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The MP George Galloway angrily rejected fresh allegations last night from a US senate investigation that he lied under oath about Saddam Hussein’s multimillion-pound oil-for-food programme.
The inquiry, headed by the Republican Norm Coleman, claimed he had "knowingly made false or misleading statements under oath" when he appeared before a committee hearing in Washington in May.
The MP for Bethnal Green and Bow won widespread acclaim, especially from anti-Iraq war campaigners, when he (…)

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story...
Ben Bernanke To Replace Alan Greenspan Wilma Kills 5, Leaves 3.2 Million Without Power in Fla. Judith Miller Upset by NYT Rebuke DeLay Reacts to Democratic Fundraising New ’Got Milk’ Ad Gets MLB’s Goat The New York Times reported late Monday that Vice President Cheney has been directly linked to the so-called "Plamegate" scandal involving the disclosure of the name of Valerie Plame, a CIA officer.
The (…)

Bush-Cheney CIA/Plame case indictments released this morning
Bush orders Fitzgerald fired and espionage indictments quashed
by Tom Flocco
Washington, DC-October 21, 2005-12:00 EST-TomFlocco.com exclusive-Today Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald handed over 22 indictments to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, accusing President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and others of espionage, obstruction of justice, perjury and a variety of other charges in the matter of the (…)

By LOUIS UCHITELLE
THE Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. set forth the goal. Civil rights and union membership were to be intertwined. The labor movement, Dr. King wrote in 1958, "must concentrate its powerful forces on bringing economic emancipation to white and Negro by organizing them together in social equality."
That happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s. But then unions lost bargaining power and members. And while labor leaders called attention to the overall decline, few took notice (…)

by Stephen Walt
Americans normally shrug off newspaper headlines overseas, unconcerned by what the rest of the world thinks of us. But the events of recent months have turned a not-so-flattering mirror back upon the US, forcing us to think seriously about what it is the rest of the world is seeing.
The hurricanes that struck America’s Gulf coast this autumn were just the beginning of a series of storms - both physical and political - that have done significant damage to the already (…)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In light of recent developments in the CIA leak investigation and other recent revelations, Congressman Jerrold Nadler today called for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to expand his investigation to include a criminal investigation to examine whether the President, the Vice President, and members of the White House Iraq Group conspired to deliberately deceive Congress into authorizing the war in Iraq.
“The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg,” Congressman (…)

=================== Walker’s World: Bush at bay
By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the (…)

How Did Patrick Fitzgerald Become the U.S. Attorney in Charge of the TreasonGate Investigation?
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
It’s perhaps a good time to ask that question, as we will learn this week if there will be indictments and, if so, how many of them there will be.
How did an administration so good at establishing investigations and commissions that whitewashed its lies and incompetence end up with a prosecutor it doesn’t seem able to squash like a bug? Heck, after turning FEMA over (…)

Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
Hinderaker’s Folly
Special to Crooks and Liars by Larry Johnson If ignorance is bliss, then John Hinderaker is one happy fellow when it comes to talking about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. According to Hinderaker, who was appearing on Howard Kurtz’s CNN show about the media, he trots out once again the big lie of Republican talking points by claiming that Joe Wilson lied in his July 2003 op-ed. Hinderaker says that Wilson, "reported to the CIA (…)

Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed.
The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.
It demonstrates for the first time the true strength of anti-Western feeling in (…)