Tue 3 Aug 2010
Bill Quigley Huffington Post 8/03/10
Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit today so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Aulaqi, (sometimes spelled Awlaki), to stop the government from killing him. (more…)
Mon 2 Aug 2010
Chris Hedges Truthdig 8/02/10
Today I will teach my final American history class of the semester to prison inmates. We have spent five weeks reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The class is taught in a small room in the basement of the prison. I pass through a metal detector, am patted down by a guard and walk through three pairs of iron gates to get to my students. (more…)