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Torture Survivor Maher Arar on how U.S. Sent Him to Syria Where He Was Jailed and Tortured Canadian citizen Maher Arar announces he will "most likely" be appealing a recent U.S. federal court ruling to dismiss his lawsuit challenging the U.S. government policy known as extraordinary rendition. The judge, David Trager, said he could not interfere in the case because it involves crucial national security and foreign relations issues....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:39am PST
Total Information Awareness Lives On Inside the National Security Agency More than two years ago Congress halted plans for a controversial plan called Total Information Awareness to create the world's largest surveillance database to track your phone calls, purchases, Internet usage, reading material, banking transactions. The National Journal has now revealed the program has quietly continued inside the NSA....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:37am PST
Two dead, 100 injured in Los Angeles County jail riots On Saturday, February 4, racial riots broke out in Los Angeles County jails between black and Latino inmates. The rioting continued for more than two weeks, involving thousands of prisoners at several different facilities. More than a hundred have been injured, many critically, and two inmates are dead....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:06am PST
Britain: Special Branch detain documentary actors and former Guantánamo prisoners Two actors in a new documentary film on the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay and two former Guantánamo prisoners were detained and interrogated by the Special Branch on February 16....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:03am PST
Philippine president imposes state of emergency after alleged coup attempt In a sign of considerable political crisis, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last Friday declared a state of emergency and began a crackdown on political opponents in response to what she alleged was a foiled military coup....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:00am PST
el enemigo común (trailer) (video/quicktime 31.1MB) New Trailer for "el enemigo común"...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 7:22pm PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado 
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST
FBI Green scare continues more arrests this week Repost, please educate yourselves and support these victums of state scapegoating.
The “green scare” intensifies across the nation this week as eighteen people have now been indicted for more than a dozen actions of property damage and one incident of "teaching and demonstrating."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:14pm PST
Rep. Jose Serrano Criticizes FBI For Cracking Down on Independence Movement in Puerto Rico In Washington, several members of Congress are calling for an investigation into recent raids conducted by the FBI targeting pro-independence activists in Puerto Rico. Last week hundreds of members of the FBI's counterterrorism unit conducted six simultaneous raids targeting members of the pro-independence group known as the Macheteros....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 7:34am PST
Financial Times columnist warns about social inequality in US The Financial Times columnist Samuel Brittan, one of the first monetarist economists in Britain, has issued a warning that the United States cannot allow the gap between the pay of top executives and the rest of society to continue to grow on the present scale. He calls for redistributive taxation to redress the situation....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST
END THE STATE OF EMERGENCY 
Kabataang maka-Bayan USA Pro-People Youth condemns the outright fascist Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) in its attempt to circumvent the democratic rights of the Filipino people by declaring a State of Emergency...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 1:51am PST
NSA Spy Scandal Enough to Bring Down the House (audio/mpeg 1.2MB) This 1 minute audio clip is proof enough to warrant impeachment.
This is not new news, but it's been buried by the flood of scandals. There are so many scandals, the left is continually diverted by the next big scandal. Enough of that BUllSHit. This is undeniable evidence, using Bush's own words to prove that he is lying....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 5:12pm PST
Tell Senators to Oppose Patriot Act PATRIOT Act Up for Senate Vote on Tuesday, Feb. 28...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 4:51pm PST
Alistair Sparks on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush We spend the hour with legendary South African editor and reporter Allister Sparks. Sparks gained fame as editor of South Africa's Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s where he helped bring down a South African Prime Minister. He also helped expose the death of anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko at the hands of South Africa's security forces. In 1995, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Sparks to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Sparks discusses wiretapp...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:02am PST
Supreme Court Reconsiders Ban on Abortion Procedures Today the Supreme Court announced that it will consider the constitutionality of a federal abortion procedure ban -- a law identical in effect to the Nebraska ban that was struck down by the Court in 2000 because it didn't protect women's health....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:29pm PST
US media drops Abu Ghraib torture issue Horrifying images of systematic US military abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison were aired last week on Australian television and also published at Salon.com. The images of prisoners, naked, strapped to apparatuses on the floor, hanging upside down, wounded, threatened by snarling dogs, masturbating for their abusers, draped in women’s underwear, forced to sodomize themselves, arranged in the most degrading and painful positions, as well as photographs of dead bodies and blood-smear...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:43am PST
support the feb. 4th prisoners (barcelona) a call to support the f4 prisoners...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 9:51pm PST
Police Brutality Strikes Filipino Youth in Jersey City Jersey City, NJ-- Filipino groups are outraged over what many are calling "a blatant act of police brutality, racial discrimination, and anti-immigrant sentiment" on the part of two Jersey City police officers who arrested and detained a young Filipino who was about to file a complaint against an erring cab driver.
Alan James Alda, 25, a Jersey City warehouse worker originally from Manila, was startled when police suddenly "arrested and threw him into a detention cell" ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 12:46am PST
Assam: Police kill at least 10 during protest against Indian Army murder In keeping with the arbitrary and violent manner that Indian security forces typically respond to protests in the country’s north-east, police shot and killed at least 10 villagers and wounded more than 20 others during a February 10 protest in the state of Assam. The demonstrators were demanding punishment of Indian Army personnel responsible for the murder of a young villager who had been taken away from his house by army personnel....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:28pm PST
Hunger strikers tortured at Guantanamo. UN report calls for closing U.S. prison Grisly details of torture of detainees at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are revealed in a new UN report, not yet released. The torture includes jamming feeding tubes up the nostrils of hunger strikers twice daily and force-feeding them Ex-Lax so they lose control of their bowels....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:22pm PST
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