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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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2/25/06 - I.R.S. Finds Sharp Increase in Illegal Political Activity

STEPHANIE STROM
New York Times

The I.R.S. said yesterday that it saw a sharp increase in prohibited political activity by charities and churches in the last election cycle, a trend that it aims to reverse as the country heads into the midterm elections.

2/24/06 - Restoring the Public Trust

Bill Moyers
TomPaine.com

Bill Moyers speaks on the issue of money and politics: Watching these people work is a study of the inner circle at the top of American politics. It is a Dick Cheney world out there - a world where politicians and lobbyists hunt together, dine together, drink together, play together, pray together and prey together, all the while carving up the world according to their own interests. It is time to fight again. It's not their government, it's your government.

2/24/06 - Torture Leaves Freed Tiananmen Dissident Mentally Ill

Mark Allison
Amnesty International

After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. Amnesty International welcomed his release and called for all others still imprisoned in connection with the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement to be freed.

2/24/06 - 'Big Brother' Watching E-mail, Computer Data: US Report

Agence France Presse
Agence France Presse

Fast-evolving Internet and communications technology is outpacing privacy laws and leaving a treasure trove of personal data prey to government surveillance, a new report warned.

2/23/06 - South Dakota Abortion Bill Takes Aim at 'Roe'

Evelyn Nieves
The Washington Post

South Dakota lawmakers yesterday approved the nation's most far-reaching ban on abortion, setting the stage for new legal challenges that its supporters say they hope lead to an overturning of Roe v. Wade.

2/23/06 - Digital Technology Makes Surveillance Easier; Stronger Laws Needed

Center for Democracy and Technology
Press Release

The government surveillance stories that have filled the headlines in recent months aren't isolated incidents, but rather reflect a widening gap between the technology that collects sensitive personal data and the laws designed to protect that data against government misuse, a new report finds.

2/23/06 - The Perpetual Surveillance Society

George Monbiot
AlterNet

Radio frequency identification tags are another means by which the barriers between citizens and the state are being gradually eroded.

Nat Parry: Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'

Nat Parry
Consortium News

Is the Pentagon building U.S.-based prison camps for Muslim immigrants? Evidence points to the possibility.

Robert Scheer: In Defense of Free Thought

By Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Wednesday 22 February 2006

I think as I please
And this gives me pleasure.
My conscience decrees,
This right I must treasure.
My thoughts will not cater
To duke or dictator,
No man can deny -
Die gedanken sind frei.
- German 16th-century peasant song (revived as a protest anthem against the Nazi regime)

The news on Monday that an Austrian court has sentenced crackpot British historian David Irving to three years' imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust 17 years ago should have alarmed free speech advocates - particularly at a time when Muslim fundamentalists are being lectured as to the freedom of expression that should be afforded cartoonists. In the event, however, a lack of noticeable outcry has exposed a longstanding double standard in the West about who is entitled to free speech and why.

To be sure, Nazi propaganda is an extremely sensitive issue in Hitler's birth country, which for the most part endorsed the madman's vision of the Third Reich. But the repression of the free marketplace of ideas is an endorsement of tyranny rather than its repudiation. And it is not just Austria and Germany itself that have banned the views of Holocaust deniers: Eight other European states have joined in. Muslim fundamentalists outraged by the cartoons that have appeared widely in the European media thus have the right to question the conflicting standards of what is considered worthy of censorship.

2/21/06 - Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger

Richard B. Schmitt
The Los Angeles Times

A year after its creation, the White House civil liberties board has yet to do a single day of work.

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