Month: August 2007

You need a permit to demonstrate in Lafayette Park, too, but ensuring an orderly protest doesn’t mean that you should ban journalists’ access to the event either: Hamas Bans Unregistered Protests (Al-Jazeera) Bush administration’s political mastermind that helped prop up failed policies says he’s leaving his position “for the sake of my family:” Karl Rove,…

Seeing the adverted crisis, emergency law as the political nail in the coffin, prominent Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid argues that Musharraf should drop his bid for the Presidency and the United States should drop their support for Musharraf…  Musharraf’s State of Emergency (Washington Post)  …meanwhile the Pakistani leader acknowledges failure of his policies against the…

Newsweek correspondent Vivian Salama notes how current security-based racial profiling is mirroring the past and denigrating American principles of liberty, justice and equality: Track Record Doesn’t Inspire Confidence (Washington Post) With Bush’s surge and ham-fisted diplomacy in Iraq failing, he now seeks the once “irrelevant” UN to help broker political deals with Iraq and its…

Musharraf avoids using weapon of “mass political destruction”, deciding not to curtail civil liberties further and declare a state of emergency: Musharraf Decides Against Emergency (Associated Press/Washington Post) Muslim and Latino organizations work together to prevent a Virginia county from cracking down on illegal immigrants: Groups to Fight Crackdown on Immigrants (Washington Post) Many criticisms…

In a continued effort to distance himself from the policies of his predecessor Tony Blair, current British PM Gordon Brown wants 5 British legal residents returned to the Kingdom, however disputes remain over legality and feasibility of restrictions sought by the US government and thus far rejected by Britain: Britain Asks to Take Back 5…

“It is easier for me to go to Venezuela than to the Damascus Gate […] If they have a wall to separate Arabs from Israelis, fine. But we are Palestinians. Why are they separating us from each other?” –Salah Ayyad, Abu Dis city councilman Touring Israel’s Barrier With Its Main Designer (Washington Post) Fabled African…

As President Bush puts the nail in the coffin of our civil liberties by signing the wiretap law, the FBI raids the home of a suspected Justice Department whistleblower and the Washington Post slams Democrats’ cowardice, caving into Bush’s fear-mongering and putting concerns of reelection over principle: Bush Signs Terrorism Law (Associated Press/Washington Post) Report:…

Civil liberties and security under attack: House intelligence bill passes, giving more police state power to the White House and Intelligence agencies to spy on us and make us less safe… House Approves Wiretap Measure (Washington Post) …meanwhile the military-industrial complex also scores a victory with House approving massive military budget, NOT including money for…