by Lila Rajiva

Oversupply. Not law but economics tells us how we got to Abu Ghraib. The laws only follow economics. Private interrogators driven to produce information at any cost come up with random civilians who with a little gentle persuasion can cough up information. The terminally free market gave us the dismal team of torture-happy prison goons that John Ashcroft sent out to do unto Iraqis what had been done unto American prisoners for decades. The spy business is now infested with a network of lobbyists and government connections as thick as the one in the defense business. With one nasty difference. While defense contractors are at least monitored, intelligence contractors have classified budgets and work in secret without proper oversight...

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Rajiva1107.htm

No sooner are indictments being handed down to I Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but a new scandal is surfacing, every bit as outrageous and ultimately, likely also criminal.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GK04Aa01.html


From Information Clearing House

Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1634856,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The Bush Administration faces international controversy over what amounts to a clandestine CIA prison system

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126698,00.html



Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman:

"Guantanamo is a PR disaster. It is one of the most iconic symbols of hypocrisy in the world."

http://tinyurl.com/bgpz3


From Information Clearing House

A Department of Defense decision to renege on war-time promises to pay bonuses to more than a dozen re-enlisting Washington National Guardsmen has sparked outrage from prominent elected officials and state National Guard officers working to rectify the situation.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/247264_guardx05.html


From Information Clearing House

American and British sons and daughters and husbands and wives are dying so that this coming December, Iraqis can go out and vote for Iran influenced clerics to knock us back a good four hundred years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10890.htm

By Charles Sullivan

Are there no more Rosa Parks moving among us today? Did hope for social justice and simple human dignity get buried with Thoreau, Mother Jones, Joe Hill, Dr. King and Rosa Parks?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10893.htm

By Associated Press

Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody, according to participants in a closed-door session.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10886.htm



I will tell you what torture means
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10892.htm



When Conscience Bows to Calculation

By Niranjan Ramakrishnan

There is nothing less risky than praising a dead icon. There is nothing more risky than standing with a living one who, to use John Kerry's words for Rosa Parks, "speaks truth to power".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10888.htm