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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | America's Anti-Torture Tradition

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on America's Anti-Torture Tradition; Bush's

Fumbles spur new talk in congress; Matthew Rothschild on how Rumsfield

spies on Quakers and Grannies; DeLay Fails attempts at quick trial;

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | America's Anti-Torture Tradition

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805A.shtml

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks of how the Bush administration has

finally been pressured into backing a ban on cruel and inhumane

treatment of prisoners. He says what remains shocking about this

embarrassing and distasteful national debate is that we had to have it

at all.

 

Bush's Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight on Hill

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805B.shtml

After a series of embarrassing disclosures, including the existence of

secret US prisons abroad, the CIA's detention overseas of innocent

foreign nationals, and, last week, the discovery that the military has

been engaged in domestic spying, Congress is reconsidering its

relatively lenient oversight of the Bush administration.

 

FBI Agents Visit UMass Dartmouth Senior Researching Communism

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805C.shtml

A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months

ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism

called " The Little Red Book. " He was visited at his parents' home in

New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the

professors said. The professors said the student was told by the

agents that the book is on a " watch list. "

 

Matthew Rothschild | Rumsfeld Spies on Quakers and Grannies

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805D.shtml

Matthew Rothschild discusses the recent report that Rumsfeld's

Pentagon is tracking lawful protests.

 

DeLay Fails in Bid to Get Quick Answer From Judge in Texas Case

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805E.shtml

The Texas judge hearing a campaign- finance abuse case against former

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said he won't yet rule on one of

DeLay's motions, dealing a setback to the lawmaker's bid for a quick

resolution of the case. So far Delay has denied wrongdoing and sought

a quick trial so that he can have the chance to reclaim his majority

leader position.

 

Frist Used AIDS Charity to Pay His Inner Circle as Consultants

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805F.shtml

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a

half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political

inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial

accounting of the presidential hopeful's nonprofit.

 

WTO: Draft Text Is a Raw Deal, Activist Warns

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805G.shtml

World Trade Organisation (WTO) officials released a draft text

Saturday of the meeting's final outcome pact, although disagreements

among the group's 149 member countries - most sharply between the

richest and poorest - could still scuttle the document. Aileen Kwa of

Focus on the Global South, a project of development policy research,

anlaysis and activism is interviewed about her perspectives on the

44-page draft.

 

Jack Anderson, Journalist Who Angered the Powerful, Dies

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805H.shtml

Jack Anderson, whose investigative column once appeared in more than

1,000 newspapers with 40 million readers, won a Pulitzer Prize and

prompted J. Edgar Hoover to call him " lower than the regurgitated

filth of vultures, " died yesterday. He was 83.

 

Karen Kwiatkowski: Violating the Constitution

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805X.shtml

Retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who spent two years

at NSA headquartes, discusses the fact that President Bush signed an

executive order that allegedly allowed the collection and operational

intelligence use of international telephone or electronic mail

conversations, even if one or more participants were Americans. She

says many questions must be asked and answered, including the most

important one: " Is it right? "

 

Pentagon Knew Contractor Was Planting News Stories

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805Y.shtml

US military officials in Iraq were fully aware that a Pentagon

contractor regularly paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories

about the war, and made it clear that none of the stories should be

traced to the United States, according to several current and former

employees of Lincoln Group, the Washington-based contractor.

 

The New York Times: This Call May Be Monitored ...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805Z.shtml

After 9/11, says The New York Times, Americans expected some

reasonable and carefully measured trade-offs between security and

civil liberties. They trusted their elected leaders to follow

long-established democratic and legal principles and to make any

changes in the light of day. But President Bush had other ideas. He

secretly and recklessly expanded the government's powers in dangerous

and unnecessary ways that eroded civil liberties and may also have

violated the law.

 

VIDEO SPECIAL | Dahr Jamail: Reporting on Iraq

A Film By Sari Gelzer

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

Dahr Jamail shares the stories of Iraqi civilians he interviewed while

spending 8 months in occupied-Iraq as an independent journalist.

Through his reports of torture, and a healthcare system that is being

impeded by American troops, Dahr reveals the urgency for withdrawal

from Iraq.

 

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? Filmmaker

Chris Hume decided to find out by embarking on a 6,000-mile,

cross-country journey in search of America's soul. The result: a

fascinating, hilarious, and often disturbing road-trip adventure.

 

 

 

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