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 biggest issues of his term, he is a miserable failure. The …
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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 International. Heralding a public campaign against profiling, the 50-page report, "Threat and Humiliation," charges …
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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 Download MP3 Elaine Cassel writes for FindLaw and the blog Civil Liberties Watch. She teaches at Concord University School …
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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 American public is willing to tolerate such casualties if our troops are …
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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 up as a major test of U.S. influence in the …
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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 treasure, and the setback it has dealt to efforts to …
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CANBERRA – In the wake of last week’s suicide bombing at the gates of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has deftly shifted debate in the federal election campaign for the Oct. 9 polls onto his publicly perceived strong points on anti-terrorism measures and national security. Following a widely publicized weekend …
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Three weeks after initially suggesting the U.S.-created "Fallujah Brigade" had long since served its purpose, and one week after a clash between Brigade members and U.S. Marines left four Iraqis dead, American and Iraqi officials announced the official dissolution of the controversial unit Saturday, the LA Times reports. But as U.S. pilots continue to bombard …
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Perhaps you’re paying attention to the increasingly annoying presidential campaign, in which the nearly lost art of distinguishing typewriter fonts may prove decisive, and it just didn’t register; or maybe you were too focused on the latest developments in the Scott Peterson murder trial, and it slipped beneath your radar. My theory is that Zell …
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