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On Capital Hill Thursday, the Senate voted to take away Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ right to challenge their detentions in United States courts. The measure, put forward by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, would override a Supreme Court decision last year. The New York Times reports the amendment would nullify legal challenges currently filed by ( Read more... )

Most communication to the Sunni towns of Husaybah and Qaim has been cut off. An Iraqi journalist in Husaybah told Al-Jazeera "The city is suffering a complete lack of all of life's basic necessities. There is no fuel and winter is upon us. There is no food and there are no services whatsoever, not even health services." The journalist said that ( Read more... )

The United States government’s unlawful and covert practices started very early on. And I'm just going to say this to give people a picture of how quickly this administration seized on an opportunity to repress people. Within one day of the attacks on the United States, the government rounded up -- started rounding up in excess of 1,500 people -- ( Read more... )

I'm back in the states everyone come see me

world trade is based on the capitalist concept of expanding profit. where does this profit come from? trees? no it comes from the people and while billions in this worlds suffer poverty and hunger and even death, 200 men (most of them from the corporations that control world trade) own 2/3 of the worlds wealth. yes free trade works...for them. ( Read more... )

FACISM ( Read more... )

how are you? I havent been able to go on a computer for quite a while, I was away in cornwall having adventures, learning, and just having experiences ( Read more... )

woke up this morning to sam and natalia banging on mollys door to tell us they were are having a baby...

...and they are

two of my really close mates having a baby...wow

well last monday we had a fire outside our house, and it was left really messy and the whole house was trashed on tuesday morning. I woke up in the morning and there were faculty members all over the house who started yelling at me and accusing me of all kinds of shit, and basically it turned into a pretty big issue ( Read more... )