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Bush seizes on flu threat to press for martial law power President Bush Tuesday seized on the threat of a global bird flu pandemic to press yet again for the legislative changes to grant him power to deploy US combat troops in police operations on American soil....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:33am PDT
Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military. Responding to the passage of an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill—approved by an overwhelming 90-9 vote Wednesday, the White House said the proposal would “restrict the president’s authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice.”...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:32am PDT
Fmr. Army Chaplain James Yee on the Guantanamo, His Wrongful Imprisonment ... We spend the hour looking at the extraordinary case of Chaplain James Yee - one of the first Muslim Chaplains commissioned by the U.S Army. Yee was posted in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2002, but less than a year after serving there, he was accused of espionage by the military and faced charges so severe, that he was threatened with the death penalty....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 6:52am PDT
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters “Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” said Corinne Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. “Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 8:24am PDT
Utah Cops Squash Legal Rave with Teargas, Helicopters 
A DJ Describes the Brutality at Dance Party...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 9:05pm PDT
The Butcher of New Orleans 9-11 Insider & Director of "Homeland Security" Michael Chertoff...
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2005 5:28pm PDT
More Than 500 From New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517 unaccounted for, while prisoners and their lawyers say many were abandoned in the flooding jails. We'll speak with Human Rights Watch's researcher, as well as a man who was in the Orleans Parish Prison during the storm, and two lawyers fighting to discover what exactly happened inside the jails....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 6:38am PDT
Racism Rears Its Ugly Head I could say that the Bush mentality has unleased a lot of evil by evil doers. But I think the problem has always been there. Native American have gone from 30 to 50 million people strong in 1600 to about 100,000 in 1890. Their numbers today are still less than one million in America. No other group of people have sustained such a huge loss due to genocide. This was all committed by Americans and their Europeon ancesters. Kinda makes Hitler look like a boy scout. Let us start looking in...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 4:43pm PDT
Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunit In this week's cover story in The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports on how mercenaries from private security firms like Blackwater USA and BATS are patrolling the streets in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:05am PDT
Police Mistreatment and Abuse Widespread in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communi Police Mistreatment and Abuse Widespread in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities Nationwide; New Amnesty International Study Focuses on Chicago Police Department's Treatment of LGBT People...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:54am PDT
NYPD Stops Cindy Sheehan Speech, Cuts Mic, Disperses Enraged Crowd A rally of 150 New Yorkers at Camp Casey-NYC was cut short this afternoon when NYPD acting under Inspector MacEnroy broke through the human wall of Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out activists surrounding Gold Star Mom Cindy Sheehan and cut off her microphone and took her amplifier. Cindy Sheehan was reporting on the successful Bring Them Home Now bus tour. One activist remains in jail....
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2005 7:57am PDT
Jose Padilla and the death of personal liberty “The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the executive.” – Judge Antonin Scalia...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 7:49am PDT
Greece: Anarchists Riot Against the Government Harsh Economic Policies (video) 
Video from the dynamic reaction by anarchists against the harsh greek government's policies, especially in relation to the economy, employment and suppression of personal rights and liberties....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 6:28am PDT
Anarchists Riot against Greek Fascist Demonstration 
A demonstration planned by the Greek fascist organization “Golden Dawn” in Athens yesterday was blocked by hundreds of anarchists who constructed barricades in the streets and attacked riot police who were guarding the 100 fascists that had gathered....
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2005 2:58pm PDT
Frances Newton Lynched by Barbaric USA The backward, barbaric, anti-labor, racist, sexist United States just murdered another innocent African American woman, Frances Newton, in the State of Texas. This is the real United States, not a land of freedom, democracy and opportunity, but one of war, fascism and barbarism....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 5:43pm PDT
Texas Death Row Prisoner Frances Newton Scheduled to Die Today Frances Newton, death row prisoner in Texas, is scheduled to be executed later today but lawyers are seeking a last-minute stay on her execution. We speak to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D - Texas) and an anti-death penalty activist about the case....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:23am PDT
Save Frances Newton Phone Call Today for Clemency Save Frances Newton Many phone numbers you can call now for clemency...
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:03pm PDT
US media hails martial law general in New Orleans The abject failure of American capitalist society in face of the human tragedy in New Orleans, and the disaster’s exposure of the stark social polarization in the US, have proven deeply unsettling for the ruling elite and the more comfortable sections of the upper middle class....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:11am PDT
Great News! Juanita Young Found 'Not Guilty!' Juanita Young was found not guilty today in Bronx Supreme Court by Judge P. Benitez after a four day trial taking place more than two years after the initial incident....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 11:05pm PDT
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