AP News, 6/23/06 A Republican gubernatorial candidate’s call for creation of a forced labor camp for illegal immigrants drew rebukes Friday from two GOP lawmakers, who labeled it a low point in…
Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data
NY Times, 6/24/06 Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international database, and harshly criticized the news…
Psychologists Start a Petition Against Participation in Interrogation of ‘Enemy Combatants’
Click here to sign the petition and view its signatories. Excerpts: The June 7, 2006 New York Times brings news that the United States Department of Defense has decided to give preference…
Clowns shut down army recruiting center in Oakland
[read about it and see more pictures on San Francisco Indymedia]
Why Bush’s Iraq is Worse Than Saddam’s
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…
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…