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We look at two cases of U.S. government crackdown on university professors: A prominent Bolivian scholar who was recently barred from entering the U.S. while a Venezuelan-born professor comes under the watch of federal agents in California....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:35am PST
The Associated Press published on March 15 its preliminary analysis of thousands of pages of documents on prisoners held by the US at Guantánamo Bay. The analysis gives a glimpse into the lives of hundreds of people who have been arbitrarily swept up and held without cause for years, subjected to abuse and wretched conditions....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:32am PST
Newly released files show the FBI has been monitoring and possibly infiltrating a Pittsburgh peace group because of its opposition to the war in Iraq. We speak with the former head of the Thomas Merton Center, who was personally named in the FBI spy files as well as the New York Civil Liberties Union which has filed FOIA requests to determine whether the FBI is spying on the ACLU and other prominent political and religious groups in the city....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 7:14am PST
The Justice Department's vile and underhanded attempt to rig the penalty-phase trial of Zacarias Moussaoui and nail him with a death penalty is Exhibit A for why Bush and Rumsfeld should not be allowed to handle the Guantanamo detainee and other detainee cases through military tribunals....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 6:31am PST
As we focus on the case of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, we speak with Victoria Brittain, co-author of his book, "Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back" and leading British human rights lawyer, Gareth Peirce about the U.S.-run prison camp....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:25am PST
In a Democracy Now! U.S. national broadcast exclusive, we hear former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg in his own words. He was imprisoned for three years without charge by the United States at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and Guanatanmo Bay in Cuba. We broadcast his first comments in this country since the publication of his book in Britain, "Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:20am PST
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Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 10:12am PST
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ended the country’s state of emergency one week after she imposed it. The decree was lifted on March 3, but still without any credible evidence of any alleged coup attempt involving, allegedly, a combination of Communists and right-wing army officers....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:11am PST
The US has asked the British government for advice in preparation for closing down the notorious prison camp at Guantanamo Bay by sending hundreds of alleged al-Qa'ida fighters back to their home countries, The Independent on Sunday can reveal....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:40am PST
The Project
March 2006
page 6 and 7
The popular idea of power assumes that it is an intrinsic trait of those who hold it; that subjects are dependent on their rulers for support; that power is “... a ‘given,’ a strong, independent, durable (if not indestructible), self-reinforcing, and self-perpetuating force.” The dictator is powerful because he seemingly stands at the head of government, commands the nation’s army, and has unilateral control over the nation’s laws. This model justifi...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:07pm PST
At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 injured in two separate bomb blasts on March 7 in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh (UP)....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:21am PST
Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization A Fighting Chance, has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Kla...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:52am PST
The "Green Scare' Continues......
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 9:02am PST
Shami Chakrabarti, an attorney and director of the British civil rights group Liberty, Milan Rai, of Justice Not Vengeance, and former diplomat Brian Barder discuss the state of civil liberties in Britain....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 9:21am PST
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is visiting Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday. The two leaders are expected to discuss the shooting of Brazilian native Jean Charles de Menezes in London last summer. Menezes was shot dead by British police in a London subway station one day after an attempted bomb attack on the British subway system in July. We speak with Deborah Turness, editor of British channel ITV News, about the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the investigatio...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:28pm PST
The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted that aircraft believed to have been used by the CIA to transport prisoners to secret detention centres did land at British military airfields. The admission was made by Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram in a letter to Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:16pm PST
On March 3, 2006, the Pentagon was forced under the Freedom of Information Act to declassify and publish documents, numbering over 5,000 pages concerning the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:15pm PST
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Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 1:25pm PST
The CBS News program, “60 Minutes”, broadcast a segment Sunday night examining the brutal deaths of two Afghan prisoners at the hands of American military jailers in December 2002. The program included the accusation that authorization for the murderous abuse came from the “very top of the United States government.”...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:33am PST
"I have lost a year and a half of my life"
43-year-old former security detainee and father of three daughters following his release in September 2005; he alleged that he was ill-treated while held in US detention in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:25am PST