From the front page of the New York Times, Sept. 22: At State Deptartment, Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate WASHINGTON — Walid Jawad was tired of all the chatter on Middle Eastern blogs and Internet forums in praise of gory… Read moreState Department goes bloggo
Donald Trump signed an executive order to continue operations at the Guantánamo detention center—not only allowing those currently detained to remain detained, but also permitting the US to bring new persons to the facility. The order comes the same day Trump pledged "to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay" in his State of the Union address—to applause from Republican lawmakers. It also comes nearly nine years to the day after Obama's executive order to begin the process of closing the facility. (Photo: Wikimedia)
The anarchist blog Three-Way Fight wants to know (despite leaving the question marks off their questions): Why does the media – CNN, MSNBC, FOX, BBC, Harretz, etc – spend today going over and over again, with lots of video footage,… Read moreRussian and Israeli neo-Nazis: media double standard?
Everyone is talking about Robert Fisk‘s Sept. 11 column in The Independent, but nobody is noting what a cynical, disingenuous piece of self-serving propaganda it is. The most sickening thing about it is that he feels obliged to start out… Read moreRobert Fisk joins 9-11 conspiracy vampires
Osama bin Laden’s last communique of January 2006 attempted to exploit the writings of leftist icon William Blum—but, as we noted, rather garbled it. Now The Guardian calls him out on similarly exploiting—and garbling—the work of one of their reporters… Read moreOsama does it again
This Sept. 6 report from Computer World hails a victory for the privacy rights of cyberscenti, but as we have noted, this also concerns us old-school types who go to libraries and read books. (We know, how quaint.) Judge: Court… Read morePatriot Act provision ruled unconstitutional
When Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted two years ago, we called her a scapegoat. Now, a military jury at Ft. Meade has found Lt-Col. Steven Jordan—the only officer to be court-martialled over the Abu Ghraib case—guilty of disobeying an order… Read moreAbu Ghraib decision reveals what flows downhill
In a victory for the Bush administration, the full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider a ruling that the government should charge Ali al-Marri, a legal US resident and the only suspected “enemy combatant” on American soil, or… Read moreFeds intransigent on “enemy combatant”; apologize on bogus detention
An Aug. 13 statement from the National Lawyers Guild calling for repeal of the “Protect America Act” signed into law by George Bush Aug. 6: Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of Americans by amending the… Read more“Protect America Act” threatens Fourth Amendment
In another exercise in understatement, this terrifying July 27 Washington Post piece by Walter Pincus is entitled “Bush order on freezing assets is unusually broad.” Do those “threatening the peace or stability of Iraq” include striking oil workers and other… Read moreBush executive order targets Iraq solidarity efforts
A three-judge panel of US Court of Appeals in Washington DC July 20 ordered the government to turn over virtually all its information on Guantanamo detainees who are challenging their detention, rejecting an effort by the Justice Department to limit… Read moreFederal court: US must disclose info on Gitmo detainees
A very amusing New York Times profile July 21 of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, the former firebrand cleric who is now exiled in Lebanon and barred from returning to his former home of Britain. The man who once praised the… Read moreKinder, gentler Omar Bakri disses “Sheikh Google”
