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Information that could have led to Nazi war criminal was kept under wraps
by Julian Borger in Washington
On May 23 1960, when Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion announced to the Knesset that "Adolf Eichmann, one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, is in Israeli custody", US and West German intelligence services reacted to the stunning news not with joy but alarm.
Newly declassified CIA documents show the Americans and the German BND knew Eichmann was hiding in Argentina at least (…)

Politics aside, how would Constitution be affected by gay marriage ban?
Media Advisory
In a move that most political observers describe as a tactic to increase voter turnout among his party’s conservative base, George W. Bush announced on June 5 that he supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. While much of the media discussion of the issue focuses on the GOP’s political maneuvering, few reports examined what the actual effects of the proposed amendment would be.
Some (…)

By Han Dongfang
On April 25, 1989, Deng Xiaoping made a speech to Communist Party leaders urging an immediate government crackdown on any sign of an upsurge in the democratic movement. Party leaders "should learn from the experience of Poland’s Solidarity trade union", and "must not be soft-handed" in dealing with the democratic movement in China, he said. Then on June 4, 1989, the government launched its bloody crackdown on the movement by students and workers. The latter was (…)

Posada lawyer may call Kerry, North As Venezuela seeks to block U.S. citizenship for Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, his lawyer may look to Sen. John Kerry and Oliver North to testify about Posada’s former ties to the U.S. government. BY OSCAR CORRAL AND PABLO BACHELET
In an effort to free Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles from federal detention and help him qualify for U.S. citizenship, his attorney may call on U.S. Sen. John Kerry and Oliver North of Iran-contra fame (…)

Havana, June 6 (ACN) US Army Colonel James Steele, who was involved in the Iran-Contras scandal along with international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles at his command, is now an advisor to death squads in Iraq.
The presence of the US army officer in Iraq has just been revealed by US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Granma daily reports.
Luis Posada Carriles, currently under arrest in the US charged with illegal entry into that country, was the first to report to Colonel Steele about the (…)

Cuba is in danger of being punished by Europe for Washington’s loss of clout in Latin America
by Ian Gibson
Faced with a loss of influence in Latin America as a result of the shift to the left, the US government has been furiously lobbying sympathetic European states to create political leverage on Washington’s behalf. As a partner in a "special relationship", Whitehall is a prime target.
The first test of the new US strategy towards its recalcitrant neighbours will come next week when (…)

By William Fisher As human rights organizations expressed skepticism that detainees recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabian custody could receive fair trials and escape torture - and a new study charged that the country’s textbooks continue to promote intolerance of other religions - the oil-rich Kingdom put the finishing touches on its new Human Rights Commission. The new commission - which the government characterizes as an independent rights watchdog — came into (…)

June 6, 2006
Editor’s Note: As the U.S. military completes its investigation of the alleged murder of 24 Iraqi civilians at the hands of U.S. Marines last November in Haditha, the next phase likely will be some form of court martial against Marines implicated in the case.
If that happens, President George W. Bush has made clear that he expects justice to be meted out to any Marine found guilty of a war crime against Iraqi civilians. But, as we anticipated in an earlier article , (…)

Don’t let anyone fool you , the loss by Francine Busby , the Democratic nominee for the open seat previously held convicted felon Randy Duke Cunningham was a failure of catastrophic proportion The Kerry % of the vote in CA ( 50 ) in 2004 : 45% The Busby % of the vote in the open April primary : 45 % .. The Busby % of the vote in the election held yesterday : 45 %.. Busby seems like a perfectly fine person
In "04 she received 38 % of the vote in her contest with incumbent Cunningham (…)

Colombian and Peruvian Elections Prove Stalin Was Right - by Stephen Lendman
Joe Stalin wasn’t just an ordinary dictator, he was a very savvy one. He had to have been to have held on to power for over 30 years, succeed in outfoxing his rivals, and even be able to break the back of the vaunted Nazi Wehrmacht that turned the tide of the war in Europe and led to Hitler’s demise. His political control at home and over his allied Warsaw Pact countries was best explained by the philosophy he (…)