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Robert Scheer: The Great American Stickup

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Paul George: Iran and the Bomb - What's the Real Story?

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Robert Fisk: Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East

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Reese Erlich: Conversations with Terrorists

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4/2/07 - Battle Over Habeas Corpus Returns

By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 02 April 2007

What could turn out to be an epic battle is brewing in the US Senate. But unlike most of this chamber's epic battles, this one pits Republican against Republican.

The battle is over the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007. The proposed legislation would repeal provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that stripped US civilian courts from jurisdiction to hear or consider applications for a writ of habeas corpus filed by aliens detained as enemy combatants.

And the protagonists are arguably two of the Senate's sharpest legal minds: Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

3/8/07 Incompetence and Egregious Government Misconduct

The Tragic Case of Jose Padilla
By ELAINE CASSEL

http://www.counterpunch.org/

Last week, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled that American citizen Jose Padilla, who is now facing terrorism charges in Miami, Florida, is competent to stand trial.

In spite of the troubling legal and moral aspects of this case, Judge Cooke's ruling was in line with what many other judges would have done in her position.

3/4/2007 - A Federal Witchhunt - The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Counterpunch

One of the first big show trials here in the post-9/11 homeland was of a Muslim professor from Florida, now 49, Sami al-Arian. Pro-Israel hawks had resented this computer professor at the University of South Florida long before Atta and the hijackers flew their planes into the Trade towers, because they saw al-Arian, a Palestinian born in Kuwait of parents kicked out of their Homeland in 1948, as an effective agitator here for the Palestinian cause. As John Sugg, a fine journalist, then based in Tampa, who's followed al-Arian's tribulations for years, wrote in the spring of 2006 on this website:

2/23/07 - Naomi Klein: A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial

By Naomi Klein
The Nation

March 12 2007 Issue

Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to "break" prisoners are finally being put on trial.

This was not supposed to happen. The Bush Administration's plan was to put José Padilla on trial for allegedly being part of a network linked to international terrorists. But Padilla's lawyers are arguing that he is not fit to stand trial because he has been driven insane by the government.

5/11/2006 - Professor fights portrayal as supporter of terrorism

Lisa M. Krieger
Mercury News

As one of Stanford University's most respected Middle East scholars, professor Joel Beinin knows what terrorism looks like.
So it was a shock when he saw his own face on the cover of a new book titled ``Campus Support for Terrorism,'' linking him to radical Islam.
He's suing the book's publishers in what is the first counteroffensive by a professor against a growing campaign by conservative groups targeting left-leaning college educators.

4/1/06 - Touch-Screen Voting Isn't The Right Answer

John Schneider
Baltimore Sun

A debate over the use of electronic voting machines in Maryland generally has focused on words such as "security," "interpretive code" and "hacking."

The arguments tend to pit the reliability and safety of one machine against the other and compare the veracity and experience of expert vs. expert. They are earnestly written, articulately defended and, in many cases, factually accurate.

Unfortunately, they are also largely beside the point.

3/31/06 - States Pressured to Certify Voting Machines

Sari Gelzer
t r u t h o u t

The 2006 deadline has passed, and pressure is being placed on states to comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). HAVA requires states to transition all voting machines to electronic and optical scan technologies in time for primary and mid-term elections of this year.

3/30/06 - Kristallnacht Again? The Dark Night of the Mind

Rosa Maria Pegueros
CommonDreams.org

Published on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Kristallnacht Again? The Dark Night of the Mind
by Rosa Maria Pegueros

“Dangerous” is an unarmed man facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square.

“Dangerous” is a suicide bomber flying a plane into the World Trade Center.

“Dangerous” is a government sending young Americans to their deaths in the searing deserts of Iraq without cause.

“Dangerous” is a Supreme Court justice who makes an obscene gesture in the hallowed halls of the United States Supreme Court regarding a case where he has the power of life and death.

3/30/06 - Selective Outrage

Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls
AlterNet

The Western world loudly opposed the death sentence given to a Christian convert in Afghanistan while ignoring the country's oppression of women.

3/29/06 - Freeloader or America's Finest: In the Crosshairs of Xenophobes

Pierre Tristam
Daytona Beach News Journal

In 1995, Jose Gutierrez was a 14-year-old orphan in Guatemala when he decided to do what 700,000 other Guatemalans had done -- enter the United States illegally. Two thousand miles and 14 freight trains later, Gutierrez crossed the border. He was promptly arrested by the Border Patrol. Being a minor and without a family, he was spared deportation and turned over to California's welfare system. He spent the next four years in foster homes, learning English, attending and graduating high school, getting his medical needs taken care of by the public-health system. As the lexicon of neo-flag-wavers would put it, Gutierrez was freeloading on the American taxpayer.

When he turned 18, Gutierrez got himself a green card. He planned to be an architect. Not quite having the means yet, in 2002 he joined the Marines. A year later he found himself shipping off to Kuwait. And in the first hours on the first day of the Iraq invasion, he was killed on the outskirts of Umm Qasr, just inside the Iraqi border. He was the first of 2,322 Americans (so far) to be killed in the war. He is, as the lexicon of neo-flag-wavers likes to say, a hero, a patriot, among America's finest.

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