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Newsday August 7, 2003 U.S. Clamps Secrecy on Warnings Before 9/11 Marie Cocco Newsday It’s not just the Saudi secret that’s being kept. The recent report of the joint congressional committee that probed intelligence failures before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon reveals what the Bush administration doesn’t want Americans to know about the American government.
You would not know this from media (…)

The Guardian (UK)
August 15, 2003
Stark message of the mutiny: Is the Philippine government bombing its own people for dollars?
By Naomi Klein
What does it take to become a major news story in the summer of Arnie and Kobe, Ben and Jen? A lot, as a group of young Philippine soldiers discovered recently. On July 27, 300 soldiers rigged a giant Manila shopping mall with C-4 explosives, accused one of Washington’s closest allies of blowing up its own buildings to attract US military (…)

The Guardian (UK)
August 15, 2003
’It was punishment without trial’
Hundreds of Iraqis civilians are being held in makeshift jails run by US troops - many without being charged or even questioned. And in these prisons are children whose parents have no way of locating them. Jonathan Steele reveals the grim reality of coalition justice in Baghdad By Jonathan Steele
It was a warm spring evening in a Baghdad suburb when American troops stopped the car in which 11-year-old Sufian Abd (…)

USLAW Protests Arrest of Iraqi labor activists
U.S. Labor Against War
P.O. Box 153, 1718 M Street,N.W., Washington, DC 20036
E-Mail:info@uslaboragainstwar.org
Website:www.uslaboragainstwar.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2003
For information, contact:
USLAW Co-Convenor Bob Muehlenkamp, 301-346-3665
USLAW Co-Convenor Gene Bruskin, 202-833-8526
Hacene Djeman, General Secretary International
Confederation of Arab Trade Unions
PO BOX 3225, Damascus (Syria)
Fax: (…)

Back from Iraq, activist finds price of protest is $10,000 fine
By GINA BARTON gbarton@journalsentinel.com
Last Updated: Aug. 11, 2003
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Original URL:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/Metro/aug03/161576.asp
When Ryan Clancy went to Iraq to protest the war, he knew he was breaking the law. He thought the penalty was a $500 fine, a price he was willing to pay for the cause of peace.
But when Clancy recently got a call from federal officials, he learned the (…)

Signs Grow of Innocent People Being Executed, Judge Says
By ADAM LIPTAK
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/national/12DEAT.html? th=&pagewanted=print& position=
August 12, 2003
A federal judge in Boston said yesterday that there was mounting evidence innocent people were being executed. But he declined to rule the death penalty unconstitutional.
"In the past decade, substantial evidence has emerged to demonstrate that innocent individuals are sentenced to (…)

The Generation That "Doesn’t Know Joseph"
by Gideon Levy (levy@haaretz.co.il)
Ha’aretz - Sunday, Aug. 10, 2003
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=327263&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
TEL AVIV - Israel’s contact with the next generation of Palestinians - those who grew up under the occupation - and its attempts to achieve peace with them, will be far more problematic than with the generation that preceded it. This is (…)

CALL to a NATIONAL LABOR ASSEMBLY for PEACE OCTOBER 24-25, 2003 in CHICAGO
Dear Sisters and Brothers:
The undersigned trade unionists invite you to join us for a National Labor Assembly on the issues of peace, prosperity, security, democracy and justice. Its purpose will be to forge an ongoing labor coalition that will challenge the U.S. foreign policy of permanent war and its consequences for working families both here at home and abroad. The Assembly will be held in Chicago on the (…)

* Military Warns Soldiers Against Public Criticism
By Bradley Graham Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 8, 2003; Page A10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31317-2003Aug7.html Several U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq who expressed anger last month toward Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld after their tours of duty were extended have not been punished but have received warnings about respecting the chain of command, according to a senior Army officer.
In a July 16 (…)

Election Plan?
By Michael Albert
Between now and U.S. election day, and for some time thereafter, there will be an intermittent stream of leftist discussion, debate, exhortation, and sometimes recrimination about what to do, when to do it, and with what methods and means. I think reasonable people committed to justice, democracy, peace, and even - as in my case - uprooting every last vestige of corporate, racist, sexist power and greed - can disagree. Certainly now, but even as we get (…)