Doctor says bird flu drug is ‘useless’
• Jonathon Carr-Brown - UK Sunday TimesA VIETNAMESE doctor who has treated dozens of victims of avian flu claims the drug being stockpiled around the world to combat a pandemic is “useless” against the virus.
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Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust?
• by Michel Chossudovsky www.globalresearch.caWill the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"? - The distinction between tactical nuclear weapons and the conventional battlefield arsenal has been blurred. America's new nuclear
Justice Dept. reviewing finances of 9 Legislators
• Roll Call (via Raw Story)The Justice Department pulled the personal financial records of at least nine Members of Congress and at least seven former staffers last summer and fall, many of whom have been identified publicly as having links to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, ROLL C
Moussaoui trial recessed as angry judge considers dismissing death penalty
• Associated PressAn angry federal judge recessed the death penalty trial of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to consider whether government violations of her rules against coaching witnesses should remove the death penalty as an option.
Iraqi President warns of civil war in weekend of violence
• ReutersIraq's president pressed political parties on Monday to move faster to form a coalition government after deadly car bombings he said were aimed at inflaming sectarian tensions and triggering civil war.
South Korea's KIA opens auto plant in Georgia
• Agence France PresseSouth Korea's Kia Motors Corp says it will set up a 1.2-billion-dollar plant in Georgia, as its parent Hyundai Motor Group seeks to globalize its production base. Kia Motors, the second-largest automaker here next to its sister company Hyundai M
March Madness is here!!!! Link to NCAA Men's Basketball tournaments
Sporting News, Yahoo!The top seeds for the NCAA tournament went as predicted: Duke, Connecticut, Villanova and Memphis. As for the rest of the 65-team field, it was tougher to decipher a method to the madness.
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New treatment for congestive heart failure
• Associated PressAn amazingly simple method of filtering excess fluid from the bloodstream appears safer and far more effective than the "water pills" that have been used for decades to treat hospitalized heart failure patients, doctors reported Sunday.
UN tells Mexico to stop forcibly sterilizing Indians
• Agence France PresseA UN anti-discrimination committee strongly urged Mexico to stop forced sterilizations of indigenous people and comply with an international convention. The Mexican government admitted that forced sterilizations continue in some poor states, but
Imprisoned Milosevic secretly took drugs to kill himself, Dutch claim
• Agence France PresseFormer Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic deliberately took a drug that neutralised his heart medicine, an expert who examined his blood alleged as the UN war crimes court prepared to release his body.
McClatchy to buy Knight-Ridder for $4.5 billion
• ReutersNewspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said it would buy larger rival Knight-Ridder Inc. for $4.5 billion in cash and stock, ending a search that put a spotlight on the health of the struggling US newspaper industry.
Iraq government finally acknowledges it operates death squads
• Knight RidderSenior Iraqi officials confirmed for the first time that death squads composed of government employees. "The deaths squads that we have captured are in the defense and interior ministries," Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr said during a join
Tommy Frank's temper-tantrum over his Generals not following his plan
• New York TimesThe Iraq war was barely a week old when General Tommy Franks threatened to fire the U.S. Army's field commander. General William Wallace was leading the army's 5th Corps toward Baghdad, had told reporters that his soldiers needed to delay th
US Miltary to replace soldiers with bugs
• UPIThe US military now wants to develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their handlers.
Former World Bank head threatens to quit as Middle East Envoy
• New York TimesMiddle East envoy James Wolfensohn—frustrated by the lack of a clear mandate on a policy toward Hamas from the Bush Administration—is threatening to quit. Wolfensohn was appointed the envoy to oversee Israel's pullout from Gaza and to help the Pa
Japanese city where US Navy relocating rejected by 88% of residents
• Associated PressThe southern Japanese city of Iwakuni overwhelmingly rejected the relocation of a US naval air wing, in a nonbinding vote that has emerged as a symbol of opposition to the proposed realignment of US forces in Japan.
UK secretly developing new nuclear warhead with US
• Sunday Times (PDF report link)[see also: http://timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2081514,00.html] Britain has been secretly designing a new nuclear warhead in conjunction with the Americans, provoking a legal row over the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Higher ups approved detainee abuse by dogs
• Washington Post"It's more evidence that these Abu Ghraib torture techniques were consciously developed for the purpose of gathering intelligence and not something that was dreamed up by low-ranking soldiers on the night shift," he said.
3<sup>rd</sup> Anniversary Unprovoked Invasion of Iraq
• The Independent[A review.] President George Bush is about to embark on one of the toughest campaigns of his second term. He will make the first of a series of speeches to convince the American public, a sceptical world - and perhaps even himself - that things are g
US: Trust us. No permanent bases in Iraq.
• Agence France PresseUS ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said that his country did not want permanent military bases in Iraq and that he was willing to talk to Iran about the war-torn country's future. "We want Iraq to stand on its own feet, we have no goal
Rice: Don't worry, we are experts at ignoring the law
• New York TimesSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated Saturday that the United States would look for ways to resume military assistance to Latin American nations cut off from aid programs because of their refusal to shield Americans from the International Cr
Former CIA analyst says the US has run amok
• UPICorruption has run amok in intelligence circles and the president should be impeached, a former CIA analyst says. Also the US is undergoing a constitutional crisis. "I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in tor
Florida Senators get kickbacks from defense contractors for votes
• St. Petersburg TimesThe biggest winner in the appropriations requests, or earmarks, made by Florida's U.S. senators is the defense industry. And in the game of fundraising, the senators have won big from the defense industry. Republican Sen. Mel Martinez and Demo
Veteran SAS soldier quits in disgust over American soldier tactics
• Daily TelegraphAn SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the "illegal" tactics of US troops and the policies of coalition forces. After 3 months in Baghdad, Ben Griffin told his commander that he was no longer prepared to figh
UK Foreign Minister says Iraq is a mess, but it is our mess
• BBC News"People describe Iraq as a mess," said UK foreign office minister Kim Howells. "But it is a mess that can't launch an attack on Iran; a mess that won't be able to march into Kuwait; a mess that can't develop nuclear weapons
Academic targeted by FBI over Venezuela
• ReutersA U.S. academic accused the FBI on Friday of trying to silence his criticism of Bush administration policy toward Venezuela, further straining ties between Washington and the major oil supplier.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Warns of Dictatorship
• NPR (via Raw Story)Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the jud
Interior Secretary resigns; Abramoff link
• Raw StoryInterior Secretary Gale Norton resigned. Norton, photographed with fallen conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was fingered in deals with Native American tribes that Abramoff represented. Abramoff's tribal clients donated $50,000 to a conservati
Republicans nervous about winning abortion issue before an election
• NewsweekA recent flurry of activity on abortion is making Republican politicians nervous. With states moving to restrict abortion and the Supreme Court closer to when it might actually reverse Roe v. Wade, GOP leaders see big political risks.
No need to "reform" our bribing now that the public has forgotten
• New York TimesThe drive for a tighter lobbying law, just 2 months ago a major priority, is losing momentum, a victim of shifting political interests, infighting among House Republicans and a sense among lawmakers of both parties that change may not be needed after
