Comics is not the only thing Ted Rall is good at. His columns are great for putting the current state of things into perspective After a few brief decades of social progress the United States has lurched back into the dark ages of torture, concentration camps and police harassment of its scapegoats and undesirables–current members: […]
This has just been shown on the BBC News website. the names will be relesed…but guess what, you got to find them within a 6000 page document! The US defence department has said it will release the names of inmates detained at its Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba later on Friday. However, the names will […]
Well here is one of the “checks and balances” that Bush must really hate: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President George W. Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program. The ruling was a victory for the Electronic Privacy […]
Leave it to the awesome reporting of the Nation to remind us of historical facts we may have forgotten about: For the generations who came of age after the mid-1970s, it is worth recalling why warrantless domestic surveillance so shocks the political system. It needs to be repeated that the same arguments cited by Bush–inherent […]