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Downloadable
Does George W. Bush Support Our Troops? Fact sheet 081904?
Leaflet B/W: VETERANS SAY NO TO WAR (.DOC)
Leaflet Color: VETERANS SAY NO TO WAR (.PDF)
Postcards: print & send to President Bush
Administration Lies
Searchable Database Bush Cheney Lies
Ex-Nixon Aide John Dean Tells Bill Moyers that Bush Should Be Impeached - Apr 2, 2004
Powell: Some Iraq testimony based on 'flawed' intelligence - Apr 3, 2004

IRAQ ON THE RECORD, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (.pdf) - Mar 19, 2004

President Bush, VP Cheney, and Top Advisors Made over 200 Misleading Public Statements on Iraq Threat. Database. "The Iraq on the Record Database" - Mar 16, 2004
The New Pentagon Papers A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war. - Mar 10, 2004
Soldier for the Truth: Exposing Bush's talking-points war. - Feb 20, 2004
The Ultimate Betrayal (Howard Zinn) -April 2004
CLAIM vs. FACT: The President on Meet the Press - Feb 8, 2004
The Lie Factory. Inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war. - Jan/Feb 2004
Now it gets interesting. Think you know how 2004 will play out? Think Again. Jan 26.2004
24 "Deceptions" In 704 words: Bush's 2003 SOTU - July 23, 2003
Lying -- a Bush Family Value
Afghanistan
US Turns to Taliban
Bush
Bush Administration Treatment of Soldiers and Veterans Fact Sheet Aug 19, 2004
The News Media's Political "F(ascism)" Word - June 25, 2004
Powell aides go public on rift with Bush - May6, 2004
"The House of Bush The House of Saud" The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties - Craig Unger
President Bush began preparations for a war against Iraq beginning in late 2001, a new book by Washington Post editor Bob Woodward says - Apr 18, 2004
Bush has failed his troops - Apr 15, 2004
Bush's Bagmen. Meet the Pioneers and Rangers, the president's A-team for campaign cash - Mar 19, 2004
Military Families Urge Censure for Bush as Congress Marks Iraq Anniversary - Mar 17, 2004
The Bushes' New World Disorder - Mar 16, 2004
Impeachment May Still Loom For Bush - Mar 7, 2004
For 'Gutter Politics,' Look to the Bush Camp - Feb 21, 2004
Ft. Polk Troops Practiced Their Hoo-ahs - Feb 19, 2004
"Bush Family Fortunes" documentary video by Greg Palast/BBC (requires Real Player or Windows Media Player (.WMV)
Captain Griswold Educates Peter Jennings on the Bush Military Record - Jan 24, 2004
'Bush and I were lieutenants' - Feb 13, 2004
Questions on Bush's service - Feb 7, 2004
The Bush Files - An Experiment in Transparency
Bush bio on Web inflates Guard service - Feb 28, 2004
Bush's Guard Service: What the Record Shows - Feb 5, 2004
Bush's Missing Year - Feb 7, 2004
The Military records of George Walker Bush (copies from FOIAA request)
Bush's Guard Service In Question Democrats Say President Shirked His Duty in 1972 - Feb 3, 2004
The Bubble of American Supremacy George Soros - Nov 25, 2003
Love Him, Hate Him President
Americans adore Bush or loathe him — how we became a nation divided - Dec 1, 2003
Would a Second Bush Term Mean a Return to Conscription? Why Dodging the Draft Would Be Trickier Than You Think - Nov 11, 2003
Newly Unclassified US Documents: Bush Ancestor's Bank Seized by Gov't - Oct 18, 2003
Ecology
Road to Ruin: How America is Ravaging the Planet - Oct 24, 2003
Oxymoron
Ecological decline
Economy
FTAA Pitney interviews Danaher - Nov 25, 2003
Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami - Nov 25, 2003
Dark Heart of the American Dream - Jun 16, 2002
Elections
How They Could Steal the Election This Time - Jul 29, 2004
One Million Black Votes Didn't Count in the 2000 Presidential Election - June 21, 2004
Florida Voting Machines Have Recount Flaw - June 12, 2004
E-Voting Oversight Overwhelms U.S. Agency - May 4, 2004
Vanishing Votes - May 2004
All voting machines decertified (CA) - May 1, 2004
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Office of Civil Rights Evaluation: Is America Ready to Vote? Election Readiness Briefing Paper - April 2004
Death of a Patriot: No More 'Blind Faith Voting' - Mar 17, 2004
Diebold's Political Machine (paper trails solutions/Ohio - Mar 5, 2004
Diebold, Electronic Voting and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy - Feb 28, 2004
Bev Harris on the Perils to Democracy by Electronic Voting - Dec 4, 2003
All the President's Votes? Quiet Revolution is Taking Place in US Politics. By the Time It's Over, the Integrity of Elections Will be in the Unchallenged, Unscrutinized Control of a Few Large - and Pro-Republican - Corporations. Andrew Gumbel wonders if democracy in America can survive - Oct 13, 2004
Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud
Will the 2004 Election be Stolen With Electronic Voting Machines? An Interview with Bev Harris, Who Has Done the Groundbreaking Work on This Issue.
