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I will be speaking at a town hall meeting in Plano, Texas, on Friday, April 6th, at the invitation of the Muslim Legal Fund of America (a civil and legal organization similar to the ACLU,, LULAC, and NAACP). The meeting will be held at the Plano Center, 2000 East Spring Creek, at Jupiter Road, Plano, Texas. (more…)

Protest Outside of Department of Justice Scheduled for April 13th, 2007

On Friday, April 13th the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation and Friends of Human Rights are co-sponsoring a rally in front of the U.S. Department of Justice at NOON. (more…)

Incident at Fort Huachuca, the Army’s Torture Training Center

By BILL QUIGLEY Counterpunch 4/4/07

Despite calls by federal prosecutors to jail two priests protesting against torture training at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, a federal judge has allowed them to remain free until their trial, which is set for June 4, 2007. (more…)

How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America

By Zbigniew Brzezinski Washington Post 3/25/07

The “war on terror” has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush administration’s elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America’s psyche and on U.S. standing in the world. (more…)

Coming Up Short on Habeas Corpus for Gitmo Detainees

By MARJORIE COHN Counterpunch

The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court – at least for now. (more…)

William Fisher IPS 4/3/07

The human rights community has responded angrily to the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the cases of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba until they have exhausted all other legal avenues. (more…)

By NINA BERNSTEIN New York Times 4/3/07

Holly Yasui was far away when a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled last June that the government had wide latitude to detain noncitizens indefinitely on the basis of race, religion or national origin. The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit by Muslim immigrants held after 9/11. But Ms. Yasui, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, had reason to take it personally. (more…)

By ARTHUR NESLEN Counterpunch 3/29/07

Diplomatic briefcases are unlikely to be dropped at news of Condoleezza Rice’s call, on the eve of the Riyadh summit, for Arab states to “reach out to Israel” and show they accept it. Israel’s insistence that negotiators begin by accepting its right to exist has already pushed normalisation up the political agenda. (more…)