Week Ending: Saturday 22nd May 2004

The Overthrow of the American Republic
A spokesperson for the Bush family has apparently been pleading with a major worldwide news organization, not to proceed with a story they have.

Hard lessons from poetry class: Speech is free unless it's critical
New Mexico high school teacher was fired last year and classes in poetry and the poetry club at Rio Rancho High School were permanently terminated. It had nothing to do with obscenity, but it had everything to do with extremist politics.

Skeletons in the closet
While at Yale University, both John Kerry and George Bush joined an elite secret society, the Order of Skull and Bones

Reporter Apologizes for Iraq Coverage
While the major media, from The New York Times on down, has largely remained silent about their own failings in this area, a young columnist for a small paper in Fredericksburg, Va., has stepped forward.

White House guilty of breaking propaganda law
The Bush administration was guilty of spreading "covert propaganda" through a series of ready-made television "news" packages it sent to broadcasters

Fresh September 11th missile evidence
It's not a conspiracy theory if you have video footage from 6 news sources showing the pod and the missile! It now becomes a larger than life criminal cover-up

New abuse photos released
Some of hundreds of unreleased pictures and videos that display techniques not seen in earlier images of prison abuse

UK Protesters Taunt Bush Sr. with Torture Hoods
British protesters wearing black hoods like those worn by Iraqi victims of abuse by U.S. soldiers demonstrated against former U.S. President George Bush at a fundraising event for his son's re-election campaign

Israeli Guards Rape Palestinian Women
A Palestinian female freed from Israeli detention said more than 15 fellow Palestinian women were raped by Israeli interrogators

Shocking Details on Abuse of Reuters Staffers in Iraq
Reuters revealed on Tuesday that three Iraqis working for the company, and another Iraqi journalist working for NBC News, were seized for no reason in early January by the U.S. military and subjected to physical and sexual abuse

How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scanda lie not in the criminal inclinations of a fe Army reservists but in a decision, approved las year by Secretary of Defense Donal Rumsfel

Establishing blame
Donald Rumsfeld authorised the use of unconventional interrogation methods in Iraq to gain intelligence, according to a report in the New Yorker

Seymour Hersh Article from The New Yorker
Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Cambone and all the US military and Congressional leaders are war criminals

Death Of Nicholas Berg
Fifteen Anomalies Surrounding Death Of Nicholas Berg

Fahrenheit 9/11 could light fire under Bush
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is without doubt the most flaming-hot ticket at the Cannes film festival. And with good reason: Moore hopes that it will bring down the US government

Check out the invisibility cloak
Flying cars, transparent cloaks, technology which can read minds and games played by brain waves - the stuff of fiction, surely? Not so, these seemingly far-fetched inventions - and more - are now reality