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THE CITIZEN

 DECEMBER  2005                                           Vol. 6 Issue 6

 


Look for Our Next Issue in February 2006.

 

 >in this issue:                   

  • CIVIL RIGHTS CASES:        
  • CURRENT EVENTS: 

         > Bush Violates Law and Commits Impeachable Offence by Kate Martin

       > Letter on the USA PATRIOT ACT Reauthorization Act of 2005

  • AFRICA TODAY: 

> Kenya: From Hope to Decline  ( a briefing paper )
> Presidency in Perpetuity,  by Dr.Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem 
  • EYE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:

  • DISPATCHES FROM IRAQ: by Dahr Jamail

> "Pacified" Fallujah

The CPT

> The Advocate

  • FOCUS ON NEWARK, NJ: 

      > In Memoriam: Charles F. Cummings

  • ORGANIZED CRIME & CORRUPTION: 
  • IN RETROSPECT:

      >  Nobel Laureate Linus Carl Pauling, presentation speech Dec. 10, 1962

  • NEW--CHAMPIONS FOR PEACE:

          > Bertrand Russell 

  • RECOMMENDED READING:
  • WORDS OF INSPIRATION:

> On Varied Topics

  • COMMENTARY by JIM HIGHTOWER: 

> Martial law for bird flu ?

> Bush Reconstruction Company

> Another Corporate Captive for the Court

  • COMMENTARY by JOE TRENTO:  

> The Bob and Judy Show...

  • EDITORIAL page: 
  • NEWS-LINK TICKER: 

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>Essays & articles of interest published by other sites:  

 


 

American Civil Liberties Union

 

The Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Torture Policies

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/rumsfeld/index.html

 

Tell Your Member of Congress to Stop Torture

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=323&pg=makeACall

 

The Fight to Reform the Patriot Act Is Not Over

Both houses of Congress have passed bills to renew the expiring parts of the Patriot Act. http://action.aclu.org/reformthepatriotact/

 

NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS

http://action.aclu.org/reformthepatriotact/nsl.html

 

Authorities Target Political Groups

http://www.aclu.org/spyfiles

 

ACLU ACTIVIST TOOLKIT

Become an Effective and Efficient Activist

http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AP_effective_activism

 

THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

http://www.aclu.org/newface

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17572&c=206.

 


 

Amnesty International

 

The State of the World's Human Rights,  

2005 Report

http://www.amnesty.org/report2005

 

LIBRARY

http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex

 

THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE AGAINST TORTURE

GUANTANAMO BAY, BAGRAM, AND BEYOND

http://news.amnesty.org/pages/conference-press-eng

 

The arms trade is out of control. 

Worldwide, arms are fueling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses.

http://www.controlarms.org

 

Guantanamo Bay and beyond: the continuing pursuit of unchecked executive power.  http://web.amnesty.org/pages/guantanamobay-index-eng

 

 

Myanmar: End their wait for justice!

http://www.amnesty.org/actnow/myanmar/myanmar_eng.htm

 

 


 

 

EPIC

 

Medical Privacy Petition

http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/petition

 

FACIAL RECOGNITION AND PRIVACY

http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/1105/

 

EPIC PRIVACY.ORG

http://www.privacy.org/

 

DoD Recruiting Database

http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html

 


 

GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL

 

Vanishing Forests

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests

 


 

Human Rights Watch Reports:

 

Child Soldiers

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/index.htm

 

FILM FESTIVAL

http://www.hrw.org/iff/2005/traveling/

 

Darfur Drawn: The Crisis in Darfur Through Children's Eyes

http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings/

 

Darfur: A Human Rights Catastrophe

http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/02/index.htm

 

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/mines/1999/index.htm

 


 

 

IRIN NEWS Reports:

 

IRIN PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE

PHOTO GALLERY

http://www.irinnews.org/

 

'Lazarus Drug': ARVs in the treatment era 

IRIN Web Special

http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/ARV-era/default.asp

 


 

Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/files/pdfs/Corporate%20Accountability%20International%20Standards%20of%20Political%20Conduct%20for%20Corporations.pdf

 

Water

Corporations like Coca-Cola and Suez are aggressively turning water from a basic human right into an unaffordable luxury.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1131.cfm

 

Tobacco

The powerful tobacco industry led by Philip Morris/Altria is still fighting in the US and internationally to undermine the global tobacco treaty. http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1111.cfm

 

Food & Agribusiness

Global food and agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Monsanto and Dow increase their profits as people around the world face hunger and malnutrition. ttp://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1132.cfm

 

Oil

Big Oil giants like ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco are causing permanent damage to the air we breathe and the water we drink.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1112.cfm

 


 

Organized Crime and Corruption Information:

 

www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/convention_corruption/signing/Convention-e.pdf

 

Bibliographic Database Search

 

