Don't Call it a WallI notice you don't condemn the barrier Saudi Arabia has built along its border with Yemen! What about India's wall, to keep Kashmiri terrorists out? And good news for the rest of you liberal nitwits – the EU is ALSO going to build a wall to...
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Law professor Elaine Cassel speaks with Scott Horton about the Bush/Ashcroft assault on American civil liberties. Interview conducted Sept. 4, 2004. Check out Scott's other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Listen to Streaming Audio...
The practice of profiling by race, religion, and national origin on the part of U.S. law-enforcement agencies not only violates the human rights of its targets, but is also often counterproductive, according to a new report released here Monday by Amnesty...
All of President Bush's chest-puffing, swaggering and tough talk over winning the war on terrorism reduce to one big nothing when you consider – with the kind of cold-eyed logic and dispassion that eludes today's courtier press and punditry – that on the two...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which was forced to withdraw its international staff from Iraq last year because of growing violence, is weighing the possibility of downsizing its humanitarian operations in Afghanistan following the weekend destruction of four of...
The following letter to Congress is signed by 25 national security experts. To the Congress of the United States: The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States ended its report [.pdf] stating, "We look forward to a national debate on the merits...
It is time for unauthorized truth-telling. Citizens cannot make informed choices if they do not have the facts – for example, the facts that have been wrongly concealed about the ongoing war in Iraq: the real reasons behind it, the prospective costs in blood and...
This week's debate on a draft UN Security Council resolution submitted by the United States last Thursday that, if passed, would increase pressure on the government of Sudan to stop violence in Darfur that has killed at least 50,000 people since last year, is shaping...
The death toll in Iraq has now exceeded 1,000 U.S. soldiers, more than 640 of whom are combat casualties after President Bush declared "mission accomplished" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. Casualties in war are inevitable. And the...
