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June 21, 2007
The CIA's torture teachers
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
Martyrs or traitors
A choice the West must be careful not to force on the people of the Middle East
Archaeologist sparks hunt for Holy Grail
An archaeologist has sparked a Da Vinci Code-style hunt for the Holy Grail after claiming ancient records show it is buried under a 6th century church in Rome.
The CIA and the Politics of Counterrevolution
From Boy Scouts to "quintessential others" to Cold War Mania, a trip down CIA's memory lane.
Waxman decries Cheney security exemption
House Democrats on Thursday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney's idea of abolishing a government office charged with safeguarding national security information and criticized him for refusing to cooperate with the agency.
Pentagon's e-mail system hacked
The Pentagon's e-mail system was hacked, forcing its computer servers going offline, CNN reported Thursday.
Have We Forgotten 2003 Already?
By Rep. Ron Paul
The Mother of All Scandals
Bandar has long been a renowned mover, shaker, and charmer. As Saudi ambassador to the US, the influential Bandar schmoozed official Washington for two decades. He became an intimate of the Bush family. He invested a least $60 million in Saudi funds in the Carlyle Corp., in which the Bush family has important interests. Equally significant, Prince Bandar was a particular favorite at the CIA, where he was long considered one of its prime Mideast “assets.”
You Are an Enemy Combatant
Or could be, under this regime.
The fabric of our nation is unraveling, and our freedoms are hanging by a thread.
In a world where the president has the power to label anyone, whether a citizen or permanent resident, an enemy combatant and detain that person indefinitely without trial, no liberty exists and everyone is potentially an “enemy combatant.”
The (Drug) War on 'Cheese'
Jeff Nosanov on the latest installment in the drug war.
Poll: Americans View of "Most Important Problem" Continues to Be Iraq
Gallup trends suggest sustained concern about Iraq may be taking toll on public's mood
Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa, pt. 2
Fourteen US soldiers killed in three days of fighting
Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in three days of fighting, the military announced on Thursday, as US-led troops continued to press simultaneous offensives in and around Baghdad.
US Army rebids Halliburton Iraq contract
The US Army will rebid the multi billion-dollar contract under which a Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been providing services to troops around the world after years of complaints over how the deal has worked in Iraq.
Critics of the contract said the move was overdue and that hundreds of millions of dollars had probably been wasted.
Senate Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas For NSA Domestic Spying Documents
The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 13-3 to authorize chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to issue subpoenas for documents related to the NSA warrantless surveillance program.
FDNY'S 9/11-Toll Shocker
About 5,000 active and retired FDNY employees are receiving medical treatment for injuries and illnesses connected to the World Trade Center attacks, according to a Fire Department document.
"That is an absolutely staggering number, and it's a number that speaks volumes," said Andrew Carboy, a lawyer who represents more than 200 firefighters in a negligence suit against the city. "That's half of what the force was on 9/11."
The FDNY had about 11,000 members on Sept. 11, 2001
Netanyahu Recycles Iraq War Rhetoric For Iran And Pretends Otherwise
Documents prove Dahlan's involvement in Arafat's assassination
Palestinian MPs accused the mutiny trend's leader in Fatah faction MP Mohammad Dahlan of involvement in the assassination of the late PA chief Yasser Arafat, and in the shooting at the motorcade of PA premier Ismail Haneyya as well as the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza.
DePaul Students Turn Graduation Into Protest
DePaul University's recent decision to deny tenure to two professors prompted some students to take a stand in their defense at Sunday's graduation.
"It makes DePaul look very stupid nationwide," Larudee said. "There are a lot of people who understand that you can't do this. The university has made a very bad mistake in terms of its reputation nationwide, and it really should remedy that."
Bush vetoes stem cell bill
President Bush vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the US, setting the stage for the issue to become a major dividing line in the lead-up to the presidential election.
Starving orphans found tied to cribs
US troops have found more than 20 emaciated boys close to death at a Baghdad orphanage.
Officials had apparently been selling their food at a local market.
The CIA and Fatah; Spies, Quislings and the Palestinian Authority
The key issue here is whether democratic elections have any real meaning or if they can simply be rescinded by executive decree?