Global Corruption Report 2004

http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm

 

PREVENTING CORRUPTION ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

http://www.transparency.org/in_focus_archive/gcr/neill/2005.03.16.TI_construct_projects.html

 

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL celebrates

ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY     DEC. 9, 2005

http://www.transparency.org/

 

Transparency International’s Web Portal on Anti-Corruption Resources (CORIS) http://www.corisweb.org/

 

CORRUPTION, A Special Report, IPS News, www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/corruption/index.asp

 

Business Principles for Countering Bribery http://www.transparency.org/building_coalitions/private_sector/business_principles/dnld/business_principles2.pdf

 

Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit 
emerging strategies
http://www.transparency.org/toolkits/index.html

 

National Whistleblower Center,

http://www.whistleblowers.org/

 

KEEPING an EYE on the most CORRUPT CONGRESS  EVER

http://www.ourfuture.org/issues_and_campaigns/accountablecongress/index.cfm

 

Boycott Bush International Network

Nenhum dinheiro para a guerra - Boicote a Bush

Pas D'Argent pour la Guerre – Boycott Bush

Bojkott Bush

http://www.motherearth.org/USboycott/index_en.php

 


 

GARY WEBB'S  DARK ALLIANCE SERIES

re-posted by NARCONEWS

 

"Dark Alliance" series on U.S.-sponsored  narco-trafficking, finally finds a new on-line home. Narco News will, re-publish the full text of Dark Alliance, plus all the extra documentation, photographs, audio recordings, and other features that made the Internet version of the story so unique and influential. http://www.narconews.com

America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras by Gary Webb

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1main.htm

Testimony links U.S. to drugs-guns trade

Dealers got their 'own little arsenal' by Gary Webb

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1list.htm

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/webintro.mov

 

Dark Alliance: Day Two

The Crack Epidemic's Shadowy Origins, By Gary Webb

IF THEY'D BEEN IN a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. This odd trio -- a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager -- made fortunes creating the first mass market in America for a product so hellishly desirable that consumers will literally kill to get it: ''crack'' cocaine. Federal lawmen will tell you plenty about Rick Ross, mostly about the evils he visited upon black neighborhoods by spreading the crack plague in Los Angeles and cities as far east as Cincinnati. On Aug. 23, they hope, Freeway Rick will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2main.htm

 

Drug agent thought she was onto something big

On a November afternoon in 1981, San Francisco DEA agent Sandra Smith inadvertently uncovered the first direct link between cocaine and the secret army the Central Intelligence Agency was assembling to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

Smith, one of the first female Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Bay Area, was investigating rumors that a cocaine ring run by Norwin Meneses was bringing drugs into California and, for some reason, sending weapons down to Central America.

It was, she said, ''the only (case) that I ever worked, in all the time I worked there, that I thought was really big.''

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2frog.htm

 

Drug expert: 'Crack' born in San Francisco Bay Area in '74

THOUGH MIAMI AND LOS ANGELES are commonly regarded as the twin cradles of ''crack'' cocaine, the first government-financed study of cocaine smoking concluded that it was actually born here, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in January 1974. After comedian Richard Pryor nearly immolated himself during a cocaine-smoking binge in 1980, the National Institute on Drug Abuse hired UCLA drug expert Ronald K. Siegel to look into the then-unfamiliar practice. Siegel, the first scientist to document crack's use in the United States, traced the smoking habit back to 1930, when Colombians first started it.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2rock.htm

 

Dark Alliance: Day Three

War on Drugs Has Unequal Impact on Blacks in U.S.

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

 

 


 

 

On PEACE:

 

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors:

 

 

 

                          

 

 

 

Why Question the Military's JROTC Program?

http://www.objector.org/jrotc/why.html

 

Upcoming Counter-Recruitment Conference

http://www.objector.org/recruiting.html

 

Get the Military Out of Our Schools

Are students getting a balanced education about the military?

http://www.objector.org/

 


 

Other Peace Related Issues:

 

Children's Defense Fund

2005 Gun Report: 

Protect Children not Guns

http://childrensdefense.org/education/gunviolence/gunreport2005/default.aspx

 

 


 

Influence Peddling Laws

http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/laws/

 

 

REVOLVING DOORS

The Journey from Congress to K Street

http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/documents/RevolveDoor.pdf

 

Auto and Truck Safety

http://www.citizen.org/autosafety/

 

 

WHITE HOUSE,

http://www.citizen.org/ 

 

 

CONGRESS WATCH 

www.citizen.org/congress/

 

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WBAI--99.5 FM, NYC

 

24/7 ARCHIVING OF PROGRAMS

http://archive.wbai.org/

 

 

Democracy Now !  www.democracynow.org

 

 

Browse programs aired in November http://www.democracynow.org/browsebydate.pl?year=2005&month=12   

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