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I’m going to make this one short and sweet so I don’t confuse the pollyannas out there. Last time out, we took a look at the corporate recruiting arm of the US military(one of them), AKA Blockbuster Video. What’s behind door number 2? Step right up as I pull back the curtain to give you a "behind the scenes" look at conservative hypocricy, nothing like pouring salt on a wound to get you going.
You might not expect the Critical Bastard to have once belonged to what is now known as the (…)

The justification to War In Iraq was totally fabricated.
Secrets and Lies
by Liz Jackson
Broadcast: ABC TV (Australia) 14/02/2005
He lives quietly in Canberra’s outer suburbs. He comes and goes a lot. When he is home he may be seen tending his roses in the front yard.
This unobtrusive, quietly spoken man has been privilege to some of the world’s best-kept secrets for two decades. He knows from long personal experience how intelligence agencies and big defence bureaucracies operate. (…)

by Ben Frank
There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in action.
What has emerged recently is that the corruption is beyond the scope that anyone could have possibly imagined:
A British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council claimed that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for (…)

Embedded In The Spin Cycle... Isaac Backer NEW YORK, Feb 15 (IPS) - An incisive new documentary is taking aim at the U.S. media’s one-sided coverage of the war in Iraq, arguing that its collective complicity deceived the populace and made the war possible.
"WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception", which cost just 200,000 dollars to produce, points to a wide array of failures in the accuracy of the reporting, as well as an unwillingness to question the George W. Bush administration’s claims and (…)

Dear Senator Cornyn,
I have been a member of the U.S. military since I was 17 years old, both as an enlisted soldier and now as an officer. I deployed to Iraq with Army Civil Affairs from April 2003 to March 2004, where I served in the Sadr City.
Since my return to Dallas, I have concluded that the health care systems for the military and veterans are utterly broken. Additionally, our leadership is ignoring the psychological and physical problems faced by returning veterans.
The (…)

Related: Democratic Senators reportedly getting cold feet on investigating Gannon/Plame link.
"Gannon" scandal leads to link between high-level Republicans, high-level Democrats by Carol Rawle, Unknown News
Over the weekend, while pursuing information that might lead to uncovering connections between the Bush White House and the ’non-reporter’ Jeff Gannon, aka James Guckert, a blogger may have stumbled onto information that could begin to uncover a possible alliance between the (…)

What We Don’t Know About 9/11 Hurts Us Robert Scheer
February 15, 2005
Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. (…)

The White House and their deep-pocketed allies have launched a $35 million public relations effort
to spread misinformation about President Bush’s Social Security privatization scheme. This fact sheet will arm you with all the facts you’ll need to take them on.
Fiscal Outlook
Claim: “By the year 2042, the entire system would be exhausted and bankrupt.” [President Bush, 2/2/05]
Fact: In 2042, enough new money will be coming in to pay between 73-80 percent of promised benefits. Even (…)

President Bush’s request to Congress for $82 billion dollars in additional funding for military and reconstruction needs in Iraq and Afghanistan is receiving scrutiny on Capitol Hill. This comes amid growing concern among lawmakers about examples of waste, fraud and abuse in how funds were spent in Iraq.
There is little if any disagreement between Democrats and Republicans about the need for the extra money needed to support U.S. troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Republicans in (…)

A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting of Iraq.*
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an international peoples initiative seeking the truth about the war and occupation in Iraq made its pronouncement Sunday after a three- day meeting. The tribunal heard testimony from independent journalists, media professors, activists, and member of the European Parliament Michele Santoro.
The Rome session of the WTI followed (…)