A statement from the Center for Constitutional Rights, June 12: Supreme Court: Guantánamo Detainees Have Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus Washington, DC — In one of the most important human rights cases of the decade, the Supreme Court of the… Read moreHigh court upholds Gitmo detainees’ habeas corpus rights
Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, which filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the Clinton administration alleging cover-ups, brought suit in Miami district court against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), accusing the cartel of price-fixing. “It’s now… Read moreJudicial Watch founder sues OPEC for price-fixing
On May 19 the Cuban government accused Michael Parmly, outgoing head of the US Interests Section in Havana, of supplying opponents of the government with money from Cuban American right-winger Santiago Alvarez Fernandez-Magrinat, who is currently serving a 46-month prison… Read moreCuba: dissidents funded by terrorist?
On May 21, as oil prices leaped to an unprecedented $133 a barrel, Big Oil’s biggest executives got grilled on the Senate floor. “Where is the corporate conscience?” Sen. Dick Durbin asked execs from ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell Oil… Read moreOil execs play anti-Arab card to rape Alaska
Barack Obama just can’t win with some people. Either he’s too Muslim, or not Muslim enough. In a bizarre op-ed in the New York Times May 12, “President Apostate,” Edward Luttwak warns : As the son of the Muslim father,… Read moreBarack Obama: “apostate” Muslim?
In a piece ominously entitled “The Oil Nonbubble,” Paul Krugman in the New York Times May 12 astutely calls out both right-wing optimism that the “oil bubble” would burst—and right-wing scapegoating now that it hasn’t: “The Oil Bubble: Set to… Read moreKrugman weighs in for “peak oil”?
Get this. The Senate fails to pass the new FAA reauthorization bill—because of “non-aviation provisions” that would have doubled the tax on oil spills, using the revenues to replenish the strapped Highway Trust Fund! And this is deemed so un-newsworthy… Read moreNo increase in oil-spill tax
Never mind the silly Canadian angle. The really sinister thing here is the embryonic hybridization of man and machine—a phenomenon we have already predicted. From the Canadian Press, May 5: Canadian military looking for Iron Man-type suits for overburdened soldiers… Read moreIron Man lives again —in Iraq?
The US administration has finally seen fit to release another group of prisoners from Guantánamo, including the Sudanese AlJazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj. Despite claims from within the administration that it was hoping to scale down operations at Guantánamo, no prisoners… Read moreAlJazeera cameraman freed from Gitmo
Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and… Read morePentagon media scandal down memory hole?
Alfonso Chardy writes for the Miami Herald, May 3 (links added): Militant Cuban exile honored A beaming Luis Posada Carriles hugged and shook hands with hundreds of supporters late Friday as he arrived at a club in west Miami-Dade fo… Read moreMiami fetes terrorist
Our April issue featured the story “The Audacity of Vagueness: Barack Obama and Latin America,” by Nikolas Kozloff of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Wrote Kozloff: “Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee, has not been very eager to comprehensively address… Read moreOur readers write: Barack Obama or “October Surprise”?
