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By Park Song-wu Korea Times Correspondent BEIJING North Korea reportedly promised Wednesday that it could verifiably’’ liquidate all of its nuclear weapons programs should Washington remove itsnuclear threat’’ on the Korean Peninsula and normalize its diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.
Pyongyang did not say whether it would accept inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan, Pyongyang’s chief delegate to the six-party talks, (…)

No More Pardons for Traitor-gate Criminals
Convicted Previously of National Security Crimes, Elliott Abrams Joins Rove and Libby as Latest Figures Newest Figure in Traitor-gate
Did you know that Elliot Abrams, pardoned by the first President Bush for the Iran-Contra crimes he committed under the Reagan Administration, now works for the Bush White House? And has been implicated in the leak of Valerie Plame’s covert identity?
I have sent a letter to President Bush asking him to say right (…)

This is a continuing series focusing on the findings on the "uranium from Africa" issue in the whitewash Senate Report - the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). [Previous parts: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 3A-1, Part 3A-2, Part 3A-3].
In this part we get to one of the most whitewashed aspects of the Senate Report - the forged Niger documents and the CIA/Bush administration narrative about it. (Note that all bold/highlighted text is my emphasis). (…)

It’s a humid summer day in Houston, but, as he drives around town, Texas native Dahr Jamail’s mind is thousands of miles away. Temporarily back from Iraq, where he works as an un-embedded reporter, Dahr Jamail spoke to CityBeat from somewhere on a Texas expressway.
“It’s weird being back,” he said, “especially being in a country that has invaded another and is currently occupying it.
“It’s surreal. I miss Iraq.”
Jamail, who went from mountain climbing in Alaska to a freelance career (…)

Kevin Benderman’s court martial starts tomorrow - Thursday, July 28. More funds are needed to pay for his legal defense.
He is taking a stand for peace, and against an illegal war. By filing as a Conscientious Objector, and refusing re-deployment to Iraq, his case will set a precedent for hundreds if not thousands who want to do what he has done, but hesitate to do so.
There are two ways to support his defense - a non-tax deductible donation, or a tax deductible donation to his legal (…)

I sometimes having trouble even finishing news stories. Tony Blair, as per my reading on the BBC website and elsewhere, said that Iraq was no excuse for the London bombings.
But the invasion of Iraq was justified by the New York bombings? It’s precisely this sort of hypocrisy that pisses people off. How many people, all over the world, are going, "Sir, you most definitely believe in the principle of retaliatory violence, even when it violates international laws and standards. Further, what (…)

We speak with veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry, who writes that Karl Rove’s defenders are rebutting accusations about the White House aide’s leaking of a CIA officer’s identity by using an argument that parallels a rationale cited by leftists who defended CounterSpy after a CIA officer exposed by the magazine in 1975 was gunned down in Greece. More than two dozen Democratic senators on Monday asked Congress to investigate the White House leak of undercover CIA operative Valerie (…)

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Well, the GOP is temporarily succeeding at making treason appear normal and fully acceptable when the national security is damaged by a Republican. Because Republicans are "good people" who betray the country out of divine inspiration, not malice.
So Karl Rove spent the evening of July 26th at a fundraiser for Michael Steele, the African American Lt. Governor of Maryland, who the GOP is hoping will siphon off enough black votes in the next Governor’s election to (…)

by Vincent Fischer
“Religious killing shows man at his most depraved; for in this act he destroys the beauty of his dream by pretending to divine power” (My Brother Death, Sulzberger, Carl).
Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were hanged publicly on July 19, 2005 in the city of Mashhad, Iran. http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/07/2999.shtml
The photographs are nauseating. Looking at the pictures of the condemned teenagers, it is easy to fall into despair. In the remaining (…)

BILL O’REILLY IN DRAG
By William Fisher
Michelle Malkin, sometimes known as Bill O’Reilly in drag, opened one of her recent syndicated rants with this question:
“Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Civil-liberties activists, anti-war organizers, eco-militants and animal-rights operatives are in a fright over news that the nefarious FBI is watching them. Why on earth would the government be worried about harmless liberal grannies, innocent vegetarians, unassuming rainforest lovers and other ‘peaceful (…)