Archive for February, 2005

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 9:53:51 PM

Homeland Security | WhistleblowerSibel Edmunds blew the whistle long and loud against the FBI lack of preparation for the 9/11 attacks, and was fired, marginalized and made to disappear from … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 9:26:06 PM

Iraq War | Gulf War Syndrome”…a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 9:13:51 PM

Peace | Preemptive Strike”The United States Government has responded to the possibility of a “Uniting for Peace Resolution” reaching the floor of the General Assembly by sending a pre-emptive letter … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 8:58:19 PM

American Liberties”The court finds that the president has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold Petitioner as an enemy combatant,’ Floyd ruled in Spartanburg, South … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 8:55:09 PM

Environment | Technology”Research study provides figures that show growing investment in technologies that reduce consumption of resources.” … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 8:52:22 PM

Terror | World Church of the Creator”The federal judge whom white supremacist Matthew Hale attempted to have murdered found her husband and mother lying dead in her house when … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 5:59:00 PM

Where is the line that we, as a nation, dare not cross?The New York Times >Bob Herbert: It’s Called Torture … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 5:58:05 PM

Iraq War | CO Mejia”Conscientious objector Camilo Mejia: ‘I was a coward not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place.’”AlterNet: Rights … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 5:50:00 PM

The Media | ReligionThe always interesting Joe Garololi at the SF Chronicle has a story both unexpected and useful.Community activists cheered when the federal government began offering licenses for low-power … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 02/28/2005 @ 2:01:00 PM

Lebanon: Cutting the Strings of a PuppetAs the government of Lebanon prepares to step down, Dr Mounzer Sleiman of Al-Jazeera comments on the power of assassinations to crystalize political change, … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 02/28/2005 @ 9:54:00 AM

Iraq | Terrorism”BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — In the deadliest single insurgent attack of the Iraq war, a suicide car bombing killed 125 people Monday in Hilla where police recruits were … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 02/28/2005 @ 4:28:00 AM

Iraq: A Lack of Moral OutrageAppearing in Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star, Chicago sociologist Andrew Greely cannot understand why the reaction to this ‘immoral war’ has been so reserved: “The … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison, 1795



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