In their bid to get the Patriot Act made permanent when it comes up for renewal later this year, Bush and Attorney General Gonzales are claiming 200 terrorism convictions thanks to new post-9-11 powers. However, a review of the cases… Read moreGonzales cooks the “terror conviction” books
The 9-11 Commission, its formal mission completed, is staying on as a private body, the 9-11 Public Discourse Project. In its first efforts, this private body is finding fault with the FBI for perceived inefficiencies in its intelligence capabilities, and… Read more9-11 Commish goes private, baits FBI
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
Much to our dismay, our story by Frank Morales in the current issue of WW4 REPORT, “The Provacateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi ‘Insurgents’?“, has been picked up by the neo-Nazi Stormfront, which bills itself as “the first… Read moreWW4 REPORT makes Stormfront
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?
Robots seem to be gaining reproductive rights even as women are losing theirs. Robots at Cornell University are making copies of themselves without human intervention. In principle, the machines will thus be able to repair and reproduce themselves autonomously in… Read moreSelf-replicating robots developed
Well, Pat Buchanan (whose name came up in the recent unpleasantness over anti-Semitism on this blog) noted the 60th anniversary of VE Day in his own inimitable way: by asking in a May 11 opinion piece “Was WWII Worth It?”… Read morePat Buchanan: Was WWII Worth It?
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
Hopes for a moderately progressive pontiff who could loosen up the Chuch line on the supposed evils of condoms in the age of AIDS–or even an African or Latin American one who could help Catholicism rally against the aggressive inroads… Read morePope Benedict XVI: The empire strikes back
