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An As-Sahab Video Production Of The 2004 Attack In al-Khobar Saudi Arabia, Featuring The Alleged Real Twentieth September 11, 2001 Hijacker By SITE Institute June 21, 2006
An as-Sahab video production of the 2004 attack in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of al-Khobar, targeting the establishments of the Haliburton Corporation and the Abdul Aziz Oasis compound, by four members of “al-Quds Brigade,” was issued yesterday, June 20, 2006. The fifty-four minute film features the attackers’ (…)

So Called Iraqi WMD By Larry C Johnson Friday, 23 June 2006 at 12:09 Senator Rick Santorum’s desperate effort to reenergize his failing re-election campaign by touting the discovery of so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Repeat after me, BULL FECAL MATTER!
Leave it to Faux, er, I mean, Fox News, to spin the malarkey:
"We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday (…)

New Details On WMD "Fabricator" Emerge Warnings That Iraqi Was Lying About Bioweapons Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says By Joby Warrick, The Washington Post Updated: 4:06 a.m. ET June 25, 2006 In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration’s case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell’s speech to look for errors. He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs (…)

War On Terror A Losing Game By Michael Harris June 23, 2006
What will it take to persuade this government that our military deployment in Afghanistan is a disaster for Canada?
Stephen Harper bristles at the very notion of seriously debating this doomed mission.
But the president of the country we are supposed to be "securing" sees it differently. Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, says that the recent deaths of 600 Afghans in the so-called war on terror is "unacceptable."
He (…)

by Sarah Meyer
Try weaning Bush supporters from the obvious lies that are the basis of this administration, and they will call you every name in the book. Paul Craig Roberts
The Haditha Doctor - Walid al-Obeidi
On 2 June 2006, PipeLineNews.org published an unsigned, scurrilous article entitled Questions Arise About Haditha Doctor - Wahid al-Obeidi - Central Figure In "Massacre" Case.
This article questioned the account "Dr. Wahid al-Obeidi" had given about being arrested and beaten (…)

by John Spritzler
Israel’s defenders have a stock argument that goes like this:
"Why do people pick on Israel? Sure, Israel has its faults, just like any country. Its government is not perfect and sometimes it does bad things. What government doesn’t? But how come some people seem to focus only on Israel? Boycott Israel, divest from Israel, they say; but never boycott Russia or China or Saudi Arabia or a host of other countries that do bad things. Israel, they say, violates human rights (…)

By Dave Stratman
The US working class has been betrayed by organizations that it thought were its own and by contractual arrangements that it thought were to its benefit. The working class is trapped in a web of organizations and ways of thinking about itself which have stripped it of its power and left it fatally vulnerable to its enemies.
Beneath the ringing words of the 1908 Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) lay a vision of the working class as (…)

In the early morning hours of June 14, armed federal and state police accompanied by helicopters dropping tear-gas grenades attacked an encampment of teachers in the center of Oaxaca, Mexico. According to news reports, after first being driven out of the town center, teachers armed themselves with rocks and sticks and fought back against the ferocious police assault. Conflicting reports of casualties range from 3 to 11 persons dead, including one child, with many injured or detained. About (…)

NEW YORK As a member of the National Guard, Nadine Beckford patrolled New York train stations after Sept. 11 with a 9mm pistol, then served a treacherous year in Iraq.
Now, six months after returning, Beckford lives in a homeless shelter.
"I’m just an ordinary person who served. I’m not embarrassed about my homelessness, because the circumstances that created it were not my fault," said Beckford, 30, who was a military-supply specialist at a base in Iraq that was a sitting duck for (…)

There are many incongruities surrounding the arrest of seven men from the impoverished Liberty City neighborhood of Miami on charges of conspiracy to “wage war on the United States” that suggest it, like so many previous “terrorist plots” announced by the Bush administration, is a government-inspired provocation mounted for reactionary political ends.
None of the claims made by the government and repeated uncritically by the media concerning the arrest of these young working-class men can (…)