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Archive for the Month of June, 2005.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 301 through 375 of 511.


June 17, 2005

With American collaboration, Mossad kills 350 Iraqi scientists, 200 University professors - The Israeli espionage apparatus, Mossad, was able to liquidate around 350 Iraqi scientists in various fields of knowledge and 200 university professors with the full cooperation of the US occupation forces in Iraq since the fall of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, last March 2003, a report prepared by the US State Department revealed.
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Activists urge California not to use Diebold voting machines - Witness after witness — Bay Area liberals seasoned with a few Libertarians and Republicans — called on state officials Thursday to block Diebold's voting machines from the nation's largest elections market, casting the firm as synonymous with lost trust and vote "theft" in the 2000 and 2004 elections.
(1972 views)

The Killing Street Memo - Keep them behind the war curve. The less that Americans really know about Iran, the easier it will be to launch the missiles.
(1457 views)

Niger court frees slave activists - A Niger court has freed on bail two anti-slavery campaigners who had been held for six weeks on charges of fraud. The appeals court in the capital, Niamey, said there were insufficient grounds to continuing holding the men.
(1784 views)


June 18, 2005

ABC Flips: To Now Air 'Killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. Interview. - ABC News will now air the 'killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. interview after all.
(1850 views)

Questions, Bitterness and Exile for Queens Girl in Terror Case - The story of how it happened - how Tashnuba, the pious, headstrong daughter of Muslim immigrants living in a neighborhood of tidy lawns and American flags, was labeled an imminent threat to national security - is still shrouded in government secrecy.
(2509 views)

Destroying PBS: Bush political operative says he'll erase bias at PBS... by inserting bias - The ideological Republicans are destroying a fine public institution.
(1772 views)

Iraqi doctors strike over police harassment - Doctors at the main hospital in Baquba, north of Baghdad, have gone on strike, saying they are fed up with constant abuse at the hands of aggressive Iraqi police and soldiers.
(1368 views)

Consumer group wants warning label on potato chips - A California consumer legal group is campaigning to require warning labels on potato chips, saying they contain a chemical known to cause cancer and state law requires the warnings.
(1967 views)

Did George W. Bush steal America's 2004 election? - The controversy surrounding the voting machines remains extremely fierce in part because major manufacturers such as Diebold, ES&S, Triad, and others are controlled by partisan Republican companies with secret proprietary software. This unfortunate lack of transparency calls all U.S. elections into question.
(1972 views)

Most 'Arrested by Mistake' - Coalition military intelligence officials estimated that 70% to 90% of prisoners detained in Iraq since the war began last year "had been arrested by mistake," according to a confidential Red Cross report given to the Bush administration earlier this year.
(1200 views)

20 OVER-USED POLITICAL CLICHES AND WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN - In the event you never gave political clichés much thought, now’s the time to give it some. It might help you to understand how far into the Land of Condescension these back-slapping, bought-and-paid-for con artists try to take us.
(1980 views)

Leading Egyptian Government Daily Al-Akhbar: "Al-Zarqawi is an American Agent" - "All Evidence Proves that Al-Zarqawi Works for America"
(1248 views)

Iraqis struggle to make ends meet as food rations shrink - After his American employers left and monthly food rations began to shrink, Hussein Hadi started selling his furniture. His bed was the last thing to go. Now Hadi, his wife, sister, mother, two brothers, three children and a nephew sleep on his living- room floor in Baghdad, their blankets sewn from flour sacks. Some nights they fall asleep hungry.
(1599 views)

Israel to build Gaza sea barrier - Israel is planning to build a sea barrier as an extension of its border with Gaza to prevent attackers from entering the country from the sea.
(1388 views)

OBSESSED WITH FLAGS - Sadly, it appears that a constitutional amendment that would ban the desecration of the U.S. flag may have a chance of passing.
(2462 views)

Pummeled MP sues Pentagon - Soldier was impersonating unruly Guantanamo detainee in training - Spec. Sean Baker, 38, was assaulted in January 2003 after he volunteered to wear an orange jumpsuit and portray an uncooperative detainee. Baker said the MPs, who were told that he was an unruly detainee who had assaulted an American sergeant, inflicted a beating that resulted in a traumatic brain injury.
(1801 views)

Librarians as Spooks - The Scheme to Infiltrate Cuba's Libraries
(1308 views)

Now 88 Dead Scientists And Microbiologists - While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders.
(5026 views)

Land Study on Grazing Denounced - The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.
(1842 views)

