Yearly Archives: 2007

Embassy staffers assail U.S. securityBY LEILA FADELMcClatchy News Service Dismayed employees at the U.S. Embassy complained about their security as they work within Baghdad’s Green Zone. BAGHDAD — U.S. Embassy employees in Iraq are growing increasingly angry over what they … Continue reading →

War Emperor Appointed to Oversee War Tsar “I’m the appointer guy,” President Bush reminds public Military experts express confusion, question proprietyWashington, May 16 2007Paul Crassnerd (Spars & Straps News Syndicate) It remains unclear exactly what Gen Lute’s Real function will … Continue reading →

Benchmark as Theft: Iraq Oil Workers Strike to Stop PrivatizationBy BEN TERRALL In ongoing negotiations between Congress and President Bush about continued funding of the Iraq war, the President late last week began to make accommodating statements about negotiating on … Continue reading →

Starving the poorBy Noam Chomsky The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand … Continue reading →

Domestic spying program was `without legal basis,’ ex-official saysBy Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa TaylorMcClatchy Newspapers, (MCT) WASHINGTON – The Bush administration ran its warrantless eavesdropping program without the Justice Department’s approval for up to three weeks in 2004, nearly … Continue reading →

Disappeared without a trace: more than 10,000 IraqisBy Shashank BengaliMcClatchy Newspapers BAGHDAD, Iraq – When her heart is heaviest, Sahira Kereem tries to think of the little things her husband did that annoyed her. She remembers times when she suggested … Continue reading →

From TomDispatch Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Ending the Empire Way back in 1999, when I was still a Tomdispatch-less book editor, I read a proposal from Chalmers Johnson. He was, then, known mainly as a scholar of modern Japan, though years … Continue reading →

Let’s be clear. Elliot Abrams is a convicted perjurer; he lied to Congress, no less, and was forbidden from ever holding a high office in government. What he is tacitly admitting here is that BushCo has killed the Middle East … Continue reading →

To capitalist corruption and hegemony, once again. Wall Street Journal Claims Chavez Oil Policy “Aims to Weaken US”By Stephen LendmanMay 13, 2007, 21:10 The Wall Street Journal’s main Hugo Chavez antagonist is its self-styled Latin American “expert” Mary Anastasia O’Grady … Continue reading →

U.S. lawyers slam Guantanamo plan WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is trying to evade responsibility for problems at the Guantanamo Bay prison by falsely blaming defense lawyers for the trouble, the New York City Bar says. The group’s president leveled … Continue reading →

One of the weaknesses of relying on the War Department-controlled Internet is thus exposed… Military puts MySpace, other sites off limitsPOSTED: 5:49 p.m. EDT, May 14, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) — Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts … Continue reading →

It is not only God that will be Blair’s judge over IraqAvi ShlaimMonday May 14, 2007The Guardian His cravenly pro-US policy on the Middle East misunderstood Bush’s real agenda and resulted in catastrophic failure Tony Blair’s opposition to an immediate … Continue reading →