World-News

The Scotsman [UK]

06/11/07

British troops are being prescribed with a controversial drug which has been blamed for making US pilots ‘trigger-happy’ and causing friendly fire deaths. The Ministry of Defence has admitted that it prescribes the amphetamine dexedrine, which is capable of keeping users awake for as long as 60 hours. While the MoD has refused to say what it uses the Class B drug for, leading narcotics experts say that the main purpose is to keep soldiers awake during special operations. However, they have warned that the substance can be highly addictive. In addition, the MoD has admitted that it permits soldiers to take a drug called kava-kava, from the South Pacific, which is known to be linked to severe liver damage...

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=906322007


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger51.html


Informant: Frank Gonzalez



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/pilger

The head of the Royal Navy at the time of the Iraq invasion was so worried about the legality of the conflict that he sought his own private legal advice on justification for the war.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2643053.ece


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6287/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061107C.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/11/1785/

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The Perfect (Sine) Wave
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind126.html


Informant: Kev Hall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/lind

Weekend Watchdog: McCain Still Dodging
http://ga3.org/ct/C120pgF1CXHj/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

Code Pink was founded in 2002 as a women-run, women-led peace organization with a creative approach to protest. There are at least 250 chapters, mostly in this country. In recent months, the group's focus has coalesced around lobbying Congress to end the Iraq war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061107L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink

Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr

06/08/07

President Bush used to be fond of saying that American troops would stay in Iraq as long as needed and not a day longer. He isn’t saying that anymore. The new word from the White House is that American troops would be stationed in Iraq permanently on the ‘Korean model.’ The analogy is a little strained. The United States has helped to mend the rift between North and South Korea since 1953. But South Korea has had no internal insurgency to worry about. The plan for permanent bases in Iraq must have been long in the making. The president ignored a recommendation of the Baker-Hamilton Commission that he state that America seeks no permanent bases in Iraq. At one point last year, the Senate and House passed an amendment to the military-spending bill banning the establishment of permanent bases in Iraq. The bill went to conference and then the ban on bases, adopted by both chambers, mysteriously disappeared...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0608/p09s02-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baker-Hamilton+Commission

U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17857.htm