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Tuesday 07-Sep

Free Forum: Pakistan's Pain

Saturday 11-Sep

Robert Scheer: The Great American Stickup

Sunday 19-Sep

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

Monday 20-Sep

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

Saturday 25-Sep

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

Friday 08-Oct

Reese Erlich: Conversations with Terrorists

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12/31/04 - Pipes Favors Concentration Camps

Juan Cole
Information Clearing House

12/30/04 That the Revisionist-Zionist extremist Daniel Pipes has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps isn't a big surprise. That a mainstream American newspaper would publish this David-Dukeian evil is. Of course, this is also a man that President Bush appointed to a temporary vacancy at the United States Institute of Peace, after the Senate understandably balked at a regular appointment for him.

12/30/04 - Nat Hentoff: The War on the Bill of Rights

BuzzFlash interview: Nat Hentoff
BuzzFlash Interviews - BuzzFlash.com
12.30.04

"The problem with Bush is I don't think he's ever had much interest or education in the Constitution, let alone the first ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights. Since he has people around him who either don't know either, or don't care to know, well, that's the problem. ...unless the resistance succeeds in telling people what's going on, and gets Congress and the courts to exercise the separation of powers...we can have a generation of kids growing up into adults who will think that these kinds of restrictions are the normal course of events. And that will be very dangerous."

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

Nat Hentoff has spent a lifetime defending the Bill of Rights and is a widely acknowledged authority on the First Amendment. Although he did jump into the fray of the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry to defend John O'Neill (the primary "Swift Boat Vet for Truth"), and has championed other bizarre positions that disturb BuzzFlash immensely, you still have to appreciate a journalist who relentlessly stands up to the Patriot Act.

12/30/04 - Some firms track, reward employee volunteer activities

Sasha Talcott
Boston Globe

Bank of America is one of a growing number of companies using software to track individual employees' volunteer hours, including nights and weekends. Employees enter their volunteerism into the computer system, which helps the company see where and when they volunteer, as well as match them with new opportunities.

12/17/04 - Judges' verdict on terror laws provokes constitutional crisis in UK

Clare Dyer, Michael White and Alan Travis
Friday December 17, 2004

The Guardian

A scathing law lords judgment condemning the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects as a threat to the life of the nation left anti-terrorist laws in tatters yesterday.

12/17/04 - Nation doesn't need an AG who cleared path for torture

By Jamie Mayerfeld and Darius Rejali
Special to The Seattle Times

Months after our nation was confronted with the photos from Abu Ghraib, we now hear almost daily reports of continuing torture and abuse in U.S. detention facilities around the world. One of the men principally responsible for this problem is Alberto Gonzales, chosen by President Bush to lead the Department of Justice, and scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee early next year.

Osama University?

By Michelle Goldberg, November 6, 2003, Salon.com
Link to article

Neoconservative critics have long charged Middle Eastern studies departments with anti-American bias. Now they've enlisted Congress in their crusade.

On Oct. 21, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that could require university international studies departments to show more support for American foreign policy or risk their federal funding. Its approval followed hearings this summer in which members of Congress listened to testimony about the pernicious influence of the late Edward Said in Middle Eastern studies departments, described as enclaves of debased anti-Americanism. Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a right-wing think tank, testified, "Title VI-funded programs in Middle Eastern Studies (and other area studies) tend to purvey extreme and one-sided criticisms of American foreign policy."� Evidently, the House agreed and decided to intervene.