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Showdown Looming on "State Secrets"
Carrie Johnson, The Washington Post: "President Obama vowed last week to rein in the use of a legal privilege that allows the administration to discard lawsuits that involve 'state secrets,' promising... ...
Balance the budget
Campaign for Liberty by Rand Paul 05/22/09 For too long Washington has told us that we can live at the expense of future generations — that we merely ‘owe it to ourselves.’ But if the current crisis... ...
Day Of The Dead
By Cindy Sheehan If you watch any one of the cable news networks this weekend between doing holiday weekend things, you will be subjected to images of row upon row of white headstones of dead US military... ...
'Universal Jurisdiction': Spain's Judges Target Torture
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2009/05/24-0 - ------- Spain's Judges Cross Borders in Rights Cases Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post: "Spanish judges are boldly declaring their authority to prosecute... ...
Provoking the Inevitable
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "The Sahwa played a critical role in the reduction of overall violence in Iraq. When the US decided to pay off the resistance (to the tune of $300 per month per fighter) that was... ...
Obama's 'Preventive Detention' Plan Goes Beyond Bush Admin Policies
http://www.commondreams.or g/video/2009/05/22 ------ -- Facts and Myths about Obama's Preventive Detention Proposal By Glenn Greenwald In the wake of Obama's speech yesterday, there are vast numbers... ...
Stop calling them terrorists
The American Conservative by Kelley Vlahos 05/20/09 In the end, Obama could not ‘transcend’ — as was promised, endlessly — post-9/11 politics as usual in Washington, which is all about fear and manipulation,... ...
Military Attorney: Waterboarding is 'Tip of the Iceberg'
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane "They started this monthly treatment where they would come in with a scalpel or a razor type of instrument and they would slash his genitals, just with small cuts." http://www.informa tionclearinghouse.info/art icle22672.htm U.S.... ...
The World Doesn't Have a Pakistan Nukes Problem, It Has a David Albright Problem
By Peter Lee Washington, apparently believing that it doesn't have enough on its plate with al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistan Taliban, is suddenly awash with dramatic plans to add a self-created... ...
The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest http://www.commondr eams.org/view/2009/05/19-7 -------- Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia Noam... ...