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GCHQ- Government Communications HeadQuarters Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency
by Steve Jones
GCHQ- Government Communications Headquarters- is the United Kingdom’s (and the European Union’s) counterpart to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.
Commonly referred to as, "her Majesty’s doughnut", GCHQ is Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency. Located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, the massive 176 acre centre, 1.1 million (…)

By David Walsh
Right-winger Kenneth Tomlinson resigned from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) November 3, after a report by the agency’s inspector general sharply criticized his performance. Tomlinson has been at the center of efforts to transform public broadcasting into a mouthpiece for the Bush administration.
Tomlinson, a former director of the Voice of America in the Reagan administration and editor-in-chief or Reader’s Digest, was appointed to the CPB by (…)

I just found this on Raw Story....... I can think of all kinds of things to say about this but right now I’m still trying to digest the whole thing!!! Yet no one is screaming about Valeria Plame???????????
Letter calls for inquiry into Washington Post story on CIA jails
John Byrne
Senior Republicans are pushing for an investigation into who revealed the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas for "high-value" al Qaeda suspects to the Washington Post, RAW STORY can confirm.
The Post (…)

By Joe Baker
As if the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby wasn’t enough to give the White House some heavy concerns, a report from the Government Accounting Office takes a big bite out of the Bush clique’s pretense of legitimacy.
This powerful and probing report takes a hard look at the election of 2004 and supports the contention that the election was stolen. The report has received almost no coverage in the national media.
The GAO is the government’s lead investigative agency, and (…)

Israel as an Extension of American Empire
By JEFF HALPER
There are many tragic and self-destructive features of the Occupation for Israel itself. Although the country was founded on the "original sin" of exclusivity and the expulsion of the refugees, it nevertheless had (has?) the potential to develop into a normal, even progressive society. Many of the socialist principles that accompanied the Zionist program led in those directions. Israel always talked of democracy, even extending (…)

2005-11-07 :: azzaman ::
The former regime of Saddam Hussein suppressed all forms of freedom, did not tolerate the slightest dissent and buried any voice he did not like.
As a result of his rash, brutal and despotic polices we ended up in the kind of the brutal foreign occupation we have now.
Iraqis’ pleasure over the collapse of the regime was short-lived. It did not take us long to discover that there has been little or no difference in conditions before and after the so-called (…)

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Shocking revelation on RAI News 24 of the use of chemical weapons by the US military in Iraq. Veteran admits: ’Bodies melted away before us’.
by: Paper Tigress
In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and (…)

By JOCELYN GECKER
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (…)

Spreading Rampage in Country’s Slums Is Rooted in Alienation and Abiding Government Neglect
By Molly Moore
LE BLANC-MESNIL, France - Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.
He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can almost everyone else in the (…)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
Ansel Adams came to the White House in 1975 to deliver a print of a photograph from Yosemite National Park desired by President Ford and Betty Ford. Adams, still smarting from President Nixon’s neglect of public lands, asked Ford to redefine the meaning of our parks, maintain their funding, and put a ’’new emphasis on preservation and environmental responsibilities."
In 1983, Adams met with President Reagan, and not to deliver a photograph. He was a vocal critic of (…)