July 29, 2008
The current U.S government, and any of its sympathisers, should never preach democracy and human rights for as long as the despicable and unjust Guantanamo Bay prison is still in operation. Torturing mere suspects is a severe crime, especially if they are not even allowed a fair trial, regardless of...
go to article »July 27, 2008
"The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems. "The P...
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We told you it was only a matter of time before we were announcing and denouncing the latest ICE raid. Yesterday ICE targeted 8 restaurants in Northern Ohio and arrested 58 people. All those arrested were citizens of Mexico and working at Casa Fiesta, a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ashland, Frem...
go to article »July 26, 2008
July 21, 2008
“A US judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, involving Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, can go ahead. Judge James Robertson dismissed a claim from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, that it should be stopped while he challenged the proces...
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We're told to "get a sense of humor" and ironically to "lighten up" when it comes to our reaction as people of color to racist imagery and histories being put up on magazine covers and more recently, on a tee shirt. When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got d...
go to article »July 17, 2008
Judges, all the way to Supreme Court justices, have rode roughshod over the American Constitution for years. These actions by judges who do not have a high regard for the American Constitution, have for all practical purposes "broken" the Constitution many times, and in effect curtailed the freedoms...
go to article »July 10, 2008
Anyone who takes even a passing interest in events in the USA will be aware of public discussions about warrantless eavesdropping that have been going on since 2005. I’m not going to attempt to summarise the long, involved saga. My purpose here is to note one of the arguments that has been made by...
go to article »July 7, 2008
Can anyone follow Barack Obama's positions on anything?Charles Krauthammer writes about the candidate's dizzying changes. The candidate's own team knows just how unsteady Obama's positions are. The other day Rahm Emanuel was so desperate to deflect criticism that he argued it was John McCain who was...
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I believe this is a special Independence Day for many people because they can feel the change in the air. No, this is not an Obama post but rather a post about the the changing world that we live in and how we can either fight these changes or accept them. Every July 4th, I am thankful for my time g...
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