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  • UP TO HIS A— IN CHOCOLATE
    20 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    MAN TRAPPED IN CHOCOLATE VAT
    By Peter Fredson August 20, 2006
    Every day I sift through the Google News items. The other day I found several items that intrigued me. After reading about Iraq War failures, the casualty lists, the threats against Iran and watching John Bolton, now we can listen to all the nasty details of the murder of little JonBenet, day after day.
    I also read that a Black Female Judge told George Bush that he had to stop his wire-tapping. reminding him that we have (…)

  • Judge’s ruling may provide grounds to impeach Bush
    20 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If a judge’s ruling that declares President George W. Bush’s domestic spying program unconstitutional holds up under appeal, the President will be guilty of violating federal law at least 30 times and that could provide grounds for impeachment, says a leading Constitutional scholar.
    Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University and a recognized expert on constitutional law, says the ruling Thursday by a federal judge in Detroit raises "serious implications for the Bush (…)

  • Judge Rules Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Unconstitutional- Congress to Impeach Immediately?
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DETROIT Aug 17, 2006 (AP)- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
    U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.
    "Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear, in (…)

  • Israel Must Be Held Accountable For Its International Law Violations
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel Must Be Held Accountable For Its International Law Violations
    On June 25, the Palestinians responded to continued, unrelenting and unjustifiable Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacks against them by striking at an Israeli military post near Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of Rafah, killing two IDF soldiers, injuring several others, and capturing (not "kidnapping) a third. It set off a swift and deadly IDF response of daily killings and mass destruction in the Occupied Palestinian (…)

  • A War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War
    Prosecuting Israel
    By FRANCIS A. BOYLE
    The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a "subsidiary organ" under U.N. Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the Security Council.
    The purpose of the ICTI would be to investigate and prosecute (…)

  • Civilian Killings Went Unpunished. Declassified papers show U.S. atrocities went far beyond My Lai
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson, Special to The Times
    The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam’s central coast.
    They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened (…)

  • Civilian Killings Went Unpunished
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson, Special to The Times
    The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam’s central coast.
    They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened (…)

  • Moroccan Jews ask court to try Amir Peretz for war crimes
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Three Jewish Moroccans have submitted Rabat’s high court with a petition against Defense Minister Amir Peretz, accusing the Moroccan-born Israeli of war crimes.
    Leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon claim Peretz may be tried in their country due to his Moroccan citizenship.
    "The criminal terrorist, Zionist Amir Peretz, has retained his Moroccan citizenship and is still registered in Morocco’s (…)

  • Shadows On The Wall
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Shadows On The Wall Sheila Samples, Arab News Thursday, 6, July, 2006 And so we Americans sit, shackled by self-imposed chains of fear, captivated by shadowy forms that move discordantly across the walls of our perception. Once again we are eager to accept appearance for reality.
    The Supreme Court ruling last week rejecting President George W. Bush’s military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees casts a huge shadow on the wall. Many are saying it not only curbed Bush and Cheney’s (…)

  • Panel Orders Abu Ghraib Documents From Pentagon
    6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Panel Orders Abu Ghraib Documents From Pentagon By Kristin Roberts Wed Jul 5, 2006 6:41pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel has ordered Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over documents on the probe into abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison after the Pentagon failed to respond to an earlier request.
    The House Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Rumsfeld last week and said the Pentagon must produce a raft of documents, including all drafts of the report (…)