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Good Christ, Bad Christ

By GREG GRANDIN Counterpunch 9/98/06

Just a few years ago, with the release of The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson seemed to have done what centuries of religious wars and inquisitions couldn’t: unite Christians, at least conservative Christians.  (more…)

By William Fisher Truthout. 9/8/06

    Here, dear readers, is a snap quiz:

    What do all of the following have in common?

A young man is one of several people arrested for assaulting others in New York City’s Central Park (more…)

Le Monde | Editorial Truthout 9/7/06

    Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. (more…)

Why Bush Really Came Clean About the CIA’s Secret Torture Prisons

By MARJORIE COHN Counterpunch. 9/7/06

With great fanfare, George W. Bush announced to a group of carefully selected 9/11 families yesterday that he had finally decided to send Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 13 other alleged terrorists to Guantánamo Bay, where they will be tried in military commissions. (more…)

Agent told mobsters he ‘ratted them out’

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS Concord Monitor 9/6/06

A Boston judge yesterday gave a pair of Concord lawyers what they’ve been fighting for for six years: confirmation that the government was responsible for the brutal and horrific murder of John McIntyre (more…)

By Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily Inter Press Service 9/5/06

RAMADI – The U.S. military has lost control over the volatile al-Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. (more…)

A Federal District Court Interprets the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to Allow Spying on Those Who Are Neither Spies Nor Terrorists

By JENNIFER VAN BERGEN findlaw.com 9/5/06

Last December, a New York Times article revealed the existence of an NSA domestic spying program. (more…)

If It Looks Like a Landmine and Smells Like a Landmine…

By SCOTT STEDJAN and MATT SCHAAF Foreign Policy in Focus 8/28/06

Would a bomb by another name be any less explosive? Would a landmine by another name be less pernicious? (more…)