In another charming nugget for Jewish World Review July 26, official Islamophobe Daniel Pipes writes “The attempt to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and the Shari’a has begun — but the world is in denial”: What do Islamist… Read moreDaniel Pipes: Islamists seek “world domination”
This is pretty Orwellian. The government says it has the right to hold accused “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla without charge as an “enemy combatant” for the “duration of the conflict.” The “conflict” in question is a completely open-ended undeclared war… Read morePadilla’s lawyer: Indict my client!
The general who “Gitmoized” Abu Ghraib briefed Rumsefled’s top aides, it is now revealed—contradicting his own earlier testimony. From the Chicago Tribune July 15 via TruthOut: General Contradicted Abu Ghraib Testimony Transcripts reveal he briefed top officials. Washington – An… Read moreGeneral tied to Abu Ghraib torture briefed Rumsfeld aides
The conspiranoid site Prison Planet has picked up on a BBC Radio 5 report from the evening of July 7, the same day as the London attacks, in which Pete Power, a former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism official and now managing… Read more7-7 anomalies emerge
William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” charged: “The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado… Read moreAmnesty: US kills prisoners in secret global archipelago
The following item ran in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on June 6: Participants at an anti-Zionist conference in Kiev called for the deportation of Jews from Ukraine. The call came from one of the participants in the June 3 meeting… Read moreDavid Duke Kiev confab: Deport the Jews
The following June 2 article is from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Waxman: Investigate anti-Semitism charges A Jewish lawmaker asked the U.S. Defense Department to investigate charges of anti-Semitism at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) on Wednesday… Read moreAnti-Semitism at Gitmo?
In an editorial for the July issue of The Progressive, editor Matthew Rothschild makes a serious case for war crimes charges against Rumsfeld and Bush, as well as other White House and Pentagon figures… Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of Impunity… Read moreWar crimes charges for Rumsfeld, Bush?
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man to be charged with a crime related to 9-11 in the U.S., was finally allowed to enter a plea in federal court April 22, and, in his inimitably garbled fashion, pleaded guilty to all six… Read moreMoussaoui pleads guilty (sort of)
By order of Secretary Rice, the State Department will stop publishing its annual report “Patterns of Global Terrorism,” ceding responsibility for counting and analyzing worldwide terror attacks to the new National Counter-Terrorism Center. The order comes despite controversy over the… Read moreNational Counter-Terrorism Center takes over
The death of Pope John Paul II has occassioned a great deal of speculation in the press about the influence of Opus Dei, the secretive ultra-conservative Catholic organization, in choosing his successor. One of the more strictly factual accounts, "Pope… Read moreOpus Dei in the news
According to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, torture in occupied Iraq has not been confined to Abu Ghraib jail, where abuse and sexual humiliation of inmates caused worldwide outrage last year. The new revelations concern a facility… Read moreU.S. Army documents: Abu Ghraib was tip of iceberg
