DhafirTrial

William Fisher billfisherblogspot 3/09/09

Ever since John Ashcroft began indiscriminately rounding up “Middle-Eastern-looking” folks in the U.S. and holding them incommunicado following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community has been trying to mobilize public support against knee-jerk racial and ethnic profiling. (more…)

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Younger and Hungrier in America

The revised and upgraded unemployment figures released on Friday were nothing short of staggering: almost two million jobs lost in the past three months as the official unemployment rate rose to a quarter-century high of 8.1%. Nearly three million Americans are now officially unemployed for six months or more, while another 8.6 million are “working part time because they cannot find full-time employment.” (more…)

Argentina’s Economic Collapse

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Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. (more…)

Project SALAM

Last month we sent a letter to President Obama and Attorney General Holder (which you signed – thank you), asking that they investigate the prosecution of Muslims following 9/11 which resulted in numerous innocent Muslims being convicted on false terrorism charges. (more…)

By William Pfaff williampaff.com 3/06/09

The documents currently being released by the Justice Department that demonstrate the Bush administration’s view of the president’s constitutional power in a “state of war” tell us things we suspected but didn’t want to know. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon 3/06/09

For an administration flamboyantly vowing new levels of transparency, the Obama White House continuously relies upon one of the most un-transparent political weapons: namely, disseminating to the public — typically through sympathetic journalists — purely pro-administration assertions while hiding behind a journalistically baseless grant of anonymity. There are numerous manipulative and distorting effects from having government officials make pronouncements while remaining anonymous, one of the most significant of which is that there is no accountability whatsoever when they make false or misleading statements. (more…)

John Pilger New Statesman 4/04/09

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the basic freedoms being lost in Britain as the “national security state”, imported from the United States by New Labour, takes effect. (more…)

Scott Horton

Remarks delivered at the ASIL (Amercian Society of International Law) Centennial Conference on The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Bowling Green, OH, Oct. 7, 2006

To the memory of Helmuth James von Moltke (more…)