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Written by Marcy Wheeler
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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When it comes to surveillance and the treatment of classified information, President Bush is making up the rules as he goes along. The Guardian
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You’re Damn Right I’m Angry. Why Isn’t Everybody? |
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Written by David Michael Green
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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... What an unbelievable record of deceit, destruction, hypocrisy, incompetence, treason and greed. What a tragic tale of debt, lost wars, stolen elections, environmental crises, Constitution shredding, national shame and diminished security. Information Clearinghouse
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Tasers, Pepper Spray, and Arrests |
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Written by Bill Quigley
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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12/29/07 "ICH" --- -In a remarkable symbol of the injustices of post-Katrina reconstruction, hundreds of people were locked out of a public New Orleans City Council meeting addressing demolition of 4,500 public housing apartments. Some were tasered, many pepper sprayed, and a dozen arrested. Outside the chambers, iron gates were chained and padlocked even before the scheduled start. Information Clearinghouse
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Arab, Jewish women protest occupation |
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Written by AFP/Yahoo!
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
Fri Dec 28, 9:08 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) -
Hundreds of Jewish and Arab women staged a protest in Jerusalem on Friday against Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, witnesses said. Yahoo! News
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Written by Marjorie Cohn
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
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In spite of the unanimous conclusion in the National Intelligence Estimate and ElBaradei's informed judgment, we cannot trust Bush- Cheney to abandon their imperial designs on Iran. Bush will probably provoke a military confrontation with Iran, then invoke the language in the 2002 Congressional authorization for the use of military force in Iraq that says, "The President has authority under the Constitution to take action in order to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States." AlterNet
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At least 15 dead in Pakistan unrest in wake of Benazir Bhutto assassination |
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Written by Haaretz.com
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
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News of Bhutto's death brought a swift and angry reaction from supporters in her native province of Sindh and its capital, Karachi, where fires were set, shots fired and stones thrown. Disturbances quickly spread throughout much of Pakistan. Haaretz.com
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The torture tape fingering Bush as a war criminal |
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Written by Andrew Sullivan
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Tuesday, 25 December 2007 |
. . . What are the odds that a legal effective interrogation of a key Al-Qaeda operative would have led many highly respected professionals in the US intelligence community to risk their careers by leaking top-secret details to the press?
What are the odds that the CIA would have sought to destroy tapes that could prove it had legally prevented serious and dangerous attacks against innocent civilians? What are the odds that a president who had never authorised waterboarding would be unable to say whether such waterboarding was torture?
Times (London)
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Written by Peter Dreier
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Monday, 24 December 2007 |
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In thousands of ways, big and small, Bush has promoted the interests of the very rich and the largest corporations. Corporate lobbyists have the run of the White House. Their agenda - tax cuts for the rich and big business, attacks on labor unions, and the weakening of laws protecting consumers, workers and the environment from corporate abuse - is Bush's agenda. -- Huffington Post
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Written by David Bromwich
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
On Tuesday, December 18, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate combined to give President Bush $70 billion to carry the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into next summer. Only 23 Democrats and one independent supported an amendment by Senator Feingold that would have required the safe redeployment of troops from Iraq.
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Next summer, when the money runs out, a cutoff of funds will be unimaginable. The election will be too close. So our troops are committed till the end of the president's term; after all the talk, the Democrats have ended by obeying him. This capitulation marks the climax of one of the most extraordinary displays in history of a complex phenomenon: power wielded in the face of popular rejection, and power surrendered in spite of overwhelming public support.
Click here to read the Huffington Post article , which includes a list of the 24 Senators who voted to end the war.
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FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics |
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Written by Ellen Nakashima
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
$1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
12/22/07 "Washington Post" - -- -CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.
article provided by Information Clearinghouse
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Funding Democracy Or War? |
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Written by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
The question to ask is why did Congress approve the Iran Democracy Bill when it means more crack down on the pro-democracy movement?
Information Clearinghouse
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New Orleans to demolish thousands of 'poor' homes |
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Written by Leonard Doyle
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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Published: 21 December 2007
In the face of violent protests, New Orleans City Council yesterday moved to demolish thousands of low-income houses as the city continues the agonisingly slow process or rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina.
The Independent
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Written by Anna Shockley
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
BBC 2 - Broadcast October 28th
Exploring how past conflicts between a Christian West and Islam can help explain more recent violence. This series looks at three great clashes between a Christian British Empire and Islam. the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Mahdi uprising in 1880s Sudan and the creation of the state of Israel in the first half of the twentieth century. The first programme tells the story of the Indian uprising in which both sides committed atrocities in the name of their faiths
Link to the videos provided by Information Clearinghouse
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Ex-CIA Man Predicts U.S. War With Iran |
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Written by By Dave Choate
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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December 19, 2007 6:00 AM
PORTSMOUTH — Former Central Intelligence Agency analyst Ray McGovern said
Monday night that he fears the United States will go to war with Iran before
the next American presidential election.
McGovern alleged that a joint U.S. and Israeli war on the Arab nation would likely
come despite a recent National Intelligence Estimate suggesting that Iran has
not had a functioning nuclear weapons program since 2003. He cited the close
American relationship with Israel, which he said considers Iran a threat, as a
driving force behind a potential strike.
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Written by Stephen Lendman
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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A Look Back And Ahead
12/18/07 "ICH" -- - Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what's ahead. If past is prologue, however, the outlook isn't good, and nothing on the horizon suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from the bipartisan criminal class in Washington.
Information Clearinghouse
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Israel: US Report on Iran May Spark War |
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Written by Laurie Copans
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
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Laurie Copans, Associated Press
12/15/2007
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's public security minister warned Saturday that a U.S. intelligence report that said Iran is no longer developing nuclear arms could lead to a regional war that would threaten the Jewish state
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Inside the CIA's Notorious "Black Sites" |
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Written by Mark Benjamin
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons.
12/16/07 Information Clearinghouse (originally published by Salon.com)
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Written by César Chelala
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
The people of Gaza, 1.4 million of them, are slowly and purposely being deprived of basic foods and medicines by the so called civilized countries in the West and there is hardly a protest.
12/16/07 -- Information Clearinghouse
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House Votes to Ban Harsh CIA Methods |
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Written by Pamela Hess
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
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WASHINGTON — The House approved an intelligence bill Thursday that would prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods.
The 222-199 vote sent the measure to the Senate, which still must act before it can go to President Bush. The White House has threatened a veto.
Huffington Post, December 13, 2007
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House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings |
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Written by John Nichols
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
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Democrats Robert Wexler of Florida, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin have called for the immediate opening of impeachment hearings for Vice President Richard Cheney. -- The Nation
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