WASHINGTON (Reuters) - das Pentagon Mittwoch suchte, hinunter die Ernsthaftigkeit der wachsenden Gewalttätigkeit in Afghanistan zu spielen aber sank zu sagen, daß die Vereinigten Staaten und das NATO ihren Kampf gegen Taliban Rebellen gewannen. An einem Tag, als Präsident Bush das Pentagon besuchte, um den Irak und Afghanistan mit oberen Beamten zu besprechen, sagte PentagonPressesekretär Geoff Morrell, daß die Frage der zusätzlichen Kräfte für Afghanistan Nachfolger Bushs überlassen werden kann. „Es ist…

KIRKUK, der Irak (AFP) - der Sohn eines Journalisten an einer populären wöchentlichen Zeitung im Nordirak war angeblich geschossene Tote durch US Truppen, als sein Auto veer wild schien, die lokale Polizei, die am Donnerstag gesagt wurde. Amerikanische Soldaten schossen totes Arkan Ali Al-Nuaimi, 19, am Mittwoch Abend, während er einem Prüfpunkt in seinem Auto in der ölstadt von Kirkuk sich näherte, einen Polizeibeamten, der AFP erklärt wurde. Irakische Polizei sagte den Sohn…

Durch Dana Hedgpeth | Revisoren an einer Pentagonaufsichtagentur wurden von den Inspektoren skew ihre Reports über Hauptverteidigungfremdfirmen, um sie Blick vorteilhafter zu bilden gedrueckt, anstatt, Vergehen und Aufladungen der überberechnung herauszustellen, entsprechend einem 80 Seite Report, der gestern durch das Regierung Verantwortlichkeit Büro freigegeben wurde. Die Verteidigung-Vertrag Bilanz-Agentur, die beaufsichtigt Fremdfirmen für…

Zustandverbrechen-Laboranalytiker Kathryn Troyer war- laufende Tests auf Datenbank DNA des Arizonas, als sie über zwei Täter mit bemerkenswert ähnlichen genetischen Profilen stolperte. The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people. The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested ...

Real Women, Real Voices | Last week, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan. While President Bush and his colleagues discussed world hunger over a six-course lunch, women in Haiti were preparing cakes of dirt for their children’s dinner. Eating dirt, mixed with ...

The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into ...

By Jeff Stein | Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis, who resigned last year after two years as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, today described the military commissions system as fatally "tainted" by politics and designed to produce guilty verdicts, no matter what the costs.        The possibility of the system delivering "credible verdicts is doubtful," Davis said Tuesday in a remarkable interview on NPR's Diane Rehm Show....

By Robert Parry | A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens - as well as non-citizens - into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” even if they have engaged in no violent act and are living on U.S. soil. The federal Appeals Court in Richmond, Virginia, ruled ...

An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran. Francis A. Boyle says following Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment within two weeks or face further isolation, Iran needs to act quickly. At weekend talks in Geneva, the United States delivered what it describes as ...

Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 were required. Through vaccinations, children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA. The Hep B routinely given to newborns contains so much mercury preservative that it would normally only be considered safe under standard medical guidelines to give to a 275 pound adult. Why is this going on? Politics and corruption. In the ...

A message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Will Congress listen? IMPEACH NOW! Bush is a Threat to Peace. http://kucinich.us to sign the petition.

By Heidi Stevenson | The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France. Although the bee die offs that have occurred recently are more severe, there have been many in the past from the same and similar products. In North Dakota, a lawsuit is ...

By Andy Worthington | Wake up, America! On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (PDF) that the president can arrest US citizens and legal residents inside the United States and imprison them indefinitely, without charge or trial, based solely on his assertion that they are "enemy combatants." Have a little ...

By Carol J. Williams | A military judge says some statements by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden, were made in 'highly coercive' settings. It could set a standard for other cases. WASHINGTON -- The military judge overseeing the first war crimes trial against a terrorism suspect at Guantanamo Bay agreed Monday to bar some evidence against Osama bin Laden's former driver because it was obtained ...