DhafirTrial

ICH: In a brazen show of courage, Congressman Kucinich took to the House Floor yesterday and called Bush and Cheney the liars that they are.

“The President and Vice President lied and 4,000 of our soldiers died. The President and Vice President lied and a million innocent Iraqis died (more…)

William Fisher The Huffington Post 1/25/08

The Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America — but is known to have spied on at least 186 peaceful anti-war protests in the U.S. — has just awarded a $30 million contract to a company whose senior management includes the former Defense Department (DOD) official who set up that office. (more…)

Coleen Rowley The Huffington Post 1/23/08

Dick Cheney was at his best shilling for immunity for telecom companies today before the Heritage Foundation. (more…)

Power to the (Palestinian) People!

By JEFF HALPER Counterpunch 1/24/08

The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own “moderate” political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in their struggle for freedom. (more…)

By Chalmers Johnson Tomdispatch 1/23/08

The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the “smartest guys in the room,” the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. (more…)

A Direct Action Organized by Witness Against Torture 01/08/08

Ed Kinane [Ed is a member of the Dr. Dhafir Support Committee Advisory Board.]

A year ago, on 11 January ’07, the fifth anniversary of the opening of the U.S. concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dozens of us solemnly assembled inside Federal District Court in Washington, DC. While we were allowed to do a liturgical program there, we were arrested for refusing to remove our bright orange Close Guantanamo T-shirts. (more…)

By Leslie Thatcher t r u t h o u t | Review 1/22/08

Dean Baker’s “The United States Since 1980,” published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007. (more…)

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD DEPLORES HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA CAUSED BY ISRAELI BLOCKADE AND FUEL CUTOFF

Calls for International Protests, Immediate Lifting of Siege and Censure of Israel’s
Genocidal Actions (more…)