Cindy Sheehan of California, mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan, killed in action in Baghdad, April 4, 2004, has written an open letter to George Bush, and is currently maintaining a vigil at the gates of Bush’s ranch in Crawford, TX,… Read moreBush snubs mom of slain soldier
Iran has resumed operations at its Isfahan plant to enrich uranium ore for reactor fuel. The plant will convert yellowcake, or uranium ore, into uranium hexafluoride gas to be fed into centrifuges for uranium enrichment in the still-closed neighboring Natanz… Read moreHalliburton tied to Iran nuke program?
An Aug. 9 AP story (online at TruthOut) reveals that Judge John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was on a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit… Read moreRoberts ruled against Geneva Conventions
Haroon Rashid Aswat, a suspect in the London bombings, is in a British prison after having been extradited from Zambia. Authorities assert that he met with Osama bin Laden at a training camp in Afghanistan. He may also face extradition… Read more7-7 connections in Zambia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Oregon?
More fodder for the conspiranoia mill is supplied by yesterday’s front-page New York Times story (online at TruthOut) providing further confirmation that at least some of the 9-11 hijackers were under surveillance by the government. Washington – More than a… Read moreGovernment spied on 9-11 hijackers: more evidence
Interesting analysis of the recent indictment of “former” AIPAC officals by Robert Dreyfuss at tompaine.com August 09, 2005 Important new details of the U.S.-Israeli espionage case involving Larry Franklin, the alleged Pentagon spy, two officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs… Read moreBigger than AIPAC
Mauritania’s recently-ousted president Maaoya Sid’Ahmed Ould Taya, now in exile in Niger, pledged to return to power, and appealed to the Mauritanian armed forces to launch a counter-coup on his behalf. He made the appeal in an interview on Dubai-based… Read moreMuaritania: ousted leader pledges counter-coup
A top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive wanted by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia for atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnia war was arrested in Argentina Aug. 8. Milan Lukic, who went underground after the war ended, is being… Read moreBosnia war crimes fugitive arrested in Argentina
The bio-chemical warfare tests in New York City, initially scheduled for two days ago, went ahead today. New York’s ABC News reports Aug. 8 that scientists in midtown Manhattan used perfluorocarbon, “a harmless gas,” which was tracked with electronic monitors…. Read moreNYC: Bio-chem warfare tests held
A lawsuit filed Aug. 8 against US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human… Read more“Enemy combatant” sues Rumsfeld
An interesting development in the extremely contentious Valerie Plame affair: Deputy Attorney General James Comey, the only Justice Department official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak scandal, is leaving to take a job in the private sector…. Read moreSkull & Bonesman to oversee Valerie Plame case?
The annual Hiroshima Peace Declaration, delivered this year by the city’s Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, explicitly calls the nuclear powers to task for not living up to their committments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The historic 60th anniversary of the dawn of… Read moreHiroshima Peace Declaration: nuclear powers “jeopardize human survival”
