My new post about the Sibel Edmonds case and AIPAC is up at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak. (I tried pasting it here but the code got screwy) I discuss, among other things, how an FBI counter-intelligence operation into AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy was shut down in 2000/2001 by the good folks at the Pentagon and State Dept because the investigation uncovered criminal activity that was being conducted by, well, the good folks at the Pentagon and State Dept. If you can call Henry Waxman (202-225-3976)...

Ron Paul will be on the Daily Show and the Stephen Cobert Report. I remember when John Stossell was on the Daily Show. John Stewart--funny and smart as he is about many things--treated Stossell like a turd. Hopefully he will give Dr. Paul more resect. * * * * * Apostropher is a friend of mine, and cranks out a truly GREAT BLOG (although he tends to be a little lefty sometimes). Still, check it out for laughs over his coverage of "weird news" as well as sometimes insightful commentary on...

According to the following sources, CENTCOM is stepping up its posture for a possible attack against Iran: Bush authorizes new covert action against Iran while nine US warships enter the Persian Gulf in show of force constituting largest naval force in the Middle-East since 2003. An attack againt a country like Iran would have to go through several preparatory phases which, among others, would include the preparations outlined by the Truthout and Debka articles above. More to come soon, no...

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First there was Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Somalia (yes, this is a US started war), and now there is Lebanon/Palestine. Please follow me here step by step: For a description of the US "redirection", i.e. using Al-Qaeda to fight Hezbollah and the Shia in Iraq, please read this. Then for a description of what the effects on the groud are, read this. For a confirmation that the US is, indeed, behind this attack see here. Finally, here is an accout of what is going on written by a Lebanese...

Thanks David Weigel: Reason: What did you mean when you told the Scholars that "the [9/11] investigation is an investigation in which there were government cover-ups"? Paul: I do think there were cover-ups, and I think it was mainly to cover up who was blamed, who's inept. See, they had the information. The FBI had an agent who was very much aware of the terrorists getting flight lessons but obviously not training to be pilots. He reported it 70 times or whatever and it was totally ignored. We...

At 9:30am on Thursday, May 24, 2007. Ron Paul and Michael Scheuer, the former Chief of the CIA's Osama Bin Laden unit, will ‘Educate Rudy’ about the true causes that led up to 9/11. The meeting will be conducted at the National Press Club in Washington DC.

We read the following headline in today's Financial Times:  US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warned a Chinese delegation led by vice-premier Wu Yi that rising anti-China sentiment in the US was being fuelled by 'persistent trade and financial imbalances' This interleaves perfectly with the article describing the "New Asian Arms Race".  The blood has not finished congealing in Iraq or in Afghanistan and the masters of empire are already setting up a new bogeyman for the US to go after.  This...

Looks like Bushco is getting desperate...  Too bad that Bush fired Gen. Shinseki when he told him that he needed 300,000 troops, way back when. If any military people read this blog you should be aware of a couple of things: Bush does not care about the people of Iraq or of Afghanistan and whether they ever gain "democracy" or not. Bush does not care about the American people and if they are ever "safe" from terrorism. Bush does not care how many people get killed to save his reputation. The...

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Scott has done amazing work on the Sibel Edmonds case. We are currently asking that people call Waxman's office to demand hearings into her case. He has previously promised to hold hearings, and now refuses to even respond to any of our requests... Campaign headquarters are at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak. I'll have a new post every day this week - Monday, and Tuesday have already been posted. Tomorrow (probably) I'll explain how Sibel's case is related to the 'AIPAC case' - and more specifically,...

The following is a letter from Michael F. Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden Unit, to the editor of Antiwar.com, regarding Congressman Ron Paul’s exchange with Rudy Giuliani about why the al Qaeda network has targeted the United States. Sir, In the dozen-plus years I have been active in matters relating to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, I have watched them go from a small Islamist organization to a worldwide insurgent movement, while bin Laden has established himself as the...

News about him supposedly being a racist is making the rounds again and it looks as though it could hurt him - especially if it continues to be reported uncritically that the racist screed in his 1980s newsletter was his, when in fact it was not. I don't know what the Paul campaign is planning to do about this, but Texas Monthly reported in October 2001: In one issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report, which he had published since 1985, he called former U.S. representative Barbara Jordan a...