This question should be as relevant to Americans as it is to Palestinians. After all, both people now face a similar predicament; the flagrant abuse of executive authority to enhance the powers of the president. In both cases, the president must be forced to conform to the law. Democracy cannot be decided by fiat.
Bin Laden may have arranged family's US exit: FBI docs
Osama bin Laden may have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said FBI documents released Wednesday.
Judicial Watch FBI Saudi Flight Documents
Flashback - BBC Television video of document W199I: Has someone been sitting on the FBI? (Realaudio)
Flashback - Guardian newspaper: FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated
Forget warming - beware the new ice age
In the 1970s, leading scientists claimed that the world was threatened by an era of global cooling.
Based on what we've learned this decade, says George Kukla, those scientists - and he was among them had it right. The world is about to enter another Ice Age.
Read the sunspots
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
The New York Times ponders a nuclear attack on America. Why?
What if New York or Washington were hit by a nuclear bomb. Indeed, "what if". But why is this doomsday scenario becoming ever more popular? Why is the press filling its pages with what is largely theoretical speculation, without any foundation in reality? Is it a follow-up from the 24 series craze, or is a new event being "seeded" in our psyche?
Clintons Sell Possibly Troublesome Stock
The blind trust held stock worth $100,000-$250,000 in NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News, which many Democrats have denounced as biased against them.
The blind trust held stock in pharmaceutical companies, including $250,000-$500,000 in Biogen Idec and Johnson & Johnson and $100,000-$250,000 in Amgen, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. It also invested in General Electric and Raytheon, two leading defense contractors.
DHS Security Chief Dismisses Congress's Hacking Questions
Congress asked Homeland Security's chief information officer, Scott Charbo, who has a Masters in plant science, to account for more than 800 self-reported vulnerabilities over the last two years and for recently uncovered systemic security problems in US-VISIT, the massive computer network intended to screen and collect the fingerprints and photos of visitors to the United States.
Military Superiority Sometimes A Hindrance To Winning A War
A new University of Georgia study has found that despite overwhelming military superiority, the world's most powerful nations failed to achieve their objectives in 39 percent of their military operations since World War II.
Rather than military superiority, study author Patricia L. Sullivan says the most important factor influencing whether a military operation is successful is whether the strategic objective can be accomplished with brute force alone or whether it requires the cooperation of the adversary.
Aids HIV Bayer
Israel Sends Missiles, Tanks Into Gaza
Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip. At the same time, Israel allowed in a few sick and wounded Palestinians of the hundreds of people who fled the violence - with many holed up for days at a fetid border passage with Gaza.
Iraqi politicians agree deal on sharing oil, says Kurd minister
Iraq's Kurdish leaders said last night they had struck an important deal with the central government in Baghdad over a law to divide up Iraq's oil revenues, which is seen by the Bush administration as one of the benchmarks in attempts to foster national reconciliation.
'This Is Not Right'
This past weekend she and several other chaperones took 37 middle school students to a Heritage Festival band competition in California. The trip included two days at Disneyland.
During the stay she made sandwiches for the kids and was careful to pack the knives she used to prepare those sandwiches in her checked luggage. She says she even alerted security screeners that the knives were in her checked bags and they told her that was OK.
But Beaman says she couldn't find a third knife. It was a 5 1/2 inch bread knife with a rounded tip and a serrated edge. She thought she might have lost or misplaced it during the trip.
On the trip home, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport found it deep in the outside pocket of a carry-on cooler. Beaman apologized and told them it was a mistake.
"You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener announced. "And you're considered a terrorist."
Beaman says she was told her name would go on a terrorist watch-list and that she would have to pay a $500 fine
Tyranny and the Military Commissions Act
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Truth Why Ron Paul Is Excluded From Iowa Forum
Petition to Invite Ron Paul to Iowa on June 30th
What Ted Stevens, Bolivian cocaine and Halliburton have in common
Or, how the Alaskan Inupiat Eskimos got a no-bid contract in South America from the U.S. government.
CIA's Rizzo: Our Interrogations Were Humane, Except When They Weren't
CIA General Counsel-Designate John A. Rizzo didn't just equivocate on whether he agreed with the Office of Legal Counsel's narrow definition of torture from August 2002. In his confirmation hearing today, Rizzo was all over the map about what the CIA actually did with detainees in its custody.
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