DhafirTrial

Posted during the jury deliberations:

I am just about to leave for the court and I wanted to leave people some questions to ponder. Mr. West, for the prosecution, at the end of the rebuttal assured the jury emphatically that there was no discrimination in this case because of the defendant’s race or religion. (more…)

May 5, 2005

W.’s Second Term: If You Think the First is Bad
by Robert B. Reich (former Clinton Secretary of Labor)

Musings about a second Bush term typically assume another four years of the same right-wing policies we’ve had to date. But it’d likely be far worse. So far, the Bush administration has had to govern with the expectation of facing American voters again in 2004. But suppose George W. Bush wins a second term. The constraint of a reelection contest will be gone. (more…)

Published on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

Keynote Address to the National Conference on Media Reform

by Bill Moyers
Founding Director, Public Affairs Television
President, The Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
November 8, 2003
Madison, Wisconsin

Thank you for inviting me tonight. I’m flattered to be speaking to a gathering as high-powered as this one that’s come together with an objective as compelling as “media reform.” I must confess, however, to a certain discomfort, shared with other journalists, about the very term “media.” (more…)

By Arundhati Roy

In January 2003 thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Alegre in Brazil and declared–reiterated–that “Another World Is Possible.” A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George W. Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing. (more…)

Basic freedoms to protest are being systematically undermined by anti-terror legislation
George Monbiot
Tuesday August 03 2004
The Guardian

If we have learned anything over the past 18 months it is this: that the first rule of politics – power must never be trusted – still applies. (more…)

Editors’ Note: This is a transcript of remarks by Seymour Hersh at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York.

On 1 Feb 2005, ECOTERRA Intl. wrote:

The Military is Nowhere; the Press is Nowhere; the Congress is Nowhere…
We’ve Been Taken Over By a Cult
By SEYMOUR HERSH

About what’s going on in terms of the President is that as virtuous as I feel, you know, at The New Yorker,writing an alternative history more or less of what’s been going on in the last three years, George Bush feels just as virtuous in what he is doing. (more…)

By Patricia Hurtado
STAFF WRITER

January 31, 2005, 10:05 PM EST

The judge hearing the trial of activist lawyer Lynne Stewart Monday ordered that a U.S. Marshal accompany the van that transports jurors to and from court. (more…)

Friday, February 25th at Federal Building, 2.15pm

Tomorrow people will gather at the Federal Building in support of Dr. Dhafir and remembrance of his arrest two years ago. Madis Senner plans to read a letter that he has written to US Attorney Glen Suddaby challenging comments he has made about Dr. Dhafir’s case. I hope people will consider attending.

(Posted February 24th, 2005)