By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers An ambush of a military convoy that killed 17 troops near the Afghan border Wednesday pushed the death toll in a series of attacks to at least 101 Pakistanis in the past five days – and brought President Pervez Musharraf, according to a local newspaper headline, to a “Moment of…
telegraph.co.uk Bush told Iraq war has helped al-Qa’eda By Tim Shipman in Washington President George W Bush was facing increasingly blunt criticism of his Iraq policy last night as a US intelligence report suggested that the war has made al-Qa’eda attacks on American soil more likely. President Bush is losing support from Republicans in Congress…
By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001. In March 2001, while California’s two largest utilities were teetering on the…
opednews by Bev Harris It doesn’t get more mainstream than this: The HBO documentary about computerized voting, Hacking Democracy, been nominated for an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism. The film shows the detective story that uncovered the inappropriate practice of counting votes in secret, inside electronic voting machines. It chronicles the work of Black Box…
