A new bill quietly introduced by congress last week is causing quite a stir among civil liberties groups. The brainchild of senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, the bill would give the United States government the power to indefinitely detain terror suspects without charge or trial. It would also allow the government to interrogate them for the intelligence value and it doesn't make a distinction between US citizens and non-citizens.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
US can detain anyone it sees fit, for life
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Israel boycott campaign tours UK universities
London : The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions in the UK (ICAHD-UK) is launching a tour of British universities with Palestinian organisations next week to extend the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Professor of Anthropology Jeff Halper, co-founder of ICAHD, is joining Palestinian journalist and writer Ghada Karmi, to discuss how to achieve similar global action that helped to end the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Organisations supporting the tour include Action Palestine, Campaigning for Palestinian Rights on Campus, British Committee for Universities for Palestine (Bricup), and the Greenbelt Festival as well as Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
The tour starts next Monday at Exeter University in south-west England before moving onto Birmingham in central England, Gasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, Bradford in northern England and ending at SOAS in London on March 20.
In addition, Halper is also speaking on "Repression in Israel: what can be done?" at West Central Liberal Synagogue in the British capital.
ICAHD, which also has a branch in the US, was originally established as a non-violent, direct-action group to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the occupied territories.
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Former Israeli officials in the U.S. government
Who benefits from invading and occupying Iraq? Are Americans defending U.S. national security, or the security of our colonial outpost in the Arab World? This interview discusses the neoconservative Zionist cabal of the Bush administration who beat the drums for our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Israel intends to build civilian nuclear plants
Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy, offering to build one as a joint project with Jordan, under French supervision.
The Israeli infrastructure minister, Uzi Landau, said at a Paris conference that Israel wanted a cleaner, more reliable source of energy than the large amounts of coal now imported. He said that regional cooperation on civilian nuclear power could help bind the Middle East.
Jordan, however, said any such cooperation was premature before a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jordan, like Egypt, has been talking about building a civilian nuclear power plant for some time.
Iran, already subject to sanctions by the United Nations Security Council, insists that its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes, but Western governments believe its intentions are military.
Still, Israel’s announcement here may further complicate efforts to get the Security Council to impose new sanctions on Iran.
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