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gathering our rights are being snatched right out from under our noses, the rainbow gathering in colorado has been surrounded by police who are attempting and sucedeing to arrest people coming in and out without just cause...
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 2:28pm PDT
What's to Stop Him? Bush's Assaults on Freedom On June 29 the US Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision ruled that President Bush's effort to railroad tortured Guantanamo Bay detainees in kangaroo courts "violates both US law and the Geneva Conventions."...
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 11:00am PDT
Bernard Kerik’s guilty plea: Corruption case underscores fraud of “homeland security” Bernard Kerik, New York City’s former police commissioner and George W. Bush’s first choice to succeed Tom Ridge as secretary of the Homeland Security Department, appeared in a Bronx courtroom Friday to plead guilty to minor corruption charges. His guilty plea was part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid felony indictments and possible jail time....
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 10:51am PDT
Congressional Democrats join with Republicans to maintain military commissions at Guantána In the aftermath of Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling barring the use of military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at the Guantánamo detention facility, the White House and Republicans in Congress have initiated a drive to provide congressional sanction for the commissions. Leading Democrats have already signaled that they will cooperate with the Republicans to pass such legislation....
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 10:46am PDT
Bush Regime Attempts to Silence Media On Monday, June 26, 2006 the President and Vice-President in a concerted effort launched political attacks on the New York Times and other media for their exposure of the international bank transfer spying program conducted by the Bush administration. These attacks serve two purposes for the Bush regime. First, they are an attempt to intimidate the media into silence about the regime’s crimes. Second, they are meant to shift the discussion about the illegality of these actions to a discuss...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 12:47pm PDT
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror After 9/11, the U.S. military began using physicians, psychologists and other medical personnel to assist in the interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. We take a look at the role of doctors and interrogation with Dr. Steven Miles, an expert in medical ethics and author of the new book, "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror."...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 6:38am PDT
Supreme Court Rules Bush Overstepped Authority in Guantanamo Tribunals In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has rebuked the Bush administration for forming military tribunals to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In a 5-3 ruling, the court said the military tribunals violated both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Convention. We speak with Barbara Olshansky, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights which filed two briefs in the Hamdan case, and has represented scores Guantanamo detainees....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 6:37am PDT
NCADP July Execution Alert The month of July yields 10 executions. There will be at least one execution per week, and as many as four during the week of July 10th. Quite disturbingly, several of those scheduled to be put to death suffer from mental illness and are volunteers....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 10:45pm PDT
BUSH ATTACKS MEDIA TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM RECENTLY REVEALED SPY PROGRAM On Monday, June 26, 2006 the President and Vice-President in a concerted effort launched political attacks on the New York Times and other media for their exposure of the international bank transfer spying program conducted by the Bush administration. These attacks serve two purposes for the Bush regime. First, they are an attempt to intimidate the media into silence about the regime’s crimes. Second, they are meant to shift the discussion about the illegality of these actions to a discuss...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 4:40pm PDT
Pentagon Spying on Gay, Antiwar Groups More Widespread than Previously Acknowledged Servicemembers Legal Defense Network released documents earlier this week showing that the Pentagon conducted surveillance on a more extensive level than first reported late last year. We speak with the executive director of SLDN and a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who recently filed a federal lawsuit to force the agency to turn over additional records....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:25am PDT
Bush, Cheney threaten New York Times over exposure of surveillance programs In a brazen effort to intimidate the media and halt any further exposures of illegal US government spying, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and several Republican congressional leaders have denounced the New York Times and suggested that the newspaper could face criminal charges for its report on US government surveillance of international financial transactions....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 10:00pm PDT
The Miami indictments: Manufacturing “terror” as a means of intimidation Within 48 hours of the US Justice Department’s startling announcement Friday of the round-up of a “home-grown” terrorist cell in Miami, the media had all but dropped the story....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 9:59pm PDT
Rainbow Children Detained in the name of Homeland Security!!!! right to assemble...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 11:54am PDT
DATE CHANGE - Thursday, June 29 - BREAKTHROUGH 9/11 Discussion What is the mysterious 9/11 cough?...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 11:50am PDT
Is Bush Administration's Bank Spy ProgramPart of a Resurgent Total Information Awareness? The Bush administration is lashing out at media outlets for their reports on the government's secret monitoring of international bank transactions without court-approval. We speak with Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley about Total Information Awareness - he says the program was never really killed....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 7:39am PDT
"Aspirational Rather than Operational" - 7 Arrested in Miami Terror Plot Seven men were arrested in Miami last week on charges of conspiring to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI buildings in five cities. It appears the entire case rests on conversations between the group's supposed ringleader and an FBI informant posed as representative of Al-Qaida. We go to Miami to speak with a defense attorney and a community advocate....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 7:11am PDT
Jordan: Rise in Arrests Restricting Free Speech (New York, June 17, 2006) – The government of Jordan must not roll back on its commitment to fully respect freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. Rather than implement the reforms it promised, the government of Prime Minister Ma’ruf al-Bakhit is giving the intelligence agencies, the police and prosecutors free rein to clamp down on legitimate speech....
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 11:47am PDT
Burundi: Former Child Soldiers Languish in Custody 
(New York, June 16, 2006) – The Burundian government is detaining rather than rehabilitating former child soldiers associated with the rebel National Liberation Forces, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today....
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 11:45am PDT
Indonesia: Military Business Threatens Human Rights 
(Jakarta, June 21, 2006) – The Indonesian government’s plans to reform military-owned businesses do not sufficiently address the human rights problems fueled by the current system, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The Indonesian military’s independent financing undermines civilian control, contributing to abuses of power by the armed forces and impeding reform....
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 11:43am PDT
Bush administration compiling massive database of bank records The Bush administration has been secretly tapping into a global network of confidential financial transactions and compiling a vast database of bank records. According to an article in the June 23 New York Times, the program was initiated shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and has examined banking transactions involving tens of thousands of individuals in the US and internationally....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 10:28am PDT
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