Karen
03-03-2006, 09:08 PM
I've found this site has plenty of under-the-radar stories. You may find it helpful in bringing balance to what you know. There is a newsletter you can subscribe to. I've included some of it. Why? because,
Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
https://informationclearinghouse.info/images/BAN1.gif (https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)
NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN
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'War on terror' trials could allow evidence obtained through torture
By Agence France Presse
US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said that "war on terror" military tribunals at the Guantanamo naval base could allow evidence obtained through torture.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12160.htm
===
Guantanamo man tells of 'torture'
By BBC
A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture. Audio and transcript.
This is a must listen
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12158.htm
===
Katrina: Criminal Negligence or Manslaughter?
By Mike Wwhitney
Why aren't we talking about Criminal Negligence?
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12166.htm
(https://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182)===
U.S. Intel: Qaeda Plotting 'Big Bang':
U.S. officials tell CBS News that intelligence has picked up reports that al Qaeda in Iraq is planning what one source calls the "Big Bang," a spectacular terrorist attack in Iraq against either a single high-profile target or multiple targets simultaneously.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12157.htm
===
Chris Floyd: Party Hacks : The fix is in for 2008:
Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected, Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the world. That future -- at least for the next several years -- will be an accelerating nightmare of war, corruption, repression, atrocity and terror. That's because the loyal apparatchik has, with the stroke of a pen, guaranteed the perpetuation of the Bush faction in power in 2008 and beyond.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12155.htm
===
Baghdad official who exposed executions flees :
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12154.htm
===
Terrorist growth overtakes U.S. efforts:
Thirty new terrorist organizations have emerged since the September 11, 2001, attacks, outpacing U.S. efforts to crush the threat, said Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen, the Pentagon's deputy director for the war on terrorism.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12159.htm
===
Shiites in Iraqi city of Basra threaten boycott of oil and goods:
The influential Shiite-Islamic Fadhila Party in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra on Friday threatened to halt the traffic of oil and other goods from southern Iraq into the centre of the country.
https://tinyurl.com/h5hct
===
Civil strife is not the only conflict for Iraq's Shias :
An internal struggle for power has put the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr back at centre stage - and the Americans won't like it
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12165.htm
===
Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence :
A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch in calling for release of videos that are being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on September 11, 2001. Scholars for 9/11 Truth
https://tinyurl.com/jw93h
===
Poll: 2 Out of 3 Americans Want U.S. Pull Out from Iraq:
While newspaper editorials remain virtually silent on the subject, the American public seems to have made up its mind. A new Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll out tonight shows that 2 out of 3 adult Americans now want U.S. troops to start to come home from Iraq. And 55% call the decision to attack Iraq in 2003 a "mistake."
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12161.htm
===
Australian PM denies seeing cable on wheat scandal:
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has distanced himself from the scandal surrounding huge bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's regime by denying he had ever seen a diplomatic cable which warned of the payments.
https://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=110686
(https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12163.htm)
===
Chris Floyd: Reality and Revisionism in Iran :
Khatami's remarks, reported widely elsewhere in the world, were not allowed to disturb the lie-drugged slumber of the American consciousness.
https://chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=511&Itemid=1
===
Use Diplomacy on Iran Case, Say Americans:
55 per cent of respondents believe Iran is a threat that can be contained with diplomacy.
https://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11070
===
Arrow can block 'any Iranian missile':
Israel's Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile system is capable of intercepting and destroying any Iranian missiles, even were they to carry nuclear warheads, a high-ranking IDF officer told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
https://tinyurl.com/n4obz[url="https://tinyurl.com/e874f"]
===
Russia says Hamas prepared to extend ceasefire:
"The ball is now in Israel's court," he told Reuters. Israel says it takes military action to prevent attacks by Palestinian militants.
https://tinyurl.com/hbb72
===
Let Israel Choose...: Two States or One?:
The new Palestinian leadership should make clear that, after 39 years of foreign military occupation, the Palestinian people can no longer tolerate the cynical series of never-ending "peace plans"
https://counterpunch.com/whitbeck03032006.html
===
Hacks And Spooks - Close Encounters Of A Strange Kind:
In 1975, following Senate hearings on the CIA, the reports of the Senate's Church Committee and the House of Representatives' Pike Committee highlighted the extent of agency recruitment of both British and US journalists.
https://www.medialens.org/weblog/richard_keeble.php
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
===
Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
To read this newsletter online https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
https://informationclearinghouse.info/images/BAN1.gif (https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)
NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN
[/url]
'War on terror' trials could allow evidence obtained through torture
By Agence France Presse
US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said that "war on terror" military tribunals at the Guantanamo naval base could allow evidence obtained through torture.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12160.htm
===
Guantanamo man tells of 'torture'
By BBC
A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture. Audio and transcript.
