
|
Feith
to Leave Defense Dept
Douglas Feith a key planner of the Iraq occupation is to resign
this summer - but -not for policy reasons says the Defense
Dept.
Feith.."has earned the respect of
civilian and military leaders
across the government,"
--Donald Rumsfeld,
in a statement. |
|
-- General
Tommy Franks
"The
fucking stupidest guy
on the face of the earth."
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
America's Apartheid Voting System
by Greg Palast & Jesse Jackson
This is the dark little secret of U.S. democracy:
In our presidential elections, about 2 million votes are never
counted, because they cannot be read by the machines. Prof.
Mark Salling found that, "overwhelmingly," the voided votes
come from African American precincts.
|
| |
|
|
|
Ten Worst
Corporations of 2004
It's never easy choosing
Our no-repeat rule excludes many otherwise- deserving companies
from the Worst of 2004.
But, of the remaining pool of price gougers, polluters, union-busters,
dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers and general
miscreants, we chose the following...
|
| |
|
Go!
--for Operation "Seeds of Liberty"
Also Known as: Operation "Kick Your Door Down in the
Middle of the Night, Throw
You in Jail and Torture You
--All without a Warrant
or even Due Process"
P.S. The US military will
deliver and collect ballots |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
It's CyberTelly !
World TV via the Net
A new free service gives 100% anonymous, 100% uncensored,
realtime, no-dropout TV by Net from any Webcam or any TV show,
anywhere.
The project called Cybersky, aims to do for television what
Kazza, etc. did for music downloads. Cybersky's patented software
gets around the server-overload problems that have plagued video-streaming
by using peer-to-peer networking technology and even has a TV
Ad-Blocker.
|
| |
|
|
|
"How
to Destroy a Great Army."
Part II - Ten years to Rebuild
About 50% of the next troop rotation into Iraq will be Army
Reserve and National Guard soldiers. The burden just gets heavier
and heavier.
Some say the Army is already broken. Others say the cracks will
open on the fourth Iraq rotation next fall. Either way, once
broken, repairing the institutional damage could take a decade,
just as it did after we pulled out of Vietnam.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Garrison & Gorbachev
Chart Brave New World
Of the 100 top economies in the world, 51 are corporations and
47 of those are American.
"We rule the world through institutions, like the IMF and
the World Bank where we have the veto powers, NATO, etc.. It’s
also worth remembering that the founding fathers of the United
States, were all Masons and Rosicrucians. They believed that
what they were creating was the new Atlantis, the new Israel,
the new Rome, the new Athens."
See Also: The
World according to Gorbachev
|
| |
|
|
|
Iraqi rebellion grows
larger, more effective
The U.S. is steadily losing ground, according to every key
military yardstick.
A Knight Ridder analysis of U.S. government statistics shows
that unless something dramatic changes - such as large escalation
of U.S. troop strength - the United States won't win the war.
U.S. military fatalities have risen from about 17 per month
in mid-2003, to an average of 71 per month. The number
of U.S. soldiers wounded has spiraled from 142 to 708 per
month. Attacks on the U.S.-led coalition have risen from
735 to 2,400 per month.
An Air Force Brig. Gen. told Knight Ridder on Friday that attacks
were currently running at 75 a day.
|
| |
|
|
|
Hubble Trouble:
White House Axes Rescue Funds
The White House has eliminated funding for a rescue mission
to the Hubble Space Telescope.
It has instead directed NASA to focus solely on deorbiting the
popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government
and industry sources. NASA is debating when and how to announce
the change of plans.
|
| |
|
|
|
Baghdad’s Checkpoint Madness
An Iraqi government minister resigns after a checkpoint scuffle
with U.S. soldiers.
Angry Minister of State Adnan Al-Janabi not only resigned from
the government, but is now denouncing the American military
as an anti-Iraqi occupation army. He is hardly a raving anti-American.
Hachim al-Hassani, another minister, was punched repeatedly
in the face by a U.S. soldier.
|
| |
|
|
|
Stand and Deliver
That scourge of honest yeomen from time immemorial will soon
be stalking America.
