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  • There is irrefutable evidence that the Bush Administration has violated numerous international laws
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is a growing awareness among the chattering classes in the United States that President W. Bush may be guilty of war crimes. Democratic Congressman and ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, introduced resolutions calling for the creation of a panel to investigate Bush and Cheney’s handling of the war. Although a long way from framing articles of impeachment, it is an important first step.
    There is overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that (…)

  • This war as an unjust, evil and futile war: MLK on Vietnam/Iraq
    15 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    MLK 1 Unjust Evil and Futile War - mp3
    I will be discussing today one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m using as a subject from which to preach, why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam.
    Now let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In (…)

  • Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
    15 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors" by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 03:27:26 PM NZDT
    Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events including political conventions and the Olympics." Secret Service would also be (…)

  • You’re being watched ...Efforts to collect data on Americans go far beyond the NSA’s domestic spying program
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Laura K. Donohue
    CONGRESS WILL soon hold hearings on the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program, secretly authorized by President Bush in 2002. But that program is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Since 9/11, the expansion of efforts to gather and analyze information on U.S. citizens is nothing short of staggering. The government collects vast troves of data, including consumer credit histories and medical and travel records. Databases track Americans’ networks of friends, (…)

  • U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Police Can Barge in Unannounced
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Forget the ongoing privacy debate over U.S. government spying on telephone conversations—soon you may not have the right to tell cops to wait until you open your door.
    In a case involving a private citizen and police authorities of the Midwestern state of Michigan, a team of civil rights lawyers appeared before the Supreme Court this week to challenge the police practice of storming into homes to look for whatever they want as evidence of a (…)

  • George Bush’s Rough Justice
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The career of the latest Supreme Court nominee has been marked by his hatred of liberalism
    by Sidney Blumenthal
    "If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?" "No treaty," replied John Yoo, the former justice department official who wrote the crucial memos justifying President Bush’s policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance without warrants.
    Yoo publicly debated (…)

  • MERKEL’S US TRIP : Berlin To Offer Increase in Iraq Aid
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not be heading to Washington empty handed on her inaugural visit to the White House this week. Keen to improve ties with the United States, she is reportedly going to offer to expand Berlin’s commitments to Iraq.
    George W. Bush has got to be pleased. Finally rid of that irksome Gerhard Schröder — whose staunch opposition to the war in Iraq strained trans-Atlantic ties — the United States president can look forward to a visit from a much more amicable (…)

  • Bush’s Unlikely Co-conspirators
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    At least seven House Democrats learned about the NSA’s secret spying program four years ago. So why didn’t anyone blow the whistle?
    By G. Pascal Zachary
    President Bush deserves plenty of blame for secretly authorizing domestic spying by the National Security Agency. But some of the president’s fiercest critics in Congress gave him the political cover to do so. The question why they did so says much about the nation’s brittle democracy and how Democrats have covertly joined with (…)

  • What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dave Lindorff
    There is an bill in Congress to investigate Bush for impeachable crimes. Did you know that? If not, maybe you should be asking your local media outlets why you don’t know about it.
    Rome—There are now eight members of Congress who have put their names to a bill calling for a special committee of the House to investigate impeachable crimes by the Bush administration. To date, all of them are Democrats.
    So far, you’d be hard-pressed to know about any of this—including the (…)

  • Working-Class Hero
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by WILLIAM P. JONES
    The recent transit workers’ strike in New York City was a vivid reminder that unions maintain considerable leverage despite their shrinking numbers. Buried beneath the stories about tense negotiations, holiday shopping disruptions and commuters hoofing it over the Brooklyn Bridge was one of labor’s past glories—the creation of Martin Luther King Day. When Transport Workers’ Union president Roger Toussaint demanded recognition of the holiday, he cited the Metropolitan (…)