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News from the DNC:
Until recently, Karl Rove had denied even knowing Valerie Plame’s name. Now, after the release of emails from Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper revealing the name of the White House source, Rove’s lawyer confirmed that Rove did speak with reporters about the case. With his history of questionable campaign tactics and his penchant for leaking information critical of his rivals, Rove should come clean with the American people: Did he endanger our (…)

My name is on a list of real and suspected enemies of the state and I can’t find out what I’m accused of or why, let alone defend myself.
Heading for Oakland from Seattle to see my grandkids last week, the Alaska Airlines check-in machine refused to give me a boarding pass. Directed to the ticket counter, I gave the agent my driver’s license and watched her punch keys at her computer.
Frowning, she told me that my name was on the national terrorist No Fly Watch List and that I had to be (…)

GRANMA July 16, 2002
BUSH’S LIASONS The scandalous release of Letelier’s killers
HOW José Dionisio "Bloodbath" Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero were able to personally express their gratitude to their master . As CIA head, George Bush Sr. never had to explain his role in this dirty story of murder and disinformation . A few weeks before September 11, President Bush released two dangerous terrorists, who are also CIA collaborators and CANF mercenaries
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Special for (…)

by Jerzy Pollack July 2, 2005 Exclusive to SiaNews
Justice Department attempts to quash testimony by wife of bioweaponeer William Patrick III in STEVEN J. HATFILL, M.D. v. ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (et al).
Headed by former federal prosecutor Tom Connelly, pro bono attorney’s for Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, the former "person of interest" in the anthrax letters case, have been quietly doing battle behind the scenes with (…)

By PAISLEY DODDS
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) - Police on Friday raised the death toll to 50 from London’s terrorist bombings but said they hadn’t yet been able to reach all of the dead. Commuters reluctantly returned to the Underground, but buses and subways carried fewer riders than normal in the aftermath of four rush-hour blasts.
Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said no evidence suggested that the attacks involved suicide bombers but that officials (…)

The reality of this barbaric bombing
by Robert Fisk
If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us?
"If you bomb our cities," Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, "we will bomb yours." There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush’s "war on terror" and his invasion of Iraq. We had, as they say, been warned. The G8 summit was obviously chosen, well in (…)

The crisis that now has Western cities becoming police states — New York, Madrid, London, Washington not only already having experienced mass casualities but constantly on guard and constantly expending great resources to try to prevent further attacks — has deep causes that have been brewing for years. At the top of the list so much political and ideological poison has oozed out of the Arab-Israeli conflict for decades now. The harsh military occupation of the Palestinians, the many (…)

Around this time last year, I was corresponding regularly with a globe-trotting Viennese Jewish linguist who was visiting Oklahoma City. She wrote from there about being deeply unnerved by the live and televised celebrationsthat she’d seen during our "Fourth Of July" holiday, because they vividly reminded her of 1930s Germany, both as described by her older relatives and as captured by Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films.
This year, her astute observations came to mind as I watched the (…)

In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for Fallujah and Abu Ghraib. By John Pilger
Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers and watching television in Britain, you (…)

Five minutes tuned into CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the entire panoply of the corporate media propaganda machine reveals a common thread in regard to the London bombings-once again, in knee-jerk fashion, an exaggerated al-Qaeda is to blame, minus any evidence whatsoever beyond an absurd claim of responsibility by something calling itself “The Secret Organization of al-Qaeda in Europe,” a preposterous and unwieldy appellation if ever there was one. Even the unanimity of the corporate media (…)