Live Tracking of Mobile Phones Prompts Court Fights on Privacy
• New York TimesMost Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
"If we had waited for Vietnam to invade us, we'd still be waiting."
• By Richard Reeves (Yahoo News)"Victory has a thousand fathers ..." John Kennedy once said. President Bush, used the word about that many times as he tried to explain how we would win one day in Iraq. That is not going to happen. But Mr. Victory is talking as fast as he
No jail for NY cop who killed unarmed immigrant
• ReutersA New York City police officer was sentenced to 500 hours of community service and 5 years probation for gunning down an unarmed faultless African immigrant while working undercover 2 years ago.
Bush Urges Senate, House to Quickly Renew the Patriot Act
• Associated PressAllows law enforcement to continue access to a wealth of personal data, including library and medical records, ability to conduct warantless roving wiretaps involving multiple phones, to get access to many personal records, sneek in search warrants
Bush Admin. desperate to keep enemy combatant case out of Supremes
• ReutersThe U.S. government, in an unusual retreat, urged a federal appeals court on Friday to set aside its ruling that allowed the United States to hold an American citizen as an enemy combatant without being charged.
Our Polish Hessians
• Washington PostPoland has asked for additional US military assistance to modernize its own forces as it considers whether to extend the presence of Polish troops in Iraq next year. A Pentagon official said the US has already done much to assist Polish military refo
UK 'covered up' Israeli nuke deal
• BBC NewsThe government has been accused of covering up the sale of 20 tonnes of heavy water to Israel for its nuclear programme in the early 1950s. The UK knew the ingredient it sold to Norway would be subsequently sold on to Israel for nuclear weapons.
FBI put peaceful protesters in terrorism files
• Colorado Springs GazetteACLU: "This kind of surveillance of First Amendment activities has serious consequences. Law-abiding Americans may be reluctant to speak out when doing so means that their names will wind up in an FBI file."
Vote like an Egyptian
• The Christian Science MonitorRunning battles at dozens of polling places were waged between voters and tens of thousands of riot police deployed to deter them. Riot police firing rubber bullets and tear gas, and beating voters, as civilians threw rocks in response
Air Travel: Comply and Submit — Or Die
• Birch BlogAssuming that McClellan's assessment is correct, and the summary execution of Mr. Alpizar by the tax-fattened drones grandly styled “air marshals” was carried out according to federal “protocols,” we no longer need to wonder whether terrorist sle
Police fire into crowd of protestors; search for organizers
• ReutersAlthough security forces often use tear gas and truncheons to disperse demonstrators, it is extremely rare for them to fire into a crowd — as they did in putting down pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 near Tiananmen Square. Hundreds, if not thousa
Not Even to Save Our Lives
• by Mike Ferner (AntiWar.com)"If Rick was being asked to risk his life as a soldier then I, as a pacifist Christian who believes that war is not the way to peace, should be prepared to take the same risks," he recalled trying to reason with his father.
We'll Miss Saddam
• by Charley Reese (AntiWar.com)Saddam has gotten more air time and more ink than any dictator in the post-World War II world. Never before has so much attention been lavished on a man who, on the world stage, has always been so insignificant.
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ on Secret <i>Gulag</i>
• MSNBCWhile some Europeans are lobbing hard questions at Condoleeza Rice about secret interrogations of terror suspects, their own governments may not want to push the issue too far. Some European governments were informed of the CIA flight operations befo
U.S. base in Kosovo secret prison
• UPIA United Nations official has said a U.S. military base in the Kosovo region is the site of a secret prison. Talking about Camp Bondsteel in eastern Kosovo, U.N. Ombudsman Marek Nowicki told the German daily Berliner Zeitung
Read bin Laden’s own words in new book
• MSNBCBefore Sept. 11, bin Laden’s speeches were not hard to find, but fear of being labeled pro-terrorist have kept many Islamic and Arab scholars from publishing his words in recent years. "if you want to reflect on the chilling effect that we are n
Iran Reveals Plans to Produce Nuclear Fuel
• Associated PressIran's top nuclear official said that his country will enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel despite the U.S.-led international campaign to persuade it to abandon such ambitions.
If public schools did not exist, this would not be a problem
• Associated PressThe real reason for moving their children is to ensure there are enough white students at the new school. "I think the stupidest factor is using skin color and test scores," Michael Winsten said.
Dems Urge Changes to Nominating Calendar
• Associated Press"I hope this is the beginning of the end of Iowa and New Hampshire's dominant role," said Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, who forced the creation of the primary commission in the last presidential cycle.
Chinese Villagers Describe Police Siege
• Associated PressResidents of a southern Chinese village near Hong Kong where police opened fire on demonstrators described a tense standoff in the area with thousands of armed troops patrolling the perimeter and blocking anyone from leaving.
China: Protesters were lobing explosives at killer cops
• Agence France PresseThe official Xinhua news agency said police fired into a mob of explosives-lobbing protesters after being blockaded near Shanwei city. Hundreds of armed villagers had earlier attacked them in a "serious violation of the law"
Family Upset Over Marine's Body Arriving As Freight
• KGTV (San Diego)John Holley and his wife, Stacey, were stunned when they found out the body of their only child, Matthew, who died in Iraq last month, would be arriving at Lindbergh Field as freight.
Subway killer cops "might" face prosecution
• BBC NewsOfficers involved in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube could face charges. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was "likely" to send its report to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider.
30,000 fliers seek terror watch-list removal
• World Peace HeraldNearly 30,000 airline passengers in the past year asked the Homeland Security Department to remove their names from terrorist watch lists, and all but about 60 were successful, Transportation Security Administration officials said.
Ye Olde Baghdad Press Club: Door Prizes Galore!
• USA TodayA U.S. investigation into allegations that the American military is buying positive coverage in the Iraqi media has expanded to examine a press club founded and financed by the U.S. Army.
US terror watchlist 80,000 names long
• Agence France PresseA watchlist of possible terror suspects distributed by the US government to airlines for pre-flight checks is now 80,000 names long, a Swedish newspaper reported, citing European air industry sources.
Homeland Nominee Questioned Over Deletion
• Associated PressBlacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched, handcuffed, arrested and subjected to force or the threat of it. Henke deleted that information over objections from the bureau's director who was moved to a new job following the dispute.
Iraq — <i>al-Qaeda</i> link came from torture
• New York TimesThe Bush administration based a crucial prewar assertion about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda on detailed statements made by a prisoner while in Egyptian custody who later said he had fabricated them to escape harsh treatment, according to current an
Delay's replacement implicated in easy money
• FOX NewsOne contractor, Brent Wilkes, provided private jet flights to lawmakers, including Reps. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who is serving as majority leader while DeLay fights money-laundering charges in Texas.
The 'Real' McCain
• by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)Arianna Huffington's love affair with John McCain – it's over! The man of her dreams is showing his true colors as a two-timing, shift-shaping, canny politician. One can only wonder why it took Arianna so long to wake up from her self-induced
Watch Streaming Broadcast Live:
