Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

So 3 months after the September 22 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center the Liberal government passed some knee-jerk legislation giving the police extraordinary powers of arrest, and compelling people to testify at secret hearings - the law had a 5 year sunset clause that has come and gone, and...

Als Osama er in geslaagd was nog één stevige aanslag in de VS te plegen ergens begin 2002, dan waren de Verenigde Staten echt hun vrijheid en grondwet kwijt geraakt. Op deze en veel andere plekken is regelmatige afgegeven op het beleid van Bush in reactie op het terrorisme. Bush bashen kreeg het a...

The government's ceaseless persecution of Dr. Sami Al-Arian would be comical if it were not so disgustingly vacuous and damaging to him, his family and the Arab-American and Muslim communities. A lone ranger prosecutor has been playing dirty with Dr. Al-Arian's life all in order to save face after a...

On the December 9, 2008, Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann charged that Bush administration members – whom he did not specify by name but presumably President Bush was meant to be included – deserve to be "in hell," as he cited a report that a post-war insurgency in Iraq using...

With visible signs of torture, first and second-degree burns on his chest and genitals, APPO councilor Marcelino Coache Verano, who for 12 hours was “kidnapped� with the clear intention of repressing the social movement and sending a message of terror to society, was abandoned near Ocotlán. Mar...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

Brian Tamahana explains exactly how atrocious the legal reasoning is in the OLC memos authored by Yoo, Bybee and (to a lesser extent) Delahunty. Here's an example: Some of the arguments veer into the bizarre. Consider this concluding passage from a Yoo-Delahunty memo arguing that the president can o...

Quoted in the Daily Mail, Lord Tebbit leads Tory concern at Gordon Brown's decision to award American Senator Ted Kennedy with an honorary knighthood: "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the IRA but he certainly leaned towards extreme Republicanism. He was certainly no fr...