The mainstream news behaves as if the American mission in Iraq, as in other parts of the world, is based upon humanitarian principles of good will. They would have us believe that America is not motivated by empire but by just causes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11347.htm

By Jonathan Alter

The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11343.htm

Government that is not checked, balanced, and watched like a hawk can gradually become oppressive.

By Thomas Oliphant, Globe Columnist

In a basically free society, abuses of civil and human rights often initially make sense, which appears to have been the case when President Bush took his baby steps toward a system of warrant-free, electronic surveillance of persons inside the United States -- some citizens, some not.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11345.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3817/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The environmental community continues to remain largely silent on the December 7 arrests of six people that federal prosecutors labeled as ecoterrorists. More than half a dozen activists, while voicing disgust with any violent acts in the name of the environmental movement, declined to be interviewed for this story, indicating that simply being mentioned in the same article could brand them as sympathizers.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/122005EB.shtml