General Stats
Time catching up to Worldwar I Veterans - Veterans' Day 2005
The Armageddon Plan - Mar 19, 2004
Footprint of US Military Worldwide
America's Wars: Casualties and Veterans
G. W. Bush Achievement Record
Caught on Film : The Bush Credibility Gap
Useful general statistics
Representatives who didn't serve
Broken Promises
Foreign Policy
Poll Finds a Nation Chastened by War - Sep 29, 2004
Former officials to condemn Bush foreign policy - June 13, 2004
Global Disarmament
New US Landmine Policy Represents a Major Dangerous Policy Rollback. Mar 24, 2004
Global Disarmament Starts at Home - It's Time to Disarm America (UPJ - Sep 24, 03)
Graphics for Presentations
Our Presidents and Miittary Leaders on War, "Patriotsim", and, Peace (.PDF)
Gulf War II Medical Care
Female GIs Report Rapes in Iraq War 37 seek aid after alleging sex assaults by U.S. soldiers - Jan 25, 2004
Soldiers Medical Testing Faulted - Sep 22, 2003
Army Sending Doctors to Ft Stewart - Oct 20, 2003t
Fort Knox Says Housing For Sick Has Improved - Oct 30, 2003
4,000 U.S. non-combat evacuations in Iraq - Oct 6, 2003
Haiti
Time for Kerry to step up on Haiti (Stan Goff) - Mar 22, 2004
U.S. political maneuvering behind the ouster
Homeland Security
Nickel and diming homeland security
Humanity
Army Set to Injure Goats for Training - Sep 8, 2004
Little Miss Treason (Coulter Attacks MaxCLelland) - Feb 18, 2004
Human/Civil Rights
The 38-page Human Right Watch report, "The Road to Abu Ghraib," - June 13, 2004
US 'not bound by torture laws' - June 7, 2004
Amnesty Slams "Bankrupt" Vision of US in Damning Rights Report - May 26, 2004
Axis of Execution: American Justice Ranked Alongside World's Most Repressive Regimes - Apr 7, 2004
ACLU's Romero Calls Government's Policies on Guantánamo 'Fundamentally Lawless". U.S. Veterans and Families of Guantánamo Detainees Join Romero in Briefing After Newsmaker Address - Mar 10, 2004
Guantánamo: A Monstrous Failure of Justice - Nov 27, 2003
Mission Creep Hits Home American armed forces are assuming major new domestic policing and surveillance roles - Nov 23, 2003
American Gulag - Nov 16, 2003

Despotism & Democracy (Video - 9 minutes) Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946
Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?

