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The Homeland Security State Nick Turse February 02, 2005 The Military Half
If you’re in the United States and reading this on the Internet, the Federal Bureau of Information (FBI)may be spying on you at this very moment.
Under provisions of the USA Patriot (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act, the Department of Justice has been collecting e-mail and IP (Internet protocol, a computer’s unique numeric (…)

by Lance deHaven-Smith
Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election offers important lessons for American democracy. U.S. election laws and national opinion have yet to catch up with recent developments in election technology and administration. In particular, they are blind to what the Ukraine Supreme Court referred to as ’’massive fraud,’’ where the integrity of an election is subverted by many small problems that are mutually reinforcing.
When the Ukraine Supreme Court invalidated Ukraine’s (…)

by US & UK Soldiers
“The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman.” - Lance Corporal Devin Kelly, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Iskandariyah, Iraq.
“We’re basically proving out that the government is wrong. We’re catching them in a lie.” - Lance Corporal Alexander Jones, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Iskandariyah, Iraq.
“We don’t give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?” - Corporal Brandon (…)

by Paul Rockwell
Robert Fisk, the British journalist who witnessed U.S. air raids from streets, markets, and hotels of Iraq, wrote: "Three days ago, an entire family of nine was wiped out in their home. Pilots fire through computer-aligned co-ordinates. Of course the pilot who killed the innocents could not see his victims."
Fisk’s insight about the insularity of industrial warfare recalls the writing of George Orwell, who survived another blitzkrieg, the air war over London in 1941. (…)

Soldier Awarded Purple Heart Deserts To Canada Associated Press February 01, 2005 LEXINGTON, Ky. - Rather than face another tour of duty in Iraq, a Lexington soldier who won a Purple Heart after he was wounded by a roadside bomb has deserted to Canada. Darrell Anderson, 22, wounded in Iraq last April, was deeply disillusioned about the war, according to his mother, Anita Anderson. The possibility of another tour in Iraq this summer was something he couldn’t face, she told the Lexington (…)

Ohio Attorney-General’s attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation on state’s stolen election, including new study on exit polls by Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman February 3, 2005
Stiff legal sanctions sought by Ohio’s Republican Attorney General James Petro against four attorneys who have questioned the results of the 2004 presidential balloting here has produced an unintended consequence — a massive counter-filing that has put on the official record a (…)

Documents: US Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling Elise Labott and Phil Hirschkorn, CNN Wednesday, February 2, 2005 (CNN) — Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein’s regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq’s neighbors.
The oil trade with countries such as Turkey and Jordan appears to have been an open secret inside the U.S. government and the United Nations for years.
The unclassified State (…)

Cuban Leader Castro Calls Bush "Deranged" Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press Writer
HAVANA Feb 2, 2005 - In his first public remarks since the United States dubbed Cuba an outpost of tyranny, Fidel Castro called President Bush "deranged" and belittled recent improvements in relations between Cuba and Europe.
In a televised address late Tuesday, Castro maintained his trademark go-it-alone attitude, saying his communist-run island is a paradise that is doing fine without the help of the (…)

Freedom From Reality A Compliant Press Allows Bush To Spin An Inaugural Yarn Of Abstract Nonsense Robert Parry February 01, 2005
One of the most troubling crises confronting the world today is that the U.S. executive branch-controlling the most fearsome arsenal in history-has largely detached itself from reality and faces no counterforce in Washington capable of bringing it back down to earth.
In that sense, George W. Bush’s second inaugural address on January 20 stood out as a defining (…)

White House-Friendly Reporter Under Scrutiny Charlie Savage and Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent February 2, 2005
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has provided White House media credentials to a man who has virtually no journalistic background, asks softball questions to the president and his spokesman in the midst of contentious news conferences, and routinely reprints long passages verbatim from official press releases as original news articles on his website. (…)