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By Robert Parry Consortium News 9/18/07

In a memorable scene from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Rep. John Conyers explains how it was that Congress passed the USA Patriot Act without knowing many of its provisions. “Sit down, my son,” the courtly Michigan Democrat said. “We don’t read most of the bills.” (more…)

Interview on Truthout (approx 15 mins.)

From correspondents in New York Herald Sun, Australia 11/15/07

THE US military is experiencing a “suicide epidemic” with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by US television network CBS. (more…)

by Gary D. Barnett The Future of Freedom Foundation 11/9/0

Today I received my fourth-quarter 2007 Anti-Money Laundering Training Program notice. After my “mandatory” compliance, I must agree with everything stated in the “training” through the Compliance Attestation System. Although the manner and frequency of this forced training has changed somewhat, it is still required or else, this since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act. (more…)

by John Pilger antiwar.com 11/15/07

On Remembrance Day 2007 — Veterans Day in America — the great and the good bowed their heads at the Cenotaph. Generals, politicians, newsreaders, football managers and stock-market traders wore their poppies. Hypocrisy was a presence. No one mentioned Iraq. No one uttered the slightest remorse for the fallen of that country. No one read the forbidden list. (more…)

By Christopher Doering Reuters 11/14/07

Washington – The U.S. government said the number of Americans who went hungry in 2006 was held in check at 35 million people from the prior year, but food advocacy groups said on Wednesday more needs to be done. (more…)

By Elizabeth Holtzman Truthout 11/13/07

Though it failed to send his nomination the way of Robert Bork, attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey’s evasiveness on the definition of torture has done something historic. It has made it unmistakably clear to mainstream observers that the president may be criminally liable for violating anti-torture laws. (more…)

AP International Herald Tribune 11/14/07

BOSTON: The U.S. government has denied a visa for a South African scholar who has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, claiming he “engaged in a terrorist activity” – an accusation he vehemently denies. (more…)