Retro Poll's Findings on American views on the War on Terrorism and the abridgment of Civil Liberties in the U.S. - Apr 30, 2003
Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to U.S. Law and Policy Since 9/11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties - March 11, 2003. (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - 97 pages):
Word (.DOC) Version Acrobat (.PDF) Version
Report: Civil Rights Under Attack
Bush Takes Aim at Civil Rights
Ashcroft versus civil liberties
Hundreds of immigrants rounded up in CA
Overview of changes to legal rights
INS mass detentions
Let our people go
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Evaluation of the real impact of the ICC on US citizens and soldiers - Nov 7, 2003
32 Friendly Nations Lose Vital U.S. Assistance
International Criminal Court: Prosecutor's Report - Press Release - July 16, 2003
Iraq War
2000 casualties - Statement by Michael T. McPhearson, October 28, 2005
CIA review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists - Oct 5, 2004
The Next Iraq War (Kirkuk) - The New Yorker - Sep 30, 2004
A view from the Green Zone: A top U.S. occupation official reveals how "hubris and ideology" led to catastrophe in Iraq - Aug 26, 2004
The Cost of War for States and Selected Cities - June 2004
Iraq on the Record - The Bush's Administration Public Statements on Iraq
Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links 0 July 11, 2004
CIA insider says U.S. fighting wrong war - June 23/24, 2004
As June 30th approaches, Israel looks to the Kurds - June 23, 2004
Iraq 1917 (Robert Fisk) - June 18, 2004
U.S. Slaughter Fills Iraqi Cemeteries. The first Korean reporter into Fallujah tells of the smell of death wafting from every direction - May 30, 2004
War tab swamps Bush’s estimate Spending projection: $150 billion by 2005 - May 9, 2004
Former Navy secretary unleashes tide of Iraq criticism - Apr 29, 2004
A letter from 52 former senior British diplomats to Tony Blair - Apr 29, 2004
What Do We Do Now? - Howard Zinn - Jun 2004
Get out now. Iraq - Invaders have ripped up the fabric of a nation that survived Saddam Hussein. This is a war of liberation and we are the enemy - Apr 17, 2004
The New Pentagon Papers (Karen Kwiatkowski) - Apr 11, 2004
Is America Sending Battle-Weary, Clinically Stressed Soldiers Back into the Heat of Iraq? - Apr 3, 2004
Medical evacuations in Iraq war hit 18,000 - Mar 31, 2004
The Iraqi Constitution & Events in Spain - Mar 16, 2004
Iraq & Viet Nam - Mar 8, 2004
U.S. Presidential Politics and Self-Rule for Iraqis - Feb 19, 2004
Start-up Company With Connections U.S. gives $400M in work to contractor with ties to Pentagon favorite on Iraqi Governing Council. Feb 15, 2004
Few Americans see caskets come home - Feb 17, 2004
Thanks for the Memories BuzzFlash Video (Saddam history) - Feb 12, 2004
Doubts, Dissent Stripped from Public Version of Iraq Assessment - Feb 10, 2004
The terrible human cost of Bush and Blair's military adventure: 10,000 civilian deaths - Feb 8, 2004
The US is Now in the Hands of a Group of Extremists Fundamentalism has Spawned an Ideology of American Supremacy - Goerge Soros - Jan 26, 2004
'It's Just Wrong What We're Doing' Robert McNamara breaks his silence on Iraq- Jan 25, 2004
WMD in Iraq Evidence and Implications (Carnegie Endowmnet for International Peace - Jan 7, 2003
Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper Since Gulf War, Nonconventional Weapons Never Got Past the Planning Stage - Jan 7, 2003
Medical Evacuations from Iraq Near 11,000 - Dec 19, 2003
Made in the USA
A guide to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction
Part I Part II Part III - Corporations
Iraq to Stop Counting Civilian Dead - Dec 10, 2003
Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq - Dec 9, 2003
'Evidence' for Link Is Administration Ploy - Nov 26, 2003
U.S. casualties from Iraq war top 9,000 - Nov 20, 2003
Why Chickenhawks Matter - Nov 14, 2003
The Thwarted Iraqi Peace Proposals - Nov 10, 2003
What's Left. A Higher Law - Nov 10, 2003
Iraqi Death Toll, Health Perils Assessed by Medical Group - Nov 11, 2003
Blueprint for a Mess (NY Times Magazine_ - Nov 2, 2003
U.S. Contractors Reap the Windfalls of Post-War Reconstruction (Report) - Oct 30, 2003
Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat. No evidence Uncovered Of Reconstituted Program - Oct 25, 2003
FACTBOX-Contributions to reconstruction in Iraq - Oct 24, 2003
Iraq: the missing billions. Transition and transparency in post-war Iraq. Briefing paper for the Madrid Conference on Iraq. 23-24 October 2003 (.PDF)
US Foreign Policy in Iraq. (Prepared for the Louisiana State Unversity Forum). Where are we now? Oct 22, 2003.
