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Free Forum: Pakistan's Pain

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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?

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

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Reese Erlich: Conversations with Terrorists

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3/4/06 - US Cites Exception in Torture Ban

Josh White and Carol D. Leonnig
The Washington Post

Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantánamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in US custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.

3/4/06 - A Nurse's Courage

Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!

In her first broadcast interview, a VA nurse explains how she was investigated for 'sedition' after writing a letter that was critical of the Bush Administration.

3/3/06 - The Ohio Vote Debacle

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
AlterNet

While life goes on during the Bush2 nightmare, so does the research on what really happened in Ohio in 2004 to give George W. Bush a second term.

3/3/06 - Do You Know How Your Vote Will Be Counted?

Warren Stewart
Washington Spectator

The troubling truth about voting in America today is that a majority of the electorate casts their ballots on computers that run software that is hidden from public view and lacks any independent means of verification. The process by which our votes are cast and counted is controlled by private corporations to an extent that threatens the foundations of democracy.

3/3/06 - 'War on Terror' Trials Could Allow Evidence Obtained Through Torture

Rob Jennings
Agence France Presse

US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said that "war on terror" military tribunals at the Guantanamo naval base could allow evidence obtained through torture.

3/2/06 - The Failure of the First Amendment

Robert Jensen
AlterNet

A new book explains why the traditional idea of "free speech" is ill-equipped to deal with the latest threats to personal liberty.

3/2/06 - Son of Gitmo

William Fisher
t r u t h o u t

Legal, diplomatic, religious and human rights authorities are struggling to be heard on what many consider to be the "Son of Guantánamo" - a secret prison in Afghanistan where the US military is said to have been holding some 500 "enemy combatants" for as long as three or four years without access to lawyers.

3/1/06 - Domestic surveillance operations may be bigger than acknowledged

By Charles Babington and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, March 1, 2006; A08

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.

In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration's original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago.

At that appearance, Gonzales confined his comments to the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, saying that President Bush had authorized it "and that is all that he has authorized."

3/1/06 - The Memo: How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.

By Jane Mayer
The New Yorker

Monday 27 February 2006

One night this January, in a ceremony at the Officers' Club at Fort Myer, in Arlington, Virginia, which sits on a hill with a commanding view across the Potomac River to th Washington Monument, Alberto J. Mora, the outgoing general counsel of the United States Navy, stood next to a podium in the club's ballroom. A handsome gray-haired man in hi mid-fifties, he listened with a mixture of embarrassment and pride as his colleagues toasted his impending departure. Amid the usual tributes were some more pointed comments

"Never has there been a counsel with more intellectual courage or personal integrity," David Brant, the former head of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said. Brant added somewhat cryptically, "He surprised us into doing the right thing." Conspicuous for his silence that night was Mora's boss, William J. Haynes II, the general counsel of the Department of Defense.

2/28/06 - Republicans Unfit to Adopt

Bill Robinson
HuffingtonPost.com

If Ohio State Sen. Robert Hagan's proposal becomes law, Republicans would be barred from adopting. Wednesday night, Hagan wrote a mock proposal to counter one introduced by State Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville) aimed at banning gay adoption.

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