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Jailed Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian to Be Deported After Prosecutors Fail to Convic Federal authorities have decided to deport Palestinian activist and professor Sami Al-Arian after failing to convict him on charges he helped lead the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. We speak with reporter John Sugg who has been tracking the case for over a decade....
Posted: Mon, Apr 17, 2006 7:15am PDT
New York's Katrina: The Hidden and Mounting Toll of AIDS Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that covered New Orleans with water and forcefully uncovered that city's social conditions. Glaring examples of the horrible treatment meted out to the poor, mostly African American survivors have been staring us in the face for the past seven months. Daily, we read or hear about another event in the aftermath of the hurricane that tears to shreds the concept that we live in a "free and equal society." That the American Dream is a nightmare f...
Posted: Mon, Apr 17, 2006 6:44am PDT
Depends What 'Is' Isn't That not a single senator, save Senator Russ Feingold, has the moral certitude or political courage of their convictions to so much as formally reprimand him, speaks volumes about American leadership. The liars, leakers, cheats and hypocrites that reflect the media, congress, and this Administration has reached a point where nothing is meant by what is said, and no one means anything they say....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 7:53pm PDT
Lawrence Lessig is McChesney's Guest Today on Media Matters 
Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Sundays from 1 to 2 pm Central; 11 am to 12 pm Pacific.
Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation today with Lawrence Lessig....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 10:27am PDT
Palast: Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign Well, here they come: the wannabe Rommels, the gaggle of generals, safely retired, to lay siege to Donald Rumsfeld. This week, six of them have called for the Secretary of Defense's resignation....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 10:17am PDT
Chicago Religious Leaders Ask Federal Court to End Pentagon's Funding for the Boy Scouts Prominent Chicago Religious Leaders Ask Federal Appellate Court to Protect Government Neutrality in Religion and End Pentagon's Extraordinary Funding for Boy Scout Jamboree...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 10:12am PDT
U.S. Denies Healthcare to Non-Citizens Congress hides anti-immigrant law inside deficit reduction legislation....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 9:15am PDT
SHAC Video History: Time for Action 2 (video/quicktime 22.9MB) SHAC: Time for Action 2, length 7:36...
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 5:29pm PDT
Dalai Lama, US Muslims Defend Demonized Islam CAIRO, April15 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – A cohort of prominent American Muslim leaders will huddle together on Saturday, April15 , with the iconic Dalia Lama to wash away misconceptions about a much demonized Islam, reported the San Francisco Chronicle....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 3:46pm PDT
U.S.: Rumsfeld Potentially Liable for Torture (New York, April 14, 2006) – Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 3:36pm PDT
How Americans’ growing appetite for sushi is helping to support Rev. Sun Myung Moon On a mission from their leader, five young men arrived in Chicago to open a little fish shop on Elston Avenue. Back then, in 1980, people of their faith were castigated as "Moonies" and called cult members. Yet the Japanese and American friends worked grueling hours and slept in a communal apartment as they slowly built the foundation of a commercial empire....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:51am PDT
Jesus Didn't Lie, Mr. Bush... We need to follow Jesus' advice and tell President Bush and his faithful followers that lying, deceiving and killing are sins that defy the teachings of Jesus. Worse by claiming to be a Christian, particularly one who feels called, President Bush is dissing Jesus with all his lies, misdeeds and anti-Christian behavior of war. He is a resounding confirmation of Jesus' apocalyptic prediction that there would be many pretending to be like him (Jesus) (Mt 24: 23-25)....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:42am PDT
Casualties of War: Making It Plain About New Orleans When hip hop artist Kayne West said "George Bush doesn't care about black people," NBC cameras cut away. "They've given them permission to go down and shoot us," West said. In America, telling simple and obvious truths is going too far. Censors for NBC switched to a comic....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:40am PDT
Walking Off the Vietnam War with Doug Peacock Doug Peacock's reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father figure Edward Abbey. The author is known for his close encounters and near relationships with grizzlies. Abbey his known as a wild voice of the wilderness. Peacock takes us along on a curious and often painful walk with the eccentric and unique pair in his book Walking It Off A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Memories....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:38am PDT
Pot Shots: Continuing Medical (Marijuana) Education Given the cannabis-free curriculum provided by U.S. medical and nursing schools, "continuing education" is not the apt term, but more than 100 healthcare providers -including 40 MDs- will receive credit for attending a conference on cannabis therapeutics at Santa Barbara Community College April 7-8....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:35am PDT
The Ghost of Shinseki: The General Who Was Sent Out to Pasture for Being Right Close to three years have passed since he last roamed the corridors of the Pentagon's inner ring, but remnants of his leadership style and philosophy--standing up for what you believe in--can still be found in the military culture. Arguably, this trait should be present in all military leaders; however, as of late it appears to be in short supply....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:33am PDT
Montana Prof Threatened After Speaking Out Against Homophobia (Butte, Montana) A professor at Montana Tech says his life has been threatened after speaking out against homophobia on the campus of the school, part of the University of Montana in Butte....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:26am PDT
Missing in Immigration Debate, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee’s Bill Race in America is such a sickness driving sickness that most people, Black and white, fail to see clearly. Instead of seeing “us” or people, they see only “Black” or “white” – usually at odds with one another, using one another for their own racialist and divisive purposes....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:25am PDT
IMMIGRATION MATTERS: Politics Trumped Substance in Senate WASHINGTON, DC -- Politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties failed immigrants and their advocates last week, as the Senate failed to reach an agreement that would allow immigration reform legislation to come to a vote....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 11:24am PDT
The Power of Latinos In the last weeks, the sleeping giant of American politics has growled: the young immigrant generation, the Latino population.. E pluribus Unum - one out of many - is the national motto of the United States inscribed on all kinds of public buildings....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 5:03am PDT
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