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JALSA conference: Restoring America After Bush (Webcast)
The conference will be held in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall on the Harvard Law School campus from 1:00 to 5:00 PM, US East Coast time, on Friday, May 16, 2008. A live webcast in Real Player format will be available here.
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Support The Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008

Via Valtin, the Physicians for Human Rights organization is launching a campaign to support the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008 on its website. SR 3005 and HR 5950, sponsored by Senator Robert Menedez (D-NJ) and Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), will reverse the alarming inhumane treatment of immigrant detainees. The letter [...]

The US’ New Cadre of Josef Mengeles

I’m stewing over the posts by Valtin about the use of US psychologists as agents of torture. I’m heartsick and soul sick at the evidence that Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein produced in their Washington Post Careless Detainee series about the use of nurses and physicians as agents of abuse and torture.
And just in [...]

Human Rights Violators: DIHS Nurses

[UPDATE: From the online Q&A with Priest and Goldstein today, I am including the sections where they addressed my specific questions and am pasting them here. The entire Q&A is beneficial to develop a more comprehensive understanding about the issues.]
Boston: Are Public Health Service personnel staffing the medical units of local and [...]

Iraq War Illegal Propaganda-Gate Links Fest

The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
All The News That Isn’t - Network Television’s Propaganda In Uniform
Glenn Greenwald is developing David Barstow’s [...]

What They Were Saying: Journalism’s Codes Of Ethics

Ben Franklin mused about virtue in the reading and reporting of history. What does the public trust demand and what is the social contract that ethical journalism strives to uphold?
The Society of Professional Journalists published Code of Ethics:
Preamble
Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and [...]

Daily Constitutional: Spring Divertissements, Torture and Illegal Propaganda

[UPDATE] The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
I’ve neglected the Constitution, instead lured by the scents, sounds and sights of Spring [...]

Rosslyn Chapel’s Cymatics

Emergency Department Surge Capacity Hearings

Surge: when you need it will it be there? In response to the full gutting of every government agency accountable for national emergency preparedness, Henry Waxman is holding a two part hearing next week about the ability of the nation’s remaining emergency departments to care for a surge of excess patients in the [...]

“We Don’t Torture”

Brian Tamanaha on the always illuminating Balkinization blog explains more succinctly than anywhere else on the web how BushCo has justified its, “We don’t torture,” mantra in spite of clear and convincing (and deadly) evidence to the contrary.  Use this to explain to the Bush dead-enders:
“We do not torture,” declared President Bush in 2005.
A [...]

Torture: They Report It Because The US Media Is Pimping For The White House

The UK-based Guardian, has presented a several part primer on understanding the breadth, depth and scope of US torture.  Yes, make sure you pay attention to the referencing that it is US policy affirming and using torture.  What George and Dick do, they do in all our names.  Until we remove them from office, repudiate [...]

The D.C. Madam Has Nothing On Pimp Extraordinaire Rumsfeld

David Barstow has just let loose on the New York Times with another scandal.  Donald Rumsfeld ran the Pentagon as a prostitution ring. 
Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs seems to have been the stupid lead prostitute - not fully aware of what he was doing or what was being done to him, although [...]

Daily Constitutional: I Told You So Edition

I hate to be right on these things, but here’s some more evidence which supports my prognostications:
PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame, speaks to Sanctimonious Monsters, and he gets it just right on all fronts.

Yesterday, two great pious leaders of the world met in Washington DC. President Bush has immense temporal power, leading one of the richest [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture and Torturous

Military.com reports about the Pentagon’s detailed evidence of abuse of Afghan prisoners.
The LA Times addresses the horrendous state of prison health care.  And yet, no mention is made of the widespread criminalization of people with mental illness.  over 50% of all inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons.  The answer isn’t in adding to the prison [...]

Torture: The Principles