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Lawsuit Charges CIA with Kidnapping and Torture of German Citizen On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a German citizen who says U.S. agents mistakenly kidnapped him and sent him to a secret prison in Afghanistan where he was tortured. We speak with British journalist Stehen Grey who helped expose the CIA rendition program of flying detainees to secret prisons around the world....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:28am PST
Bush, Rice defend US abductions, torture, secret prisons The Bush administration faced a new barrage of questions and criticism Tuesday over the US policy of kidnapping and torturing suspects in the so-called “war on terror.” One victim of the illegal US practice of “rendition” filed suit against the US government in a Washington-area federal court, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced mounting political controversy in the course of her European trip....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:42am PST
Whittier "Trigger Happy" Cops at it Again! Last Friday night, the usually peaceful and upscale Whittier neighborhood of Mar Vista
Heights was abruptly awaken by the sirens of approximately 23 squad cars and a volley of
about 10 shots from policemen's guns....
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 11:27am PST
Rice defends illegal “renditions,” threatens to reveal European collaboration in US crimes US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has responded to Europe’s appeals for information regarding Washington’s illegal practice of rendition by making clear that the practice will continue. In an attempt to turn the tables on European critics, she has implied that should Europe continue to make such demands, Washington will expose the complicity of the European governments, which allowed their airports to be used by CIA planes transporting prisoners to third countries and secret CIA-run pris...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:14pm PST
The Torture-Go-Round: The CIA's Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons Dana Priest's recent Washington Post article, "Anatomy of a CIA 'rendition' gone wrong"(1) only confirms what those who have watched the torture scandal closely already know. Abu Ghraib was no anomaly but the most visible tip of a widespread but clandestine policy. Priest reveals details about a case in which the CIA used German, Macedonian, Albanian and Afghan authorities and European air space and terminals to "render" a German citizen snatched up abroad for interrogatio...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:07pm PST
Urgent -- MD's Wesley Baker set for execution tonight! Please immediately take a moment to email, call, and fax Governor
Ehrlich and demand that he halt the execution of Wesley Baker....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 10:46am PST
Rice on the Offensive in Europe Over Bush Administration's Use of "Torture Flights" The scandal over the Bush administration's use of so-called "extraordinary renditions' is reaching new heights. Rendition - what many call kidnapping - is the highly controversial practice of transporting detainees seized overseas by U.S. agents to countries known for using torture. On Sunday, the Washington Post detailed how a German citizen was seized in Europe by the CIA, beaten, drugged and held to a secret prison in Afghanistan for five months before the agency realized they had the...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 7:47am PST
A Minority Journalist Covers 'War in the Suburbs' of France "After the fires, I really reflected, " Karim says. "There is a real problem in France, but we don't talk about it, we hide it."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:38am PST
Supreme Court refuses to let ex-felons vote With nary a peep from the mainstream media, the U.S. Supreme Court has stabbed yet another partisan knife into the American electoral system.
This time the court has let stand Florida’s infamous 137-year-old ban on voting rights for ex-felons. It was this same Jim Crow ban that the GOP used to disenfranchise thousands of Floridians in 2000, providing the margin by which George W. Bush took the presidency....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:56am PST
A grim US milestone: 1,000th execution since 1976 Early Friday morning, Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed in the United States since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. He died at 2:15 a.m. after a lethal mix of three chemicals was injected into his veins as he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber of the Central Prison in North Carolina’s state capital, Raleigh....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 8:59am PST
Death By Torture: US Media Ignores Hard Evidence The Proof is in the Military's Own Autopsy Reports...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 8:54pm PST
Kidnapping, detention, torture: US “renditions” scandal embroils whole of Europe The political scandal over the CIA’s transfer of alleged terrorists to overseas prisons where they are subject to torture has now embroiled governments throughout Europe....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 10:29pm PST
List of "Ghost prisoners" possibly in CIA custody NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (HRW) -- The following is a list of persons believed to be in U.S. custody as "ghost detainees" - detainees who are not given any legal rights or access to counsel, and who are likely not reported to or seen by the International Committee of the Red Cross....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 4:59pm PST
The Wall Street Journal and the case of Jose Padilla On November 25 the Wall Street Journal, following the Justice Department’s announcement of a criminal indictment against Jose Padilla, published an editorial supporting the Bush administration’s assertion of virtual police-state powers to seize US citizens and detain them indefinitely in military jails, stripping them of all legal recourse to contest their imprisonment....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:20am PST
Staggering death rate for youth in Chicago juvenile justice system A recent study published in the medical journal Pediatrics sheds new light on the tragic fate that confronts the impoverished and troubled youth who are caught up in the juvenile justice system in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. After 10 years of research into the conditions of youth in Cook County’s juvenile justice system, Dr. Linda Teplin of Northwestern University found that they are four times more likely to suffer an early violent death than their peers in the general population....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:18am PST
December Execution Alert (USA) The United States is scheduled this week to witness its 1,000th execution since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, but even as it reaches this milestone opponents said capital punishment may be falling out of favor....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 5:24pm PST
The Post-PATRIOT Rosa Parks? That characterization isn't original, but I'm surprised this story hasn't had wider coverage. Deborah Davis was riding the bus to work when, as part of its regular route, it stopped in Denver's federal government office park. A security guard boarded and asked to see everyone's ID. The same thing had happened the day before, and the Arvada mother of four (grandmother of five), taken by surprise, complied....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:09am PST
Wed. a.m.: Stanley Tookie Williams and Lori Berenson on Democracy Now! Tune in to Democracy Now! on Wednesday 11/30 for interviews with Stanley Tookie Williams and Lori Berenson - see http://democracynow.org for full audio, video and transcripts...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 7:52pm PST
Political Prisoners in Uruguay Again 
What will happen tomorrow when workers demand their rights? What will happen tomorrow when stuednts defend their education? What will happen when all of us want a better world?...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 7:29pm PST
Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison We speak with William Sampson, a Canadian citizen who was jailed for over two and a half years in Saudi Arabia where he was accused of being a British spy. He was never tried, only tortured - including being beaten, raped and deprived of sleep. Under mounting international pressure, the Saudi government released Sampson in August 2003. He has written a book about his ordeal titled "Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison."...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 7:35am PST
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