The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reports today that
At least two dozen other former and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere say they were given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged, based on interviews and court documents.
Warrick’s WaPo article gives a vivid account from Adel al-Nusairi, one of the detainees who […]
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Tagged afghanistan, cia, congress, department of justice, drugs, enhanced techniques, guantanamo bay, health professionals, iraq, john yoo, medical experiments, physicians for human rights
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bad government has been good business during the Bush administration. In 1999, nine companies had federal homeland security contracts. Today the total is over 33,000. “Much of what we’ve seen touted by vendors after 9/11,” says security consultant Doug Laird, “is nothing more than a sales force trying to use 9/11 as the hype to […]
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Tagged , argentina, coca cola, columbia, domestic spying, fbi, ford, haliburton, infragard, klan, martial law
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
This is from Beth Kanter:
Here’s the deal. We need to be in the top four charities that get the most unique donors in order to win the $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. Right now we’re number 5, only trailing by 28 donors.
Essentially, I am asking YOU for $10 (USD) to help children in […]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport.
In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing money […]
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Tagged alphonso jackson, cdbg, fema, gulfport, haley barbour, hud, katrina, mississippi
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[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).]
Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all.
I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International released their […]
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Tagged aclu, chris messina, church commission, data portability, david cole, department of homeland security, domestic surveillance, eff, facebook, fbi, fusion centers, google, japanese internment, loren feldman, marshall kirkpatrick, nsa, privacy, sane, shane harris, tangram, total information awareness
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The SNCC Freedom Singers perform in Turkey, Fall 2007
Charles Neblett
Director Rutha Harris
Bettie Mae Fikes
Seku Neblett
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
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Tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Breaking news on the ‘Skeeter Bites Report:
A letter by a Virginia-based U.S. attorney to a federal appeals court appears to contradict CIA Director Michael Hayden’s public statements on the destruction of hundreds of hours of video footage of “extreme” interrogations of suspected al-Qaida operatives by strongly indicating that at least two of the videos still […]
Friday, November 16, 2007
By Mario Marcel Salas
On October 31, 2007 the San Antonio Coalition on Human and Civil Rights (the Coalition) put into the hands of Police Chief William McManus, City Manager Sheryl Sculley, and Mayor Phil Hardberger a copy of a request, under the Texas Open Records Act, of some eleven elements that relate to data that […]
Friday, November 16, 2007
What’s the headline refer to? Hurricane Katrina’s deforestation of the Gulf Coast, primarily Mississippi.
New satellite imaging has revealed that hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in the nation — an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged about 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The die-off, […]
Glenn Greenwald explains.
Numerous Senate Democrats delivered dramatic speeches from the floor as to why Mukasey’s confirmation would be so devastating to the country. The Washington Post said the “vote came after more than four hours of impassioned floor debate.”
“Torture should not be what America stands for . . . I do not vote to […]
Elle, PhD is has ventured to answer Langston’s still prescient question, “What happens to a dream deferred?”
If you know about small communities in the South, you know that Jena is not an aberration of racial progress but rather a manifestation of festering tensions that have never gone away. What’s amazing about Elle’s blog post is […]
Thursday, October 25, 2007
I have not had a chance to blog about the important AP interview with Megan Williams. Go read it, but also check out the video excerpts from it, below. Megan Williams is articulate and composed. She does not seem at all like she is mentally challenged or “slow,” as has been reported.
No time for further […]
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I want to thank pdxWoman for exposing the falsehoods of Blair, who commented on my recent post on Megan Williams as well as on one of pdxWoman’s. pdxWoman was writing about underreporting of the Megan Williams case and of other cases of violence against and abductions of Black women; I was writing about the history […]
By Briley Richmond
Ocean Springs, MS
Sunday, October 21, 2007
The Mississippi Press
A 6-year-old child, Blake Pendergrass, was struck and killed by an automobile in Escatawpa the other day. Escatawpa is about 20 miles from my home in Ocean Springs. I didn’t know him. I would imagine something like that happens somewhere in America every day — at […]
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