DhafirTrial

Police Spying in the Birthplace of the First Amendment

By DAVE LINDORFF Counterpunch 10/8/06

This past Thursday I was invited by the group World Can’t Wait to talk about impeachment and Bush’s preparations for war against Iran (more…)

By Jennifer Van Bergen and Douglas Valentine www.justicescholars.org October 2006

I. INTRODUCTION(1)

The thesis of this paper is that where you find administrative detentions, (2) you are likely to find torture. We will show that this connection exists even where it is clear that investigations and screenings leading to such detentions (more…)

President Given Undue Power to Silence Critics

Synopsis Center for Constitutional Rights 9/27/06

On September 26, 2006, attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) determined that what appears to be the final version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 could allow the government to detain the attorneys themselves as ‘enemy combatants.’ (more…)

Woodward’s 60 Minutes Bloodbath

By MIKE WHITNEY Counterpunch10/2/06

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward can always be counted on to tell the truth– after all the other options have been exhausted. (more…)

By Stephen Lendman sjlendman.blogspot.com 10/2/06

On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. (more…)

By Marjorie Cohn Media With Conscience 10/1/06

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks. (more…)

By Jan Egeland and Jan Eliasson  Le Figaro 9/28/06  Truthout

    While global attention is still centered on Lebanon, less than 200 km to the south, Gaza constitutes a time bomb. Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world (more…)