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By Chris Hedges This column appeared originally at:Truthdig.com 12/4/06

The Democrats may have taken control of the House and Senate, but we still live in George Bush’s America. It is an America the imprisoned Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who has spent over two years in isolation, knows intimately. Dr. Al-Arian, who was a tenured professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida until being fired (more…)

By William Fisher truthout.org 12.5/06

Amidst the anger, dismay and depression felt by millions of Americans who see their country’s civil liberties being unnecessarily surrendered in the name of “The Global War on Terror,” there are occasional signs that our justice system is still alive and well. (more…)

In January, Congress can be a much safer place for supporting and restoring constitutional protections and investigating government wrongdoing–but only IF it has the grassroots support to push back against an intransigent executive branch. Here at the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, we are eagerly planning our strategies and campaigns for next year. We need your support to help us move forward. (more…)

A BBC film that reveals we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to believe even existed. But it may already have led to the starvation of millions. Runtime 49 minutes: ICH

By Rick Anderson, Seattle Weekly. 12/2/06

A British author and an ex-prisoner’s attorney say that records uncovered by Spanish investigators show Boeing has a direct role in “extreme renditions” — planning and organizing the flights through a unit of its Seattle commercial airplane division. (more…)

By Alfred W. McCoy History News Network 12/4/06

Mr. McCoy is J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).

In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked while U.S. soldiers stood by smiling. (more…)

Amongst Flames of Resistance, Came Death, Torture and a Movement Forced into Hiding

By BARUCHA CALAMITY PELLER Counterpunch 12/03/06

Latin Americas’ ¨dirty war¨ of the 70s and 80s has reemerged in its most blatant form in the case of Oaxaca, Mexico in the final days of November. (more…)

When 12 bodies were found buried in the garden of a Mexican house, it seemed like a case of drug-linked killings. But the trail led to Washington and a cover-up that went right to the top. David Rose reports from El Paso (more…)