DhafirTrial

John Pilger writing on the effects of the brutal 13 years of sanctions against Iraq. [KH: This is the humanitarian catastrophe Dr. Dhafir was responding to through by sending aid through his charity Help the Needy. For this humanitarian work he was held without bail for 31 months and then sentenced to 22 years in prison.] (more…)

Antiwar Radio 11/10/07

Unembedded reporter Dahr Jamail discusses the continuing quagmire in Iraq, how the “surge” was just to appease Americans and buy time (more…)

December 1 and 2, 2007

Nottingham High School, 3100 East Genesee St., Syracuse (more…)

A New Low in U. S. Behavior

By ROBERT FANTINA Counterpunch 11/10/07

The U.S. now has an Attorney General, Mr. Michael Mukasey, who does not know if waterboarding is torture. One wonders what else escapes the knowledge of the Mr. Mukasey. (more…)

The Last Dead Bull on Wall Street

By MIKE WHITNEY Counterpunch 11/10/07

What a week for the stock market. On Wednesday the market took a 360 point nosedive followed, two days later, by a 220 point belly-flop. (more…)

The Ann Arbor News 11/08/07

If language is a window on the world, a deliberate smudging of that window will make it harder to see the world clearly and comprehend it. So it is with the highly ideological term “Islamofascist,” a label that is being wielded as a blunt weapon in a left-right debate and has been carelessly bandied about by some presidential candidates. (more…)

By Lisa Girion The Los Angeles Times 11/09/07

One of the state’s largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved. (more…)

by Neil MacFarquhar NewYorkTimes.com 11/09/07

A plan by the counterterrorism bureau of the Los Angeles Police Department to create a map detailing the Muslim communities in that city, an effort described as a step toward thwarting radicalization, has angered civil rights groups, which say it is no better than racial profiling. (more…)