"Let's do it." With those last words, convicted killer Gary Gilmore ushered in the modern era of capital punishment in the United States, an age of busy death chambers that will likely see its 1,000th execution in the coming days.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505R.shtml

http://michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=5002


Informant: John Calvert



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5155


Informant: NHNE



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Sidney Blumenthal writes that for Dick Chaney's entire career, he sought untrammeled power. The Bush presidency and 9/11 finally gave it to him - and he's not about to give it up.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505N.shtml

Max J. Castro writes, "They are at it again. Anyone who hoped that the images of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, which made the extent of squalor in America visible and dramatized the life-and-death consequences of inequality, would stir the conscience of our ruling party was wrong. Dead wrong."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505M.shtml

Jonathan Schell writes that the most critical question has been whether American democracy, severely eroded but still breathing, would bring down the Republican machine, or whether the Republican machine - call it the budding one-party global empire - would bring down American democracy. This week, it looks as if democracy, after years of decline, has gained the upper hand.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505L.shtml

Court documents filed by prosecutors lay out an extensive conspiracy in which Mr. Scanlon and Mr. Abramoff, identified in the documents only as Lobbyist A, sought to defraud clients - mainly Indian tribes with gambling interests - and win legislative help from lawmakers in exchange for campaign donations, trips, dinners, greens fees and jobs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505K.shtml

The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." John Pilger writes that the insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and toward the world wide web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505I.shtml

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Revolution

By John S. Hatch

There is within the mythology America finds so indispensable something so sick and downright evil, but so pervasive that even after all the revelations of torture and rape and murder sanctioned at the highest levels of government, even now the numbness persists, and writers still insist on thinking that America is somehow a shining example of decency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11146.htm

"George, My family is spending our 2nd Thanksgiving without Casey, thanks to you and your lies. I am spending the day crying on a plane on my way to Crawford to again ask you for a meeting." - Cindy Sheehan

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505Y.shtml



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Auch der Europarat befasste sich nun mit den CIA-Geheimgefängnissen, in die Häftlinge zu Folter und Verhör weltweit überführt werden, und forderte NATO, EU und UNO auf, die Aufklärung zu unterstützen. Bundesjustizministerin Zypries, die bereits unter der letzten Bundesregierung bereitwillig amerikanischen Aufforderungen zum Abbau von Buergerrechten folgte, sieht keinen Handlungsbedarf: Abwarten und Hoffen auf ein Statement der US-Regierung, die sich mit dem Thema nicht befassen möchte und bisher schweigsam blieb, ist ihre Devise. Unter Zypries war bereits das Gesetz zum EU-Haftbefehl zustande gekommen, das vom Verfassungsgericht im Sommer als verfassungswidrig erklärt wurde.



G.Wendebourg / metainfo hamburg

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