By Carl Chancellor, published 2/24 in the Akron Beacon Journal If a Youngstown lawmaker’s proposal becomes Ohio law, Republicans would be barred from being adoptive parents. State Sen. Robert Hagan sent out…
Why Should Anyone Worry
About Whose Communications Bush and Cheney Are Intercepting, If It Helps To Find Terrorists? By JOHN W. DEAN, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, FindLaw.com Although the Bush Administration does not encourage public debate…
Saturday, 2/25
Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Nearly 3 years of US war and occupation…
V.P. shoots from hip, but doesn’t talk off the cuff
By Daniel Meltzer, published in the Feb. 22-28 issue of The Villager Vice President Dick Cheney found his voice four days after he shot a close friend and hunting companion while reportedly…
Blogger bares Rumsfeld’s post 9/11 orders
by Julian Borger, Friday February 24, 2006, The Guardian Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to…
FBI Memos Reveal Allegations of Abusive Interrogation Techniques
by Drew Brown, Published on Friday, February 24, 2006 by Knight Ridder WASHINGTON – Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects…
REMEMBER RENDITION?
by William Fisher, 2/24, http://www.opednews.com A few months ago ( particularly after The Washington Post broke the story of secret U.S. ‘black sites’ in Eastern Europe ( it would have been difficult…
Burt Russels Tribunal – Statement on events in Samarra and across Iraq:
* Occupying powers are responsible for the protection of, and imputable for the destruction of, religious shrines. * Destruction of Al-Askari Mosque a “war crime” under international law. * Occupying powers legally…
Friday, 2/24
Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night. The Department of Homeland Security is…
Thursday, 2/23
“Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.” US soldiers who torture and kill detainees are rarely punished, and if so it’s just a slap on the wrist. Only 12 of…