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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
American Citizen Jailed in Saudi Arabia for 20 Months Convicted in U.S. Court A 24-year old Arab-American was convicted Tuesday of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush. Houston native Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was tried after spending nearly two years in a Saudi Arabian prison, where he says was tortured into making a confession. We speak with his attorney....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 7:35am PST
Military trial of David Hicks and other Guantánamo prisoners deferred A US federal court judge this month placed an indefinite stay on the scheduled November 18 military trial of Australian citizen David Hicks who, with backing from the Australian government, has been incarcerated in Guantánamo Bay since January 2002....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 6:36am PST
Brutal clampdown by Ethiopian regime Earlier this month at least 46 people in Ethiopia were shot dead, including women and children, and hundreds of others were wounded in a police crackdown on protests supporting the main opposition grouping, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD)....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 6:18am PST
BTL:US Violation of International Law, Human Rights Necessitates Citizen Action Interview with Jeremy Brecher, co-editor of the book "In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond," conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 5:23am PST
Why did the Bush Administration Hold Jose Padilla for 3 Years as an Enemy Combatant? The Justice Department announced Tuesday criminal charges have been filed against Jose Padilla - the U.S. citizen who had been held for over three years in solitary confinement on a military brig in South Carolina. We speak with one of Padilla's attorneys and the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 9:15pm PST
U.S. gov't uses 'Bait-N-Switch' trick to charge Padilla 3 years ago, with great fanfare & sycophantic coverage by corporate media, U.S. gov't dramatized the arrest of Jose Padilla & labeled him an 'enemy combatant.' He was alleged to be planning to set off a 'dirty bomb' to kill U.S. citizens and also was said to conspire to blow up an apartment building in NYC. Yesterday, the Feds changed their tune completely when they charged Padilla with planning to kill & maim people overseas!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 1:39am PST
++GERMANY: MASSIVE PROTESTS AGAINST NUCLEAR WASTE++ Since November 19, yet another transport with twelve containers of radioactive waste (called 'Castor') from the plutonium plant La Hague (France) is on its way to the so called interim storage in Gorleben in the Wendland region, an area ( Map ) well known for 20 years of resistance to nuclear power. The transport is scheduled to arrive in Gorleben late monday evening. The police announced to send at least 11,000 local and federal cops into the region.
After the death of the French activist...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 6:46am PST
Senate "Compromise" on Habeas Corpus Could Strip Guantanamo Detainees of any Trial The Senate this week approved what lawmakers hailed as a bipartisan "compromise" on legal rights for Guantanamo Bay detainees that can still strip them of a federal trial. We speak with attorneys Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights and David Rivkin who served in the administrations of President Reagan and George HW Bush....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 8:06am PST
France: state of emergency extended for three months The decision of the French government to extend a state of emergency, imposed November 9 for a 12-day period, for an additional three months is a grave threat to democratic and civil rights. There is no modern precedent in France for such an arrogation of emergency powers....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:28pm PST
Wall Street Journal defends torture The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has again come forward as the mouthpiece of the most criminal and ruthless sections of the American ruling elite. The newspaper’s lead editorial on November 12, “A ‘Tortured’ Debate,” constitutes an unambiguous defense of torture as an indispensable instrument of American policy....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 9:23pm PST
Ban on gatherings in Paris Paris Police chief Pierre Mutz imposed a 22-hour ban on “all gatherings liable to cause or maintain disorder on the highway or in public places.” The ban was in place in the capital from 10 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday, despite the fact that rioting in and around the city has considerably subsided....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 9:22pm PST
US Senate moves to ban court review of Guantánamo detentions Legislating a war crime...
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 9:47pm PST
Chillin' in the Blazin' Texas Sun "A Return to the Horrific (TDC to TDCJ 1978-2005)"
By ELMAS MALLO
Corrections Officer...
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 9:35pm PST
The Fuse is Lit! We have not signed any social contract. We are not “citizens” of this society. Our interests have nothing in common with those of the capitalists, the bosses, the neo-liberal governments of the right and of the left. The referendum, the regional elections, the pensioners movement, the SNCM… none of this has changed anything. The riots have proven one thing: you have to be as violent as possible in this shit society if you want to break through the social apathy....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 7:44pm PST
A Deadly Interrogation: Can The CIA Legally Kill a Prisoner? We speak with journalist Jane Mayer of The New Yorker as the Senate rejects demands for an independent commission on torture and the US military. We look at whether CIA agents are being allowed to kill detainees in their custody....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 7:33am PST
Cheney's Torture Policy Hughes' Worst Nightmare As Karen Hughes goes about her urgent job of trying to repair America's disastrously debased image throughout the world - especially the Muslim world - she is being undercut by what has become her mission's worst nightmare. Dick Cheney....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:48pm PST
US: Senate Republicans demand probe into leak on CIA’s gulag 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
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