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Calls grow to close Gitmo jail, seek truth on Downing Street Memo
June 10, 2005In the wake of charges by Amnesty International that U.S. detention centers at Guantanamo and elsewhere constitute “the gulag of our times,” one of the Senate’s leading Democrats, Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), and former President Jimmy Carter called for closing the Guantanamo prison, and even Republicans said they would hold congressional hearings on U.S. treatment of detainees.
Read moreEditorial: Who pays for Enrons crimes?
June 03, 2005The Supreme Court’s decision to throw out the conviction of the giant accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, on obstruction of justice charges underscores a case of justice denied for 90,000 workers worldwide who lost their jobs when the firm went bankrupt. Chief Justice Rehnquist, who wrote the court’s unanimous ruling, found that the U.S. prosecutors failed to instruct jurors that they must prove “criminal intent” when Andersen execs shredded thousands of...
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May 27, 2005Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift move over… Alberta’s new oil reserves are huge. Does this mean Bush will invade Canada next? When I opened up the San Francisco Chronicle, this was the headline: “Canadian oil sands — vast reserves second only to Saudi Arabia.” Then there was a graph. Apparently, Saudi Arabia has 259 billion barrels of oil in reserve, Canada has 180 billion barrels and Iraq only has 113...
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Shocking reports reveal U.S. torture widespread
May 27, 2005‘Architects of torture policy must be held accountable’ New reports of torture of detainees show the U.S. as a global enforcer gone wild.
Read moreCuba fends off U.S. attacks on human rights
May 13, 2005WASHINGTON — A crowd at the Cuban Interest Section here applauded warmly March 29 as Ambassador Dagoberto Rodriguez Berrera assailed Bush administration hypocrisy on “human rights” in Cuba. Cuba, he said, will never bow to U.S. diktat.
Read moreRumsfeld sued for allowing torture
May 13, 2005WASHINGTON — Defenders of human rights have hailed as long overdue a lawsuit holding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responsible for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Filed March 1 in an Illinois federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First, the lawsuit charges that Rumsfeld violated the U.S. Constitution and international laws prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners. Rumsfeld knew...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Scapegoats for Bush
May 06, 2005For two years, decent people have agonized over the photo of Iraqi prisoners piled naked in an interrogation room at Abu Ghraib prison, leering American soldiers posing beside them. Another shows an American soldier leading a naked detainee on a dog leash. There were hundreds of similar pictures documenting the torture, humiliation and abuse heaped on the detainees. All but a handful of these prisoners were later released as innocents...
Read morePalestinians protest Israeli jail conditions
April 22, 2005April 17 was widely observed across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as “Prisoners’ Day,” a day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are languishing in Israeli jails. Thousands of people took to the streets to protest what the Palestinian Prisoner Club called “intolerable living conditions” inside Israeli prisons. The PPC led a two-day hunger strike involving thousands of prisoners to call for an improvement in their conditions and...
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March 18, 2005Stop maneuver against Cuba From March 14-April 22, the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will take place in Geneva, where once more the U.S. government will try to pass a resolution against Cuba. It is a manipulated and selective treatment of the topic to justify the intensification of the policy of blockade and aggressions by the greatest power on the planet against a small country, in...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Still more torture revelations
March 18, 2005Mounting evidence is making it clear that torture and a pattern of human rights abuse is standard operating procedure for the Bush administration and its surrogates in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where over 600 people of about 38 different nationalities are still being held. Though pictures of torture at Abu Ghraib brought wide exposure to such practices, the duration and vast scope of these...
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