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Canadian Terrorism law struck down (Janice Tibbetts)

Posted on Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Vancouver Sun, Saturday, February 24, 2007

Ottawa — Holding secret trials to deport foreign terror suspects is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday in a ruling that ordered the federal government to rewrite a law that it has defended as a key tool in fighting terrorism. (Keep reading…)

Is the War on Terror a War on Truth? (Anthony J. Hall)

Posted on Monday, February 19th, 2007

Placing the Deceit and Media Cover Ups of the Cheney-Bush Regime in the Context of History and Contemporary Politics### (Keep reading…)

Short Changed (George Monbiot)

Posted on Monday, February 12th, 2007

9/11 conspiracism is dragging activists away from the real issues

Published in the Guardian, 6th February 2007 (Keep reading…)

Canadians who trust our secret police should think again (John F Conway)

Posted on Saturday, December 16th, 2006

CCPA Monitor, September 2006

An Innovative Research Group poll taken after the early June bust of “the Toronto 17″ should cause deep concern among all Canadians. Sixty-two per cent of Canadians agreed with the proposition that without national security all other rights of Canadians were simply theoretical. (Keep reading…)

Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America’s war on terror (George Monbiot)

Posted on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

The Guardian, Tuesday December 12 2006

In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront (Keep reading…)

Millions assigned terror risk score on trips to US (Ed Pilkington)

Posted on Monday, December 4th, 2006

The Guardian Friday December 1, 2006

Millions of travellers coming into and out of the US over the past four years have each been assigned a risk assessment score designed to pinpoint potential terrorists or criminals, the US government has revealed. (Keep reading…)

Drawing the Lessons of 9-11 (book review, Sid Shniad)

Posted on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

The Hidden History of 9-11-2001
Research in Political Economy
2006 Volume 23.
Ed. by Paul Zarembka
(Keep reading…)

Torture, Moral Values, and Leadership of the Free World (Edward S. Herman)

Posted on Monday, October 16th, 2006

[Z Magazine, November 2006

It is striking and chilling to see the leader of the Free World, George W. Bush, the Decider, seeking and gaining legislative approval for his government’s now widespread use of torture, and exemption of himself and his top level associates for any earlier applications of torture. It has been pointed out that such ex-post exemptions have been sought by the most notorious state terrorists such as Augusto Pinochet and the Argentinian generals, whose ranks the Decider aims to join. This quest contradicts the earlier claims that the torture in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere was being carried out at their own initiative by “rotten apples” at the bottom of the military barrel; it makes it clear that if there were real prosecutions for those criminal acts they would focus on the rotten apples at the top, who created the moral environment within which the lower level cadres worked and which the leadership is now institutionalizing as lawful. (Keep reading…)

The Myth of the Ticking Time Bomb(Alfred W. McCoy)

Posted on Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Published on The Progressive (<>http://progressive.org) October 2006

A sk not for whom the bomb ticks, Mr. and Ms. America. Right now, across Los Angeles, timers on dozens of toxic nerve-gas canisters are set to detonate in just hours and send some two million Americans to their deaths in writhing agony. (Keep reading…)

A Letter to Rummy (Eric Margolis)

Posted on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Toronto Sun September 3, 2006

To U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:

Dear Rummy: In your speech to the American Legion in Salt Lake City last week, you compared critics of your wars abroad to appeasers of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. (Keep reading…)

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