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    • … of Amnesty International. The article is an excerpt from his book the Trial of Donald Rumsfeld, in which Ratner conducts his own trial of the “war criminals” responsible for the torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and the secret CIA prisons around the world. The defendants include Donald Rumsfeld …

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    • … the world about President Eddy Bullard’s secret investment in an IRS/CIA building, at the time of its construction—the one that has just collapsed, with hundreds of people dead. Will he go on TV to share the facts that his editors wouldn’t let him print? No, instead he tries to sneak his story …

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    • … as weapons by the Japanese kamikaze suicide pilots during World War II or the abortive al Qaeda plot of the 1990’s known as Project Bojinka, which would have involved both blowing up airliners and crashing a plane into CIA headquarters in Virginia and which may have been the inspiration for 9/11. Hmmmm …

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    • This week I got around to reading Michael Dobbs’s book, One Minute to Midnight, on the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Washington Post reporter who had previously written a sensible book on the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dodd did some serious archival research–particularly in military records …

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    • … just that. In fact, a suicide pilot slammed his Cessna into the White House on September 12, 1994. I guess that was just…so 90s that it didn’t count. Even Tom Clancy wrote a book about a terrorist slamming a commercial airliner into the the Capitol wiping out Congress in the 1990s. Maybe she doesn’t …

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    • … is well within the operational capabilities of the United States Navy. Couple this little known, but very important fact, with the reality that for years now we have seen more and more ham-handed interference with the global communications grid by the American alphabet soup agencies (NSA, CIA, FBI, HoSec …

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    • … of an experience. Rating: 4/5 Key tracks: “Civil Twilight”, “Sun in an Empty Room”, “Night Windows” #3) Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World for Tomorrow (Oct. 23 - Columbia) From the opening lines, “Hell must know/there have been worse things I’ve done”, you know …

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    • … in this newspaper. Despite the fame that came to Woodward and Bernstein after the book and movie “All the President’s Men,” these questions aren’t about the greater glory of journalists either. In fact, Woodward, Bernstein and The Post were under almost constant attack during the early days of Watergate …

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    • By Dave Lindorff A new congressional report is belatedly confirming what many have long known: that the White House and in particular then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, lied to Congress in 2004 when he told them the Bush administration was not repeatedly warned by the CIA not to make …

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    • … old are killed by deliberate medical intervention. In 16% of cases, parental consent was not even considered. To put these numbers in perspective, the CIA World Fact Book estimates that roughly 106,000 babies are born in Belgium each year. Even using conservative estimates of Belgium’s rate …




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