The Burden of Truth: Full Transcript. Full transcript of interviews with former CIA analysts - Soujourners. Oct 20, 2001
Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy in Opposition To The Iraq-Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations Bill - Oct 17, 2003
The Emperor Has No Clothes, Robert Byrd - Oct 18, 2003
Eyeless in Iraq - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. - Oct 18, 2003
A Fig Leaf to Cover Occupation (UN Resolution) - Oct 16, 2003
Divvying up the Iraq Pie - Oct 7, 2003
No money, no play: US on the brink in Iraq - Oct 10, 2003
Opposing the $87 billion supplemental appropriation for continuing the U.S. military occupation of Iraq - (Military Families Speak Out) Oct 8, 2003
Our allies. RAQI OCCUPATION. Distinguishing friend from foe poses challenge - Oct 5, 2003
The Legal Ironies of Regime Change: Iraq Recovers Its Sovereign Immunity,and Former U.S. POWs, Former Hostages, and September 11 Victims' Families Lose Out
Iraq, the U.N., and U.S. Corporations - Oct 2, 2003
Lies: Text of a Letter From the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate - Mar 18, 2003
EX-U.S. Diplomat says White House is in Full Retreat From Iraq Reality - Sep 18, 2003
An Analysis of the U.S. Military's Ability to Sustain an Occupation of Iraq (.PDF 2.8 MB) - Congressional Budget Office, Response to Senator Robert Byrd - Sep 3, 2003
Now It’s Your Turn Intelligence Veterans Challenge Colleagues to Speak Out - Aug 21, 2003
2002 Gulf War Statistics - Aug 15, 2003
Was Colin Powell Prepared to Lie the UN? - July 22, 2003
Project for New American Century (PNAC) Blueprint
20 Lies About the War - July 13, 2003
Analysis: Anatomy of a Quack-Mire - July 11, 2003
Justifications for a War Against Iraq - (G.W. Bush) - July 9, 2003
The United States in Iraq: An Experiment with Unilateral Humanitarianism - June 26, 2003
US general condemns Iraq failures - June 23, 2003
Factual data on the conduct of the war in Iraq
Secret November Deal for Ira's Oil - The Pentagon and Halliburton - May 14, 2003
Poll Shows Public Supports Iraq War But Rejects Unilateralism and an Imperial Role for the U.S. - May 1, 2003
Proud to be American? Not While it Chooses Bombs Over Bread (War spending statistics)d
The Power Brokers
For the People on the Streets, This is not Liberation but a New Colonial Oppression
Upper-Class Tax Cuts, Working-Class Soldiers
A list of Bush lies on Iraq
An Annotated Critique of President George W. Bush's March 17 Address Preparing the Nation for War.
Critique George Bush March 17 Speech (.PDF)
I am a veteran! How dare they. - Speech, Jozef Hand-Boniakowski, PhD
Support Our Troops? - Only in Remorse for Our Common Failure
Career diplomat resigns over U.S. policy in Iraq
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Statement on Iraq
Oxford Research Group: Iraq Consequences of War (.PDF)
Response to secretary of state Colin Powell's UN Security Council
The push for war
Claims and evaluations of Iraq's proscribed weapons
The purpose of the war - James Carroll
Richard Perle inspections or not
Is it not true - Rep. Ron Paul
Alternatives to war on Iraq
A response to Bush -Phyllis Bennis
UK Member of Parliament: counter arguments
Ten Reasons Why Many Gulf War Veterans Oppose Re-Invading Iraq
Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing With Iraq
Catholic bishops plan statement opposing US invasion of Iraq
Iraq War - Occupation
Interview: Scott Ritter tells us why we're in Iraq - November 15, 2005
Left Behind: The False "Hand-Overs" of Iraq & Saddam Hussein - July 9 ,2004
U.S. Edicts Curb Power Of Iraq's Leadership - June 27, 2004
The War on Terror: Victims Turning Perpetrators Commencement Address to the Columbia School of International & Public Affairs - (George Soros) May 19, 2004
Atrocities in Iraq: 'I killed innocent people for our government' -(SacBee) - May 16, 2004
