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McCain: I don’t agree with British war memo Leaked document says U.S. set up conditions for Iraq invasion
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Sunday he doesn’t "agree with" the secret minutes of a high-level British meeting in 2002 saying "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support a U.S.-led war in Iraq — well before the president sought approval on the war from Congress.
The memo was made public earlier this month by the Times of London newspaper. British officials did (…)

By Jason Leopold
While the hacks working for mainstream news organizations were busy chasing the story about the Runaway Bride late last month, a real scandal was just beginning to unfold as Congress inched closer to approving a controversial measure to open up a couple thousand acres of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
It was then, unbeknownst to the federal lawmakers who debated the merits of drilling in ANWR, that the Alaska Department of Environmental (…)

Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant Uzi Mahnaimi
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme.
The inner cabinet of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave “initial authorisation” for an attack at a private meeting last month on his ranch in the Negev desert.
Israeli forces have used a mock-up of Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant in the desert to practise (…)

Sir John Scarlett, head of MI6, has been accused of trying ’to sex up’ a report by the Iraq Survey Group, the body charged with finding weapons of mass destruction after Saddam Hussein was toppled.
In an exclusive interview, Dr Rod Barton, a former senior weapons inspector in Iraq, has revealed extraordinary details of how Scarlett and a top Ministry of Defence official intervened in a report by the ISG early last year.
Barton, who has worked for Australian intelligence for more than 20 (…)

On 30th of January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, a march organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, in order to protest against the law on the internament without process, (introduced on 9th August 1971 on the base of Section 12 of the Special Power Act) was made object of a brutal, criminal and premeditated aggression by the British Security Forces.
The soldiers of 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, an elite unit of the Royal Paratroopoers (the English (…)

A just released analysis confirms pollster Warren Mitofsky’s assertion that the exit polls that put John Kerry ahead of George Bush in Ohio on Election Day 2004 do not necessarily indicate that there was fraud in the Ohio election.
The research team, led by Dr. Fritz Scheuren, used more detailed information from the exit polls than previous studies. The team was able to use this precinct-level information while preserving ballot secrecy at a local level.
"The more detailed information (…)

Torture’s true purpose is to terrorize. It may not work as an interrogation tool, but as an intimidation tactic, its success is clear.
I recently caught a glimpse of the effects of torture in action at an event honoring Maher Arar. The Syrian-born Canadian is the world’s most famous victim of "rendition," the process by which US officials outsource torture to foreign countries. Arar was switching planes in New York when U.S. interrogators detained him and "rendered" him to Syria, where he (…)

What do an Army Pfc., a well-known volunteer Army Ranger and a National Guard Brigadier General have in common?
All three are victims of the Bush administration’s campaign of propaganda, lies and cover-up about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the mismanagement by generals and civilian Pentagon officials.
You probably know all about Pfc. Lynndie England, the National Guard soldier from West Virginia who went to Iraq to fight Saddam’s army. She was photographed humiliating (…)

London - Prisoners detained by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere are still at risk of torture and ill-treatment, Amnesty International said on Friday.
A year after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal caused an international uproar when US guards were photographed abusing detainees, the human rights group said the Bush administration has shown a chilling disregard for international law.
"The conditions to facilitate torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading (…)

Congressman John Conyers will be issuing a letter cosigned by roughly 50 House members calling for a special prosecutor to investigate claims that the U.S. has violated the War Crimes Act at secret detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, RAW STORY has learned.
The following letter will be issued shortly.
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May 12, 2005
The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC (…)