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Playboy has an exclusive on American military-industrial complex that’s worth the read.

by Richard Cummings
In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley’s office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from the offices of Vice [...]

By Jack Tuckner, Esq. for Women’s Rights Blog

In NY Times today, the article “For $7.93 an Hour, It’s Worth a Trip Across a State Line” is an empirical study that proves the thesis that affluent, business folk who identity as Republicans (including our fearless leader, his coterie of wealthy, power-hungry, morally vacuous advisors and congressional [...]

Warnings to Iran and Syria Cause Concern in Congress
By JOHN HENDREN
President Bush’s sternly worded warning to Iran and Syria that the United States’ new strategy in Iraq could include action against them sent shock waves across Capitol Hill today, prompting pointed questions for top administration policymakers.
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Some pressing concerns over the “Pentagonization of our world” by Tom Engelhardt:

Just this week, the Bush administration is considering making a little futuristic news. The President might soon approve “a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades,” the Reliable Replacement Warhead. If only names were [...]

By Brian Beutler
Democrats’ own Rules Commmittee chair criticizes exemption, bill architecture
WASHINGTON — A major loophole in the Democrats’ recently unveiled ethics package will allow non-profit arms of controversial lobbying organizations to fund travel excursions for members of Congress, RAW STORY has discovered.
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By Robert Fisk
12/30/06 “The Independent” — – Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered [...]

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: HABEAS CORPUS, THE U.S.BILL OF RIGHTS, THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS
The Military Commissions Act of 2006:
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SUSPENDS THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, enshrined in law since 1215 A.D., i.e., the rights of any accused to test their arrest or detention in a court of [...]

By KAREN W. ARENSON
The chancellor of the City University of New York
yesterday directed the president of City College to remove
the names of two fugitives linked to violent crimes from
the entrance to a student clubroom.
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AlterNet: Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money!
By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet.
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An excellent commentary from Lahontan Valley News
It’s hard to fathom what Rupert Murdoch and his employees at News Corp. were thinking when they first decided to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the accused murderer reportedly described how he would have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman 12 years [...]

Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat
Stephen Lendman
In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are Venezuela and [...]

An absolutel read for critical media scholars and peace loving people.

By Joe Kay and Barry Grey
13 October 2006
The US media is virtually silent on a new scientific study that estimates the Iraqi death toll from the US war at 655,000. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by [...]

More than 650,000 people have died in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of the country began in March of 2003. This is according to a new study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. The study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in [...]

A Coroner is to ask the attorney general to consider bringing charges against US troops who killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in southern Iraq.
After hearing how the 50-year-old correspondent had died from a bullet in the head fired into the back of a makeshift civilian ambulance by American Marines, Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker [...]

Tony Jones speaks with former US Defence Department official, Daniel Ellsberg, who accuses President Bush of lying to take America to war with Iraq, and believes secret groundwork is being laid for a war with Iran.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Broadcast: 12/10/2006
Transcript:
TONY JONES: Well, comparisons between the US war in Iraq and the quagmire of the [...]

Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11
BUSH: The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.
QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it?
BUSH: What did Iraq [...]

PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
For the first time since exposing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Joe Darby speaks out
Everybody thinks there was a conspiracy at Abu Ghraib.
Everybody thinks there was an order from high up, or that somebody in command must have known. Everybody is wrong. Nobody in command knew about the abuse, because nobody in command [...]

More than just a few rotten apples as Jobs is drawn into latest US corporate scandal
By Stephen Foley in New York
It is the scandal Wall Street can no longer dismiss as “a few bad apples”. In what amounts to systematic corruption, dozens of American companies stand accused of manipulating share options to inflate executive pay [...]

Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet

Jeffrey Chester
Lured by huge checks handed out by the country’s top lobbyists, members of Congress could soon strike a blow against Internet freedom as they seek to resolve the hot-button controversy over preserving “network neutrality.” The telecommunications reform bill now moving through Congress threatens to be a major setback for [...]

At Guantanamo, Caught in a Legal Trap
6 Algerians Languish Despite Foreign Rulings, Dropped Charges
SARAJEVO, Bosnia — On Jan. 18, 2002, six men suspected of plotting to attack the U.S. Embassy were seized here by U.S. troops and flown to Cuba, where they became some of the first arrivals at the Pentagon’s new prison at Guantanamo [...]