The United States and the European Union have granted unlimited powers to secret services and police
The Incredible Story of Youssef Nada
By Silvia Cattori
Under the cover of the " war against terror ", the United States and the European Union have granted unlimited powers to secret services and police. Emergency measures which were introduced on a provisional basis in 2001, outside any judiciary control, have become permanent. Since September 2001, at least 80,000 people, mainly Muslim, would have been kidnapped, kept in secret prisons, and tortured by CIA and FBI agents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20120.htm
No Regrets: "I Freed Millions From Barbarism, Says Bush"
By Ned Temko
Bush defends his legacy, issues a stern warning to Iran ... and reveals his plans for a freedom institute devoted to 'universal values'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20121.htm
The tragic legacy of a disastrous president
Perhaps Mr Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory.
http://tinyurl.com/4xjdx8
Torture Began At The Top
By Tim Rutten
Apart from understanding how and why the Bush/Cheney administration tricked the American people into going to war in Iraq, no question is more urgent than how the White House forced the adoption of torture as state policy of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20124.htm
Kucinich on Impeachment
By Dennis Bernstein
We've lost our country to deception, to fear. We need to regain our country. We need to regain America's moral standing, not only before the eyes of our own people, but before the eyes of the world. We need a program which will lead us to truth and reconciliation. Impeachment was put in the Constitution for the sake of protecting the democracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20123.htm
Law School to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution
By Massachusetts School Of Law
"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20118.htm
From Information Clearing House
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The elephant in the room
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
06/18/08
The unwillingness of the nation’s news media to seriously consider the need for Congress to respond to and challenge the president’s clear abuses of power — even as they themselves condemn of those abuses of power — is a blot on the journalistic profession perhaps worse, and of more lasting consequence, than their failure to act as watchdogs and critics during the run-up to the Iraq War, when they acted more as patriotic cheerleaders than as news organizations. As impeachment advocates, including Rep. Kucinich, have pointed out, unless this president and vice president are impeached by the current Congress, any — and probably every — future president will feel empowered by unchallenged precedent to ignore laws passed by the Congress, to go to war without Congressional approval, to spy on Americans in violation of the law, to ignore court orders, to abrogate international treaties, and to lie to Congress and the American people. Unless Congress asserts its rights under Article I, it will no longer even be a co-equal branch of government, but instead will have been reduced to nothing more than a debating society...
http://counterpunch.org/lindorff06182008.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse+of+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Rutten
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dennis+Bernstein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
By Silvia Cattori
Under the cover of the " war against terror ", the United States and the European Union have granted unlimited powers to secret services and police. Emergency measures which were introduced on a provisional basis in 2001, outside any judiciary control, have become permanent. Since September 2001, at least 80,000 people, mainly Muslim, would have been kidnapped, kept in secret prisons, and tortured by CIA and FBI agents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20120.htm
No Regrets: "I Freed Millions From Barbarism, Says Bush"
By Ned Temko
Bush defends his legacy, issues a stern warning to Iran ... and reveals his plans for a freedom institute devoted to 'universal values'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20121.htm
The tragic legacy of a disastrous president
Perhaps Mr Bush's most significant legacy, as far as Britain is concerned, will be the destruction of the instinctive trust of America and its leaders that once prevailed here. It is no exaggeration to say that Mr Bush has done more damage to relations between our two nations than any president in living memory.
http://tinyurl.com/4xjdx8
Torture Began At The Top
By Tim Rutten
Apart from understanding how and why the Bush/Cheney administration tricked the American people into going to war in Iraq, no question is more urgent than how the White House forced the adoption of torture as state policy of the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20124.htm
Kucinich on Impeachment
By Dennis Bernstein
We've lost our country to deception, to fear. We need to regain our country. We need to regain America's moral standing, not only before the eyes of our own people, but before the eyes of the world. We need a program which will lead us to truth and reconciliation. Impeachment was put in the Constitution for the sake of protecting the democracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20123.htm
Law School to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution
By Massachusetts School Of Law
"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20118.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
The elephant in the room
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
06/18/08
The unwillingness of the nation’s news media to seriously consider the need for Congress to respond to and challenge the president’s clear abuses of power — even as they themselves condemn of those abuses of power — is a blot on the journalistic profession perhaps worse, and of more lasting consequence, than their failure to act as watchdogs and critics during the run-up to the Iraq War, when they acted more as patriotic cheerleaders than as news organizations. As impeachment advocates, including Rep. Kucinich, have pointed out, unless this president and vice president are impeached by the current Congress, any — and probably every — future president will feel empowered by unchallenged precedent to ignore laws passed by the Congress, to go to war without Congressional approval, to spy on Americans in violation of the law, to ignore court orders, to abrogate international treaties, and to lie to Congress and the American people. Unless Congress asserts its rights under Article I, it will no longer even be a co-equal branch of government, but instead will have been reduced to nothing more than a debating society...
http://counterpunch.org/lindorff06182008.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kucinich
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse+of+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Rutten
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dennis+Bernstein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
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