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For a while, each week The Memory Hole picked at least one particularly important new story that was reported by at least one mainstream news outlet but basically ignored by the rest. Typically, this was a story that should have, but didn't, get major coverage on the nightly news and the 24-hour cable news channels.

Army sent mentally ill troops to Iraq

EPA rule written to suit industry, staff says

CDC hid damning vaccine evidence from public

Female GIs report rapes in Iraq war

US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD

US disbands Iraq team looking for WMD [more]

Bush served with personal 9/11 RICO complaint

More classified data missing at US weapons lab

Israel quietly helps US in Iraq

New era of nuclear weapons begins with little debate [more]

Transcript: US OK'd "dirty war" in Argentina [more]

Pentagon hawk admits Iraq war was illegal

FBI used killers as informants, report says

US develops lethal new viruses

US intel professionals, diplomats, former Pentagon officials say case for Iraq war was made up

New FBI rules relax restrictions on investigating individuals not suspected of crimes

Lawyer says Guantanamo detainees tortured

Pentagon keeps dead out of sight

'Rich killers' stalk City of Lost Girls

Sheriff: Officials were warned of Columbine killers two years before shootings

Rumsfeld’s coup d’intel

Lethal virus from 1918 genetically reconstructed

Ex-FBI agent charged in Mob killing

Bush Sr. gives award to Teddy Kennedy

Claims of torture in Guantanamo Bay

Judges and lawyers from around the world condemn Guantanamo

Former US diplomats, military lawyers, POW condemn Guantanamo

Red Cross condemns Guantanamo, calls it "unacceptable"

Australia Prime Minister censured over Iraq war lies

House probers conclude Iraq war data was weak
And: The Committee's letter to the CIA

Commercial nuke plant to start making tritium for atomic bombs

FBI quietly closes probe of pre-9/11 stock trades

US checking possibility of piping Iraqi oil to Israel

Former British Minister sparks fury over claims about 9/11 and Iraq war

Farmer-activist commits ritual suicide in protest at WTO summit

Bush ends nuclear monitoring program [more]

FBI probes lab in Okla. City bombing

Most drugs never tested for safety in children

It's official - Saddam was not an imminent threat

Bush grants permanent legal immunity to US corporations looting Iraqi oil

Blair's Chief of Staff said Iraq dossier was bogus

Shoulder-missile bust was a govt operation from start to finish

Gamma-ray weapons could trigger next arms race

'Dr Strangeloves' Meet to Plan New Nuclear Era [more] [more]

Iraqi Trailers Said to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms

Father of Dead Soldier Claims Army Coverup

Media Underplays US Death Toll in Iraq

Bush Admin Blows Cover of CIA Agent [more] [more]
Plus: the original column

October Intelligence Report Said Defeated Hussein Would Be Threat

Boston Pedo-priest Scandal Far Deeper Than Disclosed, Report Says

US troops admit shooting civilians in Iraq
And: US troops "shoot civilians"

General says White House pushed Saddam-9/11 link without evidence

British Govt Report: Iraqi trailers have nothing to do with germ warfare

US prison population now largest in world

Supreme Court Allows Secret Deportation Hearings

US offshore companies do $1B in business with federal govt

Blair regrets releasing stale, plagiarized WMD dossier

US floats plan to execute prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Red Cross denied access to Iraqi PoWs

US to tell all other countries to stay out of space

100 disabled activists arrested at white House

Surveys pointing to high civilian death toll in Iraq

Personal use of pot now legal in Ontario [more] [more]
Plus: the court decision

White House refuses to release 9/11 info
And: Sen. Graham accuses Bush of 9/11 cover-up

General Franks to be charged with war crimes
US general 'war crimes' case filed

The real 'Saving Pte. Lynch'
And: Spin behind Jessica Lynch story?
The truth about Jessica
Saving Private Lynch story 'flawed'

White House officials say display of force, not WMD, was real reason for Gulf War 2

American forces make deal with terrorist group

UK: Gulf troops get tested for cancer

US, UK waged war on Iraq because of oil, Blair adviser says

US to produce new nuclear weapon

Juveniles held at Guantanamo Bay [more]

War in DR Congo worst conflict since WWII

Le Monde: Republican Guard commander cut deal with US

Bush spoke of "taking Saddam out" a year before Gulf War 2

Blix: Iraq war planned long in advance

Nine members of the Defense Policy Board have ties to defense contractors

Red alert = martial law

Agent who saw 9/11 lapses still faults FBI on terror

US spying on UN Security Council

Afghans beaten to death at US military interrogation facility

40% of Gulf War vets (161,000) on disability [more]

Israel to Kill in US, Allied Nations

 

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