How interesting. The Supremes rule that Congress did not give Bush a “blank check” to tear up the Geneva Conventions when it voted to approve military action after 9-11. Now, Bush uses precisely the same argument to justify the program… Read moreSupreme Court strikes down Gitmo tribunals
Greg Palast risks jeopardizing his wild popularity among the leftoid legions by raining on their increasingly beloved “Jewish Conspiracy” theory. Bashing this bosh is long overdue, but we sure wish Palast had done a better job of it. His arguments… Read moreGreg Palast: “Did the Jews do it?”
From The New Standard, June 22: Lynne Stewart, a lawyer convicted of terrorism-related charges, has asked a federal court to compel the federal government to disclose whether the National Security Agency’s illegal warrantless domestic-spying program helped the prosecution in its… Read moreDid NSA spy on Lynne Stewart?
Reporters Without Borders is protesting the Pentagon’s move to ban journalists from Guantanamo Bay, an ostensibly temporary measure. (Washington Post, June 15) The move comes on the heel of the suicide of three detainees at the prison camp, who the… Read moreGitmo: reporters banned, questions raised in wake of suicides
What a breath of fresh air! The website Screw Loose Change reports that Gedeon and Jules Naudet, the French film-makers who captured images of the first plane striking the World Trade Center on 9-11, have sent a “cease and desist”… Read moreFrench film-makers threaten 9-11 conspiracy vultures
We wish we were joking. What a shame nobody noticed this—the little note in the second section about the Halliburton contract (emphasis added) should have been front-page news in every paper in the country. Back on Feb. 23, Nat Perry… Read moreHalliburton wins concentration camp contract
All accounts indicate Porter Goss is being cycled out as CIA chief because he “butted heads” (Newsday, May 6) with National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. Goss, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, was appointed in September 2004 as an… Read moreShakeup at CIA —again
The US is under review by the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva, and spin control is the name of the game. State Department legal counsel John Bellinger testified out of both sides of this mouth today, saying the US… Read morePrevarication in Geneva
It has now been reported everywhere that Zacarias Moussaoui, upon being sentenced by a federal jury to life imprisonment, shouted, “America, you lost… I won!” Obviously, he had been rehearsing the line for months, and was prepared to use it… Read moreMoussaoui verdict: who won?
For all the unseemly obsession on the American left (and American right) with the notion that the recent paroxysm of hyper-interventionism is really more about Israeli national interests than US imperial interests, the actual global vision of the interventionists is… Read moreUS National Security Strategy 2006: global hegemony, permanent war
Osama bin Laden’s latest audiotape release is almost funny. Along with the usual swipes at the “Crusader-Zionist” war on Islam, he accuses the UN Security Council of being controlled by the “Crusader movement along with pagan Buddhists”–an apparent reference to… Read moreZarqawi, Osama wow media
Another exercise in just how far off-base the supposed “left” has drifted. Greg Palast’s latest, on the retired generals calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation, is happly picked up by all the lefty blogs, like Smirking Chimp. None seem to have a… Read moreGreg Palast calls for military coup?
