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US carries out more airstrikes in Pakistan
By James Cogan | In open contempt of the repeated protests by the Pakistani government, the US military carried out another two air strikes on October 31 against houses inside Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal
Read More »Troops Have to Fight for Their Right to Vote
Active-duty military members arguably have more to lose than anyone else in Tuesday’s election, but voting can be an obstacle course for servicemen and -women overseas. The Dallas Morning News reports that in 2006
Read More »Is Paulson’s Plan Mysterious or Non-Existent?
By Philip Mattera | Those who regard Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s bailout program as a step toward socialism should remember that such a system involves not just government ownership but also some degree of centralized
Read More »Finally The End of a Subprime Administration
They may have been the most disastrous dreamers, the most reckless gamblers, and the most vigorous imperial hucksters and grifters in our history. Selling was their passion. And they were classic American salesmen –
Read More »With Bush on way out, Guantanamo quieting down
By David McFadden | Camp Justice, erected six months ago for the first U.S. war-crimes trials in a half-century, already feels like a ghost town. A hundred canvas tents pitched on a weed-choked airfield
Read More »Policing “target communities”
By Paul Donovan | The decision of the Court of Appeal that the state can place people under control orders (house arrest) without ever telling them what they are accused of has huge implications
Read More »Judge orders White House to produce wiretap memos
By JOAN LOWY | A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 warrantless wiretapping program. U.S. District Judge Henry
Read More »US Above The Law
FFF | President Bush has been making a big hullabaloo over the fact that the Iraqi regime has not signed on to an agreement that would authorize U.S. forces to remain in Iraq after December
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