Lawyers for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui held a press conference in Brooklyn,
New York Monday to demand that their client, a 36-year-old mother
of three, be transferred immediately from federal jail to a hospital
for treatment of gunshot wounds inflicted by US personnel before
she was brought to the US to face trial.

By Peter Symonds
19 August 2008

Effectively abandoned by his domestic allies and international
backers, Pakistan’s military strongman Pervez Musharraf formally
resigned yesterday as the country’s president rather than
face impeachment proceedings that were due to commence this week.

By Deepal Jayasekera
13 June 2008

The US government and military have rebuffed Pakistani government
protests over Tuesday night’s aerial bombardment of a Pakistani
security checkpoint in the Mohmand region in the Federally Administered
Tribal Area (FATA). Ostensibly aimed at pro-Taliban insurgents,
the US attack, which was carried out by two F-15s and a B-1 bomber,

OK. So we have finally been given the green signal to have those F-16s that will save us from all the troubles ever to be encountered.

Thank You So Much America. Well you know what, You Can Shove Them Up Yours.

The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department
Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War
Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the
Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by
the administration to stop writing their reports.

U.S. “hiding” trillions in debt

After six years of imprisonment without charge, a well-known
cameraman for Al Jazeera news was released May 1 by the US military.
The reporter, Sami al-Hajj, was captured in 2001 while covering
the US invasion of Afghanistan and subjected to the torture and
abuse that is routine at US military-run prison camps.

By the World Socialist Web Site editorial board 19 March 2008

Five years after Washington inaugurated its “shock and
awe” campaign, striking Baghdad with cruise missiles and
precision-guided bombs, it has become abundantly clear that the
war of aggression against Iraq has produced the greatest geo-political
disaster in American history.

The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse -- sometimes with deadly results. When military sexual assault survivors call Susan Avila-Smith, she advises them to keep their mouths shut while she works on getting them home. “It breaks my heart to do that,” she says, “but I want to get them out alive and that’s my main goal.”

By: Jerry White
23 January, 2008

It might have been shocked for bush to learn that the U.S. intelligence community now believes that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago, and it is on halt until now.(1)