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Center for Constitutional Rights Blasts Ruling of German Prosecutor Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld.
Attorneys in the Case Say Decision Is Politically Motivated, Timed For Rumsfeld’s Visit and Only a Temporary Setback. NEW YORK, NY - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today expressed dismay at the erroneous ruling by German courts concluding that the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib (…)

by Monica Benderman
HINESVILLE, GEORGIA, February 6, 2005—As the wife of a soldier who has sworn to "defend his country and its constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and as the mother of an 18 year old son who has recently had to register with Selective Service, I have thought about these comments to a great degree.
In keeping with professional and "military" bearing, I realize that I must be aware that while I do not endorse this general’s opinion, nor do I understand (…)

A new plan by the Bush administration to test thenation’s public school population for mental disorders and treat them with controversial drugs has raised an alarm among some medical science watchdogs and members of the mental health community, according to the June 27, 2004, New Standard.
Bush wants to launch a mental health and disability initiative that recommends the screening and treatment for students K-12 in public schools. The plan is based on a Texas program known as the "Texas (…)

With the news that President Bush and his administration knew of impending suicidal airplane attacks on American soil and did nothing about it directly indicates a dangerous ineffectiveness and incompetence to protect America.
The failure to implement internal security for our country compounds our inability to secure America. After 911, few safe guards were implemented to protect our national security. Our boarders are not protected, our nuclear and chemical plants are not adequately (…)

President Bush slipped something new into his Social Security pitch on Wednesday. And it was there again twice yesterday.
He says Social Security’s $1.8 trillion trust fund doesn’t really exist. Even in Washington, that’s a lot of money to go missing.
Here is Bush, from the transcript of his talk at the Commerce Department on Wednesday:
"Some in our country think that Social Security is a trust fund — in other words, there’s a pile of money being accumulated. That’s just simply not (…)

The party likely to win the election opposes the US presence and policies
by Naomi Klein
’The Iraqi people gave America the biggest thank you in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I found myself thinking about my late grandmother.
Half blind and a menace behind the wheel of her Chevrolet, she adamantly refused to surrender her car keys. She was convinced that everywhere she drove (…)

BAGHDAD, February 8 (IslamOnline.net) - The US occupation forces in Iraq are abusing Iraqi detainees and tearing up the Noble Qur’an, according to a message on a piece of cloth Iraqi detainees in the US-administrated Bucca detention camp in southern Iraq managed to sneak outside.
The message also presented another version of events leading up to the killing of four Iraqi detainees by US forces at the camp on the eve of January 30 controversial elections, an incident that also left six (…)

America’s aviation authority received numerous warnings about al-Qaeda attacks in the six months before 9/11, including five that mentioned hijackings and two that mentioned suicide operations, it has emerged.
A previously published report by the commission set up to investigate the September 11 attacks on the United States reveals that the US Federal Aviation Authority received 52 intelligence reports on al-Qaeda between April and September 2001.
The 911 Commission report criticises the (…)

I am an American. World War II taught the world that all individual Germans were responsible for the crimes of Hitler and his henchmen - and every individual American is responsible for the crimes of Bush and his henchmen;
therefore, I am responsible for war crimes committed by George Bush, and all of George Bush’s mobsters, regardless of my having voted against him and all Republicans and all that they represent. Since Germany refuses to accept responsibility for prosecution of American (…)

Part II - Part III
by Manuel Valenzuela
"Information Clearing House" - - As long as humankind has walked the plains of Earth, from our origins in the jungles of Africa to our great Diaspora out of savannas and into all corners of the globe, we have had to wage ceaseless battle with the demons living inside the human condition. Embedded in our psyche, ingrained in our being, passed down generation after generation like a torch of eternal damnation lighting the way through the deep caverns (…)