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Republican leaders in Congress responded this week to the Washington Post’s exposure of a global network of CIA prisons by demanding that those responsible for leaking the information be tracked down and punished....

The CIA's inspector general warned last year that interrogation procedures approved by the Bush administration could violate the UN convention against torture, it emerged yesterday....

Senator Ron Wyden (D - OR) joins to talk about Wednesday's joint Senate committee hearing on oil company price gouging and why oil executives weren't made to swear to tell the truth. Wyden also discusses why he voted against the invasion of Iraq, how the Energy bill increases U.S. dependence on foreign oil and the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into prewar intelligence....

The joint hearing of the US Senate’s Energy and Commerce committees on oil profits Wednesday had its comical side. Republican and Democratic lawmakers, many of them millionaires themselves and recipients of fat campaign contributions from the oil companies, feigned dismay and even outrage over the vast sums that have poured into the coffers of big oil—and the pockets of its CEOs—as a result of soaring fuel costs over the past several months....

Please email the below message to the Council of Europe (email addresses below), and “cc” the BBC Radio, and Canadian and US reporters (email below), so that the Council of Europe knows the media knows. After sending this message out, forward it on to all of your contacts requesting they do the same....

Please join UFPJ and the Jumpstart Ford campaign in a “day of intervention” at Ford dealerships throughout North America this Saturday, November 12. There are 75 actions planned in the United States and Canada...

President Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat as an associate justice meets the demands of the corporate elite for another vote on the Supreme Court to slash government regulation of business operations. Alito has, at the same time, expressed sufficiently reactionary views on “hot button” issues such as abortion to placate the religious extremists who torpedoed last month’s nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers....

The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, Inc. will sponsor "Reshaping Community: Ending 50+ Years of Police Brutality," a two-day Symposium to address issues of police brutality and misconduct...

In the past year, the IRS has gone after anti-war churchs and the NAACP for saying things critical of Bush. While the selective choice of non-profits by the IRS has an immediate effect of silencing dissent it may have a longer term goal of promoting bipartisan support for legal changes that will allow Evangelical churchs to retain their nonprofit status while engaging in overt political endorsements....

Unfortunately, the lessons of the past, as with the race riots years ago in the UK, have not been learned. The politics of nuance extends far beyond simply immigrant issues and race relations....