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Future American lawyers to be proud of
Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.
Fortunately for him, it (…)

de Mary MacElveen
A small boy visits the Statue of Liberty while on a class trip. The weather is perfect with not a cloud in the sky. This child looks up to Lady Liberty in awe knowing how many passed her by in order to become citizens of this grand republic. He has the image in his mind of how many of our country’s ancestors came to our shores only to be welcomed by Lady Liberty ... he feels the spirit of freedom as he gazes upon her.
At one point, the boy feels a drop of water fall (…)

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 (…)

de Chris McGreal in Khan Yunis
As the votes were counted in the Palestinian election and the scale of Hamas’s landslide became apparent to the world, Aya al-Astal drifted away from her home and wandered towards the fence along the border between the Gaza strip and Israel.
The nine-year-old girl’s parents realised she was gone as they watched the election results on television. They do not know precisely what happened, but the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious (…)

State of the Union Subterfuge 2006 A User’s Guide to the War Train subterfuge \SUB-tur-fyooj\, noun: A deceptive device or stratagem.
Going to Hell on a War Train: Stank of the Nation 2006 Ozone and fear smell sharp like blood an acrid undercurrent of inevitability as the wheels squeal and brakes burn crashing in a slow-motion tumble
Dangers pile up in deadly drifts as the train plows blindly into night following the flow of neon and pavement toward the rim of a Grand Canyon
Speeding (…)

What is on trial in the United States is not just George Bush, but also his "God" By Lee Salisbury Jan 24, 2006
A recent Zogby poll found that 52% of Americans believe President Bush should be impeached if he violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) using warrant-less wiretaps. Of those surveyed in this poll, 25% identified themselves as “very conservative.” A Republican Congress is unlikely to consider an impeachment trial. Nevertheless, a significant number of (…)

Washington, D.C. - Cindy Sheehan is back in town! I’m sure that big bully in the White House, President George W. Bush, will be shaking in his cowboy boots when he hears that news. When Sheehan, the popular anti-Iraq War activist, showed up at Crawford, Texas, last summer, Bush refused to meet with her. He seemed cowed by her mere presence at a vigil (a/k/a “Camp Casey”) so close to his once-secluded ranch. Sheehan was then demanding a face-to-face meeting with the Spymaster Bush, whose (…)

The Legacy of G. W. Bush 3
By Peter Fredson January 31, 2006 Part Three: GEORGE W. BUSH: SAINT OR SINNER?
G. W. Bush has a large base of Christian fundamentalists including many thousands of trained influential evangelists, parsons, ministers, priests, faith-healers, etc. who are expert in dealing with emotive issues, fantasy scenarios, and persistent indoctrination. They have an absolutist view of their ideology which allows them to show disdain for all other beliefs, dogma, practices (…)

The news network that that only George Orwell and George W. Bush would describe as "fair and balanced" is back to their old tricks. Having pawned earlier tales from the script , remember "Saddam’s Bombmaker" and Joe Aziz , FOX is backing hawking "Saddam’s Secrets" a bok authored by former Vice Air Marshall of Saddam Hussein’s late air force - a man named Georges Sada.
Did they tell you that General Sada was the former spokesmen for MI6 flunky Iyad Allawi ? Allawi’s Iraqi (…)

Since December 22, 2001, U.S.-backed Hamid Karzai became the head of Afghanistan (first as the “interim” leader and later as the President), Osama bin Laden’s videos and audiotapes have mysteriously surfaced from time to time, sending the world reeling in fear and confusion. Headline news stories have continuously hyped the CIA’s claims that these recorded bin Laden appearances and voices were indeed from the most-wanted-man in the world, despite the odds against their authenticity.
Death (…)