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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/30/2209/
Published on Saturday, June 30, 2007 by the Boston Globe
Presidential Scholar Confronts the President; Gives Bush Letter Decrying Torture
by Claire Cummings
WELLESLEY — Usually, the high school seniors who win the federal government’s highest honor just go to the White House, pick up their Presidential Scholars medal, and get their picture taken for posterity with the [...]

Southwest News
By RAY HANANIA
Even if President Bush has never been the smartest person in the White House, we always knew that there was some darker, more sinister force operating behind the president’s back making decisions that at any other time in history would be considered illegal and unconstitutional.
By Vice President Dick Cheney is no ordinary [...]

Ms. Magazine, CA
Following two devastating Supreme Court decisions for women’s rights in Gonzales v Carhart and Ledbetter v Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the Supreme Court has issued four more reactionary rulings. In every case, the Court has split 5-4, with Bush’s appointees Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito siding with Justices Antonin [...]

Online Journal, FL
By Mike Whitney
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jun 28, 2007, 01:12
Never had I fathomed, not even in my remotest imagination, that a day will come when God’s houses will be attacked and destroyed. The way they are today, in Iraq . . . Never.
This Red Line is now crossed . . . Crossed, transgressed, trespassed [...]

From Connie: Strange how little this has been in any news?
Barack Obama - U.S. Senator for Illinois - obama.senate.gov
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ben LaBolt 202-228-5511
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement on the Senate’s failure to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which [...]

CounterPunch, CA Weekend Edition
An Open Letter to the Regents of the University of Colorado on Ward Churchill
By GARY LEUPP
Dear Steve Ludwig, Cindy Carlisle, Patricia Hayes, Michael Carrigan, Tom Lucero, Steve Bosley, Kyle Hybl, Paul Schauer, and Tillie Bishop: I don’t envy your position as regents of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
On the one hand [...]

DEMOCRACY NOW!
Last month, the Pentagon Inspector General declassified a report that provided concrete evidence that methods developed by the US military for withstanding torture were being used to develop interrogation techniques against prisoners. Investigative journalist Mark Benjamin reveals that two psychologists who worked as contractors for the CIA since 9/11 were at the center of [...]