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A U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts has ruled a company that provides e-mail service has the right to copy and read any message sent to its customers. The Washington Post said the 2-to-1 decision by a panel of the 1st U.S.
Court of Appeals dismayed privacy advocates, who said it kills any notion e-mail enjoys the same protections as telephone conversations or letters. The ruling said because e-mail is stored, however briefly, in computers before it is routed to recipients, it is not (…)

by Robert Fisk
So in the end, America’s enemies set the date. The handover of "full sovereignty" was secretly brought forward so that the ex-CIA intelligence officer who is now "Prime Minister" of Iraq could avoid another bloody offensive by America’s enemies. What is supposed to be the most important date in Iraq’s modern history was changed ­ like a birthday party ­ because it might rain on Wednesday.
Pitiful is the word that comes to mind. Here we were, handing "full sovereignty" to (…)

By DAVID HO
NEW YORK - Max Cleland never wanted to come full circle.
But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself.
"This is Vietnam revisited in every way," Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in a 1968 grenade explosion, said in an interview Wednesday. "I thought I’d never see it again in my lifetime. I thought we’d learned some basic lessons."
Cleland visits (…)

by Shiraz Sidhva
When "Fahrenheit 9/11" was selected for the Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), another documentary about George W. Bush was waiting in the wings in case Michael Moore (news)’s film wasn’t ready in time.
"The organizers were keen to include our film in the Official Selection but felt it was politically incorrect to have two anti-Bush documentaries at Cannes," says Jean-Francois Lepetit, whose Flach Film produced "Le Monde Selon Bush" (The World According to Bush). (…)

Bush and Co lied to start a war- Every American must take another look at 9/11. It is your duty as an American, as a Human Being to demand Truth and Justice. Your children and grandchildren are counting on You.
The summer before 911:
* Ashcroft stopped flying commercial jets in June due to increased threat levels.
* Condi Rice received numerous warnings, something ’spectacular’ with ’hijacked airplanes’, even an ’inevitable threat’ just 5 days before 911.
* Bush continued (…)

Ambassador of Death, Right-Wing Death Squads, Drug Smuggling: George Bush’s Plan for Iraq. gdy, mardi, 22/06/2004 - 21:09 Analyses | Démocratie June 22, 2004 From the Streets of Little Beirut Glen Yeadon
New allegations of criminal conduct by the Bush regime are now surfacing almost daily. The investigation of torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib has expanded to include rape of prisoners, deaths of over 100 prisoners and thousands of prisoners held in secret prisons. It is also clear the (…)

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
You can set your watch by it. The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending (…)

By BARBARA EHRENREICH You can call Michael Moore all kinds of things — loudmouthed, obnoxious and self-promoting, for example. The anorexic Ralph Nader, in what must be an all-time low for left-wing invective, has even called him fat. The one thing you cannot call him, though, is a member of the "liberal elite."
Sure, he’s made a ton of money from his best sellers and award-winning documentaries. But no one can miss the fact that he’s a genuine son of the U.S. working class — of a Flint (…)

Iraq doubts keep Bush’s popularity on the slide
by Julian Borger
George Bush’s popularity fell to a new low yesterday in a poll which suggests that there is an increasing level of scepticism about the motives for the Iraq invasion and rising concern about its consequences.
Nearly 80% of the Americans questioned in the poll for the New York Times and CBS news thought he had been either "hiding something" or "mostly lying" in his statements on Iraq.
Only 18% believed that he had (…)

Mother Plans To Continue Speaking Out Against War
LOS ANGELES — The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq summoned news outlets to photograph her son’s flag-draped casket arriving at Sacramento International Airport to protest a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America’s war dead.
Nearly a dozen reporters, photographers and television crews watched as the coffin of Army Sgt. Patrick McCaffrey, 34, was transferred to a hearse outside an airport cargo terminal shortly before midnight (…)