Privateers will soon be shaking down the populace for gain,
as government revenue collection is turned over to private tax-farming
profiteers who have been spooning great dollops of campaign
sugar to Bushist Party stalwarts.
|
| |
|
"We
are not taking these massive irregularities and violations of
election law
lying down anymore."
|
‘The Battle goes on’
Interview with John Conyers
"Here we are two presidential elections in a row, one state
determines the winner." -Conyers
"And each time that state has the highest number of irregularities,
unusual procedures, outright violations of election law. It
does not require political science to get the connection...
"It just gets worse and worse and worse. What a piece
of work [Kenneth Blackwell] is. We want to... go into it...
as the formal Judiciary Committee using its oversight powers
to examine these things."
|
| |
|
|
|
"Security Risk"
Could Rule Out Chertoff
Judge Michael Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept.
11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security
Chief.
Chertoff defended accused terrorist financier Dr. Magdy Elamir,
who reportedly had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years,"
according to Dateline NBC in 2002.
|
| |
|
|
|
Baghdad's Wave of Car Bombs
by Dahr Jamail
The thundering blast rocks me awake at 7:05am. "Holy
shit, they hit the embassy," I think.
Later, as I write three more huge explosions rumble across the
center of Baghdad. In a span of just 90 minutes five car bombs
detonated killing at least 26 people.
|
| |
|
|
|
The excuses are in:
"Flaws Threw Off Exit Polls"
 The
exit polls of voters on Election Day rank as the most inaccurate
in a presidential election since 1988, say the firms that did
the work.
One reason the surveys were skewed, they say, was because Kerry's
supporters were more willing to participate than Bush's. Also,
the people they hired to quiz voters were too young, too inexperienced
and needed more training.
Early results were skewed by a "programming error" that led
to including too many female voters. Kerry outpolled Bush among
women.
For future exit polls, Lenski and Mitofsky recommended hiring
more experienced polltakers and giving them better training,
and ensuring access to polling places.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A
catalog of assassinations
|
300 Academics Killed:
Who is Murdering Iraqi Intellectuals?
About 300 academics and university administrators have been
assassinated in a mysterious wave of murders --ever since the
American occupation of Iraq began in 2003.
So says Isam Al-Rawi, a geologist at Baghdad University and
head of the Association of University Lecturers. About 2,000
others, he says, have fled the country in fear for their lives.
The dead have been Shiites and Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs, and
supporters of various political parties.
BFN:
Who kills intellectuals? Facsists. So... Guess?
|
| |
|
|
|
Vet Ranks Swell with
The Newly Forgotten
When are people gonna get the message about our soldiers?
These are husbands and wives, mothers and fathers.
You've got anywhere up to 500,000 veterans homeless,
and they're already seeing Iraq veterans
in the shelters. Are the homeless shelters prepared to
understand? Are the hospitals? Are all of the doctors?
You've got about 220,000 in prisons. Are the courts
prepared to deal with men and women who can no longer really
cope and end up in the criminal-justice system? Are the law
enforcement officials? Are the lawyers prepared to
deal with it?
They are not even aware, let alone prepared.
See Also: Bammo's
Bunker
|
| |
|
|
|
Live
from Baghdad
 Dahr
Jamail
Is the U.S. Withdrawing
from Iraq?
 As
rumors sweep Washington and violence increases, we speak to independent
journalist, Dahr Jamail
- with Fintan Dunne |
| |
|
|
|
What Calm Looks Like in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail
 I'm
typing as mortars are blasting away in the nearby "Green Zone."
Mortars are easy to tell -- the higher pitched thunk of their
launch, a pause, then a loud boom that echoes through the still
night.
Blaring sirens wail in the distance, along with the random cracking
of gunfire. Nightfall always seems to bring action in this area
of central Baghdad --just last night there were many sporadic
gun battles out my window.
Earlier today while I was in the al-Adhamiya district of Baghdad,
the U.S. base there was mortared eight times.
|
| |
|
