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[Katherine:  This is an excellent report on how the new legal regime implemented after 9/11 has affected Muslim charities like the one founded by Dr. Dhafir.]

Wars, Vampires, Burned Children, and Indelicate Imbalances

By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch  2/24/11

This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. (more…)

John Pilger 2/24/11

Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared then-president George W. Bush’s daily intelligence brief. (more…)

What: A vigil to commemorate the eighth anniversary of Dr. Dhafir’s arrest and imprisonment, and the interrogation of 150 Muslim families.

When: Friday, February 25th, 2011, 2.30 – 2.45 p.m.

Where: In front of the James M. Hanley Federal Building in downtown Syracuse, 100 S. Clinton St.

Katherine Hughes

February 26^th, 2011 marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir as he continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the U.S.- and U.K.-sponsored UN sanctions against that country.   His charity, Help the Needy (HTN), openly sent food and medicines to starving civilians in Iraq during the brutal embargo.

I did not know Dr. Dhafir before attending virtually all of his 14-week trial. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon 2/18/11

Yesterday, in South Carolina, an Obama-appointed federal judge dismissed alawsuit brought by Padilla against former Bush officials Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz and others.  That suit alleges that those officials knowingly violated Padilla’s Constitutional rights by ordering his due-process-free detention and torture.  In dismissing Padilla’s lawsuit, the court’s opinion relied on the same now-depressingly-familiar weapons routinely used by our political class to immunize itself from judicial scrutiny (more…)

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