August 2008


Nick Juliano Rawstory.com 8/01/0

Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced a measure that would bar US oil companies from receiving contracts in Iraq. (more…)

Hearing on Limits of Executive Power:

Must Watch 6 Minute Video ICH 8/1/08

By Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon 8/1/08

The FBI’s lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top anthrax researcher at the U.S. Government’s biological weapons research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, where he was one of the most elite government anthrax scientists on the research team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID). (more…)

Join a Public Vigil at Skyservice and write to the executives of a company that is likely to receive the contract to deport Canada’s five secret trial detainees to torture…unless we can persuade them to refuse an act of complicity in torture

Monday, August 11, 12 Noon
Skyservice, 31 Fasken Drive (just west of Carlingview)
Rides from Downtown Toronto leave at 11 am
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Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council. Both talks are free.

A Government Insider Speaks Out Against the War in Iraq

Thursday, 8/14, 7pm at the Westcott Community Center (826 Westcott St.), Syracuse, New York.

Ann Wright is a retired US Army Colonel and US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war. (more…)

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