Theocrats love theocrats

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"The Bush administration is as deeply divided as the Iranian government," commented Ken Pollack, analyst at the Brookings Institution.

US "hawks", he said, had a bizarre preference for Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a fundamentalist and hardliner, over Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who sought to establish his more pragmatic credentials in part by making overtures to the US during his election campaign.

First do no harm?

Military doctors at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have aided interrogators in conducting and refining coercive interrogations of detainees, including providing advice on how to increase stress levels and exploit fears, according to new, detailed accounts given by former interrogators. (Washington Post)

FBI & 9/11 and Sibel Edmonds

Today, after nearly four years since 9/11, the American people still do not know that thousands of lives can be jeopardized under the unspoken policy of ‘protecting certain foreign business relations.’ The victims family members still do not realize that information and answers they have sought relentlessly for almost 4 years has been blocked due to the unspoken decisions made and disguised under ‘safeguarding certain diplomatic relations.'

This woman is a hero.

Don't Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July

Crazy? Paranoid? Or might Bob Lansberry have some idea of what's really going on?

Karmapolis - UK - Whitley Strieber interview

A very interesting interview with Whitley. He has mentioned that he's working on a new book -- I hope it comes out soon, if this interview is any indication of its possible contents.

Bumper crop of opium in Afghanistan

Gotta keep that black budget overflowing...

And it's time to read "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" again, I think.