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Law professor stands ready to draft articles for any member of the House

With war looming it is no good the American public looking to its newspapers for an independent voice. For, says Matthew Engel, the press have now become the president’s men

… Guantanamo prisoners still in limbo A year after the first prisoners from the war in Afghanistan were sent to the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, their fate is no more certain than when they arrived.

War, the expression goes, is a bad business. It’s certainly not a good idea if you’re a soldier or civilian caught in the middle of one, and it tends to raise havoc with things like domestic spending. But if you are Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, Admiral (ret.) William…

A senior Iraqi nuclear scientist accuses the US and Britain of waging a “misinformation campaign” about his country’s nuclear programme. He spoke to Michael Jansen

FBI… we all know it exists but does it really collect information on us, or are we too paranoid and watching too many X-Files reruns? Or a little from column A and a little from column B?

…That Sold Weapons Technology to Iraq I thought this was a big secret so its interesting to see a couple of these companies that were being protected by the government when it offered to censor Iraq’s declaration…

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2002: M&M/MARS (slow on slavery) DYNCORP (price of privatized military) CATERPILLAR (Total Devastation) WYETH (A Triumph of Marketing Over Science) PROCTER & GAMBLE….and more

The harsh realities of American life and policy don’t appear much more clearly in the nation’s mainstream (corporate) media than they have during the last few days.

… Press Corps gets off its ass :) Helen Thomas, the most senior member of the White House press corps, really socked it to Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer on Monday over the issue of Iraq. Check out the dialogue: