by Paul Campos, 2/21, Rocky Mountain News This is the story of a man without a name. For the past four years he has been a prisoner of the United States government;…

by Bill Quigley,  Published on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by CommonDreams.org There is not a sign outside of New Orleans saying “If you are poor, sick, elderly, disabled, children or African-American, you…

By BRUCE K. GAGNON, 2/21/06, CounterPunch.org The reports are coming in from all over the nation. The Democrats are getting pilloried as they shuck and jive on the war. They have an…

By Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, Monday 19 February 2006     Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Commission reported that the violent force-feeding of detainees…

By William Fisher,  t r u t h o u t | Perspective, Tuesday 21 February 2006 Find illegal activity in the US national security agency you work for. Report it to…

“Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.” On Alito’s first day on the bench, the Supreme Court will be…

by Joshua Frank, 2/20 For a fleeting moment it looked as though Cindy Sheehan was going to toss her antiwar weight into the election ring and confront Senator Dianne Feinstein of California…

THE MEMO How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted. by JANE MAYER, published in The New Yorker, 2/27 issue    [read]

By BOB HERBERT Published: February 20, 2006, NY Times The all-powerful U.S. government apparently has free rein to ruin innocent lives without even a nod in the direction of due process or…