Judge Ann Aiken “Patriot Act violates the U S Constitution”

SEATTLE (Reuters) – An Oregon judge on Wednesday ruled that two provisions of the Patriot Act violated the U.S. Constitution’s protection against unlawful searches and seizures.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled in favor of Brandon Mayfield, a lawyer wrongly arrested by the FBI in 2004 for possible ties to the Madrid train bombings, who challenged [...]

Columbia President Bollinger Introduces Ahmadinejad

Columbia President Bollinger Introduces Ahmadinejad

Columbia President Lee Bollinger has some questions before introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a speaker at the university, September 24 2007

Syria’s Illusory Nukes: More Propaganda

Syria’s Illusory Nukes: More Propaganda
from Another Day in the Empire by kurt
As suspected, Israel’s claim of a raid against a Syrian nuclear facility is a load of hooey. “Israel did not strike a nuclear weapons facility in Syria on Sept. 6, instead striking a cache of North Korean missiles, current and former intelligence officials say,” [...]

A Coup Has Occurred

‘A Coup Has Occurred’
By Daniel Ellsberg
September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech delivered September 20, 2007)
Editor’s Note: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at [...]

Troops out now

SEPT 29:
National March on Washington
Gather at reflecting pool on west side of Capitol at 11 a.m
Rally begins 12 noon
Volunteers needed at 8:30 am.
March steps off at 1:30pm
[...]

Burmese riot police attack monks

Burmese riot police attack monks

Police charged the crowd outside the Shwedagon Pagoda as demonstrators met for a ninth day of marching and warning shots were fired at another site.
The new march seems to be heading towards the home of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Police and troops are surrounding key Buddhist sites around the [...]

Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions

Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions
Global Research, September 25, 2007
Fars News Agency
Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US, Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger’s insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses to 10 questions by [...]

Goodman, Klien and Greed$pan spining the spun

In a Democracy Now! exclusive debate, former federal reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and journalist Naomi Klein square off on the Iraq war, oil, President Bush tax cuts, social security, economic populism in Latin America, corruption and crony capitalism. Greenspan headed the central bank in the United States for almost two decades. He has written a [...]

C(ia)BS Interview with Ahmadinejad- spot the spook

Israelis seized nuclear material in Syrian raid

Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related, the [...]