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Monthly Archives: August 2007

The Freedom Ship Is Sinking

Convicting Padilla: Bad News for All AmericansBy Dave Lindorff 08/18/07 “ICH” — – With habeas corpus a thing of the past, with arrest and detention without charge permitted, with torture and spying without court oversight all the rage, with prosecutors … Continue reading

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Fidel Knows His Cuban History

And a good bit about American history (as it relates to Cuba) as well. The Empire And The Independent Islandby Fidel CastroAugust 18, 2007 The history of Cuba during the last 140 years is one of struggle to preserve national … Continue reading

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Give Us No Condescending Saviors

SDS: To Live Outside the Law, You Must be Honest: Students for a Democratic Society, unbossed and unowned, keeps on pushin’by Daniel TasripinAugust 18, 2007, NYC IMC Following a year that witnessed a new generation of young activists adopt the … Continue reading

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People Before Politics – Sheehan

Collateral Damage: Bethenaby Cindy SheehanAugust 19, 2007 Amman, Jordan — Last month when Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Ray McGovern and I took over 300 people and a petition with over a million signatures to Congressman John Conyers (D-Mi, Chair House Judiciary … Continue reading

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Suing for the First Amendment

ACLU Sues TSA Official, JetBlue for Discriminating Against Passenger Wearing Arabic T-Shirt (8/9/2007)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal civil rights lawsuit charging that a … Continue reading

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The Troops Write About the Situation on the Ground

The War as We Saw ItBy BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY and JEREMY A. MURPHYPublished: August 19, 2007 VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political … Continue reading

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Picture of a Police State

Imperial Storm Troopers The Politics of Self-Destruction: The Suicide BomberBy MISSY COMLEY BEATTIE A peace symbol hangs from a chain around my neck. Soon after I bought the necklace, I decided I wouldn’t take it off until the war ended. … Continue reading

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And the Sheeple Quietly Chew Cud

Actually, most of the ones we see noisily chew gum, but that’s unimportant. What is important are that comments such as what appears below are all too common in the US. By referring to us as “America Haters,” the discussion … Continue reading

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For Americans, It’s Always Someone Else’s Fault

China Is Not The ProblemBy Paul Craig Roberts 08/17/07 “ICH” — — At a time when even the Wall Street Journal has disappeared into the maw of a huge media conglomerate, the New York Times remains an independent newspaper. But … Continue reading

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Iran-Contra Rides Again

The old Iran-Contra death squad gang is desperate to discredit ChavezBy John Pilger, Aug 17, 2007, 18:53 Democracy and hope in Latin America have been revived by Venezuela’s leader. But the forces allied against him are formidable I walked with … Continue reading

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US MSM Ignores the War Crime

U.S. Media Ignores Estimate of 1 Million Iraqi DeathsBy Robert Naiman, Aug 17, 2007, 19:37 Yesterday a radio interviewer in South Africa asked me what had been the response of the “mainstream media in the United States” to Just Foreign … Continue reading

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Iranian Scapegoat

US Tags Iran for Casualties from Its Own Attacksby Gareth PorterAugust 17, 2007, IPS WASHINGTON – When a top U.S. commander in Iraq reported last week that attacks by Shiite militias with links to Iran had risen to 73 percent … Continue reading

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