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GeneralThe desperation of Hillary Clinton’s campaignTuesday, June 3rd, 2008 By Clarence Lusane | Sen. Hillary Clinton has disgracefully pursued a disturbing strategy of racial opportunism. Since early March, when Sen. Barack Obama racked up victory after victory in states that were, in some instances, overwhelmingly white and, in others, significantly black and Latino, the strategy of the Clinton campaign has whitened day by day.Despite support from some key black ...
Blair/Brown ‘pretend society’ exposedTuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Via UK Watch | It all seems rather silly now, but it was not so long ago that many on the liberal left fully expected the Gordon Brown coronation to deliver a significant change of political direction rather than a mere, though welcome, change of style.
It was always a fantasy, of course, and Brown did not waste much time in ...
Urgent Appeal from Iraqi Oil WorkersTuesday, June 3rd, 2008 From US Labor Against the War | We have just received an urgent message from Hassan Juma'a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions. A translation follows below. The action he reports represents a dangerous escalation of the Oil Minister's hostility to the IFOU and its leadership. Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahirstani is the same Maliki government official who some months ...
Noam Chomsky on MarijuanaMonday, June 2nd, 2008 By John Veit - HIGH TIMES MAGAZINE | A hundred years from now, Avram Noam Chomsky is going to figure in the history books as the prime voice of conscience, dissent and reason in the wars and social catastrophes of the late 20th century. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s, he began an intellectual revolution in the understanding of linguistics ...
On Trial for Protesting a Weapons MakerMonday, June 2nd, 2008 By Socialist Worker | Eamonn McCann is a founder of the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, a veteran socialist and trade unionist, and one of Ireland’s most widely read journalists. He is the author of War and an Irish Town, Bloody Sunday in Derry: What Really Happened and other books.
In 2006, as a response to Israel’s savage ...
White House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” mediaFriday, May 30th, 2008 By Bill Van Auken | In a stunning blow to what very little remains of the Bush administration’s political credibility, the president’s former press secretary Scott McClellan has published a book indicting the White House for launching an “unnecessary” war in Iraq based on false “propaganda.”
Even more telling, particularly coming from an official who was in charge of dealing with ...
How McCain Has Supported BushFriday, May 30th, 2008 By Jason Rosenbaum | CQ’s Presidential Support studies try to determine how often a legislator votes in line with the President’s position:
CQ tries to determine what the president personally, as distinct from other administration officials, does and does not want in the way of legislative action. This is done by analyzing his messages to Congress, news conference remarks and other public ...
UN chief “shocked” over Zimbabwe’s murdered activistsThursday, May 29th, 2008 Geneva - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she was shocked Wednesday by the news that several more political activists had been found murdered in Zimbabwe.
She condemned the killings as well as the continuing harassment of aid workers, human rights defenders and other members of civil society.
A number of bodies of slain political activists for the opposition party, ...
The Genealogy of Torture and DemocracyThursday, May 29th, 2008 By Shannon Jones | The horrifying scenes of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the mistreatment of detainees at the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba have brought the issue of the officially sanctioned state use of torture into the international spotlight.
The widespread employment of torture by US military and intelligence agencies has been accompanied by ...
Brown: To Be More Than an Accessory to War CrimesWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Tariq Ali | Power can shape “truth”, but not for ever. That is one lesson that could be learned from the series of electoral defeats that mark the end of New Labour’s weightless hegemony. There is something grotesque about the daily denunciations of Brown by hard-core Blairites in Parliament and their media acolytes, who barely uttered a word of criticism as ...
A Real Inside Job; AnthraxWednesday, May 28th, 2008 After Downing Street | Someone just pointed this out to me. FBI claims to be continuing anthrax investigation. They've narrowed it to "about four" suspects and "at least three" of them are from Fort Detrick.
FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks
By Catherine Herridge and Ian McCaleb, Fox News
Friday , March 28, 2008
WASHINGTON — The FBI ...
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Daniel Taylor | "...just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something embedded in the street or in the flooring beneath you... you could be touching other tangible interfaces in the environment around you... the ...
Appeal from Tony Benn / Stop the War CoalitionWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Tony Benn | The destruction of Iraq continues; its people killed amidst bombings and atrocities, a million or more dead, many more than two million driven from their homes, the social and economic infrastructure shattered. In Afghanistan the US military is spending $65,000 a minute and there are four times as many air strikes than in Iraq.The occupations of ...
American Psychological Association Supports TortureWednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Stephen Soldz | Since 2005, the American Psychological Association (APA) has steadfastly asserted that psychologists participating in detainee interrogations protects detainees by helping to keep these interrogations "safe, legal, ethical, and effective." Last week, the APA's Ethics Director Stephen Behnke seized upon newly released portions of an official investigation of US detainee abuse, called the Church Report, as an opportunity to ...
Students Denied Legal AidTuesday, May 27th, 2008 SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly? Well then you’d be in disagreement with Judge Parsons (of Brighton magistrates). He’s just refused legal aid to seven students up in front of his bench for ‘aggravated tresspass’ (punishable by up to three months inside) on the grounds ...
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