February 2010


A Review by Katherine Hughes

In a time and place where Muslims have learned it’s prudent to be silent, we should be especially grateful to Shamshad Ahmad for having the courage to write his book Rounded Up. (more…)

Nearly a decade ago, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) stood alone as the Senate’s constitutional conscience. Casting the only dissenting vote against passage of the Patriot Act in 2001, he was powerless to stop an opportunistic power grab by neoconservatives who had long sought, well before the tragedy of 9-11, to expand our government’s reach into the lives of law-abiding Americans. (more…)

You Think Greece Has Problems?

Michael Hudson and Jeff Somers Counterpunch 2/15/10

While most of the world’s press focuses on Greece (and also Spain, Ireland and Portugal) as the most troubled euro-areas, the much more severe, more devastating and downright deadly crisis in the post-Soviet economies scheduled to join the Eurozone somehow has escaped widespread notice. (more…)

The Retrogression

Ismael Hossein-Zaden Counterpunch 2/13/10

It is becoming increasingly clear that the financial meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent economic contraction that continues to this day represent more than just another recessionary cycle. (more…)

By Brian Cloughley fff” 2/09/10

When strong governments wish to impose their will on weaker regimes, they often resort to sanctions. The effects have included the death or debilitation of millions of innocent people. (more…)

The rational, principled resistance of activists protesting against the Winter Olympics chimes with Canadian public opinion (more…)

WASHINGTON – Ralph D. Fertig, a 79-year-old civil rights lawyer, says he would like to help a militant Kurdish group in Turkey find peaceful ways to achieve its goals. But he fears prosecution under a law banning even benign assistance to groups said to engage in terrorism. (more…)

Bill Fisher Truthout 2/10/10

Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country can look forward to more of the same. (more…)

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