By John Byrne
Group that won Guantánamo ruling targets U.S. over Abu Ghraib
Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The charges, which will be filed Tuesday, name Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, the former leading U.S. general in Iraq Ricardo Sanchez and seven other (...)
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Group to file war crimes suit against U.S. over Abu Ghraib abuse in German courts
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Jesse Jackson seeks voting probe
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe Rev. Jesse Jackson says Ohioans should not stand for the way elections were run in Ohio Nov. 2, and he planned to bring his message directly to Cincinnati today.
Jackson was expected to speak at a rally this morning at Integrity Hall in Bond Hill, calling for an investigation of the voting process in Ohio. He said the rally this morning and one Sunday night in Columbus were to serve as "a kind of statewide sharing of experiences" that would mobilize citizens and result in "collective (...) -
Petri Dish Culture
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Wayne Besen
By now, most people have been sickened by the brawl involving the Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons and the drunken hooligans that pose as Piston’s basketball fans. We looked on in horror as muscle-bound Pacer’s star Ron Artest leapt into the stands - followed by a few of his teammates - to attack terrified basketball buffs after he was hit by a cup of beer. We watched in dismay as the scene escalated into violent chaos and mayhem.
Appropriately, National Basketball (...) -
Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance...
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance, and Corporate Scandal
by Jason Leopold
Off the Record is the story of the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance told by Jason Leopold, who survived a life of drug abuse and petty crime and went on to become one of the most highly regarded investigative reporters of the last few years, uncovering some of the biggest scandals of corporate America, the office of the governor of (...) -
Newly Unclassified US Documents: Bush Ancestor’s Bank Seized by Gov’t
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Jonathan D. Salant
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, government documents show.
Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press. (...) -
Too many Bush scandals to go into separately
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsInvesting in War: Carlyle Group Profits from Government and ConflictThe Center for Public Integrity, Nov. 18, 2004 New Army Chief is Carlyle ManSan Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 19, 2004 Bush’s Ancestor’s Bank Seized by GovernmentAssociated Press, Oct. 18, 2003 Bush-Nazi Link ConfirmedNew Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 10, 2003 Bush-Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951: Federal DocumentsNew Hampshire Gazette, Nov. 7, 2003 Heir to the Holocaust: Prescott Bush, $1.5 Million and (...)
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“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
Furthermore, the records show that Bush and (...) -
BUSH-NAZI LINK CONFIRMED
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentDocuments in National Archives Prove George W. Bush’s Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor
by John Buchanan
WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until (...) -
Re-Vote, Not Recount, in Ohio
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Anne Pfeiffer
It appears there will be a recount in Ohio. However, a recount probably won’t do much good in three counties that have suspicious numbers — Franklin, Mahoning, and Warren. I’ll deal with Franklin and Mahoning first, then Warren later. Here are some simple facts about the election in Ohio:
1. Ohio has 88 counties. The three largest counties that went strongly for Kerry are Cuyahoga (which contains Cleveland), Franklin (which contains Columbus — the state capital), and (...) -
Kerry Supports Ohio Vote Investigation, Jackson says
30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Steven Rosenfeld
John Kerry supports a “full investigation” into voting irregularities in Ohio, Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday, during a teleconference with media regarding a recount and legal challenge of the Nov. 2 vote.
“John Kerry supports a full investigation,” Jackson said. He recently spoke with the Democratic presidential nominee and reported that Kerry said he conceded the race on the morning after Election Day because “originally, he was inclined to believe what he was (...)