Ft. Irwin stands in for Iraq At the Army base in the Mojave Desert, emigre actors and Hollywood sets help prepare U.S. soldiers for the life and warfare they are about to encounter. An actor pushes a cart into the street at Medina Wasl, a Ft. Irwin model of an Iraqi village where U.S. [...]
Former Accused Iraqi Agent Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning. The feds dropped all charges against Susan Lindauer, and now she’s talking freely. Michael Collins‘s interview with Lindauer covers the warnings provided to the Bush-Cheney administration prior to 9/11. It presents entirely new information from an angel that will add substantially to knowledge that terrible attack. [...]
Whatever It Takes – The politics of the man behind “24.” by Jane Mayer February 19, 2007. Joel Surnow calls the show he helped create “patriotic.” Photograph by Martin Schoeller. The office desk of Joel Surnow—the co-creator and executive producer of “24,” the popular counterterrorism drama on Fox—faces a wall dominated by an American flag [...]
PDF Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw administration. By Scott Horton. I. The Crimes Americans may wish to avoid what is necessary. We may believe that concerns about presidential lawbreaking are naive. That all presidents commit crimes. We may pretend that George W. Bush and his senior officers could not have committed crimes significantly worse [...]
Iraq: How Realistic Is Obama’s Pullout Plan? Guest Scott Horton: When Obama finally resides in the Whitehouse on the 20th of January, 2009, he will have to face one of his first and major challenges: Iraq. Being a candidate against the war on Iraq, he has vowed to withdraw the American troops from Iraq within [...]
The Bagman Cometh: Obama Embraces War Criminal’s Endorsement. By Chris Floyd. Democratic Party circles are in raptures over Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama. One can see the heavily-blinkered logic behind their elation; now that our national politics has been reduced to a petty squabble over spoils among shifting factions in the imperial court, a [...]
New Court Filing Suggests Manufactured Terror Threat in Bush’s 2002 State of the Union. A new court filing by the lawyers for Lakhdar Boumediene and five other Guantanamo detainees suggests that the Bush administration ordered the Bosnian government to arrest and hold the men after an exhaustive Bosnian investigation had found them innocent of any [...]
Even as he pledges to end the war in Iraq, Obama promises to increase Pentagon spending, boost the size of the Army and Marines, bolster the Special Forces, expand intelligence agencies and maintain the hundreds of US military bases that dot the globe. He supports a muscular multilateralism that includes NATO expansion, and according to [...]
U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media. By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writers. Friday, October 3, 2008; Page A01. The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for [...]
All Speakers censored at “We The People” fest. By Jack Blood. Yep. Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney and Jack Blood were prohibited from speaking at WTP Fest in Los Angeles today. The event had been heavily promoted in LA by KROQ FM, and the LA Weekly etc…. I was on the main stage, ready to go [...]