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Lannan Foundation Lecture, September 2002, video available here.

Transcript of the speech is available at ZNet

Glenn Greenwald Salon 9/11/08

On the night of August 22, the U.S. committed what Chris Floyd, in a richly detailed and amply documented piece, calls an “atrocity” in the Afghan village of Azizabad, near the western city of Herat. The U.S. conducted a massive midnight airstrike on the village, killing scores of unarmed civilians, including large numbers of women and children. (more…)

By William Fisher The Public Record 9/11/08
 
After almost eight years of George W. Bush’s secret government, “of the people, by the people, and for the people” has become a joke. (more…)

Bill Quigley’s ZSpace Page 9/11/08 (answers below).

1. How many deaths are there world-wide each year due to acts of terrorism?

2. How many deaths are there world-wide each day due to poverty and malnutrition? (more…)

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger examines news as parody as those prominent in the British media seek to justify the official versions of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play. (more…)

Central New York Skeptics Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Business meeting at 6:30. Program at 7:00.

Speaker: Katherine Hughes, civil liberties activist

Soule Branch Library, 101 Springfield Rd, Syracuse, NY 13214 (more…)

By JOANNE MARINER Findlaw 9/08/08

Everyone agrees that she’s a 36-year-old mother of three young children. But while the New York Post calls her the “Al Qaeda mom,” and federal prosecutors claim that when she was arrested in July she was carrying a bag packed with chemicals and handwritten notes about a “mass casualty attack,” Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyers say she’s a victim. (more…)

An Open Letter to Human Rights Colleagues Concerned About Darfur…and Iraq

by Peter Erlinder Commondreams 9/10/08
To my dear and well-meaning Human Rights colleagues,

The story of displacement and death in the Darfur region of Sudan is indeed horrific. And, since Sudan is one of the few countries in Africa which has been off-limits to US oil deals and capital penetration, the crimes of the Sudanese government have a special resonance in U.S policy-making circles. (more…)