Still only rumors at this point, but chilling ones, and a UN rapporteur considers them credible enough to warrant an investigation. Thanks to TruthOut for sending this one from AFP June 29: US Suspected of Keeping Secret Prisoners on Warships:… Read morePentagon maintains secret floating prisons?
As we’ve recently noted, nothing makes the 9-11 “skeptics” (who are actually among the most gullible people in the world) giddier than a whiff of vindication from The Establishment. Pretty ironic, given that their entire world view is predicated on… Read moreConspiranoiacs get Reaganoid champion
Just as the White House has rejected creation of an independent commission to investigate abuses at Gitmo and elsewhere (Reuters, June 21), comes this deeply disturbing news. It is (as we’ve recently noted) taboo to say this sort of thing,… Read moreDoctors involved in Gitmo interrogations
The conspiranoiacs are going to be salivating over this one. For all their relentless insistence that the entire government is controlled by The Conspiracy, nothing makes them giddier than a whiff of vindication from The Establishment. Too bad the poorly-named… Read moreConspiranoiacs go mainstream
Kudos to Newsday, which (unlike the NY Times thus far) today notes the approaching one-year anniversary of Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruling that Guantanamo detainees are entitled to judicial review. It was hailed as a victory by civil… Read moreRasul v. Bush: one year later
David Horowitz’ website Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left is pretty funny, evoking what Richard Hofstadter called “the paranoid style in American politics.” Its list of un-American “radicals” includes both George Soros and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman… Read more“Anti-terrorist” website promotes terror
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?
