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by Stephen A. Marglin OP-Ed The Boston Globe 1/14/08

Another holiday season has come and gone with more reruns of Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.” We could sure use banker George Bailey now that the mortgage mess threatens to do what the rapacious Mr. Potter, the town’s richest citizen, could not: end the “nonsense” of providing mortgages for the working poor. (more…)

REQUIRED READING FOR ASSURING THE FUTURE

By David Krieger President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

            Few people have looked as deeply into the nuclear abyss, seen the monster of our own making and grappled with it as has the writer Jonathan Schell.  But Schell is more than a writer.  He is also a philosopher of the Nuclear Age and an ardent advocate of caging the beast and rendering it harmless. (more…)

Books from The American Empire Project are available here.

“Americans have long believed that the very notion of empire is an offense against our democratic heritage, yet in recent months, these two words — American empire — have been on everyone’s lips. At this moment of unprecedented economic and military strength, the leaders of the United States have embraced imperial ambitions openly. How did we get to this point? And what lies down the road?” (more…)

Jennifer Van Bergen J.D. responds to John Farmer’s New York Times Op. Ed.

Dear Editor,

Farmer’s editorial acknowledges the serious constitutional issues raised by the material support prosecutions and by “preventive detentions.” (more…)

KH: Below Yassin Aref, an inmate of the CMU, describes the day-to-day life in that unit.The Communication Management Unit (CMU) is a special prison unit that houses, almost exclusively, Muslim and Arab prisoners. Dr. Dhafir is held in this same unit. (more…)

Daily feature on www.haaretz.com.

Aljazeera.net 1/13/08

The US national intelligence chief has said he believes the US interrogation practice known as “waterboarding” could be described as torture. (more…)

Pak Tribune 1/11/08

ISLAMABAD: President Musharraf has warned US coalition forces that any unilateral action taken against militants along the Pak-Afghan border will be regarded as an invasion. (more…)