Army Times Accuses Rumsfeld, Myers of "professional negligence". Editorial: A failure of leadership at the highest levels - May 17, 2004
The Role. Another Open Letter to the Troops in Iraq (Stan Goff) - May 4, 2004
Remember Falluja (War Crimes) - Haaretz.com - Apr 29, 2004
10 U.S. Contractors in Iraq Penalized - Apr 28, 2004
What triggered the Shia insurrection? - Apr 26, 2004
Response to Michael Schwartz article "What triggered the Shia insurrection?" - Apr 26, 2004
Crimes in Iraq. Lynching in Fallujah: A Year of US Occupation Bears Strange Fruit - Apr 9, 2004
A Call for an Exit Door from Iraq (Sen. Robert Byrd from the Senate Floor- Apr 7, 2004
Lookout. Let's Make Enemies - Apr 2004
Media
Televise the funerals and flag-draped coffins by Vincent Guarisco - December 2004
Media Group Think - Aug 19, 2004
US Media Kills Story that Iraqi PM Executed 6 Prisoners - Jul 19, 2004
Limbaugh Has No Place on the Front Line - June 26, 2004
Iraqi Exile Group Fed False Information to News Media - Mar 16, 2004
A war story I wish I'd written (re: disinformation) Mar 13, 2004
Report Sees Bleak Trend in U.S. News Media - Mar 15, 2004
'NY Times' Fails to Acknowledge Its Role in WMD Hype - Feb 20, 2004
The Domination Effect - Jan 8, 2004
Essay on the Media and Democracy, Bill Moyers - Nov 26, 2003
A Comforting Myth Freedom of the Press - Nov 13, 2003
Keynote Address to the National Conference on Media Reform (Bill Moyers) - Nov 12, 2003
Bill Moyers on Big Media - Oct 14, 2003
Perception Management: Powell Doctrine Perfected. Truth from These Podia. (.PDF) Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II. Sam Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired) - Oct 8, 2003.
Bill Moyers on Big Media - Oct 10, 2003
Study hits war views held by Fox fans - Oct 4, 2003
Mercenaries
Outside View: Privatizing war - July 8, 2004
The Other U.S. Military. Contractors - May 24, 2004
Mercenaries 'R' Us - Mar 23, 2004
The Privatization of War $30 Billion Goes to Private Military; Fears Over 'Hired Guns' Policy - Dec 10, 2003
The Privatization of War and Peace - Oct 17, 2003
Bombings Bring U.S. 'Executive Mercenaries' Into the Light The shrouded history of Vinnell Corp. raises questions about its role in privatization of U.S. foreign policy - May 16, 2003
Missile Defense
Keep the Military Neutral - June 2003
Missile Defense: Rush To Failure, Part II"
Nuclear Issues
The US Nuclear Option and the "War on Terrorism" - May 19, 2004
Nuclear Weapons 'Immoral,' Say Religious, Scientific Leaders - Mar 9, 2004
Bush OKs New Nuke - Nov 25, 2003
Armageddon Back on the Table . U.S. ratchets up debate on `usable' nuclear weapons Critics fear fallout from Bush cadre's pro-nuke strategy. Nov 16. 2003
Fueling the Nuclear Fire: Nuclear Policies of the Bush Adminstration - Aug 22, 2003
Oil
Oil Immunity? Government denies charges that Bush helped oil companies in Iraq - Oct 30, 2003
Dangerous Liasons
Others Costs of War
Twilight Zone / `I punched an Arab in the face'
Patriotism
Liberal views force soldier out of military - Nov 10, 2003
Pentagon Statements
Study Published by Army Criticizes War on Terror;s Scope - (Article here; Study below) - Jan 12, 2004
Report: Pentagon Auditors Altered Files - (Study here) Jan 10, 2004
Pentagon Waste
Wasted at the Pentagon Fiscal Irresponsibility, Fraud and the Military-Terrorism Complex - June 2, 2003
Policy General
Doubt grows over preventive war - Feb 4, 2--4
Bounding the Global War on Terrorism - Jeremy Pecor (330K .PDF)
Toward a More Secure America - Jan 2, 2004
The bad guys we once thought good - Dec 27, 2003
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism Mar - 2003
The Shameful U.S. Record in 2003. Disarmament Votes at the United Nations - Dec. 16, 2003
In Rumsfeld's Shop. A senior Air Force officer watches as the neocons consolidate their Pentagon coup. - Dec 1, 2003
The Arrogance of Power - Nov 29, 2003
A Double-Barreled Attack on American War Policy - (Book Review, "Imperial America" - Oct 22, 2003
