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News media reported Thursday that the group Human Rights Watch "claims records and other evidence point to POLAND and ROMANIA as countries that allowed their territory to be used by the CIA to hold top suspected al-Qaeda captives." We report that HRW knows that from tracing the movements of CIA planes and we provide a list of the planes.
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/131066/index.php
The HRW report clarifies earlier reports in the mainstream media that declined to reveal (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
Just a month ago, during a football game on October 1, University of Oklahoma student Joel Hinrichs detonated a bomb on a bench not far from the west stadium gate and killed himself. The bench was right adjacent to a sidewalk, and the bomb exploded three minutes before half-time. Police confirmed that two days earlier he had attempted to buy ammonium nitrate, and that other explosives were found in his apartment when they (…)

A year ago Tamiflu was known, if at all, as an obscure remedy for influenza, which doctors typically treat with bed rest and chicken soup. Today, with panic mounting over a potential bird flu pandemic, it’s the most sought-after drug in the world, as everyone from suburban soccer moms in the U.S. to health officials in London and Taipei scramble to stockpile the pill. At the moment, it seems, virtually the entire world is on sick-chicken alert.
"One dead parrot in the U.K. and four dead (…)

by Monica Benderman
Kevin Benderman sits in jail. An injustice. He did not want to go. He did not take his stand, break a law and dare the courts to put him in jail with a stiff sentence. Kevin Benderman put his principles on the line and dared to trust that his rights would be respected as the constitution he fought to defend demands.
Kevin Benderman did everything he could to demonstrate to the military, and to the world, that he did not want to go to jail, by consistently (…)

by Wayne Besen
The bone chilling air is what I remember most about the day I slouched on my snow speckled front lawn in Bangor to pawn my new furniture. Only months earlier I had moved from Florida to work at a television station and my body was still adjusting to the frigid weather. I was shivering that afternoon, but I had no choice because this was about survival. The rent was due, I was hungry and parting ways with the dinner table would at least earn me enough to buy dinner.
At the (…)

Knight Ridder Reporter Warns of Hostile Takeover—with Political Twist? As reports swirl that KR could or should be sold, under new pressure from what he calls a "pro-GOP" big investor, a longtime Philly Daily News scribe charges that this would be "bad news" for the chain—and all of American media.
By Will Bunch
PHILADELPHIA (November 02, 2005) — As you probably know if you’re a newspaper junkie, and may not know if you’re a normal human being, a Florida-based investment group — with (…)

By DIANE CHUN
At a time when headlines trumpet the potential dangers of "bird flu," Gary Butcher is the man of the hour.
Butcher has been an extension veterinarian at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine since 1988. He was trained as a veterinarian specializing in avian diseases, and has a Ph.D. in poultry virology.
As the only poultry veterinarian in the state, Butcher fields phone calls and e-mails about avian flu every day.
Lately, he’s been traveling the (…)

by ChrisSal
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld, testimony to Congress, Sept. 19, 2002
The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. George W. Bush, Nov. 23, (…)

Legislation to broaden definition of terrorist act The Senate will sit today to pass legislation the Federal Government says could help authorities deal with a specific threat of terrorism.
The Government says the new laws are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat.
The Government says the new laws broadening the definition of a terrorist act are urgently needed because of a specific and credible threat of terrorism in the last few days.
It says the legislation will (…)

Rioters shot at police and fire fighter crews in the worst night of a week of violence in poor suburbs that ring Paris, as France’s conservative government struggled to quell the unrest.
Youths who rampaged on Wednesday night left a trail of burnt cars, buses and shops in nine suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society.
"It’s a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we (…)