Bush Misleads Public on PATRIOT Act
According to the Washington Post, while Bush claimed in a Ohio speech last week 200 convictions out of 400 arrests in the last four years, an analysis of the Justice Department’s own sources indicate that only 39 people have been convicted of crimes related to terror or national security since September 11th...In a published statement, the ACLU characterized the President’s speech in Ohio as “both misguided and disingenuous.”
New Report: Workers Seeking Unions Denied Fundamental Democratic Rights
An independent report concludes the U.S. union election process administered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) systematically violates the fundamental rights that govern U.S. elections, denying workers the freedom to form unions.
Fort Lauderdale:Protestors Slam OAS General Assembly
The three-day General Assembly was a spectacle of U.S. arrogance, in which Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti were vilified and threatened. Protestors came to the defense of the targeted countries, denouncing Washington’s schemes against them
Rice advocates intervention for democracy in veiled threat against Venezuela
'The last time the OAS met in the US in 1974,' noted Rice, '10 of 23 members were dictators.' ... At the time, many of the military dictators Rice referred to were the US government’s closest allies in the region.The meeting in 1976, when the OAS held its 5th General Assembly in Santiago, Chile, was home of the US-supported Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
