RawStory.com, 4/25/06 According to a poll at ArmyTimes.com, a majority of respondents believe that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should resign, RAW STORY has found. [read more]
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Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes?
National Journal, 4/25/06 When the CIA announced on Friday that it had fired an employee who the agency claims “knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence” with a newspaper reporter, Senate Intelligence Committee…
Ray McGovern Condemns War Crimes and Torture on the Jim Lehrer NewsHour
The April 24 edition of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer focused on the crackdown of leaks in the CIA (with the recent accusation that Mary McCarthy leaked the truth about CIA “black…
Victory for the Anti-Minutemen Defendants: No Jail Time, No Convictions!
4/25/06: Today in Rolling Meadows, IL, the Anti-Minutemen defendants defeated the attempts of the state’s attorney’s office to put them in jail and convict them on trumped-up charges stemming from a peaceful…
Subject to the Penalty of Death
By Dahr Jamail, TruthOut.org, 4/25/06 This weekend I received an email from a friend in Iraq. It read, “Salam Dahr, I was in Ramadi today to ask about the situation. I was…
Judge Tosses ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Suit
NewsDay.com, 4/24/06 BOSTON — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday filed by 12 service members challenging the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. [read more]
Tuesday, 4/25
Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. In a ominous sign of impending war, US…
Interrogation Chief at Abu Ghraib to Face Charges
NY Times, 4/25/06 WASHINGTON, April 25 ( The Army plans to charge Lieut. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the former head of the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison, with dereliction of duty,…
Putting Our Hopes Into Leaders: V for Vendetta vs. The Battle of Algiers
By Jamilah Hoffman I have to admit that I walked into the movie theater with a bias: I want to see society changed. I want to see and be a part of…
Clashes in Athens as Rice visits
BBC News, 4/25/06 Athens police have fired teargas during a clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting against a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. [read more]