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The Ground Noise and the Static: A Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul, RNC 2008 
“Please, please, my friends, my dear friends, please, please don’t be diverted by the ground noise and the static”—John McCain, on being interrupted just before he can accept the GOP’s nomination, 9/4/08...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 3:21pm PDT
After DNC/RNC, fight ICE and support immigrant rights struggle: a call to action 
please read, forward widely, discuss with others, and ACT!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 10:29pm PDT
Britain: Security Service "facilitated" torture of Guantánamo detainee Wednesday, August 27, 2008 :A London court has ruled that the British government must disclose information that could support the claim that torture was used to extract confessions from Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident who has been held in Guantánamo Bay since September 2004....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 7:31am PDT
Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison Tuesday, August 19, 2008 :Earlier this month, a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, who overstayed his visa, died in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. He had cancer in his liver, lung and bones, and a fractured spine. Despite repeated complaints of severe pain, Mr. Ng was refused independent medical evaluation by immigration officials. Before Mr. Ng died on August 6th, he told his sister that the nurses at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island...
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 8:10am PDT
Syria: Wives of Islamist Suspects Detained, Whereabouts Unknown (New York, August 18, 2008) The Syrian government should immediately release three women detained by state authorities since July 31, 2008, unless they have evidence that these women have committed criminal offenses and intend to try them for these, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 7:27am PDT
Referendum on Torture: Debate Over Role of Psychologists in Military Interrogations Comes to a Head at APA Annual Convention Monday, August 18, 2008 :The debate over the role that psychologists should play in military interrogations heated up this weekend at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. After years of back-and-forth discussion and several resignations from the association, APA members are now voting on a referendum that could make any participation in coercive prisoner interrogations a violation of their code of ethics. Meanwhile, California became the first state in the nation t...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 7:40am PDT
Guantánamo trial sentence stuns Bush administration Monday, August 11, 2008 :A jury of six military officers sentenced Guantánamo prisoner Salim Hamdan to five and one-half years in prison, making him eligible for release before the end of this year, since he has been given credit for five years and one month already served. The decision clearly stunned military prosecutors, who had argued for a 30-year jail term....
Posted: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 7:10am PDT
Gitmo jury gives bin Laden driver 5 1/2 years A military jury gave Osama bin Laden's driver a stunningly lenient sentence on Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors' request for a sentence tough enough to frighten terrorists around the globe....
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 2:54pm PDT
Salmi Hamdan Found Guilty in First U.S. War Crimes Tribunal Since WWII Thursday, August 7, 2008 :In the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War II, a jury of six senior military officers has convicted Osama Bin Laden's former driver of two charges of material support for terrorism but acquitted him of the most serious charges. Salim Hamdan is the first prisoner held at Guantananamo to be tried before a tribunal. He has been in custody since November 2001. We speak with Sahr MuhammedAlly, an attorney with Human Rights First. She was at Guantanamo last wee...
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 7:36am PDT
Guantánamo detainee convicted in rigged military trial The first of the drumhead military tribunals to be held at Guantánamo Bay concluded Wednesday with the conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan on charges that could bring a sentence of life imprisonment. The military commission was denounced around the world as a travesty of due process with no legitimacy under international law....
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 7:35am PDT
US: Hamdan Trial Exposes Flaws in Military Commissions (Guantanamo Bay, August 6, 2008) The trial of Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni who has admitted to serving as Osama bin Ladens driver and mechanic, exposed fundamental flaws of the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said today. The six-member panel of military officers today found Hamdan guilty of providing material support to terrorism, but acquitted him of a conspiracy charge after two days of deliberations....
Posted: Wed, Aug 6, 2008 10:01pm PDT
Military show trial of Hamdan opens at Guantánamo Bay Thursday, July 24, 2008 :The war crimes trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan began Tuesday after a military judge ruled on Monday that the drumhead military tribunal may go forward at the US base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Hamdan, who was allegedly Osama Bin Ladens personal driver at the time of the US invasion of Afghanistan, has pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:37am PDT
Mukasey to Congress: Defy the Rule of Law More attempted administration lawlessness....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 12:22pm PDT
Olympia: Wells Fargo Financial Center Attacked Article below...
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 11:24pm PDT
Guantanamo Two in Afghanistan KABUL — Human rights lawyers on Sunday, denounced US plans to build a vast detention camp in the main US base in Afghanistan as a "second Guantanamo" where laws don't apply....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 8:50am PDT
In face of new evidence child-detainee was abused and tortured Canada reaffirms support for Khadr's Guantanamo Bay detention Saturday, July 19, 2008 :Recently released Canadian government documents and video footage have provided fresh evidence that Canadian citizen Omar Khadr has been abused and tortured by the US military while under detention in the USs governments Guantanamo Bay concentration camp....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:18pm PDT
US judge rules Guantánamo military tribunal can proceed Saturday, July 19, 2008 :After holding a two-hour hearing Thursday, a federal judge brushed aside constitutional objections and refused to delay the July 21 start of the military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, allegedly a driver for Osama bin Laden, on charges of conspiracy and providing support for terrorism....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:18pm PDT
The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into A War on American Ideals Friday, July 18, 2008 :We spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist, Jane Mayer about her new book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into A War on American Ideals." In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush administration last year that the CIA’s treatment of prisoners categorically constituted torture and could make Bush administration officials who approved the torture methods guilty of wa...
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 7:53am PDT
"Screwed Up" and "Abused": The Interrogation of 16-Year-Old Omar Khadr As the Abu Ghraib scandal demonstrates, a photo is worth a thousand words -- even if, as Errol Morris' newly-released documentary Standard Operating Procedure demonstrates, those words are sometimes what the viewer wishes to see, rather than what actually happened....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 6:55am PDT
Fmr. Chief Guantanamo Prosecutor Says Military Commissions "Not Justice" Wednesday, July 16, 2008 :As the first military tribunal conducted by the United States in more than half a century is scheduled to take place next week in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, we speak with Air Force Colonel Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo. He resigned his position late last year in protest over what he said was political interference. We speak with Col. Davis about his decision to step down, torture at Guantanamo and more. "If you're going to wrap this under the ban...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 7:53am PDT