U.S Policies - Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored's Annual List
Noam Chomsky on America's Past 11 Months Jihad Unspun - Aug 16, 2003
Report "An American Security Policy: Challenge, Opportunity, Commitment." (.PDF 8 Megs, 48 pages))
Policy Middle East
War and Peace - Apr 30, 2004
Iraq as a weapons lab - Mar 28, 2004
Reform in the Middle East....Cleaning Up Our Side of the Street. Woody Powell - Mar 18, 2004
Israel's Ideological Foundation - Dec 18, 2003
Rumsfeld and his 'old friend' Saddam - Dec 17, 2003
Assassins R Us - Nov 17, 2003
It's the U.S. Policy Stupid - Oct 3, 2003
Prisoner Abuse
Detainees at Guantanamo stripped, shackled Coercion and abusive treatment described by former official at prison - (NY Times:)Oct 16, 2004
Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations (.PDF 6 MB) - Aug 26, 2004
Abu Ghraib: its legacy for military medicine (Lancet 2004 .PDF) - Aug 25, 2004
Doctors and Torture - New England Journal of Medicine - Jul 29, 2004
'They said this is America . . . if a soldier orders you to take off your clothes, you must obey' - June 23, 2004
In Guantanamo, detainee fears recorded. New concerns revealed over prisoner treatment - June 13, 2004
Abuse scandal likely to become wide-ranging investigation - June 12, 2004
Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoners Was Authorized - June 11, 2004
Torture Victims Sue U.S. Security Companies - 10, 2004
March 6, 2003 Defense Department memo regarding legal liability for torture (.PDF)- Jun 9, 2004
They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me' - May 16, 2004
"Guantanamo on steroids" Abu Ghraib was an infamous prison under Saddam. Now, for Iraqis seeking relatives detained by the U.S. military, it is still a place where men disappear
Abuse of Captives More Widespread, - Army Survey - May 26, 2004
Letter to Ashcroft Requesting Special Counsel to Determine if The Bush Administration Violated the War Crimes Act when it Approved the Use of Torture Techniques Banned by Internationa'l Law - Conyers, Nadler, Lee, et al. - May 20, 2004 (PDF)
‘Definitely a Cover-Up’. Former Abu Ghraib Intel Staffer Says Army Concealed Involvement in Abuse Scandal - May 18, 2004
The roots of torture. The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war. A NEWSWEEK investigation (Newsweek) - May 17, 2004
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. (Seymour Hersh) - May 15, 2004
Chain of Command. How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib (Seymour Hersh). - May 16, 2004
In Abuse, a Portrayal of Ill-Prepared, Overwhelmed G.I.'s - May 9, 2004
A Wretched New Picture Of America Photos From Iraq Prison Show We Are Our Own Worst Enem - May 6, 2004
Photos of Dead May Indicate Graver Abuse - May 7, 2004
Abuse Common in US Prisons, Activists Say - May 6, 2004
USA: Pattern of brutality and cruelty -- war crimes at Abu Ghraib - May 6, 2004
Key excerpts from the Taguba report - May 6, 2004
Jailed Iraqis Hidden from Red Cross, Says US Army - May 4, 2004
Geneva Convention (4th) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
U.S. Army report on Iraqi prisoner abuse. Complete text of Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba. - May 4, 2004
Torture at Abu Ghraib. American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go? - May 2, 2004
An Army Vet on Prisoner Torture in Iraq. Abu Ghraib as My Lai? - May 1, 2004
U.S. rejects global pact on war-crimes tribunalush to 'unsign' Clinton-era agreement May, 2002
Privatization
The spoils of another war. Five years after Nato's attack on Yugoslavia, its administration in Kosovo is pushing through mass privatisation - Sep 21, 2004
Propaganda/Censorship/Dissent
Eliminating Truth: The Development Of War Propaganda
Keeping dissent invisible
Trading on fear
Quotables
Norbert's Bookmarks for a Better World
Quotable quotes
Nobel Laureates' statement
Molly Ivins
Granny D.
