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Jun 17, 4:27 PM (ET) By MATT KELLEY WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended his decision to hold a prisoner captured in Iraq without notifying international authorities, saying it was at the request of CIA Director George J. Tenet and the detainee was treated...

By Rob Watson BBC correspondent, Washington President George W Bush has upgraded relations with Pakistan by formally naming it as a major non-Nato ally. The move was first announced by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, during a visit to Pakistan in March. This is a reward -...

Iraqi terror suspect hidden from International Red Cross By Jim Miklaszewski Correspondent NBC News Pentagon officials tell NBC News that late last year, at the same time U.S. military police were allegedly abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...

Jun 16, 7:14 PM (ET) By MATT GOURAS A National Guard commander told a mental health counselor to change an evaluation to show that a serviceman who accused fellow soldiers of abusing Iraqi prisoners was mentally unfit, another soldier says. The commander has refused to comment on the...

The Truth About Cheney 6/15/2004 Vice President Cheney's wild and wacky misadventures with the truth continue, much to the consternation of everyone who values transparency and accountability in government. What will it take for him to come clean? Remember during the 2000 campaign when the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bluntly contradicting the Bush administration, the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks reported Wednesday there was "no credible evidence" that Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda target the United States. In a chilling report that sketched the history of Osama bin Laden's...

Abu Ghraib general says she is being made a scapegoat FOREIGN STAFF THE United States general who was in charge of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison yesterday claimed she was being made a scapegoat for the abuse of inmates and said her successor at the jail once told her prisoners should...

You Can't Mock the President or Say "Balls" The Most Important Thing I Learned in School This Year By BILLY WILSON The following is an essay written by a High School sophomore in Freyburg, Maine, as the essay part of the final exam in his English class. His teacher sent it to CounterPunch as an...

By U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings Originally published in the Charleston Post and Courier May 6, 2004 With 760 dead in Iraq and over 3,000 maimed for life, home folks continue to argue why we are in Iraq -- and how to get out. Now everyone knows what was not the cause. Even President Bush...

No More Tears, No More Sympathy for America By Omar Barghouti, Outlook India Dear Americans, I've written to you a published open letter a year after the criminal attacks of September 11th reiterating my heartfelt condemnation of those attacks, while reminding you, despite your pain, to...

Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2004 by CommonDreams.org Dear Homeland Security, We have Found the Enemy, He is Us by Ed Bice The finest legal minds in Washington presumably found reason to advise President Bush in March of 2003 that the President need not concern himself with...

Yahoo to launch 100MB free e-mail By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1023-5233594.html Story last modified June 15, 2004, 5:55 AM PDT Yahoo began offering on Tuesday 100MB of storage to people who use its free e-mail service. As part of an overall redesign...

DICTIONARY OF BUSHISMS Dubya Definitions clearly explained by Loren Adams Fayetteville AR USA February 9, 2003 Send comments to: LAdams727@aol.com Sir Bush has many Orwellian code words needing to be deciphered. "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE" -- (1) Increase the taxburden on the middle...

The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- U.S. Media's Dirty Little Secret by Bill Douglas, Co-Founder - "National 911Visibility.org" A mass movement and a mountain of disturbing evidence has been growing beneath the radar of U.S. media. The U.S. media (including alternative media) has...

Jun 13, 5:11 PM (ET) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of former U.S. officials is urging voters to defeat President Bush in the November election, saying his policies have isolated the United States, a spokesman for the group said on Sunday. The group of 26 former diplomats and military...

Geov Parrish - WorkingForChange.com 06.07.04 - Excuse me while I barf. I'm in no mood to join the joyful eulogies upon the passing of Ronald Reagan -- remembrances that prove, once again, the staggering size of our country's memory hole. I missed the '60s. I grew up in Middle America, with...

Title : Reagan played decisive role in Saddam Hussein's survival in Iran-Iraq war By : Date : 09 June 2004 1045 hrs (SST) URL : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/89144/1/.html WASHINGTON: As Americans mourn the passing of president Ronald Reagan, almost forgotten is...

Jun 10, 5:16 PM (ET) SAVANNAH, Ga. (Reuters) - Facing criticism for methods used to interrogate terrorism suspects held by the United States, President Bush insisted on Thursday he had always ordered questioning methods to remain within the law. "What I have authorized is that we stay within...

Jun 10, 3:01 AM (ET) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry has a solid lead over President Bush among voters nationwide, according to a Los Angeles Times poll on Thursday that cited widespread unease over the country's direction, Iraq policies and the economy. Kerry, the U.S. senator from...

By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. defense contractors were accused in a class-action suit on Wednesday of conspiring with U.S. officials to torture and abuse prisoners in Iraq. The suit, filed in San Diego, alleged San-Diego based Titan Corp. and CACI International of Arlington...