War taking toll on health of Iraqi kids - More than two years after the Iraq war started, children continue to be its main victims as the health of the majority of the population continues to deteriorate.
(1179 views)

Coming soon: Googling the truth - The company insists its only motive is to help users make sense of the morass of information on the web. But some worry about the cultural influence of everything being filtered through the Google lens, particularly if it emerges as the arbiter of "truth" on the web.
(1903 views)


June 19, 2005

Saddam's Lawyer Alleges Torture, Deception - Attorney Says Iraqi Leader Was NOT Found In 'Spider Hole'
(1232 views)

More than 1,200 who had anthrax vaccine now sick - More than 1,200 military personnel who received the anthrax vaccine before going to Iraq have developed serious illnesses.
(1797 views)

Bush hand seen in public broadcasting - E-mail messages obtained by investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting show that its chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, extensively consulted a White House official shortly before she joined the corporation about creating an ombudsman's office to monitor the balance and objectivity of public television and radio program.
(1979 views)

British bombing raids were illegal, says Foreign Office - A SHARP increase in British and American bombing raids on Iraq in the run-up to war “to put pressure on the regime” was illegal under international law, according to leaked Foreign Office legal advice.
(1305 views)

Iraqi Security Tactics Evoke the Hussein Era - Up to 60% of the estimated 12,000 detainees in the country's prisons and military compounds face intimidation, beatings or torture that leads to broken bones and sometimes death.
(1267 views)

U.S. Allies Shun Suspect Deportation - U.S. allies have begun to resist Washington's secretive role in spiriting away terror suspects: Italy is investigating the disappearance of one accused militant as a kidnapping, Sweden wrote rules to assert its authority over outside agents and Canada is holding hearings after one of its citizens was sent to Syria.
(2044 views)

US Frees Iraqi Woman Detainees After Protests - US occupation forces completed on Sunday, June 19, the release of twenty one Iraqi women held as a bargain chip in the northern city of Mosul.
(1278 views)

Al-Qaeda, Iran and the next 9/11 - Would the prescence of bin Laden and al-Zarqawi in Iran be enough to support an attack? We think not. We believe that there will be one more step before the Bush administration feel that they have "sold" the idea sufficiently, another 9/11.
(1918 views)

Schools and Military Face Off - Privacy Rights Clash With Required Release of Student Information
(1276 views)

The US war with Iran has already begun - President Bush has taken advantage of the sweeping powers granted to him in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, to wage a global war against terror and to initiate several covert offensive operations inside Iran.
(1266 views)

Farmers 'terrified out of their homes' to sue BP for £15m - In what will be a landmark human rights case in the UK, the farmers allege that the pipeline destroyed their land and forced them into destitution.
(2082 views)


June 20, 2005

Life in the Green Zone - One condition that makes his life there so difficult is the myriad levels of security. Almost every major contractor or organization in the Green Zone has its own security unit. Each one is an entity unto itself. He refers to these security guards as cowboys, strutting around with their guns strapped to their thighs.
(2546 views)

The Ultimate Deception? - In his report Harring asserts he will begin publishing, in sections, the Defense Department's official list of war dead from Iraq. Relatives and other loved ones of those whose lives are gone will be asked to examine the lists to see if the names of those they've lost appear there.
(1604 views)

Scorched Earth Policy - Further evidence of US scorched earth policy in Iraq . From Year Zero, to scorched earth. The Vietnam bluprint has surely been dusted down for re-use in this 'liberating' war. Liberated from life, electricity, water, movement, all legaliities, education, Mesapotamia is now being liberated from its ancient agriculture and date palms.
(1451 views)

Contractor alleging abuse in Iraq says he feared U.S. forces more than insurgents - Ginter said he was kicked, his head bounced off the pavement and his testicle squeezed by a guard during his detention. "I was more worried about my life from the (U.S.) military than from the insurgents," he said.
(1508 views)

Privacy issues with Google library search - A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast library collection over the Internet.
(1866 views)

Investigation Shows Big Business Funding Sex Chat Rooms - Yahoo! is facing a $10 million lawsuit that accuses it of cashing in on some disturbing chat rooms.
(2203 views)

New US move to spoil climate accord - Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.
(2047 views)

Iraq war started too early - Attacks preceded congressional OK - They were already fighting a war they'd planned long before. They just didn't bother to tell the American public.
(1274 views)

