The heroic city of Portland, Oregon may drop out of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. They're "worried that the task force could lead to illicit surveillance of local citizens", as NPR puts it. Also, check any of these stories. They're definitely not on board the Bush...
Knight Ridder's Tom Lasseter reports some Iraqi election returns:In final results released Friday for local elections in Baghdad, a city with large Sunni neighborhoods, Shiite cleric-led parties posted large numbers and Sunni tickets gathered relatively few votes. The...
Iran: Next Target of US Military Aggression Selected articles and essays Michel Chossudovsky, Editor Global Research E-Monograph and Reports Series, No. 3, February 2005 PREFACE The Bush administration has officially identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of "the...
Ali, disgruntled former IraqtheModel blogger, now of the Free Iraqi blog decided to comment on the Michael Totten post in which he tells of how he and Christopher Hitchens manage to piss some Iraqis off so badly, they nearly came to blows in a restaurant. Shorter Ali:...
AFP reports:Hundreds of Arab and Turkmen protestors took to the streets of Iraq's disputed northern oil city of Kirkuk Friday, charging that last month's election had been riddled with fraud and demanding a re-run. "No, no to federalism! No, no to fraud!", chanted the...
(MSNBC) New book reveals military code names A new book that reveals hundreds of secret code names has created a stir in the Pentagon, reports NBC's Lisa Myers.
The Center for Public Integrity "Over the years, those unhappy with my investigations have tried just about everything to discourage our work. They have issued subpoenas, stalked my hotel room, escorted me off military bases, threatened physical arrest, suggested I...
Bronwen Maddox in The Times reports:It is also encouraging — up to a point — that the recruiting drive to the security forces has seen such interest from Shias. Some Iraqi security officers have told The Times that Shia recruitments make up as much as three quarters...
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No Place to Hide: Award-Winning Journalist Robert O'Harrow Goes Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society No Place to Hide Center for Investigative Reporting In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth of Personal Data -- by Robert O'Harrow Robert O'Harrow...
