- 10/26/2001
-Anti-terrorism Legislation Gutting Privacy Standards Becomes Law
(1) ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION GUTTING PRIVACY STANDARDS BECOMES LAW
President Bush on October 26 signed into law an an
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-CNN Says Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be Perverse
According to the Washington Post (10/31/01), CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "has ordered his staff to balance images of civilian dev
... > read more - 12/10/2001
-3500 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by US Bombs
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University o ... > read more - 01/03/2002
-Collateral Damage is Our Responsibility
ON THURSDAY, DEC. 20, U.S. helicopter gunships and fighter jets attacked what was thought to be a large convoy of Taliban leader ... > read more - 01/20/2002
-THE BUSINESS SIDE OF WAR
Long-time readers of this writer will recall the claim that all wars have an economic interest, and are fought for economic ... > read more - 01/22/2002
-Afghan journey eases a father's pain
Derrill Bodley, who lost a child on Sept. 11, could share in the grief left by the U.S. bombing.
KABUL, Afghanistan ... > read more - 01/29/2002
-US Greens Call for Global Green Solidarity in Opposition to the War.
The Green Party of the United States stands ready to strengthen global Green solidarity on a basis of our common commitment to the ... > read more - 01/29/2002
-BUSH ASKS DASCHLE TO LIMIT SEPTEMBER 11 PROBES (and other disturbing 9-11 reports)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investig ... > read more - 02/04/2002
-AN IMPERIAL WAR EXPANDS
With characteristic imperial arrogance, George W. Bush's 'State of the Empire' speech was a blustering threat to several sta ... > read more - 02/10/2002
-State of Their Union: A State of War
“The men and women of our armed forces have delivered a message now clear to every enemy of the United States: Even 7,000 miles aw ... > read more - 02/17/2002
-Newspaper Works Against War Effort - New Publication Hopes to Send Word Nationwide
A new anti-war newspaper has begun publication in the East Bay, hoping to promote what it bills as a more humane, less jingoistic ... > read more - 02/21/2002
-The Philippines: "Second Front" in the U.S.'s Global War
After some fits and starts, on February 15 the U.S. opened up a "second front" in the "war on terrorism" in the southern Philippin ... > read more - 02/23/2002
-Bush Mimics Reagan and the Corporate Stranglehold on U.S. Media Tightens
Bush rallies America in a perpetual war against "evil ones" and the "axis of evil." Ronald Reagan used the cold war to lambast the ... > read more - 02/25/2002
-The Bush Oil-igarchy's Pipeline Protection Package
With the stench of Enron growing more acrid each day, you'd think the last thing President Bush would want is to be seen toadyin ... > read more - 03/10/2002
-A Prayer for America
Published in the March 25 issue of The Nation
The following speech was given on February 17, 2002 in Los Angeles, Califor ... > read more - 04/08/2002
-Shattered Afghan Families Demand U.S. Compensation
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 7 -- Victims of the bombing in Afghanistan handed in petitions from 400 families to the American Embass ... > read more - 04/09/2002
-A hand up for Afghans
(WASHINGTON) WHEN A LARGE earthquake clobbered northern Afghanistan nearly two weeks ago, the international disaster relief commu ... > read more - 04/16/2002
-US military plans for a long-term presence in the Philippines
When US troops started to arrive in the Philippines in February to extend the Bush administration’s “war against terror” into Sout ... > read more - 05/02/2002
-Judge declares terrorism detainments unconstitutional
The government's jailing of material witnesses for a grand jury investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is unconstitutiona ... > read more - 05/06/2002
-Surprise Best Seller Blames U.S.
In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Noam Chomsky, the M.I.T. linguist and political provocateur, was constantly on the tele ... > read more - 05/17/2002
-US Media Cowed By Patriotic Fever, says CBS star:
Network news veteran admits national mood caused him to shrink from tough questions on war in Afghanistan
Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS, said last night that "patriotism run amok" was in danger of ... > read more - 05/19/2002
-Greens Demand an Investigation into Bush's Prior Knowledge of the September 11 Attacks
Probe must be independent of Congress and the White House, say Green candidates.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green candidates ... > read more - 05/23/2002
-Repeal USA/PATRIOT
The storm of questions and criticism following revelations that the Bush Administration had numerous warnings of an impending hija ... > read more - 05/26/2002
-What Is A Terrorist?
ter·ror·ist (ter'er-ist) n. 1. One who engages in acts or an act of terrorism.
2. One who leads an armed group that ki ... > read more - 05/28/2002
-The Rapper's Red Glare
Boots Riley Hopes the Coup's Album Will Rattle the Capitalists, and Make Some Change
OAKLAND- The most infamous man in pop music doesn't look very infamous here in his kitchen. Raymond "Boots" Riley -- rapper, commu ... > read more - 05/31/2002
-Who's On the News? : Study Shows Network News Sources Skew White, Male & Elite
A study of ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News in the year 2001 shows that 92 percent of all U.S. source ... > read more - 06/18/2002
-War On Terror Little To Do With Terror
THE MOST peculiar aspect of George W. Bush's war on terrorism is how little it has to do with terrorism.