This is a must listen
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12158.htm
===
Katrina: Criminal Negligence or Manslaughter?
By Mike Wwhitney
Why aren't we talking about Criminal Negligence?
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12166.htm
(https://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182)===
U.S. Intel: Qaeda Plotting 'Big Bang':
U.S. officials tell CBS News that intelligence has picked up reports that al Qaeda in Iraq is planning what one source calls the "Big Bang," a spectacular terrorist attack in Iraq against either a single high-profile target or multiple targets simultaneously.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12157.htm
===
Chris Floyd: Party Hacks : The fix is in for 2008:
Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected, Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the world. That future -- at least for the next several years -- will be an accelerating nightmare of war, corruption, repression, atrocity and terror. That's because the loyal apparatchik has, with the stroke of a pen, guaranteed the perpetuation of the Bush faction in power in 2008 and beyond.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12155.htm
===
Baghdad official who exposed executions flees :
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12154.htm
===
Terrorist growth overtakes U.S. efforts:
Thirty new terrorist organizations have emerged since the September 11, 2001, attacks, outpacing U.S. efforts to crush the threat, said Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen, the Pentagon's deputy director for the war on terrorism.
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12159.htm
===
Shiites in Iraqi city of Basra threaten boycott of oil and goods:
The influential Shiite-Islamic Fadhila Party in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra on Friday threatened to halt the traffic of oil and other goods from southern Iraq into the centre of the country.
https://tinyurl.com/h5hct
===
Civil strife is not the only conflict for Iraq's Shias :
An internal struggle for power has put the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr back at centre stage - and the Americans won't like it
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12165.htm
===
Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence :
A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch in calling for release of videos that are being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on September 11, 2001. Scholars for 9/11 Truth
https://tinyurl.com/jw93h
===
Poll: 2 Out of 3 Americans Want U.S. Pull Out from Iraq:
While newspaper editorials remain virtually silent on the subject, the American public seems to have made up its mind. A new Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll out tonight shows that 2 out of 3 adult Americans now want U.S. troops to start to come home from Iraq. And 55% call the decision to attack Iraq in 2003 a "mistake."
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12161.htm
===
Australian PM denies seeing cable on wheat scandal:
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has distanced himself from the scandal surrounding huge bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's regime by denying he had ever seen a diplomatic cable which warned of the payments.
https://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=110686
(https://informationclearinghouse.info/article12163.htm)
===
Chris Floyd: Reality and Revisionism in Iran :
Khatami's remarks, reported widely elsewhere in the world, were not allowed to disturb the lie-drugged slumber of the American consciousness.
https://chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=511&Itemid=1
===
Use Diplomacy on Iran Case, Say Americans:
55 per cent of respondents believe Iran is a threat that can be contained with diplomacy.
https://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11070
===
Arrow can block 'any Iranian missile':
Israel's Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile system is capable of intercepting and destroying any Iranian missiles, even were they to carry nuclear warheads, a high-ranking IDF officer told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
https://tinyurl.com/n4obz[url="https://tinyurl.com/e874f"]
===
Russia says Hamas prepared to extend ceasefire:
"The ball is now in Israel's court," he told Reuters. Israel says it takes military action to prevent attacks by Palestinian militants.
https://tinyurl.com/hbb72
===
Let Israel Choose...: Two States or One?:
The new Palestinian leadership should make clear that, after 39 years of foreign military occupation, the Palestinian people can no longer tolerate the cynical series of never-ending "peace plans"
https://counterpunch.com/whitbeck03032006.html
===
Hacks And Spooks - Close Encounters Of A Strange Kind:
In 1975, following Senate hearings on the CIA, the reports of the Senate's Church Committee and the House of Representatives' Pike Committee highlighted the extent of agency recruitment of both British and US journalists.
https://www.medialens.org/weblog/richard_keeble.php
[snip]
Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
===
Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
To read this newsletter online https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/