Month December 2005

Anti-recruitment rally

It’s a poverty draft. The military targets people of color in working class areas for recruitment. This ANSWER LA Youth and Student rally was held at the Military Entrance Processing Center in the heavily Black and Latino South LA. It’s…

Dept. of the Obvious

The Army Corps agrees in an initial study that the New Orleans (levee) system was probably overtaxed. In a stunning burst of intellectual prowess and deduction, Col. Fred "Bulldozer" McCarthy said preliminary data indicated the levees failed because "there was…

Kidan readies his aria

Federal prosecutors have all but finalized a plea agreement with a second business partner of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for cooperation in the ongoing criminal investigations of Abramoff, congressional aides and Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), lawyers in…

Lapdog Lieberman

Lowell Weicker may return to politics over Lieberman’s support of war No politician in Connectict has greater stature than Lowell Weicker, who once ran as an independent for governor – and won. "When you’ve become the president’s best friend on…

New MI6 and CIA torture claims

An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement of British and US intelligence agencies. Binyam Mohammed, 27, says he spent nearly three years in the CIA’s network of ‘black sites’. In Morocco…