NIGHT OF TERRORISM IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM. (IPS News) Rebecca Murray describes from the view of civilians in Hakimabad in eastern Afghanistan one of the innumerable night-time raids of International Security Assistance Forces, engaged in their continuing the task of routing out Taliban presence in country. On the mere suspicion of their involvement with [...]
The accusation that the Bush administration directly ordered the CIA to “get” a prominent academic and Iraq War critic with disparaging personal information has taken a serious turn, with the U.S. Senate now prepared to investigate the incident. .. The story emanates from information given to the New York Times by a former CIA official, [...]
A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN OUR BACKYARD? PLEASE AND THANKS! (New York Times) A New York Times article describes the receptivity to power plants in Japan by local communities today, after many of the same communities had displayed the NIMBY pattern of opposition when such developments started 40 years ago. What is different today? For [...]
Despite the recent military operation that killed Osama bin Laden, taking out the leader of al Qaeda and the man at the heart of America’s “war on terror,” Congress and the Obama administration appear ready to agree on a four-year extension of most provisions of the controversial Patriot Act. Bipartisan cooperation is rare in Washington [...]
“IF EGYPT CAN HAVE DEMOCRACY, WHY NOT WISCONSIN?” (The Nation) A sign from the Wisconsin “revolution” as it commences with a statewide rally and march on the state capitol to protests Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) controversial proposal to abolish the collective bargaining rights of public employees. The stats has become “ground zero” in the conservative [...]
REAUTHORIZATION OF SEVERAL KEY PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS FAILS IN A HOUSE VOTE, DEALING AN “EMBARRASSING SETBACK” TO THE NEW REPUBLICAN MAJORITY AND THE PRESIDENT. (Washington Post) One of the first significant defeats of the controversial Patriot Act occurred on Tuesday as a core of “tea party” House Republicans joined with a majority of Democrats in [...]
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