Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush - authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to surface. First some background.

On September 17, 2001, George Bush signed a secret finding empowering CIA to "Capture, Kill, or Interrogate Al-Queda Leaders." It also authorized establishing a secret global network of facilities to detain and interrogate them without guidelines on proper treatment. Around the same time, Bush approved a secret "high-value target list" of about two dozen names. He also gave CIA free reign to capture, kill and interrogate terrorists not on the list. It was the beginning of events that followed. 

Today is the beginning of the Midsummer holiday in Europe when Scandinavians and other northern people celebrate the longest days of the year.  

In Afghanistan, however, where many Scandinavians are serving the U.S.-led coalition, June 21 marked the deadliest day of the year.  Today, on the eve of the summer solstice, six occupation troops were killed in Afghanistan.  

Ninety-nine foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in 2008, 20 in May and at least 32 since the beginning of June, making it the deadliest month for the deployment this year.  Remember the peace dividend?  What happened to that? 

The primary beneficiaries of the terror war are the old money and the power elite, who alone will remain standing after the final sifting-down process has concentrated all wealth into a few hands.  It is inaccurate to blame it all on the Zionist bankers, or a Jewish conspiracy even though there is a preponderance of Jewish financiers and many key positions within the conspiracy are held by Jewish intellectuals.   Nonetheless, the Zionists are the key to the unfolding drama.  Israeli domination of the Middle East has always been the focus of the terror war, even when the focus of that thirty year old war was the Soviets.  The international elite (the super-wealthy of all races) will be the final sifters of everyone’s wealth, with the CIA serving them, offering-up the Jews as a scapegoat or a distraction, to deflect blame away from the agency. 

Mr Malik said that many British Muslims now felt like 'aliens in their own country'

Britain's first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying that many feel targeted like "the Jews of Europe".

Shahid Malik, who was appointed as a minister in the Department for International Development (Dfid) by Gordon Brown last summer, said it has become legitimate to target Muslims in the media and society at large in a way that would be unacceptable for any other minority.

Yesterday, in response to an essay arguing for impeachment, I got the following comment:

"If anything, the start of impeachment proceedings might force Bush to start the war against Iran early or cause him to bring about the false flag attack you mention. What better way to show the country how the Democrats engage in devisive partisan politics than to have them impeach him while the country is at war. Bush could also use the threat of impeachment as a pretext for declaring martial law and sweeping aside all opposition. It's better to just let Bush leave office quietly than to risk the horrors that he could unleash on us before then."

What is he talking about? 

"I don’t care about international law. I don’t want to hear the words ‘international law’ again. We are not concerned about international law." – US military judge in Guantánamo Bay

The US and its coalition has been ground down by the Iraqi resistance, despite its vastly superior weaponry, despite plundering the Iraqi treasury, despite decimating the economy and infrastructure, despite the blatant divide-and-conquer strategy, despite, as my colleague B.J. Sabri wrote me,

Here is the picture: over 1.5 million killed, 4 million refugees inside Iraq, 3 million outside Iraq,¹ 75% unemployed, cancer rates increased 20,000% since 2003, no medical system, no functioning economy, prostitution is rampant and Iraq has the highest number of women turned prostitutes more than any country that experience war, US detains over 28,000 Iraqis kids below age 18, and over 110,000 adults, US and Shiites divided Baghdad with concrete walls, electricity is available every 4-6 days, no clean water, gasoline is scarce, and the killers still kill and no one knows who is killing who except of course the Americans …