Stories from 2002-06-12
"According to press reports, the White House thinks Ashcroft made too much of Padilla, who has not been charged with a crime. The government attorneys apparently could not get an indictment out of a New York grand jury and, rather than let him go, handed Padilla off to the military. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, speaking from Quatar, says he might never be tried." [more]
"Attorney General John Ashcroft is claiming that indefinite detention of suspected terrorists without a trial—or any other judicial review of the allegations against them—is justified by 'clear Supreme Court precedent.' Presumably, he's referring to the case of the Nazi saboteurs. If so, then Ashcroft is dead wrong." [more]
"Karzai is expected to be reconfirmed as Afghan leader at today's national council, where US power has raised ire." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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