Month: June 2004

Sad but true according to Ha’aretz (courtesy of the Angry Arab Blog). Scapegoating, advocating expulsion of Arab citizens, stripping of citizenship, construction of ghettos and bantustans, and the quest for “living space”: the victims have become the victimisers.

Accusations of further infiltration of the FBI by al-Qaeda operatives in relation to the 1993 WTC bombing.

The Project on Government Oversight is sueing against the Justice Department’s attempt to reclassify letters and other documentation which have previously been made public concerning the whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds.

Caught in the spotlight, the cockroaches of the current U.S. justice department have begun to scatter, issuing statements that the Gonzales August 2002 legal memo arguing methods to dodge prohibition of aggressive interrogation tactics would be reviewed. So lets be clear, it has taken nearly two years of this memo being in operation (or at…

With all of the hoopla over the release of Clintons book, and the sycophantic interview with the liar Dan Rather (“President Clinton points out that when Hussein kicked U.N. weapons inspectors out of Iraq in 1998, he ordered a four-day bombing raid, but was unable to find out how many if any chemical and biological…

An excellent interview with Juan Cole at Asia Times gives some very thoughtful reasoning on Iraq’s and the U.S. presidential futures.

Twenty five Australian military reports have been tabled in the Australian federal parliament that the defence minister knew of prisoner abuse in June of 2003, contradicting several statements by the minister. This could also lead to the prime-minister who has claimed he only knew of prisoner abuse when the photographs of Abu Ghraib were revealed.…