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GEORGE GALLOWAY REVISITED
By Peter Fredson
May 19, 2005
Yesterday I wrote about a remarkable encounter of Mr. George Galloway, British Member of Parliament, with a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate. One particular senator had been waiting to skewer and roast Mr. Galloway, but had the tables turned on him (and the entire Bush administration) when the fiery Mr. Galloway responded in words that half of the country was waiting to hear.
Today I spent several hours reviewing news sources and (…)

KORAN AND CYO
By Peter Fredson
May 20, 2005
For the past several days an article in NEWSWEEK, regarding alleged desecration of the Koran by American Soldiers in Guantanamo, has aroused a great deal of comment. Events followed the usual pattern. The first defense of Administration and Pentagon people is to deny everything, vociferously, at length. Next come counter-charges, stating that everything is highly exaggerated and that all is running smoothly.
Anyone who has ever served in (…)

The CIA is going to file papers in court today to block the release of documents relating to its employee, George Joannides. The details of why information regarding Joannides may be important to understanding the JFK assassination are summarized in this letter (signed by a peculiar combination of disinformation agents and legitimate researchers, meaning that the CIA itself may be of two minds on the matter). The energy the CIA is expending subverting American law leads one to believe that (…)

As a primary example of how the corporate media unquestioningly snaps up Pentagon disinformation, deliberately created as a form of psychological warfare against the American people, consider the following by Paul Garwood of the Associated Press:
The leaders of Iraq’s most notorious terrorist group recently held a secret meeting in neighboring Syria, where they plotted the recent wave of insurgent violence that has killed hundreds of people and was intended to break the postelection lull (…)

The New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee announced that it had indicted President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former President William J. Clinton and other high government officials for violations of Federal and State laws ranging from Deprivation of Civil Rights to War Crimes, Torture and Murder. “We are making this indictment and we are demanding that these individuals be officially indicted by a Grand Jury for these crimes, and stand trial for them.” said Eric Lerner, (…)

I wonder if they’re getting nervous now in the West Wing.
As the drumbeat grows louder, the White House finally decided to comment on the Downing Street Memo.
But only in typical Bush administration fashion. Which means rhetorical games, little lies, and big ones hidden in the context of what is said and not said.
So, for example, when White House spokesman Scott McClellan finally responded to questions put to him over the last week about the memo, he of course said that he hadn’t read (…)

Russia would consider using force if necessary to respond if the US put a combat weapon into space, according to a senior Russian official.
According to a New York Times report yesterday, the Bush administration was moving towards implementing a new space policy that would move the US closer to placing offensive and defensive weapons in space. Russia, China and many US allies oppose any weaponisation of space, partly out of concerns that it would lead to an extremely expensive post-cold (…)

The American Civil Liberties Union charged today that the FBI and local police are engaging in intimidation based on political association and are improperly investigating law-abiding human rights and advocacy groups, according to documents obtained through a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. ACLU affiliates today filed FOIA requests seeking similar documents in ten states.
ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit and FOIA Requests to Uncover More Files
WASHINGTON — The American (…)

Bush administration forced to detain Posada Carriles
Federal agents detained the anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Miami Tuesday shortly after he held a press conference where he told reporters that the government was not looking for him and he felt no need to hide.
The arrest, in which Posada was whisked away in a Blackhawk helicopter to an undisclosed location, followed weeks of implausible denials by the US State Department that it had any knowledge as to his (…)

That incriminating "smoking gun" memo proving the Bush and Blair Administrations pre-determined an invasion and occupation of Iraq long before the invasion occurred has apparently come and gone, barely noted in the American press, AWOL from editorial pages. Eighty-eight brave members of Congress signed and sent a letter authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) ( http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502 ) asking President Bush to answer questions about the secret U.S.-UK (…)