Judge reverses Guantanamo ruling - Focus on Guantanamo - MSNBC.com

"In his original decision, the judge cited an appellate court ruling that the government argued required him to dismiss the cases because Congress and President Bush stripped detainees of the right to file habeas corpus petitions."

BBC NEWS | Americas | The African foundations of New York

Naturally you won't find these kind of stories in the mainstream US media about the US -- Thanks BBC: The African foundations of New York

BBC NEWS | Americas | New York opens slave burial site

Half of the remains found at the burial site were of children under the age of twelve....Slavery was widespread in NYC for over two centuries.

Kinda gives new meaning to the term "Yankee".

Accounts Vary on U.S. Attack That Killed 25 Iraqis - New York Times

Despite What President Arias Might Want You to Believe: Why Costa Rica Might Not Need CAFTA After All, and Why It May Be a Bad Deal for the Average Co

"Collective suicide."

"It was what Costa Rica President Oscar Arias has publicly predicted for his country if its good citizens don't ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) , which will be put to referendum this Sunday. "Let's not close the door. Let's not cut our wings. Lets not deny our young people this challenge, " was the impassioned, almost moralistic appeal that Costa Rican economist Alvaro Cedeno made in the country's national newspaper La Nacion. This hortatory, if not establishmentarian advice on the part of Arias and the Costa Rican academic, is reminiscent of President Clinton's appeal to Democratic legislators in 1994 when he urged them to vote for NAFTA. Just as the pro-free trade bloc bought NAFTA by throwing millions of dollars to promote the enactment of it, a comparable fortune has been spent in Costa Rica to guarantee that no October surprises take place on Sunday."

BLACK CLASSIC BOOKS remembers DR. ASA HILLIARD

Osama bin Laden - The Latest Fake

Osama bin Laden - The Latest Fake

Freedom Campaign for the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner

Freedom Campaign

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Talking Points Memo | Bush leaving some problems to successors

The Raw Story | Countdown: Wounded vet calls Limbaugh's comparison of him to suicide bomber 'repugnant'

Somalia: Rising Tension Forces Aid Workers Out of Project Area (Page 1 of 1)

Preparation for Martial Law

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Are we safer today? - washingtonpost.com

No, we still have a two-party system where the one that's supposed to be in opposition is in actually complicity with the Bush Criminal Enterprise.

Myanmar oppressors still hunking Monks

Torture Allegations Dog White House

Jones to admit drugs use says IOC - CNN.com

Jones to admit drugs use says IOC - CNN.com

Now this, this makes me sad -- screw Barry and Big Mac, but you Marion?

Nooooooooooooo!

BBC NEWS | Business | Wal-Mart must pay extra damages

"One of Wal-Mart's undisclosed secrets for its profitability is its creation and implementation of a system that encourages off-the-clock work for its hourly employees."

Damn.

Do you think news of this sort will stop the sheep from shopping with the wolves?

IRR: How liberals lost their anti-racism

"Anthony writes that, since the 1970s, liberalism has been corrupted by white guilt which leads liberals to think that everything will be OK as long as they don't interfere in other people's lives, especially the lives of other ethnic groups. But this is fantasy: in practice, white liberals have not usually shied away from using the power of the state to intervene in the lives of non-whites, either in Britain or in the neo-colonialism of the 'war on terror'".