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  • War Crimes and The ’Just War’ Theory
    20 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) through sessions held in Western Europe, Asia and the US has established a comprehensive record of US-UK war crimes in Iraq.
    An extensive documentation has been forth, testimonies have been presented in some 17 global sessions. The BRussells Tribunal sessions of the WTI in Brussels in April 2004 focused on the role of "The Project for the New American Century" (PNAC) which consists in a blueprint of global military conquest. (…)

  • Bin Laden’s driver to face trial
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan
    A US appeals court in Washington has ruled that the trial at Guantanamo Bay of a former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden can go ahead.
    The decision overturns a lower court ruling that the trials for detainees held at Guantanamo were unlawful.
    This latest ruling means in effect that the trials, known as military commissions, can now proceed.
    Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from Yemen, is accused of conspiracy to commit war crimes, including (…)

  • Will Stolen Iraq Oil Funds and Deals For Cronies Force Cheney Impeachment?
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On June 27, a scandal large enough to lead to the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney, emerged when it was revealed at a hearing called by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, that the latest figures in questionable and unsupported charges to the Department of Defense by the Halliburton Corporation, had reached over $1.4 billion. There are already two criminal investigations by the Justice Department into Halliburton for fraudulent billings related to Iraq war contracts-each of (…)

  • War Crimes - Dahr Jamail - World Tribunal on Iraq
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In May of 2004 I was interviewing a man who had just been released from Abu Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention facilities who’d been tortured horrifically, he still managed to maintain his sense of humor.
    Beat prisoners
    He began laughing when telling of how US soldiers made him beat other prisoners. He laughed because he told me he had been beaten himself prior to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained Iraqis was to lift his (…)

  • Rove’s lawyer paid off in gold bars
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that it’s clear that Karl Rove’s defense amounts to some sort of cover-blowing "I didn’t inhale" defense ( ), I thought I’d check in a bit on what his lawyer’s deal is. Reason being, as near as I can tell, Rove attorney Robert D. Luskin ( ) has made a series of, shall we say, contradictory statements ( ) over the last week or so, each necessitated by further revelations about his client’s conduct.
    So I was curious: Is Robert D. Luskin the sort of lawyer who never gets caught in a fib (…)

  • War Crimes - World Tribunal on Iraq
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just returned from Istanbul, where I attended the last sitting of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) and heard three days of testimony from researchers, scientists, and witnesses from all over the world (including Iraq) on crimes against humanity and against this planet-for detailed information see www.worldtribunal.org.
    This was the culminating session of the WTI (modeled after the Bertrand Russell World Peace Foundation tribunal of the late 1960s on crimes committed in Vietnam), after (…)

  • Criticizing Patriot Act Lands Manlin Chee, Asian American Lawyer, in Jail
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Having spent almost three decades offering legal service to immigrants, Chinese American immigration attorney Manlin Chee is now getting used to serving time instead.
    Chee had been a nationally recognized lawyer for her work with immigrants, some of it pro bono, and much of it for Muslims, but things soured for her soon after she appeared on a panel discussing the PATRIOT Act in March 2003.
    The public forum at the main library in Greensboro, North Carolina was televised and attracted a (…)

  • Exclusive: ANTHRAX CASE: Justice Department Attempts To Silence Wife Of Bioweaponeer
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jerzy Pollack July 2, 2005 Exclusive to SiaNews
    Justice Department attempts to quash testimony by wife of bioweaponeer William Patrick III in STEVEN J. HATFILL, M.D. v. ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (et al).
    Headed by former federal prosecutor Tom Connelly, pro bono attorney’s for Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, the former "person of interest" in the anthrax letters case, have been quietly doing battle behind the scenes with (…)

  • Statement of Joseph Wilson on the sentencing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller
    7 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The sentencing of Judith Miller to jail for refusing to disclose her sources is the direct result of the culture of unaccountability that infects the Bush White House from top to bottom. President Bush’s refusal to enforce his own call for full cooperation with the Special Counsel has brought us to this point. Clearly, the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House than coming clean on a serious breach of national (…)

  • Supreme Court - Media Ignore Possible "Fascist" Play
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is spectacularly good at sleight-of-hand tricks, directing public attention in one direction while they’re working diligently in another. The latest trial balloon of "probable" Supreme Court nominees is no exception.
    While everybody is worried about abortion rights and corporate power, a far more insidious agenda may be at play.
    Anti-abortion forces and women’s rights groups alike are up in arms about the possibility that the next nominee may or may not have an (…)