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May 19, 2007
U.S. pays Pakistan to fight terror, but patrols ebb
The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country's military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan's president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active.
Carter attacks Blair for 'blind' support of US in Iraq
Former US president Jimmy Carter on Saturday attacked outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his "blind" support of the Iraq war, describing it as a "major tragedy for the world".
Ron Paul Rocks!
Denver to pay $8,500 to man arrested after asking officer for ID
A University of Denver student who spent the night in jail will get $8,500 under a settlement announced this week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
Officers will also be trained that it's OK for citizens to ask officers for their ID.
Clinton aide forfeits law license in Justice probe
Samuel R. Berger, the Clinton White House national security adviser who was caught taking highly classified documents from the National Archives, has agreed to forfeit his license to practice law.
No regrets, Blair tells Iraq in final visit
Britain's Tony Blair, on his last visit to Iraq as prime minister, said on Saturday he had no regrets about his part in the U.S.-led invasion that removed Saddam Hussein.
Monitoring Americans
In 1787, British economist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed a new design for a prison that he called “Panopticon,” which he believed could be used to keep inmates more thoroughly under the control of jailers by either keeping them under surveillance at all times or by making them believe that they were under such surveillance, even when they weren’t. According to French philosopher Michel Foucalt, the purpose of the Bentham’s Panopticon is “to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action.”
Even though Bentham proposed that the Panopticon could in principle be expanded beyond the confines of a single building or institution, he’d no doubt be surprised that, in the 21st century, his vision for a surveillance state had been extended across the whole of society. Hard as it is even for those who live in the modern world to believe, everyone today lives under the threat of near-constant surveillance. Today’s reality is that of the Panopticon brought to life, of the “Big Brother” state firmly rooted not just in the fiction of the novel 1984, but also in the reality of 2007.
Caller ID
It's not whether the president called. It's what he did.
It doesn't much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's hospital room before the Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004. It matters enormously, however, whether the president was willing to have his White House aides try to strong-arm the gravely ill attorney general into overruling the Justice Department's legal views. It matters enormously whether the president, once that mission failed, was willing nonetheless to proceed with a program whose legality had been called into question by the Justice Department. That is why Mr. Bush's response to questions about the program yesterday was so inadequate.
Flashback - Clinton, Bush Connection To Warrantless Wiretapping And The CIA Exposed
Texas to Release 226 Juvenile Prisoners
The agency that runs the state's juvenile prison system said it will release 226 inmates after a review found their sentences were improperly extended.
Jay Kimbrough, who is heading an investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at the agency's facilities, formed a panel to review the records of nearly all inmates with extended sentences.
British writer David Irving asked to leave Polish book fair
Organizers of a Polish book fair on Friday asked British writer David Irving, who was sentenced to prison in Austria for denying the Holocaust, to leave the event.
Chavez accuses Pope of ignoring Latin American "Holocaust"
Jury: 6 months in prison for Navy lawyer
A military jury recommended Friday that a Navy lawyer be discharged and imprisoned for six months for sending a human rights attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees.
U.S. immigration bill attacked from left and right
The fate of the immigration deal between President George W. Bush and a group of U.S. senators appeared uncertain on Friday as it drew heavy criticism from both the right and the left.
Hallelujah Trail: Terror War "Regime Change" Comes to the Holy Land
The civil war in Palestine is of course a long-held dream of the American and Israeli Right. Israel first secretly supported the sectarian Hamas in order to undermine the secular nationalists of Arafat's PLO; now they openly take sides with Arafat's successors in the Palestinian Authority against Hamas, which as always happens -- escaped the control of the puppet-masters who sought to exploit the group for their own ends. But the long-term aim has been achieved: a violently divided Palestinian society, broken down, killing each other off, leaving Israel free to continue its colonization of Palestinian land. As others have pointed out, it's no wonder that the United States so staunchly supports this policy: after all, it's what we did to the Native Americans.
