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  • Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ryan Singel
    A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002.
    A detail from the "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" manual shows a camp layout at the Guantánamo Bay military detention facility. Image: Wikileaks.org
    The 238-page (…)

  • THE MAKING OG HILLARY CLINTON by ALEX COCKBURN AND JEFFREY SAINT CLAIR
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Nixon Girl to Watergate First in a three-part series.
    Hillary Clinton has always been an old-style Midwestern Republican in the Illinois style; one severely infected with Methodism, unlike the more populist variants from Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa.
    Her first known political enterprise was in the 1960 presidential election, the squeaker where the state of Illinois notoriously put Kennedy over the top, courtesy of Mayor Daley, Sam Giancana and Judith Exner. Hillary was a Nixon (…)

  • First Banks now Media Companies emerging in widening US financial meltdown (video)
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    First it was the banks that were hiding subprime loans, now attention is about to focus on the media companies that were funded by those same banks.
    – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGb...

  • Dems Put War Costs at $3.5 Trillion Through 2017
    14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Lobe
    U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $3.5 trillion through 2017 if both direct and indirect, or "hidden," costs are taken into account, according to a new report released Tuesday by Democrats in Congress.
    The 27-page report, entitled "War at Any Price?" [.pdf], concluded that the total economic costs incurred to date – including "hidden" expenses, such as higher oil prices, interest on borrowing, and the long-term care of injured soldiers – (…)

  • Ron Paul, The Federal Reserve, JFK and M3: Devaluing Americans into Bankruptcy
    13 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Comptroller General of the United States, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, which is “a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government”, in their latest audit of the federal debt have revealed that “deficit spending and promised benefits for federal entitlement programs have put every man, woman, and child in the United States on the hook for $175,000”. This is exclusive of the personal debt that each person (…)

  • Why Bush Doesn’t Have to Suspend the Constitution!
    13 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.” - George C. Wallace
    Pakistan’s President, General Pervez Musharraf, suspended his country’s Constitution on Nov. 3, 2007, and began arresting opponents of his dictatorial rule. President George W. Bush doesn’t have to resort to that kind of strong arm tactic. This isn’t because he has any second thoughts about doing so. It’s because there isn’t ANY opposition, in the realm of institutional politics, to the Bush-Cheney (…)

  • THOSE BASTARDS NEVER GIVE UP
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THOSE BASTARDS NEVER GIVE UP
    By Peter Fredson
    November 12, 2007
    Everyone is aware of the neocon dream of world domination, set forth in the Project for the New American Century Their fascist philosophy of ruthlessness, bullying, preemption, secrecy in the quest for power and wealth was published long before 9/11. Bush and his base fully intended to have wars of choice to seize the scarce resources of weak nations, and they had no hesitation in accepting whatever deaths were caused by (…)

  • Spy Officials Tracking Key Scientists
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tracking scientists moving from country to country to share their expertise in building biological weapons is a major challenge, a top U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday.
    By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, September 26, 2007
    (09-26) 11:21 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) —
    Unlike nuclear weapons or missiles, biological weapons can be manufactured in relatively nondescript facilities that are hard to detect. That makes tracking the people with the know-how to build the (…)

  • David Kelly: The belly-dancing spy whose secrets they just ignored
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Charismatic and exotic, Ms Pederson was an Arab-American linguist whom David Kelly met in Iraq in 1998...Mai Pederson — a bellydancing US Army sergeant who, according to both her ex-husbands, is a spy with an astonishing ability to bewitch men.
    By NORMAN BAKER MP, Last updated at 00:59am on 23rd October 2007
    Uuncorrected to this day, the transcripts of the Hutton Inquiry still refer to a mysterious figure called Mike Peddison, mentioned in the testimony of David Kelly’s wife Janice as a (…)

  • More Lost Weapons in Iraq
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives, selling AK-47 assault rifles, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African (…)