Homeland Security | WhistleblowerSibel Edmunds blew the whistle long and loud against the FBI lack of preparation for the 9/11 attacks, and was fired, marginalized and made to disappear from … [Keep reading >>]
Archive for February, 2005
Iraq War | Gulf War Syndrome”…a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the �Gulf War Syndrome� has fed a growing … [Keep reading >>]
Peace | Preemptive Strike”The United States Government has responded to the possibility of a �Uniting for Peace Resolution� reaching the floor of the General Assembly by sending a pre-emptive letter … [Keep reading >>]
American Liberties”The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold Petitioner as an enemy combatant,’ Floyd ruled in Spartanburg, South … [Keep reading >>]
Environment | Technology”Research study provides figures that show growing investment in technologies that reduce consumption of resources.” … [Keep reading >>]
Terror | World Church of the Creator”The federal judge whom white supremacist Matthew Hale attempted to have murdered found her husband and mother lying dead in her house when … [Keep reading >>]
Where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?The New York Times >Bob Herbert: It’s Called Torture … [Keep reading >>]
Iraq War | CO Mejia”Conscientious objector Camilo Mejia: ‘I was a coward not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place.’”AlterNet: Rights … [Keep reading >>]
The Media | ReligionThe always interesting Joe Garololi at the SF Chronicle has a story both unexpected and useful.Community activists cheered when the federal government began offering licenses for low-power … [Keep reading >>]
Lebanon: Cutting the Strings of a PuppetAs the government of Lebanon prepares to step down, Dr Mounzer Sleiman of Al-Jazeera comments on the power of assassinations to crystalize political change, … [Keep reading >>]
Iraq | Terrorism”BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — In the deadliest single insurgent attack of the Iraq war, a suicide car bombing killed 125 people Monday in Hilla where police recruits were … [Keep reading >>]
Iraq: A Lack of Moral OutrageAppearing in Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star, Chicago sociologist Andrew Greely cannot understand why the reaction to this ‘immoral war’ has been so reserved: “The … [Keep reading >>]