Bowing to US's 'Naked Political Power' By Clive Stafford Smith Suppressing evidence of torture, as the US is asking Britain to do in the Binyam Mohamed case, is a criminal offence. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23181.htm === A Day of Reckoning for Bush's 'Torture' Lawyers By Ronald Sokol Under even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years ago by a former attorney general of the United States. At issue today is whether the current attorney general will uphold that standard. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23175.htm === So Much for the Promised Land By Chris Hedges Elite African-American figures, Baker argues, long ago placed personal gain and career advancement over the interests of the black majority. They espouse positions that are palatable to a white audience, positions which ignore the radicalism and structural critiques of inequality by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. And in a time when, as the poet Yusef Komunyakaa has said, "the cell block has replaced the auction block," they do not express the rage, frustration and despair of the black underclass. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23180.htm === As Obama's Support Erodes, the Right is Resurgent By Danny Schechter The banks are deploying regiments of lobbyists and PR firms to defeat proposed new financial rules and an agency to protect consumers. They are escalating the gouging of the public. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23179.htm === Skip the Happy Talk This Depression Is Just Beginning By Mike Whitney How many hundreds of banks are being kept on life-support because the FDIC is down to its last few farthings and doesn't want to ignite a panic? http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23182.htm === 13 in Congress Control Health Care Debate By David Sirota For those still clinging to quaint notions of the American ideal, these have been a faith-shaking 10 years. Just as evolutionary science once got in the way of creationists' catechism, so has politics now undermined patriots' naive belief that the United States is a functioning democracy. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23176.htm === Hamas Chief Outlines Terms for Talks on Arab-Israeli Peace By JAY SOLOMON and JULIEN BARNES-DACEY He said his organization would accept and respect a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders as part of a broader peace agreement with Israel-provided Israeli negotiators accept the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees and the establishment of a capital for the Palestinian state in East Jerusalem. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23174.htm === Ziauddin Sardar - The Erasure of Islam Introduction By By Gilad Atzmon While the Enlightenment may have been concerned with reason, its champions were not too worried about truth when it came to Islam. They not only shamelessly plagiarised philosophy, science and learning from Islam, but the very hallmark of Enlightenment, liberal humanism, has its origins in Islam. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23177.htm === The Enlightenment and Judification By Gilad Atzmon "There is no such thing as political Islam". http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23178.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
