US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Military jurors found Osama bin Laden's
former driver Salim Hamdan not guilty Wednesday on terrorist conspiracy charges
but convicted him on the lesser charge of providing material support to terrorism.
    The split verdict marked a dramatic conclusion of the first trial before the
special tribunals created by President George W.read more

Two weeks ago a monument for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was Vandalized. The words "Viva Durruti Y Orwell" were grafittied on the artwork in reference to Buenaventura Durruti and George Orwell who opposed the republican army that the Lincoln brigade was part of. In a statement posted on this site, the Worker Memorial Project wrote that the artwork was vandalized "The revolutionary movement in Spain was defeated by the Stalinist Soviet Union and it's global puppets and public relations hacks". But many condemned the act and called for different tactics.

Two weeks ago a monument for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was Vandalized. The words "Viva Durruti Y Orwell" were grafittied on the artwork in reference to Buenaventura Durruti and George Orwell who opposed the republican army that the Lincoln brigade was part of. In a statement posted on this site, the Worker Memorial Project wrote that the artwork was vandalized "The revolutionary movement in Spain was defeated by the Stalinist Soviet Union and it's global puppets and public relations hacks". But many condemned the act and called for different tactics.

    Washington - Hoping to stretch a safety net under the nation's tumbling housing market, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Saturday for final approval of a huge package of legislation that includes an ambitious program to save hundreds of thousands of families from losing their homes to foreclosure.
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On the July 18th indynewswire, danielsan of 101.1 FM Freak Radio Santa Cruz spoke with Julia Harumi Mass, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC), to discuss a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in an attempt to learn more about the Homeland Security agency ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE and its supporters consistently say that round-ups and raids are conducted for reasons of national security because they prioritize immigrants with criminal backgrounds. However as Mass explains, the reality is far different.

    PBS Airtime: Friday, July 18, 2008, at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html.read more

On the July 18th indynewswire, danielsan of 101.1 FM Freak Radio Santa Cruz spoke with Julia Harumi Mass, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC), to discuss a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in an attempt to learn more about the Homeland Security agency ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE and its supporters consistently say that round-ups and raids are conducted for reasons of national security because they prioritize immigrants with criminal backgrounds. However as Mass explains, the reality is far different.

    Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced a new article of impeachment against
President Bush in the House last Thursday. In a single, pointed resolution,
he charged the president with lying to Congress about the presence of weapons
of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, in order to obtain permission for a US attack.
    In the hour before Kucinich brought his resolution to the floor, he sat down
with Truthout for an interview.read more

    At the beginning of the week, a friend sent me a scurrilous, anonymous e-mail
attacking Barack Obama that has been circulating around her elderly cousin's senior living community in New Jersey. Headlined "Something to Think
About," it lists 13 acts of assassination, kidnapping, war and terrorism,
all of which, it notes, were committed "by Muslim male extremists between
the ages of 17 and 40." After several other claims, including a bogus citation from the Book of Revelation,

The former CIA officer has morphed from defender of Valerie Plame to crazed purveyor of a debunked Michelle Obama rumor. What happened?