Both houses of Congress have now voted to extend the most onerous measures of the PATRIOT Act, which is due to expire in December. (IHT, Aug. 1) But these measures still may not survive judicial review. From Immigration News Briefs,… Read moreJudge: Patriot Act provisions unconstitutional
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Saudi religious leaders, tribal chiefs and government officials gathered in Riyadh to formally declare their loyalty to the new monarch King Abdullah, on the heels of foreign dignitaries including French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and Britain’s… Read moreKing Abdullah: family tie to Iraq
From AP, Aug. 3: 2 NY Officials Back Terror Check Profiling Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that police have been wasting time with random checks in efforts to prevent terrorism… Read moreDov Hikind: freedom hater
The UN is pledging to lead an investigation into the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Sudan’s newly-installed vice president John Garang, longtime leader of the southern guerillas. (UPI, Aug. 3) Violence since his death has already left at… Read moreViolence and fear in Sudan
Wow, the more things change the more they stay the same. This is exactly the issue which led to Saddam Hussein’s world-changing invasion of Kuwait in 1990 (see WW4 REPORT #70). Is it ever going to be embarrassing for the… Read moreIraq: Kuwait stealing our oil —again!
Some fairly amazing words of self-evident truth from Jack Straw, which it is impossible to imagine issuing forth from any figure in the US administration. But a consensus appears to be emerging on both sides of the Atlantic that there… Read moreJack Straw: “We are part of the problem”
Daniel Yergin, author of the Pulitzer-winning history of the petroleum industry, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, was recently invoked by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert to drive home the point that the Persian Gulf… Read moreYergin rains on “peak oil” parade
From yesterday’s Newsday: LONDON — Bombers in the botched July 21 attacks here were avenging the deaths of Muslim civilians in Iraq, one suspect reportedly told authorities, as British and Italian police seized eight more suspects yesterday and extended their… Read moreAccused London bomber: It’s Iraq, stupid!
John McCain—who knows a thing or two about what it is like to be a prisoner of war—steps up to the plate. And it is revealed that even Pentagon legal staff had warned that the current policy would invite abuse… Read moreCongress challenges White House on torture; Bush defiant
Is there a draft in your future? That is the obvious implication of this July 23 story from Economic & Political Weekly, tho the author does not mention it. Unravelling of the US Military Newspapers describe the US army as… Read moreU.S. military “unravelling”?
Riots and gunfire are reported in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following the death of the country’s vice-president, former rebel leader John Garang, in a helicopter crash as he was returning from Uganda. Garang had signed a deal to end 21 years… Read moreSudan: New VP killed in chopper crash —quick end to peace deal feared
