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Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part II By Lauren Regan, Civil Liberties Defense Center t r u t h o u t | Transcript
Wednesday 29 March 2006 Lauren Regan, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, spoke on the panel "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations," at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (pielc.org), held March 2-5, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon.
I am going to (…)

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Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part I Hope Marston, Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee t r u t h o u t | Transcript
Friday 10 March 2006 Hope Marston, of the Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee, spoke on the panel on "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations" at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (…)

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In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions By Shaila Dewan
Tuesday 11 April 2006
New Orleans - When August Blanchard returned to New Orleans from Pennsylvania in late December, his mother was still missing. Family members, scattered across the country, had been calling hospitals, the Red Cross and missing persons hot lines, hoping she had been rescued.
But Mr. Blanchard, 26, had a bad feeling. Twice, he (…)

Republican Raptures
By Jan Frel, AlterNet. Posted April 11, 2006. http://www.alternet.org/story/34572/
Author Kevin Phillips discusses the growing power that the Christian Right has over the Republican Party.
Ever since former Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips published the bestselling "The Emerging Republican Majority" in 1969, the announcement that he’s written a new book has typically been first met by political observers and the press with a kind of hushed awe, and then a mad rush to (…)

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0410-03.htm Published on Monday, April 10, 2006 Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Boot US Envoy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to expel the US ambassador and blamed him for triggering protests in which his car was pelted with tomatoes and eggs.
"If you continue making provocations, you’re going to have to pack your bags, mister, because I’m going to throw you out of here, Ambassador (William) Brownfield," Chavez (…)

Paul Wolfowitz’s Heart of Darkness William Hughes
April 11, 2006
"He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land." - Joseph Conrad
American policy maker Paul Wolfowitz reminds me a lot of Joseph Conrad’s character, Kurtz, from his seminal tome, "Heart of Darkness." Kurtz never allowed himself to be judged by the same standards as other mere mortals, nor has Wolfowitz. He seems manufactured in the image and likeness of another purveyor of malevolence - Henry Kissinger! (…)

Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by The Progressive The Human Costs of Bombing Iran by Matthew Rothschild
George Bush didn’t exactly deny Seymour Hersh’s report in The New Yorker that the Administration is considering using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran.
Neither did Scott McClellan.
Bush called it “wild speculation,” and McClellan said the United States would go ahead with "normal military contingency planning."
Those are hardly categorical denials.
So let’s look at (…)

APRIL 11, 2006 11:20 AM
TAKOMA PARK, Maryland - April 11 - A new study being released today in Kiev, Ukraine directly challenges the findings of a widely-criticized International Atomic Energy Agency/World Health Organization report from last September that predicted 4,000 likely cancer deaths as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The study was commissioned by Rebecca Harms, a Green Party member of the European Parliament, on behalf of the Greens/EFA in the European (…)

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Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn A cruel and bloody civil war has started in Iraq, a country that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to free from fear and establish democracy. I have been visiting Iraq since 1978, but for the first time, I am becoming convinced that the country will not (…)

Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by OneWorld.net Native Americans Want ’Bunker Buster’ Test Stopped by Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - Native Americans want U.S. authorities to cancel plans to detonate 700 tons of explosives on what they say is tribal land in Nevada.
The planned explosion, scheduled for June 2 some 90 miles from Las Vegas, is aimed at aiding U.S. efforts to develop ’’bunker buster’’ weapons capable of penetrating solid rock. Officials have suggested the test would (…)