Surrender is not an Option
Our federal government may still preside over the world’s only remaining superpower, but the tide of public opinion here and abroad is rapidly turning against them...Regardless of what happens, the millions of Americans seeking sanity, justice and peace need to disregard surrender as an option. We owe our unwavering perseverance to future generations, the rest of the world, and to ourselves.
Supreme Court Nomination: Harriet Miers on Religion?
On October 12, 2005, the New York Times ran an article on page A18 with this headline: Air Force Withdrew Rule That Permitted Some Evangelizing. On October 13, 2005, the Ashland, Wisconsin Daily Press ran an article that describes the evangelical credentials of the latest George w. Bush nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet Miers.
PAKISTAN: Winter tents needed now
With more than three million people left homeless by the deadly quake that ripped through northern Pakistan on 8 October, there are simply not enough tents to meet the demand...According to preliminary estimates by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 250,000 to 450,000 winterised tents were needed.
Military Recruitment: Rights Groups Reject Pentagon Ultimatum of Draft or Privacy Invasion
The Pentagon has been collecting private information on young people and storing it in a database called Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies (JAMRS) since 2002. Only made public this past May, this operation which is meant to target young people for potential recruitment has raised the ire of civil libertarians, youth organizations and antiwar activists.
Action: National Stand Down Day - Nov. 18, 2005
Young Americans sign on to go into harm’s way to defend their country if necessary, but instead they are being turned into harm’s ministers in a war that has claimed more then 100,000 Iraqi lives and nearly 2,000 Americans.
Democratizing the United Nations
Why has the world failed to realize the goals set forth by the founders of the UN? We have not been able to do away with war, genocide, oppression or poverty because the forces of nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, and statism have repeatedly sabotaged any move made towards libertarianism, egalitarianism, and internationalism.
Adding Another Lock to Our Closet of Tortured Skeletons
With little fanfare, and even less media coverage, last week the Senate Intelligence Committee took the first step in granting the Defense Intelligence Agency increased domestic spying authority, as well as decreased public accountability. With its new powers, the DIA could do something it has longed to do for years: spy on the American public.
Vice President's role in outing of CIA agent under examination
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame's husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.
Haiti - Tribunal’s Commission of Inquiry Uncovers New Massacres: Further Indictments Forthcoming
The Commission met with over 50 witnesses who told it of massacres, summary executions, torture, arbitrary arrests and many other human rights abuses being carried out by Haitian police and foreign occupation troops...Those convicted will be sent to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, for international criminal prosecution.
Haiti - Wherever There Is Impunity for Power, There Is No Law: Ramsey Clack's Press Conference
Whatever might have happened if George Bush, and Dick Cheney and finally Colin Powell hadn’t said that Aristide has to go, we will never know. But what did happen because President Bush decided that Aristide has to go, we know very well: systematic violence against the people of Haiti that is clearly overwhelmingly politically motivated.
