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textUS: Senate Republicans demand probe into leak on CIA’s gulag by wsws (reposted)
Republican leaders in Congress responded this week to the Washington Post’s exposure of a global network of CIA prisons by demanding that those responsible for leaking the information be tracked down and punished....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:21pm PST
document Learn About Lynne Stewart's Case: a Shakedown of the Injustice System!
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by law student
Lynne Stewart's conviction is an upset of the purported ideals of justice and due process as set forth by the laws of this country. Join us in unraveling the complex constitutional questions surrounding this case....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 7:59pm PST
text Interrogation broke UN pact, CIA report warned by UK Guardian (reposted)
The CIA's inspector general warned last year that interrogation procedures approved by the Bush administration could violate the UN convention against torture, it emerged yesterday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 3:35pm PST
textMounting uproar over secret CIA prisons and torture by PWW (reposted)
Shakespeare’s line, “When troubles come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions,” may well apply to the Bush administration. On top of Iraq and New Orleans and the debacle of Harriet Miers, comes what could be a huge international scandal affecting the United States and its relationship with allies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 3:34pm PST
textInside the Riots by Yves Bordenave and Mustapha Kessous (repost)
"If one day we get organized, we'll have hand grenades, bombs, kalashnikovs... We'll say meet at the Bastille and it'll be war," they warn. Neither bosses nor Islamists seem to be telling them what to do, much less manipulating them. For the time being, the 112 gang is acting alone in its neighborhood: the "organization" is more like an improvised party than a warlike undertaking. "Everybody contributes something," Abdel explains....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 1:44pm PST
text11/30: National Day of Action for Tookie! by CEDP
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty, along with the California Save Tookie Campaign, is calling for a NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION to SAVE TOOKIE on Wednesday, November 30....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 9:06am PST
textFrance: state of emergency escalates attacks on the rights of youth and workers by wsws (reposted)
The imposition of a state of emergency by the French government of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin gives the minister of the interior Nicolas Sarkozy the right to impose police-state conditions wherever he sees fit....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 7:52am PST
text9/11 Truth Action! Council of Europe to investigate the secret illegal US detention center by repost
Please email the below message to the Council of Europe (email addresses below), and “cc” the BBC Radio, and Canadian and US reporters (email below), so that the Council of Europe knows the media knows. After sending this message out, forward it on to all of your contacts requesting they do the same....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 7:30am PST
imageTrial Begins for State Agent Indicted on Voluntary Manslaughter
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by Lailo
State Agent Michael Walker is finally going to trial for voluntary manslaugther, in San Jose, California, for the murder of Rudy Cardenas which took place on Feb 17, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 2:53am PST
textCHALLENGE TO THE US MEDIA . . . by repost
Challenge to US Media from the webmaster at the extremely popular site, Whatreallyhappened,com....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 12:32am PST
textRobert Fisk on Torture by Democracy Now
We Have Become the Criminals...We Have No Further Moral Cause to Fight For...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:16pm PST
textBlair loses crucial anti-terror vote by ALJ
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost a crucial parliamentary vote on sweeping anti-terror legislation, the first major defeat of his premiership and a serious blow to his authority....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:09pm PST
image'We hate France and France hates us'
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by The Guardian
Sylla summed it up. "We burn because it's the only way to make ourselves heard, because it's solidarity with the rest of the non-citizens in this country, with this whole underclass. Because it feels good to do something with your rage," he said....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 5:31pm PST
imageRebellion in France Spreads to Belgium, Germany, Spain
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by various
On November 9th, the police in Antwerp encountered conclusive evidence that the arson was inspired by the situation in France: on a torched car, the remark "Fuck you Sarkozy, Antwerp - Paris" was found. Sarkozy is the hated French Minister of the Interior....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 5:18pm PST
text En fins (clichy sous bois): zone d’injustices ?" dub by Ytzhak (repost from NYC indymedia)
"Pourquoi cette démonstration de force alors?"...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 11:27am PST
textOppose the state of emergency in France! by wsws (reposted)
The World Socialist Web Site opposes and denounces the imposition of a state of emergency in France by the Chirac-Villepin-Sarkozy government. The introduction of this anti-democratic measure, a green light to the CRS riot police and other repressive agencies to launch a full-scale assault on the youth, is a major attack on democratic rights and a threat to the entire French working class. It is not accidental that the use of the law was first publicly broached by Marine Le Pen, daughter and ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 6:27am PST
textBush: “We don’t torture”—but don’t put it in writing by wsws (reposted)
“We do not torture,” George W. Bush declared during a brief press conference in Panama Monday. As a presidential statement denying the self-evident, it will go down in history alongside Richard Nixon’s 1973 assertion, “I am not a crook.”...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 6:26am PST
textRIOTS IN FRANCE, BELGIUM, GERMANY by xy
This night the massive riots in europe continued....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 2:44am PST
imageSHOCKING NIGER WMD PHOTOS HERE -- The threat is REAL!
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by Clayton Hallmark
Put the words NIGER FORGERIES and these photocopies (below) into the consciousness of Mr. and Mrs. America, and it could change the course of history. These 4 graphics are worth 4 million words. These are the cause/excuse for the Iraq war. They are not real (they are forgeries), but they are a REAL threat to the nation's existence! Why? Because they came from foreign sources. FOREIGN AGENTS HAVE BEEN DRIVING US POLICY. That is a bigger threat to America than knocking down the WTC, whic...
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 11:04pm PST
textConference on Police Brutality at WCCCD, November 18-19 by Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality
The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, Inc. will sponsor "Reshaping Community: Ending 50+ Years of Police Brutality," a two-day Symposium to address issues of police brutality and misconduct...
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 10:46pm PST
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