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  • Apathy of Biblical Proportions
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    Across the country men and women have been jailed, not for committing a crime, but rather for making a conscious choice to live by their moral principles adhering to the laws of a higher authority. They are jailed because those who believe themselves to be in positions of authority are frightened by the truth of their stand and the strength of their convictions.
    Who are these people of “authority”? They are people who have been elected to serve the citizens of our (…)

  • Halliburton Detention Camps For Political Subversives
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul Joseph Watson
    In another shining example of modern day corporate fascism, it was announced recently that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency.
    The language of the preamble to the agreement veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, but it is made clear that the camps will also be used "as the (…)

  • Activist Sheehan arrested in House gallery
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GOP congressman says his wife was also ordered to leave
    WASHINGTON Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush’s State of the Union address.
    According to a blog post on Michael Moore’s Web site attributed to Sheehan, the T-shirt said, "2,245 Dead. How many more?" — a reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq.
    "She was asked to cover it up. She did not," said Sgt. (…)

  • DEPORTEES’ SUIT
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de William Fisher
    Four Muslim men who were detained without charge for months in the weeks after September 11, 2001, eventually cleared of any connection to terrorism, but then deported to Egypt, have been allowed to return to the U.S. to pursue their class action civil lawsuit against the U.S. government for unlawful imprisonment and abuse on behalf of 1,200 other Muslim and South Asian men rounded up and jailed following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
    Yasser (…)

  • Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to interrogation centres. A hidden strategy aimed at suppressing a debate about rendition - the US practice of transporting detainees to secret centres where they are at risk of being tortured - (…)

  • Ready, Aim, Cease-fire
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    The people of Gaza are living under occupation. The prison quarters diminished as Israel implemented “no-go” areas in the northern Gaza Strip and took military control. Israel remains firmly in control of the airspace as well as the sea and all borders except the European Union monitored Rafah border, which according to Israel can be shut down at any time. All the while, human rights reports come and go, asserting that the harsh conditions of “post disengagement” are (…)

  • CIA ’Torture flights’ dossier bared in Scotland
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CIA AIRCRAFT FLYING INTO SCOTLAND—Secret Dossier
    The BBC has been reporting on this report, without showing it. Here it is — most informative.
    REPORT TO: ANGUS ROBERTSON MP, SNP FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPOKESMAN FROM: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SUBJECT: ALLEGED CIA AIRCRAFT FLYING INTO SCOTLAND DATE: 18TH OF JANUARY, 2006
    In compiling this list of Alleged CIA Aircraft Flying into Scotlandí, it is clear that much detail is still to emerge about the subject. What is beyond dispute is that in recent years (…)

  • Bush rebuffs Merkel on Guantanamo
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US President George W Bush has rejected criticism over the Guantanamo Bay camp raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Washington.
    President Bush said it was a necessary part of protecting the American people.
    But the two leaders presented a united front over Iran resuming its nuclear programme, and commentators said they appeared to have got on well.
    It is her first official US visit since her election which, Mr Bush joked, much like his own, was not a landslide win. (…)

  • LISTED: CIA Planes; EU Pacts for Lynching Muslims; CIA Front Co.s, Lawyers
    11 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    EU AGREED TO CIA PRISON FLIGHTS — With these words: "Both sides [EU-US] agreed on ... increased use of European transit facilities to support the return of criminal/inadmissible aliens...."
    "European transit facilities" are the airspaces and airports now claimed to be violated. "The return" is what the CIA calls "rendition"; and "criminal/inadmissible aliens" are persons who have been renditioned to Guantanamo, CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, and states that practice torture in the Middle (…)

  • International Campaign for the Immediate Release of WTO Political Prisoners
    7 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Sponsoring organizations: Korean Struggle Mission---Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Korean Peasants League, and Korean Catholic Farmers Association---Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, Hong Kong People’s Alliance, and Via Campesina)
    Background
    During the 6th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference that was held in Hong Kong from December 13 to 18, 2005, thousands of participants representing trade unions and labor rights groups, peasant’s, civil society, migrant (…)