Obama Lines Up Behind Neo-Conservative Campaign Against Iran
Neo-conservatives, some of whom have claimed to see hopeful glimmers in Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign-policy positions of the kind of interventionism that gets them excited , should be further heartened by the presidential hopeful’s sponsorship of a new bill that, if passed, is certain to increase tensions not only with Iran, but with Washington’s European allies as well.
Armed police swoop on fancy dress cowgirls with toy guns
As gunfights go, it was something of an unequal contest.
On one side were dozens of armed police officers assisted by dogs, with helicopters hovering over head.
On the other were two teenage girls in cowboy outfits, with one toy gun between them
10 Years On: Where Are the PNAC Signatories
Michigan GOP Move To Kick Ron Paul Out Of Debates Dropped
Another crushing victory for free speech as RNC overwhelmed with thousands of calls, 20,000+ petition signatures
For Those Interested in Facts: They Hate Our Foreign Policy
The rhetoric and spin about Congressman Ron Paul's "blaming America" for the September 11th attacks is symptomatic of the problems of foreign interventionism plaguing this country. The media establishment is so out of touch with reality they don't know where to begin analyzing an actual informed opinion.
First of all, Dr. Paul did not "blame America." What he said was that the United States government which is not "America" and is certainly not the innocent American citizens who were murdered that day had enacted a foreign policy that was a "contributing factor" in the attacks as it created what the CIA calls "blowback" against those innocent American citizens.
Contractor Deaths in Iraq Soar to Record
Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according to new government numbers.
US Shuns European Privacy Concerns
The post-Sept. 11 flight data sharing agreement between the US and EU expires in July. But a new agreement is nowhere in sight. The Americans want to know even more, and the Europeans want to tell them even less.
McCain, Cornyn Engage in Heated Exchange
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hasn't spent much time in the Capitol this year as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination. But one of his rare appearances this week provided a pretty salty exchange with a fellow Republican.
Romanians vote on popular president's impeachment
Romanians were voting Saturday on whether to impeach President Traian Basescu who has been accused of violating the constitution but remains popular among the public.
It's a sad day when the people of a former Soviet-bloc country have more democracy than we do.
Turley on Olbermann - Clear Impeachable Offence
Illegal NSA and FBI spying programs
Japanese activists protest extended Iraq mission
Peace activists demonstrated Saturday against the Japanese military mission to Iraq, only days after the legislative lower house approved a two-year extension of its air force mission supporting US-led operations.
Federal judge: West Point military academy can ban anti-war protest at graduation
A federal judge said Friday that the U.S. Army's military academy at West Point can refuse to let outsiders on campus for an anti-war demonstration during Vice President Cheney's commencement speech.
Kidnap and torture: new claims of Army war crimes in Iraq
Robert Verkaik reveals evidence of systemic ill-treatment of civilians by British soldiers in the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam
Anti-War Group Banned From Parade
A group of anti-war veterans were told they cannot participate in a parade along the Oregon Coast.
Dutch soldiers violated HR in Iraq
Dutch soldiers violated the human rights of Iraqis in 2003 when they detained about 90 for a day without food and water, a newspaper quoted military police as telling an investigation.
Clear Channel Board OKs Latest Bid
Clear Channel's drawn-out efforts to reach a buyout agreement with two private equity suitors has taken a step forward, but it is still unclear whether a deal will get done.
The San Antonio, Texas, radio broadcasting and billboard advertising giant said Friday that its board accepted an amended buyout offer from Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners worth $28 billion in cash and assumed debt, which would give shareholders $39.20 a share. The offer is 20 cents per share more than the two bidders had offered last month, but it was little changed from the bid the board rejected just two weeks earlier.
Bulgaria's European elections clouded by corruption
Bulgarian voters go to the polls Sunday to elect their first deputies to the European parliament less than six months after joining the European Union as its poorest and most graft-ridden member.
But instead of European issues the month-long campaign has been dominated by an ongoing series of daytime mafia killings and a corruption scandal that prompted the unprecedented firing of senior government officials.
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