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>What Price Human Rights ?     by Vinodh Jaichand

>Regulation of information during conflict situations: The role of women      by Amie Joof- Colé

EYE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:

>On Criminal Silences by Firoze Manji and Patrick Burnett

>Born Out of Genocide; Born to Live Off Genocide by Jacques Depelchin

DISPATCHES FROM IRAQ: by Dahr Jamail

>The Siege of Tal-Afar

>More Dissent, More Censorship

>Violence Only Leads to More Violence

FOCUS ON NEWARK, NJ:
ORGANIZED CRIME & CORRUPTION:
IN RETROSPECT:

>Dr. Charles Habib Malik, a Pioneer Remembered by T.C. Murray

RECOMMENDED READING:

WORDS OF INSPIRATION:

>On War

COMMENTARY by JIM HIGHTOWER:

>Was Robertson Speaking for the Bushites ?

>Why Aren't the Bushes at War ?

>Invading Your Library Records

>The New Poll Tax

COMMENTARY by JOE TRENTO:

>Abramoff

>Beirut Rules

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>I Wish I Could ( a prose poem ) by Leonard Manfred

>While Bush was on vacation     by Victor Saraiva

>2000 Too Many   by Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis

>The Alternative  by Victor Saraiva

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Is it for Freedom ?

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>Essays & articles of interest published by other sites:

American Civil Liberties Union:

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/

A Promise in Jeopardy

Three crucial sections of the VRA set to expire in 2007.

In the 40 years since its passage, the Voting Rights Act has guaranteed millions of Americans the equal opportunity to participate in the political process. One of the most successful civil rights laws ever enacted by Congress, the VRA abolished literacy and other tests which had been used to deny blacks and other minorities the right to vote. http://www.votingrights.org/more.php

Authorities Target Political Groups

http://www.aclu.org/spyfiles

THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

http://www.aclu.org/newface

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

RUMSFELD TIMELINE

http://www.aclu.org/rumsfeld/timeline.pdf

Amnesty International

The State of the World's Human Rights,

2005 Report

http://www.amnesty.org/report2005

VIDEO & AUDIO

http://www.amnesty.org/report2005

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

EPIC

SEVIS Database Tracks Every Move of Foreign Students, Visitors

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

DoD Recruiting Database

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

GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL

Vanishing Forests

Throughout the world, ancient forests are in crisis. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests

The Genetically Modified Grenade

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering

Human Rights Watch Reports:

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:

'Lazarus Drug': ARVs in the treatment era IRIN Web Special

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

Hear Our Voices

People caught up in crises of one kind or another http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/voices/default.asp

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

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
Civil society experiences and 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

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

WHITE HOUSE

http://www.citizen.org/

CONGRESS WATCH

www.citizen.org/congress/

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24/7 ARCHIVING OF PROGRAMS

http://archive.wbai.org/

THE LYNNE STEWART CASE

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of Case Against Stewart and Co-Defendants go to:
http://www.wbai.org/pdf/OverviewEYJSL2-14-05.pdf

Democracy Now ! www.democracynow.org

Browse programs aired in October http://www.democracynow.org/browsebydate.pl?year=2005&month=10

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