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BUSH DEFIES NEW PATRIOT ACT

With signing statement that he does not have to inform Congress of who the FBI is spying on and why. This helps reveal the outlines of the programs that he won’t tell us about (and that the GOP-led Congress refuses to investigate).

Badr Death Squads Killing Gays in Iraq

Another great result of our “Democracy project” in Iraq. Doug Ireland, who wrote this piece, is a great journalist who I’ve admired since the mid-1980s when he wrote the media watch column for the Village Voice.

Speaking by telephone from London, the Abu Nawas Group’s Hili said that “there is a very, very serious threat […]

Harvard Removes Their Name from AIPAC Paper

They decided to remove their name from a study saying AIPAC had too much influence as a pressure group. Why? Too much pressure.

Baghdad More Dangerous than in Saddam Era

Read this and tell me Iraq is not in a civil war.

Samarra Under Siege

Anyone see this anywhere else?

“Our convoys sent on Sunday and Monday have been prevented from entering the city by US troops and our information from inside is that families are without food, power and potable water, particularly because they cannot leave their homes,” noted Abdel Hameed, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Red Crescent Society […]

Torturing the Truth

As with the White House-approved, torture, the endorsement of the practice of bribing “journalists” is undermining our military and its honest officers. The worst principles are being applauded here, and the result is more dead soldiers.

Hiding in plain sight

Ties that bind 3 different massive scandals: The cover-up of “bad intelligence” on Iraq, the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal (now with White House involvement) and the illegal domestic spying scandal (SAIC has already been implicated in private contracts for the NSA domestic spying). Keep an eye on this it is not going away.

Yet Another Family Killed by US Troops in Their Home

According to Ellen Knickmeyer in the Washington Post.

A top police official, as well as a resident who claimed he saw the fighting, said U.S. troops also shot and killed a family of three during house-to-house searches after the firefight.

“I saw corpses on the ground that I believe were of armed men who had […]

Bribery Felon Provided Staffers to Intel Cover-Up Report

Mitchell Wade, the man who bribed Duke Cunningham, provided staff for the infamous Silberman-Robb coverup report on pre-war Iraq Intel. This man is a felon, and he’s directly involved in a serious investigation that White House spokespeople use on a weekly basis as “proof” that they didn’t lie to America about WMD. On top of […]

Insurgents Kill 20, Free 33 Prisoners

The temptation will grow to hit Abu Ghraib after this. This was a LARGE attacking force, the biggest gun battle in Iraq of 2006.