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Published on Friday, September 30, 2005 by the Huffington Post (h)
Miller Walks: The Plot Thickens
by Arianna Huffington
It’s time for Judy Miller and Arthur Sulzberger to change their talking points.
The claim that Miller “has finally received a direct and uncoerced waiver� is laughable… and, indeed, has already been laughed at by 1) my increasingly [...]

You wouldn’t know it from watching the news or reading the papers, but
there’s an ongoing hunger strike and forced feeding of detainees going
on today at Guantánamo Bay. (m) The Pentagon is in denial about its
violations of the Geneva Accords; mainstream media are oblivious. And after
more than three years of internment without charges or trials, the
prisoners [...]

Antiwar.com, CA
Tom Engelhardt interviews Cindy Sheehan
Tom Dispatch
My brief immersion in the almost unimaginable life of Cindy Sheehan begins on the Friday before the massive antiwar march past the White House. I take a cab to an address somewhere at the edge of Washington, D.C. – a city I don’t know well – where I’m to [...]

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Connie (h)
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Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity: Biometric Technologies in Domestic and Foreign Policy
September 29, 2005
In a recent dispatch

I mentioned a report from journalist Doug Ireland which stated British journalist [...]

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
Published: 29 September 2005
It was meant to be a moment of reconciliation between the old regime and the new, a gathering of nearly 1,000 former Iraqi army officers and tribal leaders in Baghdad to voice their concerns over today’s Iraq. But it did not go as planned.
General after general rose to his [...]

NCADP
September 27, 2005
Convicted of beating Daniel L. Baker to death on the evening of Sept. 10, 1996, Herman Dale Ashworth, a white man, faces execution on Sept. 27, 2005. At trial Ashworth plead guilty and waived the right to present mitigating evidence. Consequently, defense counsel made no objections and declined to cross-examine witnesses. Herman Dale [...]

Monthly Review
by Jim Moran
On March 17, 2003, Saint Patrick’s Day, only days before “Shock and Awe,” four Catholic Workers entered the U.S. Military Recruiting Station in Ithaca, NY, and spilled their blood to protest the imminent invasion of Iraq. They knelt, read a statement in opposition to the war, prayed, and waited to be arrested. [...]