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Current News & Views
EUROPE’S
NUMBER-ONE! Anguish on Wall Street as European Stock Markets Push US Off
Pole Position
The Independent, London
April 4, 2007
The value of European stock
markets has eclipsed that of the US – a
first since at least World War I. The moment slipped past unnoticed last
Thursday, but make no mistake, it was an important event.
Conservatives for
the Constitution
The Nation
April 5, 2007
(Excerpt)
Just
imagine if one of the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential
nomination endorsed this radical agenda:
• End the use of military commissions to
prosecute crimes.
• Prohibit the use of secret evidence or
evidence obtained by torture.
• Prohibit the detention of American
citizens as enemy combatants without proof.
• Restore habeas corpus for alleged alien
combatants.
• End National Security Agency
warrantless wiretapping.
• Empower Congress to challenge
presidential signing statements.
• Bar executive use of the state secret
privilege to deny justice.
• Prohibit the President from
collaborating with foreign governments to kidnap, detain of torture persons
abroad.
• Amend the Espionage Act to permit
journalists to report on classified national security matters without
threat of persecution.
• Prohibit of the labeling of groups or
individuals in the U.S. as global terrorists based on secret evidence.
Of
course, it is difficult to conceive of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or
even the somewhat more Constitutionally-courageous John Edwards going to
such extremes.
They
are, above all, cautious candidates. They don't want to be accused of
getting too serious about maintaining the basic underpinnings of the
Republic.
Only
the nuttiest of radicals who ask that candidates for president would ask
that candidates for nation's top job to start talking about the notion that
the
lawless presidency of George W. Bush has created a Constitutional crisis.
So
what left-wing cabal is promoting the above assault on the executives
excesses of the Bush administration?
The
group that's advancing this so-called "American Freedom Agenda"
is chaired by Bruce Fein, a former Nixon administration aide who served as
deputy attorney general under President Reagan and who helped to formulate
some of the serious -- pre-blue dress -- arguments for impeaching Bill
Clinton. Fein is joined by former Georgia Republican Congressman Bob Barr,
veteran conservative fund-raiser Richard Viguerie and David Keene, the
former aide to Bob Dole who for many years has served as chairman of the
American Conservative Union.
More…
Iran's
Release of Sailors Gives Hope in Nuclear Negotiations
Deutsche Welle - Bonn, Germany
(Excerpt)
The shock release of the British sailors shows Iran is willing to
consider pragmatism over radicalism and steer clear of an all-out
confrontation with the West, analysts said Thursday.
It remains to be seen what impact the release of the sailors will
have on the much longer running crisis of Iran's nuclear standoff, but
analysts said it creates hope that a deal can still be reached despite
months of stalemate.
More…
Wars
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Pentagon:
Debunks Prewar Iraq-al-Qaeda Link, But…
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Cheney Insists Saddam Worked With al-Qaeda
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Thursday: 6
GIs, 4 Britons, 83 Iraqis Killed; US Helicopter Shot Down
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Friday: 112
Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 80 Iraqis Wounded
Iraqis Cheer After Four
British Soldiers Killed in Basra Roadside Bombing
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Ramadi: 27
People Killed And 30 Wounded In Chlorine Bomb
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Bush's Bluster on
Iran Was Cover for Direct Talks
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British Navy
Suspends Boarding Operations in Northern Gulf
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No
hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very
uncivilised bunch
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Bush
Renews Warmongering: Revs Up Pressure on Iran After Release of Britons
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The US speaker knows it’s
good to talk
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McCain
Says He ‘Misspoke’ in Upbeat Baghdad Comments
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What If
Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
LewRockwell.com
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Taliban kill seven in attack
on Afghan aid convoy
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Taliban
Seize Southern Afghan District
Proxy
Wars
PJAK: Washington and Israel
Run a Secret Terror War Against Iran From Within Iraq’s Kurdish Region
JUNDALLAH:
Washington Supporting a Secret, Pakistan-Based Terror War Against Iran
(Excerpt)
A
Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla
raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American
officials since 2005, say US and Pakistani intelligence sources.
(Additional Perspective)
MEK
- Washington’s Terrorists: Protecting Iraq Based Anti-Iran Terrorist Group
(Excerpt)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --
An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, labeled a terrorist organization
by the United States, gets protection from the U.S. military despite Iraqi
pressure to leave the country.
(Additional Perspective)
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LEBANON: “There will be a
reckoning…” The Guardian - UK
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US citizen held in
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia Under
Pressure To Reveal Details About Secret Prisons
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EU looks at
potential war crimes by Somalia, Ethiopia
Foreign Policy
Guantanamo
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This Guantánamo Man May Have Gained a Trial, But It's Not
Justice by Kate
Allen The Guardian
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The Real Crime in the David Hicks Case by Ben Wizner
Los Angeles Times
Around
The Empire
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Russian
Experts Say U.S. Destroyed Russian Research Satellite
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Take Down the Barriers to U.S. Ideals in Cuba by Paul Davis
Detroit Free Press
Political
Cartoons
- Don’t
know what's scarier... Steve Sack, Minnesota, The
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- America's
Foreign Policy Antonio Neri Licon,
"Nerilicon", El
Economista, Mexico City
- Bush Readies His
VETO Dwayne Booth, Mr. Fish
- Bush’s Iraq
Hostage Crisis M. e. Cohen,
New Jersey, Freelance
- John McCain
Campaign Express Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post, FL
- Tribunals
and Adventures in Amnesia Kirk Anderson, Minnesota
- Unfortunate
Perceptions Angel Boligan, El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico
- End
World Poverty, Get Everyone to Run for U.S. President Martyn
Turner, Ireland,
The Irish Times
- Ukrainian
(R)evolution Oliver Schopf,
Austria, Der Standard
- Handy
Clip-Out Guide to Bush Scandals Lloyd
Dangle,
Troubletown
- When The U.S.
Department of Justice Pleads the Fifth Monte Wolverton, The Wolvertoon
- Alberto Gonzales
Rainer Hachfeld, Berlin, Germany, Neues Deutschland
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