June 2006


Jennifer Van Bergen Rawstory.com 6/8/06
Published: Thursday June 8, 2006

According to activists from Des Moines, Philadelphia, Miami, Sacramento, and other locations, a young woman named “Anna” allegedly infiltrated peace and justice rallies (more…)

[When Imam Aref was arrested he was portrayed by the government as a terrorist because of his association with Dr. Dhafir; and Dhafir was portrayed as being a terrorist because of links to Aref. Both men were spiritual leaders in their respective communities.]

Motion to gain Albany mosque leader’s release in FBI case says writings show his support of U.S.

By BRENDAN J. LYONS (more…)

An interview of Barbara Ehrenreich by Tom Engelhardt 6/4/06
   
You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes
(more…)

[The first part is the post directly above.]

TomDispatch: Let’s turn to the hot-button issue of immigration (more…)

Felicity Arbuthnot, PalestineChronicle.com From: Uruknet 6/6/06

Haditha was quite a small massacre as US massacres go. The massacre in the first onslaught on Falluja filled two football fields (more…)

VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE
THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006 at 8:00 PM (more…)

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

ICFTU Online 6/7/06 Truthout

Brussels – 115 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested, according to the ICFTU’s Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights violations  (more…)

John Pilger addresses Columbia University in New York Pilger Home

On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire. (more…)

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