Dead American troops hung from lampposts as savage fighting continues in al-Qa’im Saturday. - Refugees from the city told Mafkarat al-Islam that on Saturday afternoon, they had watched as leading commanders of the Iraqi Resistance in the city hoisted the corpses of four dead American soldiers to the top of electric poles in the city.
(1769 views)

Libraries Say Yes, Officials Do Quiz Them About Users - Law enforcement officials have made at least 200 formal and informal inquiries to libraries for information on reading material and other internal matters since October 2001, according to a new study that adds grist to the growing debate in Congress over the government's counterterrorism powers.
(1333 views)

Gov't. Collected Airline Passenger Data - The federal agency in charge of aviation security collected extensive personal information about airline passengers even though Congress forbade it and officials said they wouldn't do it.
(1345 views)

Occupation-made Hunger in Iraq - While Western media and Western pundits are busy arguing and ranting about the lies and pretexts that led to US-Britain war on Iraq, the Iraqi people are suffering from shortages of food and the daily brutality of the Occupation. The new propaganda twist provides a perfect smokescreen for the continuing US crimes against the Iraqi people.
(1222 views)

Off-budget accounting for Iraq - By refusing to estimate the costs for the war in Iraq, Bush makes his budget deficits look much smaller than they actually are.
(1381 views)


June 21, 2005

Resistance in Iraq, true and false - There are two resistances in Iraq. A true one with a national project which aims at driving out the occupying forces and which attacks the US army and its local allies. And a false one, which has been created to discredit the true resistance and which attacks mosques and markets. »
(1343 views)

The GM Job Massacre - "Job cuts will save the automakers big bucks, but it's a bloodletting for the rank and file and euthanasia for the union. Anyone who has worked the line knows job cuts mean speedup, overload, excessive overtime, and health and safety hazards. Production doesn't slow down when the workforce is reduced. The jobs just get harder, faster, longer and more dangerous."
(1871 views)

More...You May Be Brainwashed By the Corporate Media If.. - ... are unaware that nations don't trade, corporations do....... are unaware that an 'official unemployment' of 5.8% means that 'effective unemployment' (including those who have given up looking and those working part-time, but wanting more work) is really 10%.
(1850 views)

Gender Melding – New World Biology - Here’s my theory: Emasculating men and de-feminizing women eliminates the cultural problems of soldiering and slave labor. It also eliminates the traditional roles of parents. This way the creature parents, from a social viewpoint, can legally be sent to war zones and assigned to corporation labor.
(3340 views)

WHAT’S NEW? - The newsreader reads carefully scripted and edited reports of how well we are doing in Iraq, shows Bush swaggering and chortling to a highly selected audience, gives ten second bites of some Republican senator praising his party, gives a three second summary of fighting between India and Pakistan and announces a National Day of Prayer.
(1811 views)

They Had a Coup d'etat and We Weren't Invited...Now It's Our Turn - It's just not fair. They got to play at Empire Building while we worked in the factories and schools and hospitals. They had fun while we worked. It is time to even the score. Now it's our turn.
(1353 views)

A Rape in the Making - The Paris Club’s debt reduction deal obligates the new government in Baghdad to dismantle the largely publicly owned economy established under the previous government, and to junk the large scale system of social supports the former Ba’athist government put in place to furnish Iraqis with jobs and food subsidies out of revenue earned from oil sales.
(1321 views)

Is 'Downing St memo' a honey trap? - This webmaster and other researchers have suspected that the so-called "Downing St memo" may grow into an impeachment sideshow that, while legitimate in and of itself, may ultimately distract from the Bush Administration's complicity in 9/11.
(1567 views)

Did David Boren Install a Homosexual Network in the CIA? - First of all, I am 100% sure that Boren is homosexual. This has been known at the gossip level around Oklahoma for more than three decades. Now, what do I know about Tenet? He is probably gay or bisexual...
(4508 views)

Living Wage Debate - Right-wingers tell you why it can't work. We tell you why they're wrong.
(2428 views)

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE VOUCHERS PLAN COULD PROVIDE COVERAGE AND CHOICE - Until about seven or eight years ago, in return for loyal service, retirees from big American firms could look forward to having their health care coverage and that of their spouse paid for by their company until death. Then the accountants and Ivy League business graduates started showing the boss how many millions could be saved by simply eliminating that perk.
(1880 views)

Nine Out of 30 Dow Jones Industrial Index Companies Convicted of Crimes - In tallying the corporate criminals, the weekly newsletter did not include crimes committed by joint venture companies or subsidiaries of the 30 corporations.
(2143 views)

