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…
Open Letter to the Anti-War Movement
From the National Steering Committee of the World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime! As all the latest polls show (even amongst soldiers), this country now stands increasingly opposed to…
Open Letter to the Anti-War Movement
From the National Steering Committee of the World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime! As all the latest polls show (even amongst soldiers), this country now stands increasingly opposed to…
Open Letter to the Anti-War Movement
From the National Steering Committee of the World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime! As all the latest polls show (even amongst soldiers), this country now stands increasingly opposed to…
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]
Our Dirty War
by Bob Herbert, NY Times, 4/20/06 I said, “Some of these folks have never been heard from again, right?” “Yup,” said Curt Goering. “That’s right.” Mr. Goering is the senior deputy executive…