Whose Homeland Is This?
By Annette FuentesA week after the 9/11 attacks, I spoke to my nearest neighbor on our sparsely populated road in rural upstate New York.
By Jason Vest
Ever since the Guardian of London revealed almost two weeks ago that "Anonymous," the author of the soon-to-be-published Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror (Brassey's, Inc.), is a CIA figure "centrally involved in the hunt for Bin Laden," the American press has been playing catch-up – yet in a strangely coy sort of way.
A defiant defendant, a court's shaky foundation, a war flaring outside the makeshift Iraqi courtroom - all point up the uncertainty and the risk in the plan to put Saddam Hussein on trial.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says no.
The Selective Service System says no. And Congressional leaders say absolutely not.
Yet
talk of reinstating the military draft persists.....
Maybe it was because the man on my left was doing a play-by-play when any member of the Bush team came on the screen. Maybe it was because the movie theater was within pitching range of Fenway Park. But halfway through "Fahrenheit 9/11," I realized this wasn't an audience, it was a fan club. They weren't watching the movie, they were rooting for it.
In Kenya, 23 girls fled their village to avoid genital mutilation. But the tradition's powerful role in their culture makes escape difficult.
The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion. As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said.
"I can't feel anything," said Hallemann, 78.
If you want to win a political race in the little south-central Arizona town of Florence, look for work in the area or just hear the local gossip, chances are pretty high that you'll find your way to Gibby's Bar...
These days, as is the case with so many other depressed Main Street communities, there's no shortage of correctional officers. They come from the vast, and continually growing, state prison that's been in Florence for as long as Arizona has been a state
The
true human cost of the war in Iraq. Are we getting the whole story from the
Pentagon?
The number of casualties from
Operation Iraqi Freedom are
exponentially higher, thousands and thousands of soldiers higher than
what the Pentagon seems to say the casualty numbers for Operation Iraqi
Freedom are.By Nat Parryuly 6, 2004
For the past year, the Bush administration has argued that Iraq is not another Vietnam, which in some ways was true. In South Vietnam, the U.S. was propping up the Saigon government, but the regime was regarded as "sovereign." In Iraq, until June 28, the U.S. was simply occupying Iraq after eliminating the old government.
Are they dead? Are they alive? Where is the media? Does anybody out there care?
In a front-page article December 26, 2002, The Washington Post revealed that prisoners at a CIA interrogation center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan were being subjected to abuses that veered on torture: "The picture that emerges is of a brass-knuckled quest for information . . . in which the traditional lines between right and wrong, legal and inhumane, are evolving and blurred."
More than 2.4 million FOIA requests filed at a yearly cost of just over $1 per citizen. Archive releases selection of "38 Noteworthy News Stories Made Possible by FOIA."
"I'm coming for you," reads one threatening e-mail, laced with racism and obscenities. "Desserters [sic] should get shot in the back especially at war time," reads another. Vicious messages, mostly from Americans, have flooded the inbox of 25-year-old Jeremy Hinzman, an American soldier who deserted to seek refugee status in Canada after refusing to participate in the war in Iraq, which he has called a "criminal enterprise".
In January, Jeremy Hinzman, a paratrooper from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division loaded his wife, son and a few possessions into their small car and drove from Fort Bragg to Toronto, Canada. In a journey reminiscent of one taken by another generation of soldiers, Hinzman committed a felony punishable by death, in order to avoid serving in a controversial war.
The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq - that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons - were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday.
Issue of wall now moves to UN Security Council
The UN's highest judicial authority, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled today that the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank in response to Palestinian suicide bombings is illegal, that it has to be pulled down and that Palestinians be compensated for any damages incurred since its construction.
by Jimmy Breslin
“What's
the matter?” Christ was
asked.
“My feet.”
“I'm not 33 anymore and they're going to have me out until I can hardly take a step.”
“My feet.”
“I'm not 33 anymore and they're going to have me out until I can hardly take a step.”
Israelis Kill 7
PalestiniansIsraeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians, most of them militants, during intense gun battles early on Thursday in the northern Gaza Strip, where soldiers have been trying to halt Palestinian rocket fire.
A 35-year-old Palestinian woman, Jamilia Hamad, was among those killed in the town of Beit Hanun. She was shot in the abdomen while guiding her seven children through the streets as they tried to escape the fighting, relatives and hospital doctors said.
Ex-Army reservist sues to avoid recall
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A former Army reservist who returned to civilian life in December -- only to be recalled five months later - filed a lawsuit Thursday to avoid duty in Iraq.Todd Parrish, 30, served four years of active duty and another four years in the reserves, a commitment he believed expired Dec. 19. The Army maintains he will be in a voluntary reserve status until he's 50.
Gila Svirsky
In a carefully reasoned but unequivocal decision, the International Court of Justice in the Hague did the expected: It found that Israel's construction of its security wall inside Palestinian territory is illegal according to international law.
U.S. Deserter Jeremy Hinzman's Day In Court Arrives
ST. CATHARINES, CANADA -- 07/07/04 -- A test of Canada's liberal immigration and political asylum laws begins today. American GI Jeremy Hinzman's hearing before Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board should be barn burner.
AUSTIN (AP) — Two military service members who recently returned from Iraq spoke out against the war Wednesday during a rally at the Capitol, telling a small but boisterous crowd that the Bush administration misled America about the threat of terrorism there.
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