US refuses to allow evacuation of Al-Arabiya's wounded reporter - Television channel Al-Arabiya said US military authorities had refused to authorize the evacuation from Iraq of reporter Jawad Kazem, who was wounded by armed men Saturday in Baghdad.
(2125 views)

Where were the doctors at Abu Ghraib? - Miles argues that health professionals turned a blind eye, or worse, to the torture and deaths of some of their patients. "These health professionals could have protested," he said. Instead, "the medical system here became one of the professional arms of a torturing society."
(1857 views)

Dust off the Nuremberg Files - Twelve Nazi officials were sentenced to be hanged, three sentenced to life in prison, four were given prison sentences of 10-20 years, and the rest were acquitted. Presently, the ongoing American and British slaughter of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians constitutes a blatant war crime. Average legal skills should be able to prove that a similar case for the prosecution against the current coalition leaders can easily be constructed on comparable lines.
(2129 views)

Iraqi official accuses US of 'indiscriminate killing' in western Iraq - An Iraqi official has accused the US forces of "indiscriminate killing" and destruction in the Iraqi town of Al-Qa'im, on the Syrian border.
(1250 views)

The Secret World of Jack Abramoff: Terrorists, Torpedoes and Republican "Muscle". - Less than a week before the 9.11 attack, Atta and several other hijackers were aboard one of Abramoff’s casino boats. What no one seems able to answer is this: What possible thrill could gambling offer men getting ready to die in less than a week? To this date, their Sept 5 visit to a gambling vessel overrun with retirees remains unexplained.
(3088 views)

Aljazeera Guantanamo inmate 'abused' - "He is completely innocent. He is about as much of a terrorist as my granddad. The only reason he has been treated like he has is because he is an Aljazeera journalist. The Americans have tried to make him an informant with the goal of getting him to say that Aljazeera is linked to al-Qaida."
(1749 views)


June 22, 2005

Thousands of child maids are condemned to slavery in Indonesia, rights report finds - Hundreds of thousands of Indonesian girls working as domestic maids are being abused and treated as slaves because the government is showing no will to implement the laws it has passed to protect them.
(2188 views)

Bards of the powerful - Geldof and Bono's campaign for philanthropy portrays the enemies of the poor as their saviours.
(1786 views)

French and U.S. probe Halliburton - French and U.S. officials have been probing for some time allegations of millions of dollars in kickbacks in a Nigerian oil project that involved Halliburton and the French company Technip between 1995 and 2002. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was an executive of Halliburton during much of that period.
(1718 views)

Data on I-95 Customs stops sought - The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
(1375 views)

U.S. Said Delaying Saddam Interrogations - Iraqi's justice minister said Tuesday that U.S. officials are trying to delay interrogations of Saddam Hussein. "It seems there are lots of secrets they want to hide," he told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.
(1260 views)

ACLU Says Bush Is Restricting Science - The American Civil Liberties Union charged Tuesday that the Bush administration is placing science under siege by overzealously tightening restrictions on information, individuals and technology in the name of homeland security.
(2291 views)

U.S. was big spender in days before Iraq handover - The United States handed out nearly $20 billion of Iraq's funds, with a rush to spend billions in the final days before transferring power to the Iraqis nearly a year ago, a report said on Tuesday. In total, more than 281 million individual bills, including more than 107 million $100 bills, were shipped to Iraq on giant pallets loaded onto C-130 planes, the report said.
(1099 views)

Aid agencies call for access to Karabila - "The situation is critical in the village of Karabila. Hundreds of injured people are inside the town requiring urgent medical treatment but have been prohibited to leave the village by US forces and we are not authorised to enter there," Dr Hamed al-Alousi, director at the nearby al-Qaim general hospital, said.
(1213 views)

Contract that spawned Guantanamo prisons awarded to Halliburton during Cheney's tenure as CEO - Experts say firm may have built secret camps
(1979 views)

Britain Considers Energy Rationing to Meet Kyoto Obligations - British residents could face a form of energy rationing within the next decade under proposals currently being studied to reduce the U.K.'s carbon dioxide emissions to comply with the Kyoto Protocol.
(2553 views)

U.S. Charged with 'Acquiescence to Genocide' in Return for Terror Info from Khartoum - Rights campaigners accused the U.S. administration of going along with genocide Wednesday after a top diplomat told lawmakers the White House maintains an intelligence-sharing relationship with the very government of Sudan it has assailed for a massive extermination of people in Darfur.
(1389 views)


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