Month August 2005

Miami – This week, [Luis] Diaz, who in 1980 was convicted of seven rapes and sentenced to life in prison, walked free. Defense lawyer Barry Scheck, whose New York-based Innocence Project helped free Diaz, called the former cook’s release from…

CNN suspended contributor and conservative columnist Robert Novak on Thursday after he cursed and stormed off a live studio telecast of the cable network’s program “Inside Politics.” In suspending Novak, the network called his on-air actions “inexcusable.”

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on charges they received classified national defense information from a Pentagon analyst. AIPAC is the most powerful of the pro-Israel lobbies. This…

Eighteen months ago ANSWER L.A. held a major demo in Hollwood with several thousand people and the media ignored it. Yesterday we called a protest on 18 hours notice against Rumsfeld speaking here this morning. One hundred people came, not bad…

Britain’s Muslim scapegoats Huge rise in race attacks on all ethnic minorities across Britain. Senior Tory MP tells Muslims: ‘If you don’t like our way of life, get out’. Senior Muslim tells women not to wear veils in public for…