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U.S.: Rumsfeld Potentially Liable for Torture (New York, April 14, 2006) – Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 3:36pm PDT
Preventing Attacks by Animal Rights Extremists & Eco-Terrorists: Fundamentals of Corporate Security 
Homeland Security bulletin re: "Animal Rights Extremists"...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 12:46pm PDT
Jeff Free Luers writes about State Repression - April 2006 By now everyone knows about the arrests and indictments handed down to 11 people charged with ELF actions. The SHAC 7 have been convicted on all counts for maintaining a website. Rod Coronado has been arrested for explaining how he committed his arsons. Activists have been arrested in Sacramento charged with thought crime. Not to mention the various Grand Jury investigations around the country....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 1:05pm PDT
MI5 colluded with CIA extraordinary renditions from Britain On March 29, Britain’s Independent newspaper revealed how Britain’s intelligence services colluded in the “extraordinary rendition” of terror suspects by the US, whereby captives are flown to secret locations to countries notorious for human rights abuses. It published an account of the fate of one British citizen, one of four men arrested by the US military in November 2002 in Gambia—two of whom were eventually transferred to the military camp at Guantánamo Bay....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:44am PDT
The Moussaoui Trial: What Kind of Justice is This? On April 3, after four days of deliberation, an Alexandria, Virginia federal court jury found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty -- on the ground that he had conspired to use airplanes as weapons of mass destruction, resulting in the deaths of Americans on September 11. (The jury still must decide whether to impose the death penalty.)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:29am PDT
Iranian Opposition Leader Feyz-Mahdav On Verge of Execution “I am concerned over reports noting that he was not granted access to a lawyer (South Carolina is not so clean on this issue either!) during his trial and as such his trial did not meet international standards for fair trial, as laid down by Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Iran is a State Party”, according to former Norwegian P.M. Kjell Magne Bondevik....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 12:30pm PDT
New Case Says AT&T Is Helping the NSA Spy on Americans It's not just the government spying on you: Corporate America is getting in on the act, according to a new court filing by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
On Wednesday, the EFF filed briefs supporting a preliminary injunction to stop AT&T from disclosing consumer communications to the government for the illegal NSA spying program....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 8:45pm PDT
Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice The growth of militarism within US society and the deepening assault on the constitutional principle of subordination of the armed forces to civilian government found stark expression Tuesday when the Air Force colonel in charge of prosecuting Guantánamo detainees upbraided a US Supreme Court justice for questioning the legal rationale for the military tribunals set up by President Bush in 2001....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 8:40am PDT
FREE THE LAST OF THE OHIO SEVEN RICHARD WILLIAMS RECENTLY DIED IN PRISON. NOW IS THE TIME TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF LAAMAN AND MANNING. FREE ALL CLASS WAR PRISONERS....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 8:31am PDT
Military Tribunals Resume at Guantanamo Despite Pending Supreme Court Case on Legality A Canadian teenager and nine other detainees are appearing before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay this week even though the legality of the pre-trial hearings remains in doubt with the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld still pending. We speak with ACLU attorney Ben Wizner....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 6:55am PDT
Supreme Court shirks Padilla appeal against “enemy combatant” detention In a thoroughly cowardly and unprincipled decision, the United States Supreme Court denied the latest petition by José Padilla, the US citizen who was held without charges or a hearing for 42 months—the first 22 of which were incommunicado, without access to family or lawyers—in a Navy brig....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 9:34pm PDT
Moussaoui Trial May Mark Last Time Bush Administration Use Courts to Try Terror Suspects Although a jury ruled Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty on Monday, Rowley says administration officials may stop using criminal courts for future cases. “If you don’t deal with them in the criminal court then you are allowed to go around all criminal procedure and the Constitution,” she said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:18pm PDT
Cynthia McKinney Accuses Capitol Police of Racial Profiling Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has complained she was the victim of racial profiling that led to a run-in with a Capitol police officer last week. Prosecutors are now reviewing whether to bring charges against her. We speak with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee about the incident and we look at when several members of the Georgia General Assembly were denied entry to Coretta Scott King's funeral in February....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:17pm PDT
Zaccarias Moussaoui case goes to the jury A death-penalty jury began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Zaccarias Moussaoui, only two days after Moussaoui took the witness stand, over the objections of his own lawyers, and boasted that he had been assigned by Osama bin Laden to pilot a fifth jet during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 9:45pm PST
US Supreme Court hearing on Guantánamo tribunals bares attacks on basic rights The Bush administration’s assumption of extra-legal authority to imprison and prosecute so-called enemy combatants without granting them recourse to either the US courts or the protections of the Geneva Convention was challenged before the Supreme Court March 28. The high court heard oral arguments in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the lead case challenging the legality of the Bush administration’s plan to use military commissions to convict prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of purported war crimes....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 9:44pm PST
Day of the Young Combatant 2006 
Masked rebels built barricades in the streets and threw paint and fire bombs at riot police today outside of Chilean universities in the cities of Santiago, Concepción and Iquique, on the "Day of the Young Combatant"....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 6:43pm PST
Woman Gets $100 Ticket For "BUSHIT" Bumper Sticker A Georgia woman was pulled over while driving and issued a $100 ticket for her "BUSHIT" bumpersticker, despite the fact the statute she was cited under was struck down over 15 years ago as being unlawful. She plans to fight the ticket in court....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 9:53am PST
Yearly Utah Tibetan demonstration full of hope 
On March 10, 2006, Utah's Tibetan community together with friends and allies commemorated the 47th anniversary of 1959's Tibetan national uprising....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 12:33pm PST
Bush Signs Statements to Bypass Torture Ban, Oversight Rules in Patriot Act When President Bush signed a law banning torture he quietly signed a statement saying he could bypass it. Earlier this month, Bush signed the USA Patriot Act but signed a statement that said he did not consider oversight rules binding. We speak with the Boston Globe reporter who broke the story....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:09am PST
Oregon Attorney on Why He Feels Federal Agents Broke into His Home and Office Attorney Thomas Nelson discusses his lawsuit against the National Security Agency and his evidence that the Bush administration's secret domestic surveillance is much broader than reported and may include secret physical searches....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:05am PST
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