Archive: July 2007
Magruder still troubled post-WatergateBy ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP WriterNews Fuze, 07/31/2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio—Watergate figure Jeb Magruder, as he’ll always be known—not as minister, consultant or civil servant, some of his other titles—is healing. The 72-year-old is recovering from a stroke that apparently caused his car to hit a motorcycle and a truck on a Columbus expressway. Magruder had been banged-up before
Guest Post: Following Stevens PAC MoneyWash. Post, July 31, 2007 Ethics has been the topic du jour on Capitol Hill today, with the House passing its lobbying reform measure by a landslide 411-8 vote. And the fallout continues after yesterday’s FBI raid of Sen. Ted Steven’s (R-Alaska) Anchorage home. Stevens and other Alaska politicians are being investigated in connection with
NYC Spycam Goal: Spot Terrorists Before They HitBy Noah Shachtman July 12, 2007 Categories: Cops and Robbers, Homeland Security, You can run… … Earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a massive security plan for lower Manhattan. There’ll be 3000 or more cameras in the 1.7 square miles below Canal St., all sending live feeds back to police HQs.
Penny Lernoux, CRY OF THE PEOPLE – The struggle for human rights in Latin America and the Catholic Church in conflict with US policy (Penguins, 1980): http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Latin_America/Cry_of_the_People.html Excerpts: Torture, RepressionRepression (continued)Be a Patriot (in El Salvador) and Kill a PriestThe Doctrine of National Security — TerrorU.S. Capitalism and The MultinationalsVillains AfootClockwork OrangeThe Church’s Role, The Church Divided, The U.S. ConnectionQuotations
” … The Bali bomb incident radically changed the Indonesian government’s policies and attitudes towards Islamic inspired terrorism. Having previously denied the existence of terrorists operating on its own soil, Jakarta quickly realized that allowing the JI’s activities to continue without impunity would hurt the nation’s economic and foreign interests … ” – Jakarta Post, July 10, 2007 http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20070710.F05 Government
“NERVOUS? NOT UNCLE … We keep hearing Ted Stevens isn’t a target of federal investigators but Uncle Ted isn’t taking any chances. ‘He has quietly hired Washington’s most powerful and expensive lawyer, Brendan Sullivan Jr., to deal with the feds,’ reports the Washingtonian. Ted had no comment. … ” – Alaska Ear, The divine appendage, July 1, 2007 http://www.adn.com/news/politics/alaska_ear/story/9096742p-9012863c.html—————–http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003580.php
By David RoseThe Observer, July 29, 2007MI5 Headquarters in London British source tells of betrayal to CIA – “I was stripped and hauled to US base” An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider’s account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal ‘torture flight’
” … With practice, people can learn to suppress emotional memories … “ The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) has propogated the belief that memory repression is a big fat red herring. Never mind that repressed memory is the foundation of all psychotherapies, that it is reasonably common among stressed war veterans and other sufferers of PTSD … false memory
http://pinoypress.net/2007/07/30/enforced-disappearances-an-act-of-terror/ By Roland G.Simbulan July 30, 2007 MANILA — Extrajudicial killings and enforced (or involuntary) disappearances have been rampant occurrences during the Marcos dictatorship and, during the Aquino, Ramos and Estrada administrations, there were also documented reports of their occurrences by human rights groups. These killings and disappearances of political activists and advocates have been known to be perpetrated with
Village Voiceby HarkavyJuly 30, 2007Already under attack by religious conservatives and censors in the United States, Muslim congressman Keith Ellison apparently survived a trip this weekend to Iraq without his own faith’s religious conservatives and censors issuing a death fatwa against him. The Minneapolis progressive Democrat got into trouble with conservatives and religious extremists over here on July 8 when