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Blair accused of hypocrisy over call to cut EU research budget
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
Tony Blair’s ambitious bid to switch EU spending from agriculture to science and technology has been undermined by plans set out by the British Government to slash European research and development spending next year.
British moves to cut the EU’s 2006 budget prompted a blunt warning that the UK, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, will be seen as hypocritical in other capitals. The (…)

Last month, Scott McConnell caught up with Associate Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, whose book on suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, is beginning to receive wide notice. Pape has found that the most common American perceptions about who the terrorists are and what motivates them are off by a wide margin. In his office is the world’s largest database of information about suicide terrorists, rows and rows of manila folders containing articles and biographical snippets in (…)

DEFENSE SECRETARY DON RUMSFELD FAILS TO GIVE WAR PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Under the provisions of the defense bill, Rumsfeld was supposed to give performance numbers
WASHINGTON POST — President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.
Two weeks ago, David Broder pointed out that the Bush administration would soon face a (…)

Blood Of The Innocents 32 CHILDREN KILLED IN BAGHDAD CAR BOMBING US Soldier Handing Out Sweets
By Grace Reid
What is wrong with this picture?
Yesterday a suicide bomber targeted an American soldier who was busy distributing candy to Iraqi children during a bomb alert. The soldier, the bomber and twenty four children were killed.
This is the US armed forces, this is not the Red Cross/Red Crescent. Why would a US soldier be handing out sweets in the middle of a bomb alert? Why is (…)

Weapons in space put the world at risk
By WILLIAM D. HARTUNG
Within the next few weeks, President Bush is expected to release his administration’s new national space policy. The most crucial aspect of the plan will be whether it endorses placing weapons in space.
There have been a series of reports since 2001 that essentially advocate deploying space weapons. The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, initially chaired by Donald (…)

The Stalking of Andy Stephenson
Did Stevenson Die because of medical care delays caused by rabid right wing hate?
by Elizabeth Ferrari
I have lived for the last ten weeks with Andy Stephenson’s cancer. And in the most useless way. I couldn’t take it away, couldn’t relieve him of it, couldn’t mind it for a few hours so he could be freed to do the election reform work he so loved.
Andy was one of the most luminous people I have never met, because we never shared room temperature. I (…)

From the transcript of Conyers June 16th Downing Street Memo Hearing.
27 Year CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:
I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions.
By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy. How exactly is (…)

Washington DC, July 11 - Last week’s London explosions carry the characteristic features of a state-sponsored, false flag, synthetic terror provocation by networks within the British intelligence services MI-5, MI-6, the Home Office, and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch who are favorable to a wider Anglo-American aggressive war in the Middle East, featuring especially an early pre-emptive attack on Iran, with a separate option on North Korea also included. With the London attacks, the (…)

ONCE MORE AND YET AGAIN
By Peter Fredson
July 14, 2005
Shakespeare’s Henry V urged his troops as follows:
“Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favor’d rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.” (…)

President Bush promised to fire whomever outted CIA operative Valerie Plame Bush. Karl Rove has been exposed as that person and Bush refuses to fire him. How good is Bush’s word to Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong Il (N. Korea), Hu Jintao (China) — or the American people?
Bush said on February 10, 2004: "There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. If there’s leaks out of my administration, I want to know who it is, and if the person has violated the law, the person will be (…)