Katherine Hughes Truthout 3/13/11

February 26, 2011, marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the US- and UK-sponsored UN sanctions (more…)

The Plan to Steal Everything and Sell the People into Slavery

By Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers Counterpunch 3/11/11

On Wednesday evening, in a veritable Night of the Long Knives, Wisconsin’s integrity was brutally murdered on the floor of the state Capitol in Madison. (more…)

The number of Muslim Americans involved in terrorist threats declined in 2010 from the previous year, although you wouldn’t know that from the tone of a congressional hearing scheduled for Thursday on “the extent of radicalization of the American Muslim community.”  (more…)

By Riz Khan A 25-minute program on Aljazeera

“More people died in the United States last year from dog bites, than died from terrorist attacks”

Alia Malek The Nation 3/10/11

On the evening of May 13, 2008, Jenny Synan waited for a phone call from her husband, Daniel McGowan. An inmate at Sandstone, a federal prison in Minnesota, McGowan was serving a seven-year sentence for participating in two ecologically motivated arsons. It was their second wedding anniversary  (more…)

The New Crusade Against American Muslims

By Liaquat Ali Khan Counterpunch 3/10/11

On this day, it behooves us to remember the words of Martin Niemoller.

“First they came for the communists,” he wrote, “and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist (more…)

In a case against a New York website owner, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is claiming that merely linking to copyrighted material is a crime. (more…)