Looking back - surviving news links from February 2004
When AdScam hit the fan, Conrad Black's trial began, more evidence erupted that Canada was targeting its own citizens for torture, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler was exposed as a fanatical Zionist, Al Qaeda did everything it could to get Bush re-elected, and more ...

Second Canadian Details Torture in Syrian Prison - Major Questions Arise about Role of RCMP and CSIS in setting up Canadians for torture overseas. "A Syrian official told me that I would not see the sun again," traumatized Canadian tells press conference. Lawyer says, "Mr. Nureddin's case, and Mr. Arar before it, appear to indicate that the RCMP and CSIS, or both of them, are moving into another form of targetting: Canadian citizens."

Key findings of the Pentagon 
Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.
YYC: Paving the way for western tyranny and reduction of population by war and various covert means.

Conrad Black trial begins - Through Hollinger Inc., Black holds voting power of 73 per cent in Hollinger International thanks to a special class of super-voting shares, even though his economic interest is closer to 30 per cent. What's more, he also packed the board with people friendly to him, including his wife, Barbara Amiel.

The Dark Side of Valentine's Day - Ties Between the Chocolate Industry and Child Slavery

White House Admits Bush Lied in 2002 State of The Union Over Al Qaeda Obtaining U.S. Nuke Plant Plans - President Bush claimed that the U.S. discovered in Afghanistan detailed plans of U.S. nuclear plants. The Bush administration was forced to admit this week that the claim was not based on factual evidence.

Dealing with Jewish Self-Absorption - [Benny] Morris thinks it impractical to demand morality of Jews. "I'm trying to be realistic," he said. "Preserving my people is more important than universal moral concepts."

The Politics of Narcissism:America's Grandiose Persona Under Bush - What are the traits of this syndrome? How have they been reflected in the Bush administration, and what are their implications for the 2004 presidential election?

The WWII Dresden Holocaust: 'A Single Column Of Flame' - "You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

New York Times:Canada's Liberal Party Riven by Rising Kickback Scandal - A growing scandal involving the use of $75 million of public funds to enrich allies of the governing Liberal Party is threatening to overwhelm the new government of Prime Minister Paul Martin and to split the party as it prepares for national elections.

The Criminalization of the State -[Tommy Franks] is the first high-ranking official to openly speculate that the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government [and says] "a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event."

Countering Intelligence - While the White House has tried to say it never claimed Iraq was an imminent threat, the record proves otherwise.

Human rights reputation obscures the real Irwin Cotler - Justice Minister Irwin Cotler’s history as a propagandist for Israel calls into question his ability to represent Canada’s interests in Cabinet.

Irwin Cotler - Israel's main man in Canada's government - It’s all well and good that Cotler will refrain from speaking publicly on Israel, but his private advocacy for the zionist state is the real danger. The most telling evidence of the threat Cotler poses to Canada’s policy comes from his support for the “new anti-Semitism”

U.S. unjustified in deporting Arar, poll finds - Three-quarters Canadians believe the United States was wrong to have deported Maher Arar to Syria, where he was born, as opposed to Canada, a new poll has found

Scope of Arar Inquiry Is Limited In All Too Familiar Ways - Despite news headlines in the corporate media suggesting Justice Dennis O'Connor has been given "deep access" and "wide" scope of reference it is clear to this observer that Justice O'Connor's hands will be tied.

Al-Qaida Will Do Whatever it Takes to Assure Bush is Re-elected - What demands could the Islamist terrorists of al-Qaida possibly make that the United States could conceivably grant? Fly them all to Havana? Convert to Islam? Put the money in unmarked notes in a brown paper bag and leave it behind the radiator?

The New American Century - Our resistance has to begin with a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the US occupation of Iraq. It means acting to make it materially impossible for Empire to achieve its aims. It means soldiers should refuse to fight, reservists should refuse to serve, workers should refuse to load ships and aircraft with weapons.

Canadian Government Maintains Secret Detentions - The federal government is holding five men on "Security Certificates," devices developed in 1992 through which CSIS can argue for the "removal" of permanent residents and foreign nationals based on "national security" concerns.

Queen To Give Knighthood To Bill Gates - but you can blame it on Gordon Brown.
Other Americans to have received the KBE include George Bush, the former president, Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, Steven Spielberg, the film director, and Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank.