Month: February 2008

  • News and Analysis (2/8/08)

    Mukasey refuses to investigate CIA waterboarding: Justice Dept. ‘Cannot’ Probe Waterboarding, Mukasey Says (Washington Post) Islamic Law expert Noah Feldman finds that Turkey’s AKP can blaze a trail of modern Muslim liberalism by not only protecting “religious freedom against coercive secularism”, but also by fighting for “the individual freedoms and the equality of all citizens:”…

  • News and Analysis (2/7/08)

    Under the guise of customs checks, Big Brother uses racial profiling to invade Muslim, Arab and South Asians’ privacy and confiscate their private property: Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches (Washington Post) The army, Lebanon’s only institution keeping the country together is under attack for its unclear involvement in the death of 7 Shi’a protestors: Lebanon’s…

  • News and Analysis (2/6/08)

    CIA admits publicly for the first time it uses waterboarding… CIA Says Used Waterboarding On Three Suspects (Wiredispatch/Reuters) …meanwhile, former and current suspected terrorism detainees are fighting back against the Bush administration’s use of torture: Feds Want Rendition Lawsuit Dismissed (Associated Press/Washington Post) Former Guantánamo Prisoner Asks U.S. To Review Its Founding Ideals (Christian Science…

  • News and Analysis (2/5/08)

    A subsequently rescinded confiscation of a Christian’s 32 bibles in Malaysia escalates concerns over rising religious intolerance : Bible Confiscation in Malaysia a Mistake (Associated Press/Washington Post) As the American administration seeks to disarm militias in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine,  Second Amendment supporters at home seek to overturn DC’s “draconian” restrictions on the right to…

  • News and Analysis (2/4/08)

    Pentagon proposes highest defense budget since WWII, mostly for ongoing imperial adventures Iraq and Afghanistan… Proposed Military Spending Is Highest Since WWII (New York Times) …but hasn’t used the money spent so far to effectively act against Al-Qaeda terrorists operating freely between Afghanistan and Pakistan: Al-Qaeda Commander Moved Freely in Pakistan (Washington Post) Investigative reporter…

  • News and Analysis (2/3/08)

    State mismanagement of the economy leads to grumbles among Iranian political elite and ordinary citizens: A Frail Economy Raises Pressure on Iran’s Rulers (New York Times) Under the guise of “anti-terrorism” British Big Brother wiretaps Muslim MP Sadiq Khan while doing constituent work… Khan Welcomes ‘Bugging’ Inquiry (BBC News) …however Britain isn’t the country guilty…

  • News and Analysis (2/1/08)

    In an excerpted speech to Congress, Texas Representative and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul outlines why the Protect America Act needs to be opposed: Protect America from the Protect America Act (Antiwar.com) Military analyst Charles Pena argues that bad policies, not PR and ideology are what primarily drive Muslim terrorism: Is Bad PR Really the Problem?…

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