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Join the debate! http://forum.truthout.org/blog t r u t h o u t | 12.08 Feingold Threatens Filibuster on Patriot Act Report http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805A.shtml Feingold writes that he will do everything he can, including a filibuster, to stop this Patriot Act conference report, which does not include adequate safeguards to protect our constitutional freedoms. Acts of Defiance against War Turned Ordinary People into Criminals http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805B.shtml In three different British courtrooms yesterday, three ordinary people stood accused of three very different crimes, but all based simply on their opposition to the war in Iraq. Norman Solomon | Rumsfeld's Handshake Deal with Saddam http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805C.shtml Norman Solomon writes: Today, inside the corporate media frame, history can be supremely relevant when it focuses on Hussein's torture and genocide. But the historic assistance of the US government and American firms is largely off the subject and beside the point. Apparently, in the world according to US mass media, some history matters profoundly and some doesn't matter at all. Records Show Burns' Abramoff Meetings http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805D.shtml Sen. Conrad Burns and his staff met Jack Abramoff's lobbying team on at least eight occasions and collected $12,000 in donations around the time that the lawmaker took legislative action favorable to Abramoff's clients in the Northern Mariana Islands. British Court Rules Against Evidence Gained in Torture http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805E.shtml Thrusting itself into the middle of a stormy international debate, Britain's highest court declared today that evidence obtained through torture - no matter who had done the torturing - was not admissible in British courts. J. Sri Raman | Meaning of an Indian Minister's Exit http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805F.shtml J. Sri Raman: On Tuesday night, India's external affairs minister, K. Natwar Singh, announced his resignation from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government. What did the development mean? And, equally importantly, what did it not mean? Australia Shifts on Climate Change http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805G.shtml The US has found itself isolated as other countries, including ally Australia, backed the early start of negotiations for deeper cuts in greenhouse gases, the fossil-fuel pollution blamed for global warming. The American Army Redeploys in Europe http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805H.shtml Described as " historic, " yesterday's signing of an agreement offering four bases to American forces in Romania is emblematic of a shift from the " Old " to the " New " Europe. The announcement of that redeployment in August 2004 was interpreted by some as a desire on the part of the Bush administration to punish the rebellion of its historic allies following their refusal to follow the US into the Iraqi adventure - a conclusion that is both correct and incorrect, argues Arnaud de la Grange. Rummy Exit Rumored; Lieberman Eyed for Job http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805I.shtml White House officials are telling associates they expect Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to quit early next year, once a new government is formed in Iraq, sources said yesterday. Pentagon Memo: Prisoners Transferred to Be Tortured http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805J.shtml Although Bush administration officials have denied that they transfer terrorism suspects to countries where they are likely to be abused, a classified memorandum described in a court case indicates that the Pentagon has considered sending a captured militant abroad to be interrogated under threat of torture. Rice Engulfed in Criticism for Torture http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805K.shtml Rice has been engulfed by criticism over reports that CIA planes used airports in Europe as stopovers while transporting prisoners to secret interrogation sites. Saul Landau | Latino Troops Have Parents http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805L.shtml The recruiters target high schools with heavy populations of Mexican descent. The marines have had particular success in their forceful publicity campaign. They claim that youth of Mexican origin make up 13% of the Corps. But that high percentage of Latinos also shows up in the high dead and wounded counts. Harold Pinter | Art, Truth and Politics http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805M.shtml Harold Pinter asks: How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice. Congressional Black Caucus to Oppose Alito http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805N.shtml Most of Congress's black lawmakers will oppose the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, officials said Wednesday. Gesture from Venezuela Heats the Bronx http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805O.shtml In a gesture combining generosity and high theater, officials from an American subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company announced yesterday from a chilly corner of the Mount Hope neighborhood that they would sell heating fuel at a 40 percent discount to 75 apartment buildings in the Bronx, benefiting 8,000 low-income residents. NOW | Chemicals in the Gulf http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805P.shtml NOW looks at one woman who took on a giant chemical company for dumping chemicals into the Gulf Coast and won. William Rivers Pitt | Iraq and the Democrats http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805Y.shtml We can win nothing in Iraq. We can only hope to survive the incredible disaster that has been foisted upon us. Rejecting the premise of " winning " is the first step toward that survival. Rejecting wrong-headed, deliberately misleading GOP talking points would be a good idea as well. Getting out of Iraq is the only sane, sensible, responsible course of action. Any Democrats who hope to be president should heed this. They are ten steps behind the rest of the country, and when they buy into the nonsense, they only ensure their electoral doom. Sidney Blumenthal: Condi's Trail of Lies http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805Z.shtml Sidney Blumenthal asserts that Condoleezza Rice's contradictory, misleading and outright false statements about the US and torture have taken America's moral standing - and her own - to new depths. Red State Road Trip: A 60-Minute Documentary http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm How could America have given George W. Bush a second term? Filmmaker Chris Hume decided to find out by embarking on a 6,000-mile, cross-country journey in search of America's soul. The result: a fascinating, hilarious, and often disturbing road-trip adventure. Welcome to t r u t h o u t video podcasting. What is video podcasting? 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