Reagan Legacy
Reagan Played Decisive Role in Saddam Hussein's Survival in Iran-Iraq War - June 9, 2004
U.S. Military
Battlefield/Exposure
Jimmmy Carters letter on Depleted Uranium - January 19th, 2005
Karen Parker on DU - November 24, 2004
Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. and the War Crimes Left Behind - June 4, 2004
Depleted Morality. The first signs of uranium sickness surface in troops returning from Iraq - May 18, 2004
Baghdad Boil' Afflicting U.S. Troops - Apr 18, 2004
The Uranium Munitions Pledge of Resistance An Action Proposal With Footnoted Analysis - Apr 9, 2004
Army to test N.Y. Guard unit. Hillary demands that all veterans of Iraq get checked (D.U.) - Apr 5, 2004
There Are No Words ...Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs - Mar 27, 2004
Who 'Suppressed' Scientific Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq. Radiation experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war pose long-term health risk. Mar 22, 2004
Soldiers' accounts reveal new details: 'depleted' uranium rounds devastated US troops at An Nasiriyah - Mar 23, 2004 (Traprock)
Weapons of mass destruction: The case of Agent Orange - Mar 18, 2004
Stop Hiding the Toll of War - Mar 5, 2004
Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America - Feb 19, 2004
Presentations on Agent Orange and depleted Uranium. Speech by Joan Duffy, Veterans for Peace. Bioweapons Conference - Jan 17, 2004.
Ex-Pentagon doctor decries use of "depleted" uranium weapons - Nov 22, 2003
Veteran's Death 'Linked to Gulf War Service' - Nov 26, 2003
Sand Flies Active—and Dangerous—in Iraq - Nov 16, 2003
Medical records affirm birth defect rate in kids of Gulf War vets - Oct 27, 2003
DU protesters found NOT GUILTY of trespass at weapons assembler - Oct 22, 2003
World Uranium Conference, Hamburg Germany - Vast amount of resources here - Oct 19, 2003
Deserting Our Troops -Oct 17, 2003
Studies Tie Lou Gehrig's Disease To Gulf War Vets - Lou Gehrig's disease, a lethal legacy of '91 war
Depleted Uranium Factsheet (.PDF) - Aug 26, 2003
Military Mute On Vaccine Danger? - Aug 21, 2003
Sick Iraq War Veteran Has to Fight for Medical Treatment - Augist 13, 2003
Warning of Toxic Aftermath from Uranium Munitions - Doug Rokke - July 22, 2003
Death By Slow Burn:How America Nukes Its Own Troops - April 2003
Australian Broadcasting Interviews Doug Rokke on Uranium Used in Battle - June 27, 2003
Depleted Uranium: The American Legacy - Mar 15, 2003
Afghans' uranium levels spark alert - Jun 3, 2003
Depleted Uranium
Death by DUI
Amounts of pesticides used in Vietnam war underestimated
BioChemWar Spectre Orange
Vietnam dioxin spray estimate quadruples Flight records reveal full extent of Agent Orange contamination
SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION? Facts, Myths and Propaganda In the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons - Dan Fahey, March 12, 2003 (.PDF)
Desert news - chemical protection
Toxic battlefield
Troops lack protective gear
Gas mask failure
U.S. Military
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft
Draft coming resources - "The Proof" - "The nation must be prepared to conduct a draft
High school students' rights
What recruiters don't say
What you can do
U.S. Military
Draft/Selective Service
"Imminent draft"? - Sep 23, 2004
Army to Call Up Retired, Discharged Troops - June 29, 2004
VFP members encouraged to serve on Selective Service Boards - June 16, 2004
Army widens 'stop-loss' program. Soldiers won't retire until combat zone tours end. - June 2, 2004
U.S. eyes proposal to draft women - May 3, 2004
Senator says US may need compulsory service to boost Iraq force - Apr 20, 2004