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The Plight of Iraq’s Progressive Labor Movement

Dan Read October 3, 2007 Dan Read

Abdelhussein Saddam

Like many people who lived under the Baathist dictatorship, Abdelhussein Saddam passionately yearned for change. Born in 1957 in Basra, Saddam became known as a progressive thinker, for which he was imprisoned for two years by state security forces. When the US/UK coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, he understood that the future lay within Iraq's ability to organize itself independently - free of both the gun-toting hypocrisy of western imperialism and the machinations of political Islam.

A People’s History of Congo’s Jean-Pierre Bemba

keith harmon snow September 18, 2007 keith harmon snow

Who is Jean-Pierre Bemba and how did he rise to power in the heart of darkness? Did Bemba order his rebel soldiers to cannibalize pygmies? What is Bemba's relationship to the competitors of George W. Bush and the friends of Bill Clinton? How is Bemba linked to blood diamonds in Africa and mercenary armies in Iraq? Why have troops from Uganda recently re-invaded Congo and why have the United Nations and international press been silent about it? A look at Bemba's infamous history answers these questions and more.

Project Censored: Crackdown on Rights a Top Censored Story

Project Censored and Frank Morales September 13, 2007 Project Censored and Frank Morales

Editor's Note: Independent news outlets regularly break important stories that corporate media giants either ignore or are too compromised to report on. When Project Censored arranged its annual list this year of the 25 most important stories censored by the corporate media, the Bush administration's crackdown on civil liberties topped the list, with a Toward Freedom article on martial law by Frank Morales chosen as #2.

Project Censored 2008

Super User September 13, 2007 Super User

#1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person”
Sources:
Consortium, October 19, 2006
Title: “Who Is ‘Any Person’ in Tribunal Law?”
Author: Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2006/101906.html

Consortium, February 3, 2007
Title: “Still No Habeas Rights for You”
Author: Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/020307.html

Common Dreams, February 2, 2007
Title: “Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most
American Human Right”
Author: Thom Hartmann
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0212-24.htm read more

Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson: From Cold War to Class War

KPFA Radio September 11, 2007 KPFA Radio

Interview with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Liquidity crisis in the banking system; wiping out of credit; demise of the dollar; stock volatility; hedge funds; sub- prime lending, real estate tax versus labor tax, etc. Dr. Hudson has been appointed Chief Economic Advisor for the Kucinich for President campaign, and is writing a new tax policy for the United States.

Torture Taxi: Extraordinary Rendition in the Crosshairs

Glenn Brigaldino September 6, 2007 Glenn Brigaldino

Back in late 2001, Swedish police had arrested Mohamed al-Zery and Ahmed Agiza as suspected terrorists and were in a hurry to deport them rather than have them claim refugee status. Lacking their own logistics of rapid deportation, the Swedes welcomed the offer from a US-based plane operator to make available a Gulfstream jet marked N379P. The plane's hooded US crew picked up its unwilling passengers and flew them to Egypt, where both were detained, interrogated and tortured.