Month December 2005

Independent World Television

From long-time activist Woody Hastings comes: I’m sure many of you are already aware of this, but in case you are not, I am sending it to you so you do know about it and can share it. In a nutshell,…

Pentagon lies

The Pentagon has built a massive security database to help protect U.S. military bases and troops that includes unwarranted information on Iraq war opponents and peace activists in the United States, a defense official said on Wednesday. The official said…

Eugene Debs

I just started reading Eugene Deb’s "Wall and Bars", his book about being in prison, and how prison supports and is an inherent tool of repression of the capitalist system. Debs was extraordinary. He was a socialist who was imprisoned…

World boycotts Saddam trial

Condi, of course, has a hissy fit Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sharply criticized other nations Tuesday for failing to provide support for the trial of Saddam Hussein, saying that the world community’s "effective boycott of Saddam’s trial is only…

SHUs

A friend passes on a letter from a California prison inmate who was transferred to a dreaded Special Housing Unit (SHU) where the rule is no human contact. Amnesty International has called such conditions "torture." I just got a letter…