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SHAMED BY 42 BRAINLESS BLOWS
By Robert Kellaway
TODAY we expose a rogue squad of British soldiers who savagely attacked a defenceless bunch of Iraqi teenagers -and with 42 brutal blows brought shame on our nation and its proud army.
The horrifying scenes on these pages will shock the world and ignite a huge military scandal.
They were captured on a secret home video - apparently filmed for "fun" by a corporal-and show at least eight of his hulking comrades (…)

By ELLEN SCHRECKER
When Barrows Dunham, chairman of Temple University’s philosophy department, faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, he knew that his job was on the line. He was determined not to cooperate with the committee or name names; so, after giving his name, address, and - reluctantly - his date and place of birth, he invoked the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination. He was more forthcoming with Temple’s investigation, explaining to a special (…)

by Joel Beinin
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted that her staff was caught off guard by Hamas’ victory in the Jan. 25 Palestinian Legislative Council elections. "I’ve asked why nobody saw it coming," she said. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
While the State Department, President Bush and many other observers understand that Hamas’ popularity is due to frustration with Fatah’s corrupt governance of the Palestinian Authority, they have been (…)

Seven individuals from Witness Against Torture, a group protesting the denial of rights to prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were served papers by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week. The group of twenty-four U.S. Christians marched over 60 miles to the Naval Base in an attempt to practice the Christian act of prisoner visitation. The group camped and fasted for four days at the gate of the militarized zone while awaiting access (…)

by Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria Speakers seized on the presence of President Bush to attack his policies on Tuesday at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the U.S. civil rights movement.
Jimmy Carter, one of four presidents to speak, took a jab at Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program during six hours of sermons, speeches and song for the late widow of Nobel peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968.
The 10,000 mourners also heard the Rev. Joseph (…)

Lacey to Voice staff: Drop dead
By Tim Redmond
tredmond@sfbg.com
The merger between the nation’s two largest alternative newspaper chains was finally consummated Jan. 31, and the very next day, Mike Lacey, the new owner of the Village Voice, was in New York City giving the staff the facts of life.
Lacey met with Voice staffers Feb. 1, and, according to sources who were present at the meeting, announced that the Voice news section was too soft because it was full of commentary and (…)

by Philip Shenon, Lowell Bergman, New York Times
Washington — After weeks in which the White House has declined to release pictures of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist, the first photograph to be published of the two men shows a small, partly obscured image of Abramoff looking on from the background as Bush greets a Texas Indian chief in May 2001.
By itself, the picture hardly seems worthy of the White House’s efforts to keep it out of the public eye. Abramoff, a (…)

In a shocking video obtained by the British newspaper, News of the World, shot in 2004 by an approving British Corporal who shouts encouragement during the minute long footage, British troops inside a military compound in Iraq are seen savagely beating Iraqi children who had been throwing stones at the base.
The February 12th article, "Shamed By 42 Brainless Blows" reports that "The video - later shown to the corporal’s pals at their home base in Europe - was exposed to the News of the (…)

by Mary MacElveen
The other day, I sat down to watch Molly Ivins on C-Span.org. Ms. Ivins is a columnist after my own heart. In the interview, a caller phoned in and cited that he was once a moderate Republican, but felt the need to leave that party since it no longer represented his values.
The date of the interview was January 27 and was one day off of my six year anniversary where I too felt as that caller did and left the Republican Party. While he did not say if he joined another (…)

(Why is this not front-page news at DKos?)
The President KNEW...
Katrina was coming.
The President KNEW...
that Brownie had phoned...
...on the day that the levees had breached to tell him that New Orleans was sinking...
The President KNEW...
...that day.
The President KNEW...
...that day.
The President KNEW...
...that day.
The President KNEW...
...that day.
The President KNEW...
...the following day, too.
The President’s wife KNEW...
...the following (…)