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Detainee Files Lawsuit against Rumsfeld

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Detainee Files Lawsuit against Rumsfeld

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805Q.shtml

A lawsuit filed today against US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held

without charges for more than two years as an " enemy combatant " in a

South

Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.

 

 

Pentagon Expects to Send More Iraq Troops

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805R.shtml

Anticipating a new burst of insurgent violence, the Pentagon plans to

expand the US force in Iraq to improve security for a planned October

referendum and a December election.

 

 

War Plans Drafted to Counter Terror Attacks in US

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080805S.shtml

The US military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding

against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States,

envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several

simultaneous

strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.

 

 

Mark Hertsgaard | Nuclear Energy Can't Solve Global Warming

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805EA.shtml

Mark Hertsgaard describes an evening lecture with prominent

environmental thinkers Jared Diamond and Stewart Brand where both men

endorsed

nuclear power as a solution to global warming. This position is wrong,

Hertsgaard says, not so much for reasons of nuclear safety as for

economic

reasons.

 

 

Alaskan People Tell of Climate Change

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805EB.shtml

For the past 20 years climatologists and ice and atmosphere scientists

have been working in Alaska studying climate change. Now they have

discovered a rich new source of records extending their knowledge back by

decades through the oral history of native Alaskans.

 

 

UN Boosts Medical Response to Niger Hunger

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805HA.shtml

On the front line of the war against hunger in Niger today 65 children

were brought in to just one United Nations-supported therapeutic

feeding center during the morning hours alone. In the intensive care ward

nine-month-olds weigh the same as newborns, while others are so weak they

have no energy left to cry.

 

 

FDA Responds to Criticism with New Caution

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805HB.shtml

After a series of drug safety scandals, the Food and Drug

Administration has in recent months issued new drug-safety warnings

and approval

times for new drugs have slowed. But the changes have not satisfied the

FDA's many critics, who say that the agency is either not doing enough,

doing too much or failing to be consistent.

 

 

Union Leaders Denounce Two Who Voted for CAFTA

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805LA.shtml

The roiling debate over the narrow vote in the House of Representatives

to approve the Central American Free Trade Agreement rippled back to

New York City yesterday, as a broad coalition of labor unions and allied

groups assailed two congressmen, Gregory W. Meeks and Edolphus Towns,

for supporting the bill.

 

 

Wal-Mart Says It's Too Big for Women's Lawsuit

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805WA.shtml

If women prevail in a class action anti-discrimination lawsuit, it

could force Wal-Mart to pay billions of dollars to all women paid less

than

their male counterparts. Wal-Mart says it is unfair to sue the

mega-corporation as it claims each store has its own management style.

 

 

Fighting to Preserve Women's Rights in Iraq

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/080805WB.shtml

Iraqi women's rights activists are lobbying hard to prevent the new

Iraq constitution from enshrining religious laws that govern marriage and

family. They say these laws are oppressive to women. There are hoping

to at least preserve the rights that women now have.

 

 

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