2012

When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism (6/13/2012)

When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism (6/13/2012)

Source: The Nation Magazine By: Laila Al-Arian June 13, 2012 | This article appeared in the July 2-9, 2012 edition of The Nation. TIM ROBINSON For a while, the phone stopped ringing. Not completely—reporters called, but many old friends did not. That’s how my mother remembers the days following my[Read More…]

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Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian (5/29/2012)

Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian (5/29/2012)

Link: Prism Magazine (5/29/2012): Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian   Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian By William Fisher. Published on May 29, 2012 In a nationwide press conference in 2003, George W. Bush’s attorney general, the born-again John[Read More…]

by May 30, 2012 0 comments 2012
Personalizing civil liberties abuses (4/16/2012)

Personalizing civil liberties abuses (4/16/2012)

Source:Salon.com Personalizing civil liberties abuses By Glenn Greenwald April 16, 2012 On Saturday, I was at the University of Chicago for an event to discuss humanitarian intervention and empire. One of my fellow speakers was Tariq Ramadan, the highly regarded Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford. He’s one of[Read More…]

by April 16, 2012 0 comments 2012
Political Persecution, American Style: A film review (4/4/2012)

Political Persecution, American Style: A film review (4/4/2012)

Source: Chicago Sun Times By Omer M. Mozaffar Uploaded by Roger Ebert on April 4, 2012 Just a few months ago, our President signed the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 after almost unanimous bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, while the media almost unanimously ignored it. This is that same[Read More…]

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