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Peltiers lawyers seek hidden FBI files
September 24, 2004BUFFALO, N.Y. — An attorney for imprisoned Native American Indian activist Leonard Peltier accused the government Sept. 13 of withholding documents in the case to cover up its own misconduct 30 years ago. Michael Kuzma asked a federal judge to order the release of all documents from the FBI’s Buffalo field office as part of the larger effort to free Peltier, 60, who is serving consecutive life sentences for the...
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September 17, 2004TAMPA — The Bill of Rights guarantees persons accused of a crime a speedy trial, but Sami Al-Arian and his seven co-defendants have been in federal prison a year-and-a-half and their trial is not scheduled until next year at the earliest. They were arrested Feb. 20, 2003, as Attorney General John Ashcroft unveiled a sensational, 50-count indictment charging them with providing financial assistance to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. If convicted,...
Read moreThe Republicans gaps and lies
September 10, 2004News Analysis The Republican convention was filled with gaps and lies and the anti-Bush coalition should take note of them and not be demoralized by corporate media spin.
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September 03, 2004On the Bush propaganda push The Big Lie was a tactic most closely associated with Nazi propaganda. It was really simple: You say something outrageous over and over again and people start to talk about it and believe it. The “Swift Boat” ads that the Bush administration has orchestrated are yet another example of the Big Lie tactic. The greatest courage human beings can show is moral courage and John...
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September 03, 2004The smug, well-fed GOP More than 500,000 anti-Bush protesters marched past the Republican Party’s convention site Aug. 29, chanting, “Four more months!” It was hardly an auspicious start for the GOP’s highly scripted coronation of George W. Bush. Even events within their control did not go according to cue. Take Bush himself. On the way to the convention he told a crowd the war in Iraq is a “catastrophic success.”...
Read moreContractor probed on Guantanamo deal
August 13, 2004A former division of one of the nation’s largest outsourcing contractors, Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), is under investigation for violating federal procurement regulations because it allegedly supplied interrogators and intelligence analysts to the Defense Department under false pretenses. According to the Springfield, Va.-based Federal Times, ACS in 2002 provided 30 intelligence analysts and 15 to 20 interrogators for the U.S. Navy’s prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where prisoners captured during...
Read moreAbu Ghraib abuse part of larger pattern
July 23, 2004I was not surprised at the torture atrocities by United States soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at Guantanamo. I have traveled to Guatemala many times to be with returning refugees, the survivors of massacres and torture. I was in Guatemala in November of 1989 when Sister Diana Ortiz, a nun from the United States, was seized and subjected to unbelievable torture there. I was also there...
Read moreChildren tortured at Abu Ghraib
July 23, 2004The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 900 dead American soldiers.
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July 16, 2004The ultimate dirty trick The effort by the tottering Bush administration to find ways to postpone the Nov. 2 national elections is its latest and most serious dirty trick to keep control of the government. According to a blockbuster story by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, American counter-terrorism officials are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of a terrorist attack. The...
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July 16, 2004Colombia: Cheaper to shoot unionists than to negotiate A new report by the London-based International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) concludes that in Colombia it’s quicker, cheaper and less risky for employers to kill trade unionists involved in an employment dispute than it is to use legal procedures to resolve their differences, reports Mary Engqvist of ANNCOL, a Colombian news service. According to the ICLR, over three-quarters of the world’s...
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