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Dear Chairman Dean,
Speaking before an ACLU crowd last week in Minnesota, the home state of Paul Wellstone, the only senator to vote against the war, you were quoted as saying, "Now that we’re there [in Iraq], we’re there and we can’t get out.... I hope the President is incredibly successful with his policy now." Did these words really come from the same man who claimed to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and who had recently campaigned on the antiwar theme? What’s (…)

The Italian press has claimed that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has altered a report investigating the death of Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari, who was killed by US soldiers in Iraq in order not to endanger Washington-Rome relations.
The papers revealed that Berlusconi had requested some changes be made in the direction of the report so as not to criticize the US too much and not to jeapodize relations. The headline run by Il Messaggero carried the issue to the public, (…)

INTRO-Posting is an overview of the massive evidence/data/studies (and links to studies & websites)from numerous sources—Election Day Voter Exit Polls show Kerry Won Electoral & Popular Votes,60 NonPartisan Groups found 22+ States of systematic machine fraud with a preset default from Kerry to Bush or All Dem Ballot to All Rep Ballot plus other types fraud,precinct workers & voters in states report "machine problems" & "dirty tricks", Pollster changes Voter Exit Polls to (…)

Palast Investigations Under Attack Iraq oil, elections story scoops generate awards and lawsuits
Our work is under attack and we need your help. Bluntly: without your financial support, we’re finished. GregPalast.com will be no more and the on-going investigation of the election, the war and globalization shuts down.
Our story on secret US plans for Iraq’s oil for BBC and Harper’s Magazine has already generated two threats of lawsuits from the oil industry. Our revelations on the (…)

The soap opera hearings over the president’s nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador have had an unintended effect, bolstering what half a dozen investigations of pre-9/11 intelligence failures couldn’t prove: an atmosphere in the White House that pushed spies to bend their conclusions to political ends.
It’s true that Bolton’s may be the only publicly detailed example of these pressure tactics. Also, his attempts to punish or fire intelligence analysts who balked at his assertions (…)

"I’m horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It’s going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car."
The speaker is not some alarmist doomsayer. He is Dr. Chris Busby, the British (…)

Iraq is our greatest foreign policy calamity in modern history and the reckoning has only just begun
George Galloway Tuesday May 3, 2005 The Guardian UK
When I first called the prime minister a liar on air over his repeatedly denied plans to invade Iraq - in the wake of the Texas meeting with George Bush in spring 2002 - the BBC presenter was aghast at my presumption. Today there can scarcely be a sentient being in the land who would disagree.
If Tony Blair had been told a couple of (…)

In the Autumn of 2004 in Baquabah, Iraq we made a lot of effort after the razing of Fallujah to win back some support of the Iraqi people.
A general distrust grew among the local nationals and it was important to not lead into the elections with negative backlash. There was a surge of insurgent recruiting due to the injustice of destroying Fallujah and we wanted to take the wind out of it.
One of the officer think tanks perched high above real action in Iraq, and high above any common (…)

Greetings, IHRI (International Human Rights Initiative) conference!
First I want to congratulate the keynote speaker, the Honorable Congresswoman Sister Cynthia McKinney, on her triumphant return to Congress. But more so I want to personally thank her as being the only Congressional official who had courage or concern enough to make a determined effort toward my release when I was rounded up on Sept. 11, 2001, and held incommunicado from my family, my attorneys and the entire outside (…)

Troops’ families demand public inquiry into war By Severin Carrell
01 May 2005
The parents of British troops killed in Iraq are to demand that Tony Blair orders a public inquiry into the war or face legal action in the courts.
Six families will go to Downing Street on Tuesday to call for an independent inquiry into the legality of the war, after it emerged last week that the Attorney General warned the UK could lose in court if it failed to win the United Nations’ approval.
The (…)