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Robert Fisk on Torture We Have Become the Criminals...We Have No Further Moral Cause to Fight For...
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 7:16pm PST
Oppose the state of emergency in France! 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
Bush: “We don’t torture”—but don’t put it in writing “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
Conference on Police Brutality at WCCCD, November 18-19 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
The Rebellion Spreads to Belgium Belgium fears the spread of the people’s rebellion. Already over the week end there were several incidents in Liege and Brussels. Events that were covered up by the police and the media, in order to keep the people in the dark....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 8:36am PST
At Pentagon's Request the Washington Post Refuses To Report Location Of Secret CIA Jails We speak with Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives on the paper's decision to abide by a Pentagon request not to name which European nations house these secret facilities. Kornbluh compares this decision to the New York Times' refusal to report on details of the U.S. invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:34am PST
France: “far-left” LCR refuses to take a stand on police repression A leading member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR—Revolutionary Communist League), Christian Piquet, opposed the demand for the withdrawal of riot police from working class estates at a meeting in Paris on October 4, even as the French government made plans for a massive increase in police repression....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:22am PST
stop the eviction of the 'welcome home' kitchen The only kitchen serving fresh, nutritious meals to the people of New
Orleans east of Canal St. is being threatened with closure by city
officials....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 5:37am PST
French government and opposition back intensified repression The anger and frustration of the most oppressed sections of youth that erupted in the form of violent clashes with police in the Paris area last week has now spread to the whole of France. The riots erupted a week ago after police chased youth into an electricity transformer station in Clichy-sous-Bois where two of the youth were electrocuted to death and a third was very seriously injured....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 7:17am PST
MASSIVE RIOTS ALL OVER FRANCE !! The situation in France is dramatically. About 1 wqek ago massive riots broke out in the poor suburbs of Paris after 2 young immigrants were hunted to death by the police (the boys, 15, 17, died in a power plants´electricity cables when they tried to flee from a regular police controll).
Since then, each night hundreds of cars burn, police and fire workers are attacked with stones, molotow-cocktails and even with a pump gun last night...
Busses, kindergardens, schools, cars, police headqua...
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 12:37pm PST
Record numbers in US prisons The number of people in US prisons and jails rose again last year to 2,267,787 people, continuing a trend of increasing incarceration rates that has gone on unabated for more than two decades. According to a report released in October by the US Department of Justice, by the end of 2004 there were 1.4 million prisoners in federal and state facilities and 700,000 in local jails....
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:23am PST
The CIA’s global gulag The Washington Post revealed November 2 that the US Central Intelligence Agency operates a global network of secret prisons that holds individuals captured or kidnapped in America’s so-called “war on terrorism.” This illegal prison system, first set up following the September 11 attacks, has at various points included facilities in eight countries, among them Thailand, Afghanistan and several countries in Eastern Europe, as well as a center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:31pm PST
Attorney Tells Why Guantanamo Detainee Attempted Suicide in Front of Him More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite refusals from the Bush administration. We speak with lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, who recently witnessed a client’s suicide attempt during a visit, about the ongoing desperation of prisoners and the military’s reporting of the events....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 10:29pm PST
Utica, NY Man Shot and Killed by Police 
In Utica, NY, resident Walter Washington was shot and killed by a Utica police officer this summer. The details surrounding the events of that night are shady at best and bizarre at worst. Many questions are still unanswered and Mr. Washington’s friends and family live in a state of uncertainty as they attempt to find the truth of the events surrounding Washington’s death....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 2:02pm PST
Paris hit by anti-police riots Two boys died on the evening of October 27 while fleeing from the police on a suburban council estate that houses poor and immigrant workers. The deaths of the boys, in Clichy-sous-Bois in Paris’ northern suburbs, sparked violent confrontations between mainly immigrant youth and 400 to 500 riot police dispatched by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:55am PST
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Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 12:57am PST
US judge orders release of Guantánamo hunger strikers’ medical records A federal judge ruled on October 26 that the Bush administration and the US military must provide information to defense attorneys about the conditions of detainees in Guantánamo Bay. The lawyers are representing detainees from Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan who have been participating in a hunger strike for more than three months to protest their incarceration and treatment at the US detention camp....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 9:19pm PST
U.S. Made "Inappropriate" Allegations of Terrorism Before Sentencing Iraqi-American Doctor Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir is sentenced to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions through his charity “Help the Needy.” We speak with Barrie Gewanter of the NY Civil Liberties Union about the case, who has publicly questioned the fairness of the trial....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:52am PDT
Cheney is the Man Who Unleashed Torture and Promoted it Within Military and CIA The Bush administration is coming under increased criticism for attempting to justify the torture of detainees. Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss reportedly urged Senator John McCain to exempt the CIA from a proposed ban on torture. We speak with lawyer Scott Horton about the VP and torture....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:58am PDT
Bush administration seeks legal sanction for torture On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a front-page article revealing that Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss met with Arizona Senator John McCain last week to urge the modification of a Senate provision banning the US government from carrying out “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” of prisoners in its custody....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:54am PDT
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