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  • Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part II (Truthout)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part II By Lauren Regan, Civil Liberties Defense Center t r u t h o u t | Transcript
    Wednesday 29 March 2006 Lauren Regan, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, spoke on the panel "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations," at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (pielc.org), held March 2-5, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon.
    I am going to (…)

  • Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part I (Truthout)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_031106C.shtml
    Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part I Hope Marston, Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee t r u t h o u t | Transcript
    Friday 10 March 2006 Hope Marston, of the Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee, spoke on the panel on "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations" at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (…)

  • The U.S. gulag prison system: Shame of the nation and crime against humanity by Stephen Lend
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The U.S. gulag prison system: Shame of the nation and crime against humanity
    by Stephen Lendman
    Photos: © Jacob Holdt 2004
    No, not the gulag you think, outrageous as it is. I’m referring to the U.S. prison system that’s with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June 2004 and growing larger by about 900 new inmates every week.
    Blacks, mostly poor and disadvantaged, especially (…)

  • U.S. Quits Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat by Inter Press Service
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Inter Press Service U.S. Quits Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat by Thalif Deen
    UNITED NATIONS - The United States, which has been lambasted for human rights abuses both by members of its armed forces in Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad and by U.S. law enforcement officials in the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba, has backed out of a hotly contested race for membership in the newly-created U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC).
    U.S. State (…)

  • SUPPORT FOR DEATH PENALTY SOFTENS IN U.S. IPS News
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.ipsnews.net/
    Mark Sommer
    MARCH 2006 (IPS) - In this article Sommer writes, alongside Iraq, Iran, and China, the United States remains the sole advanced democracy still cleaving to what much of the world views as state-sponsored homicide. At 64 percent, Americans’ support for the death penalty is 20 percent higher than Canada and 40 percent higher than Australia. Nonetheless, it is at its lowest level in 27 years and is lowest among youth, indicating that a shift may be in the (…)

  • Israel controversy threatens free speech (The Progressive)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel controversy threatens free speech By Amitabh Pal April 5, 2006
    Two academics who recently discussed the power of the so-called Israel lobby have come under intense fire. This episode threatens free speech-and not just on campuses.
    Harvard Professor and Academic Dean (no less) Stephen Walt and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer co-wrote a paper (republished in a shorter version in the London Review of Books ) that expressed concern over the influence of the pro-Israel (…)

  • Blair’s inner circle and its ferocious grab for power
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy
    In January the commissioner of the Metropolitan police got into enormous trouble for saying that he couldn’t see why the Soham murders had become such a big story. Like every other journalist, I marvelled at his inability to see what makes a story run. But now, as I follow the news, I have developed a blind spot of my own. Piece by piece, month by month, Tony Blair’s (…)

  • Surveillance for the Common Man: A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance (Information Clearing
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Surveillance for the Common Man: A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance
    by Nolan K. Anderson
    March 24, 2006 Informatiun Clearing House http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AND20060324&articleId=2162
    We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
    Today’s news is made up in large part by media hysteria in which the media can enhance their ratings or readership by (…)

  • History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security By Matthew Rothschild
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security
    History Professor’s Mail Opened by Homeland Security
    By Matthew Rothschild January 2, 2006
    Grant Goodman is an 81-year-old emeritus professor of Asian history at the University of Kansas.
    He has had an ongoing correspondence by snail mail with a former professor of history at the University of the Philippines, where Goodman had taught on three separate occasions.
    In early December, he was shocked when a (…)

  • Failed States, Rogue States and America (Democracy Now) By , Democracy Now!
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on April 3, 2006, Printed on April 5, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/34321/
    [Editor’s Note: This is an edited transcript of an interview from the radio program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The interview originally aired on March 31, 2006, and the full transcipt and podcast are available for download from Democracy Now!.]
    AMY GOODMAN: The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive." The Boston Globe calls him "America’s most (…)