DhafirTrial

By Meghann Farnsworth TomDispatch.com 3/22/07

I was the adult, a 25-year old journalism student on my first reporting trip abroad. She was the child, 16 going on 40. I had the translator, the driver waiting outside, a hotel room in the safest part of the city, a ticket out of the country in three days. (more…)

By ROBIN BLACKBURN Counterpunch 3/22/07

In recent times high-profile Wall Street investment banks have brought slick financial reasoning to the base art of loan-sharking. The most vulnerable Americans have been targeted for loans they can ill afford. (more…)

Fellowship: a magazine of peacemaking published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Dear Editor:

The Muslim American Society sends sincere thanks to Fellowship magazine for publicizing the article by Katherine Hughes (Fall 2006) and supporting the national campaign demanding justice, and freedom, for Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir. (more…)

Laws prohibiting material support for terrorism and terrorist organizations, enacted in 1994 and 1996, and amended by the USA PATRIOT Act, are proving to be frontline weapons in the government’s arsenal of anti-terrorist measures. However, the Justice Department’s approach often acts more as a sword against civil liberties than as a shield against terrorism. (more…)

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

In September 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, undermining 800 years of human rights by abolishing habeas corpus, a right that empowers prisoners to question why they are being held and to demand evidence showing a reason to detain them. (more…)

Editorial in The Nation April 9, 2007 issue.

Dr. Sami Al-Arian could die in jail . The Palestinian computer professor is withering away in a North Carolina medical prison, where he was moved on day 24 of a hunger strike he began January 22 [see Alexander Cockburn, “The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian,”]. In December 2005 a Florida jury declined to convict Al-Arian (more…)

Meet the Global Ruling Class

By JAMES PETRAS Counterpunch.org 3/21/07

Even as the world’s billionaires grew in number from 793 in 2006 to 946 this year, major mass uprisings became commonplace in China and India. (more…)

Felicity Arbuthnot Uruknet 3/20/07

‘Beware the ides of March’, is said as a warning of impending and certain danger. Since it is from Plutarch, referring to a warning to Julius Caesar, it is unlikely to have influenced George W.Bush’s ‘shock and awe’ decision to invade Iraq in March, since literature is not his forte. (more…)