By WILLIAM BLUM, CounterPunch.org, 6/22/06 National Public Radio foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR’s Baghdad bureau, met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric, a man who was described in…
Day: June 22, 2006
Polls, Pundits and Pols
Editor & Publisher, 6/22/06 You’d never know it from some of the reporting and bloviating on the debate over an Iraq withdrawal, but all major polls show that the public favors withdrawals,…
Judge Orders Release of Abortion Clinic Files
AP News, 6/22/06 The Cincinnati Planned Parenthood Clinic must give a family that is suing the clinic all records on abortion patients younger than 18, a judge ruled. The documents are being…
Earth hottest it’s been in 2,000 years
AP News, 6/22/06 The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years. The National Academy of Sciences, after reconstructing global average surface temperatures…
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE SUES THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FOR UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE
Says Illegal Spying Violates Constitutional Protections Guaranteed Every American Philadelphia – June 14 (( The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) today became plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil…
Denial, a river called Mississippi : How the Democrats Enable the Christian Right
By Bruce Wilson, Talk2Action.org, 6/20/06 How DLC Waffling on Abortion Rights Aids Key Christian Right Long Term Strategy: Summer Campaign Seeks to Shut Down Mississippi’s last abortion clinic. A bold plan outlined…
The Dark Side: PBS Frontline segment on Cheney
“After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America’s intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to…
Librarians want Bush impeached
By David Postman, Seattle Times, 6/21/06 At the American Library Association’s annual conference that opens Thursday in New Orleans, the union representing Seattle library employees will introduce a resolution calling on President…
Librarians want Bush impeached
By David Postman, Seattle Times, 6/21/06 At the American Library Association’s annual conference that opens Thursday in New Orleans, the union representing Seattle library employees will introduce a resolution calling on President…
With Bush ouster in mind, Seattle’s librarians go south
By Erik Lacitis, Seattle Times, 6/22/06 These are not the stereotypical librarians of the olden days, the ones who were a bit reserved but ready with a glare for anyone talking too…