By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK The Bush administration’s plans to bring detainees at Guantanamo Bay to trial were thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges threw out all charges against a detainee held there since he was 15 and dismissed charges against another detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden. In back-to-back arraignments for the Canadian…
by Todd Huffman, M.D., opednews.com The news this weekend of the arrest of three suspects allegedly plotting to sabotage the jet fuel lines servicing JFK Airport–a plot in its nascent stages and one not likely to have caused much in the way of actual damage besides psychological–will undoubtedly have the effect of increasing the supply…
By Chris Hedges, Philadelphia Inquirer Armed units from the private security firm Blackwater USA opened fire in Baghdad streets twice in two days last week. It triggered a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, a reminder that the war in Iraq may be remembered mostly in our history books for empowering and building…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story On Monday, Fox News covered Vladimir Putin’s threat that if the US government goes ahead with setting up a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, Russia will target its own missiles at European targets. The discussion led to an unlikely reversal of political positions, with conservative Fox political…
