Guest guest Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 " t r u t h o u t " <messenger In Terror Cases, Bush Law Is Law Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:22:31 -0800 Padilla to be transferred; Britain angered over US ambassador; Ohio congressman caught in SunCruz scandal; Darfur spins downward; and more .... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org Join fellow bloggers at the t r u t h o u t Town Meeting. Get perspective on today's important issues from TO's editorial team and prominent guest bloggers. Join the debate! http://forum.truthout.org/blog t r u t h o u t | 11.27 In Terror Cases, Bush Law Is Law http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705A.shtml When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced last week that Jose Padilla would be transferred to the federal justice system from military detention, he said almost nothing about the standards the administration used in deciding whether to handle a terror suspect as an enemy combatant or as a common criminal, to hold him indefinitely without charges in a military facility or to charge him in court. US Loses British Backing for UN Tactics http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705B.shtml Britain has angered John Bolton, America's combative ambassador to the United Nations, by breaking ranks with him over the need for reform. Nicholas D. Kristof | A Tolerable Genocide http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705C.shtml Nicholas D. Kristof interprets two years of heartbreaking slaughter, rape and mayhem in Darfur as now spiraling downward. Demonstrations Dominate Day outside Bush Ranch http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705D.shtml Demonstrations continued Saturday as approximately 200 anti-war protesters joined Cindy Sheehan on a private lot outside President George W. Bush's hometown ranch, laughing at a Bush impersonator and crying while listening to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq. Feds Probing Possible Republican Casino Fraud http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705E.shtml Federal investigators are scrutinizing a $10,000 donation made five years ago by SunCruz Casinos to a Republican campaign committee on behalf of an Ohio congressman. N. Korea Says CNN Execution Image Fabricated http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705F.shtml North Korea on Saturday called a recent CNN program depicting a public execution in the communist state a " sheer fabrication " and dismissed it as a ratings ploy by the US based broadcaster. War's Psychological Cost http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705G.shtml With a lack of moral justification, as US soldiers return from Iraq they struggle to come to terms with the psychological ramifications of the war they have endured. Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705X.shtml The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world. Frank Rich: Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705Y.shtml Frank Rich sees the US has grown to be an angry country which has learned the hard way that it can no longer afford to be without the truth about the Iraq war. US Military Admits It Burned Bodies, Taunted http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705Z.shtml The US military admitted on Saturday that its soldiers in Afghanistan had burned the bodies of two dead Taliban guerrillas and taunted insurgents about it, claiming the desecration was for " hygienic reasons. " VIDEO SPECIAL | School of the Americas Protest A Film by Rebecca MacNeice http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm Rebecca MacNeice reports from the 16th annual School of the Americas protest at Fort Benning, GA. 20,000 people participated in the protest, including 41 who were arrested. The protesters focused their attention on the School because of its involvement in the training of many Central American military officers who went on to commit human rights abuses. Red State Road Trip: A 60-Minute Documentary http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm How could America have given George W. Bush a second term? 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