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  • Wall Street Firms Funnel Millions to Bush
    2 June 2004

    Finance Sector Produces Surge of Cash to President Who Cut Taxes on Dividends, Gains
    By Thomas B. Edsall and Jonathan Weisman
    Washington Post Staff Writers
    [This article reports on the large flow of political contributions from major Wall Street financial firms to President Bush’s re-lection campaign. The article notes that these firms could earn substantial profits if President Bush carries through with his plans to privatize Social Security... ECONOMIC REPORTING REVIEW By Dean Baker (…)

  • The Painful Lesson Israel Learned About Torture
    2 June 2004

    by Eitan Felner
    International Herald Tribune - Monday, May 31, 2004
    ’Moderate physical pressure’ MADRID "The methods of interrogation which are employed in any given regime are a faithful mirror of the character of the entire regime."
    As the Abu Ghraib torture scandal keeps unfolding, I recall these prescient words of the 1987 Landau Commission appointed by the Israeli government to review the interrogation methods used against terrorist suspects.
    Ironically, it was this same (…)

  • Israeli Arab Rights Center Calls For Ban On Talk Of Transfer
    2 June 2004

    By Yair Ettinger,
    Haaretz Correspondent
    Thousands of Israeli Arab citizens are suffering from increasing racism, xenophobia, incitement and violence, according to the annual Racism in Israel 2004 report released Tuesday by the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel. The report’s authors accused authorities, primarily the police and legal system, for being responsible for the climate of violence and racism against Arab citizens. This responsibility ranges from direct actions (…)

  • Scott Ritter’s war
    2 June 2004

    By: Stephen Marshall, Manhattan
    Of all the people who owed Scott Ritter an apology, the most eloquent and, perhaps, meaningful, came from David H. Hackworth, the retired U.S. Army Colonel and self-described Most Decorated Soldier in America. Hackworth can walk the walk. He was shot eight times in Vietnam, and went on to write the so-called "Vietnam Primer," referred to as the military’s bible on counter-insurgency warfare.
    May 26, 2004
    Over the course of the last year, news (…)

  • Rich-poor gulf widens : ’Inequality Matters’ conference puts nations on alert
    2 June 2004

    By Thomas Kostigen,
    CBS.MarketWatch.com SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR
    SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CBS.MW) — A national alarm will be set off Thursday. It won’t have to do with a terrorist attack; it’s more critical.
    Thursday is when the Inequality Matters conference begins in New York City to discuss the biggest wealth and income gap — and its consequences on society — since the Hoover Administration. The Congressional Budget Office says the income gap in the United States is now the widest in 75 (…)

  • LCBC lancent un appel aux ’refuzniks’ américains
    2 June 2004

    APPEL:
    Aux soldats américains qui refusent de porter les armes en Irak En refusant de porter les armes contre les citoyens d’un pays martyr, envahi et occupé contre toutes les règles internationales, vous avez mérité de l’Humanité, vous avez fait preuve d’un courage qui force l’admiration des Français.
    Venez en France, venez pour le soixantième anniversaire du jour J le 6 juin prochain. C’est à vous d’être à l’honneur, c’est vous qui méritez de commémorer le débarquement de vos pères (…)

  • Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq, Iran, Espionage, Treason, Pentagon, White House, George W Bush, Israel ?
    2 June 2004

    The New Pumpkin Papers
    http://billmon.org/archives/001499.html
    I’ve been waiting for someone to get the goods on the Chalabi spy investigation, and the New Pravda has finally delivered - although in this case, the nickname is ill deserved, since the story is by two of the paper’s best reporters:
    Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code
    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/politics/02CHAL.html?position=&hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1086149125-eQEvnvgwHyAehpkkULz

  • Let’s face up to it - we are torturers too
    2 June 2004

    Kamil Mahdi, The Guardian
    Tuesday June 1, 2004 - Last week, the British government admitted for the first time that investigations are under way into the killing in British military custody of 10 Iraqis, double the number previously stated. Meanwhile, the government has dispatched additional troops to the region and is now seeking immunity for these troops from criminal prosecution in a nominally independent Iraq. Despite the growing list of murder cases and a continuing stream of (…)

  • How Abu Ghraib torture victim faces final indignity: an unmarked grave
    2 June 2004

    Luke Harding, The Guardian
    Tuesday June 1, 2004 - In the erratically refrigerated vault of Baghdad’s overcrowded mortuary lies an unclaimed corpse: number E63. For the past four and a half months, the most famous victim of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, whose battered body was photographed wrapped in plastic sheeting, has been waiting for someone to collect him. So far nobody has. The precise circumstances of Manadel al-Jamadi’s death in US custody are unknown. But leaked documents from (…)

  • 3rd of detainees who died were assaulted
    2 June 2004

    WASHINGTON, June 1, 2004 — More than a third of the prisoners who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were shot, strangled or beaten by U.S. personnel before they died, according to death certificates and a high-ranking U.S. military official.
    The military official, who has direct knowledge of ongoing Pentagon investigations of the deaths, said that 15 of 37 prisoners who have died since December 2002 appear to have been killed or put in grave danger by U.S. troops or (…)