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Over 1,000 arrested as Nepal opposition holds anti-King strike
Over 1,000 protestors, including journalists, were arrested on the first day of the four-day nationwide general strike called by opposition parties against King Gyanendra's direct rule in Nepal, where Maoist raids on government establishments and an Army chopper crash left 21 people dead....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:39pm PDT
NY police guilty of mafia murders
Two retired New York policemen have been convicted of murder for participating in mafia killings....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:27pm PDT
Judge Denies Motion To Quash Grand Jury
On April 5, 2006, Judge James delivered her order denying my motion to quash the subpoena. I am still consulting with my lawyers as to what our next steps will be. A PDF file of the Judge's ruling is attached....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:14pm PDT
Immigration Officers Arrest School Children
In Firebaugh, two unmarked ICE vans pulled up alongside a school bus on Friday morning around 6:30, said Brian Walker, superintendent of the Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified School District. One van drove in front of the bus, forcing the driver to stop. Agents approached the bus, but the driver, following protocol, refused to open the door....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 1:43pm PDT
Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice
The growth of militarism within US society and the deepening assault on the constitutional principle of subordination of the armed forces to civilian government found stark expression Tuesday when the Air Force colonel in charge of prosecuting Guantánamo detainees upbraided a US Supreme Court justice for questioning the legal rationale for the military tribunals set up by President Bush in 2001....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 8:40am PDT
UK Government's latest anti-terror legislation: Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terror
Two grandmothers from Yorkshire face up to a year in prison after becoming the first people to be arrested under the Government's latest anti-terror legislation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 8:35am PDT
Lodi terror case weakens in court
LODI, Calif. - The FBI's discovery last summer of an alleged al-Qaida cell among the Pakistani immigrants in this sleepy farm town sent a shiver through California's heartland....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:38pm PDT
Protesting Yoo In Berkeley
A small but committed group in Berkeley targets the notorious law professor who gave Bush the justification to torture detainees...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:34pm PDT
FREE THE LAST OF THE OHIO SEVEN
RICHARD WILLIAMS RECENTLY DIED IN PRISON. NOW IS THE TIME TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF LAAMAN AND MANNING. FREE ALL CLASS WAR PRISONERS....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 8:31am PDT
Military Tribunals Resume at Guantanamo Despite Pending Supreme Court Case on Legality
A Canadian teenager and nine other detainees are appearing before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay this week even though the legality of the pre-trial hearings remains in doubt with the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld still pending. We speak with ACLU attorney Ben Wizner....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 6:55am PDT
What do police have to do with violence in our communities?
San Francisco – Last year, Mayor Gavin Newsom said if the homicides go up in 2005, then we should recall him. Well, 2005 had the most murders in 10 years, and the mayor is still in office....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 6:34am PDT
Homeland Security Official Arrested For Luring Minors On the Internet
Homeland Security official caught in child porn sting....a.k.a. It's Times Like These I Especially Appreciate The Police and Prisons!! Yet another reason why we need a system of firm checks and balances in all forms of government. Kudos to this Police Dept. that was not intimidated to take on Homeland Security: the President's personal security force who have the guts to issue "security memos" even though they always seem to have their head up their ass. According to many account...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 12:45am PDT
Environment Show on the Green Scare (audio/mpeg 10.1MB)
Karen Pickett was a guest on the KMUD Environment Show tonight talking about the
great Green Scare, the corporate driven FBI and federal grand jury crackdown on
environmental radicals, and branding them as terrorists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 11:09pm PDT
Supreme Court shirks Padilla appeal against “enemy combatant” detention
In a thoroughly cowardly and unprincipled decision, the United States Supreme Court denied the latest petition by José Padilla, the US citizen who was held without charges or a hearing for 42 months—the first 22 of which were incommunicado, without access to family or lawyers—in a Navy brig....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 9:34pm PDT
Amnesty accuses US on rendition
Three Yemeni men allegedly abducted and mistreated by the US were probably held in eastern Europe, human rights group Amnesty International has said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 9:28pm PDT
Revealed: the plight of prisoners caught up in US rendition
Three Yemeni prisoners who were apparently seized and held in secret jails by the CIA for 18 months have spoken for the first time about their detention - providing important new details about the systematic "rendition" of prisoners....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:31pm PDT
Moussaoui Trial May Mark Last Time Bush Administration Use Courts to Try Terror Suspects
Although a jury ruled Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty on Monday, Rowley says administration officials may stop using criminal courts for future cases. “If you don’t deal with them in the criminal court then you are allowed to go around all criminal procedure and the Constitution,” she said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:18pm PDT
Cynthia McKinney Accuses Capitol Police of Racial Profiling
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has complained she was the victim of racial profiling that led to a run-in with a Capitol police officer last week. Prosecutors are now reviewing whether to bring charges against her. We speak with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee about the incident and we look at when several members of the Georgia General Assembly were denied entry to Coretta Scott King's funeral in February....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:17pm PDT
UPDATE ON CHARGES AGAINST THE BROWN BERETS BY THE WPD FOR PEACEFUL MARCH
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 1:36pm PDT