Certainly, it ... > read more - 06/20/2002
-S.F. attorney: Bush allowed 9/11
Stanley Hilton now figures his case is stronger because of a coalition of attorneys, victims' families and bipartisan legisl ... > read more - 06/21/2002
-United Call for an Independent 9-11 Truth Commission
A Statement of U.S. Community, Labor, Political, Religious & Youth Leaders To the People of the United States and the U.S. Congres ... > read more - 06/23/2002
-FBI Checking Out Americans' Reading Habits
Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants
For the first time since the Cold War, the FBI is vi ... > read more - 07/02/2002
-What are we celebrating on the Fourth of July?
In 1776 American colonists fought for freedom against a mighty empire, an act of self-determination we still celebrate on the Fo ... > read more - 07/06/2002
-U.S. Complicity In 9-11 Attacks Widely Accepted at G6B Summit In Canada
Ruppert/Chossudovsky Draw Crowd of 1,200
U. of Ottawa Professor Says Evidence Shows U.S. Helped Plan Attacks
� ... > read more - 07/08/2002
-High Treason in the US Government
Below is a compelling and accurate description of the USA PATRIOT which passed the US Senate 98 -1 and passed the US House or Repr ... > read more - 08/01/2002
-JOHNNY'S REAL CRIME
If one listens closely, a vast collective sigh of relief can be heard at the news that John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to s ... > read more - 08/18/2002
-Anthrax Killer 'is US Defence Insider'
An FBI forensic linguistics expert believes the US anthrax attacks were carried out by a senior scientist from within America's ... > read more - 08/19/2002
-A New Jersey Housewife Demands the Forbidden Truth.
About 9:06, four minutes after the attack on Tower Two, White House Chief of Staff Andy Card leaned over and whispered the brief m ... > read more - 09/04/2002
-General Ashcroft's Detention Camps: Time to Call for His Resignation
Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional and public-interest law at George Washington University Law School in D.C. He is ... > read more - 09/07/2002
-Most Think U.S. Partly to Blame for Sept.11
A vast majority of Canadians believes the United States bears at least some responsibility for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks beca ... > read more - 09/09/2002
-New law changes some legal rights of Americans
Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act after the terror att ... > read more - 09/11/2002
-Green Party Calls for a New Democratic Direction in U.S. Policy on the Anniversary of September 11
Greens urge steps to promote peace, ... > read more - 09/27/2002
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No-Fly Blacklist Snares Political Activists
A federal "No Fly" list, intended to keep terrorists from boarding planes, is snaring peace activists at San Francisco Internation ... > read more - 11/02/2002
-White House Stalling 9-11 Commission, Wants Control of Chair
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- An independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks seemed certain little more than a month ago, w ... > read more - 11/14/2002
-You Are a Suspect
WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make ... > read more - 12/12/2002
-Where are they now?
ON TELEVISION, the good guys almost always catch the criminal by the last commercial. But in real life, criminals disappear and re ... > read more - 12/20/2002
-Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet
he Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable br ... > read more - 01/01/2003
-The Green Party of California statement in opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act..
..and other Executive Orders that violate constitutionally guaranteed civil rights and liberties
The Green Party o ... > read more - 01/09/2003
-Political Repression Against Activists
Writing about his no-fly nightmare in the Fairfield County Weekly, art dealer Doug Stuber, who had run Ralph Nader's Green Party p ... > read more - 01/22/2003
-Big Brother Bush, 'Suicidal Saddam', And The Homegrown Threat To Liberal Democracy
Beyond Democratic Constraint?
It is hard to avoid the chilling conclusion that the corporate plutocrats and arc ... > read more - 02/06/2003
-Did Bush Know?
G&G #3 - February 2003
Several months ago I discovered Paul Thompson's now-famous timeline of the
events of Sept. 11. I ... > read more - 02/10/2003
-Patriot Act II: Fascism in the US
Just when you think things can't get worse, along comes news of further disasters. Case in point? The secret draft of Patriot Ac ... > read more - 03/06/2003
-Agent Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror
(Truthout)EDITOR'S NOTE: YOU WILL REMEBMER COLLEEN ROWLEY as the Minneapolis FBI agent who 'blew the whistle' on the fact that th ... > read more - 03/20/2003
-Patterns of Death and Deceit in Afghanistan
In what must qualify as a stellar example of the old adage - those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it, a seco ... > read more - 03/28/2003
-Michael Moore Teams With Mel Gibson For Next Documentary
NEW YORK (Variety) - Michael Moore, who didn't endear himself to the Oscar audience last Sunday, will doubtless arouse further ir ... > read more - 03/30/2003
-Why Not a Real War on Terrorism
A "war on terrorism" is, by definition, beyond reproach. After all, who could be for terrorism? The only snag is that, as with the ... > read more - 04/12/2003
-Pentagon Steamed at Bush's Choice for Postwar Iraq
More evidence that the administration squashed investigations in Osama Bin Ladin that may have prevented 9-11.>----------------- ... > read more - 04/16/2003
-Lessons from Afghanistan
The last nation we invaded stands as a testament to what can go wrong in post-Hussein Iraq.
AS THE LAST vestiges of Sa ... > read more
