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The five-page letter that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder issued in February defending the decision to treat the Christmas Day bomber suspect as a criminal suspect, rather than as a wartime captive, offered new insight into the Obama Administration’s view of the limits of preventive detention. The letter suggests that the administration sees virtually no legal foundation for holding terrorism suspects arrested on U.S. soil in preventive detention and has very little interest in trying to create any.

The infamous and lengthy Omar Khadr saga continues as Canadian Supreme Court officials recently denied his defense team’s request for his repatriation--even after lower courts determined that his rights were grossly in violation of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The high court which consists of nine judges unanimously agreed that although there is specific evidence that Mr.

In this week’s address, President Barack Obama vowed to continue fighting for the American people to ensure their voices are heard over the special interests and lobbyists in Washington, despite this week’s Supreme Court decision to further empower corporations to use their financial clout to directly influence elections.

This is an urgent appeal for the sake of the American people and the future of this great nation to take a very careful look at the dangerous situation brewing in the Asian Region due to the constant barrage of destruction and devastation by CIA manipulated drones, most often launched in the hunt for ‘suspected’, or ‘believed to be’ Taliban; when in actuality, these barrages are killing innocent men, women and children, causing wholesale demolition of schools, communities, townships, and villages, and producing no concrete results of thwarting Taliban activit

Political affairs in Honduras remain in a state of unresolve despite the elections held in November that boosted millionaire rancher and Honduran National Party member Porfirio Lobo Sosa into the presidential seat.  The defacto regime led by Roberto Michelleti rejected numerous attempts by the international community to restore ‘democracy’ to the politically embroiled nation, by permitting deposed president Maneul Zalaya to finish out his term of office, which would have ended last month.

The recent vote to ban the building of minarets in the European nation of Switzerland has been received with shock and criticism from religious groups, human rights organizations, and governments worldwide. The referendum, which according to the BBC received 57.2% of voter’s approval, has raised concerns of religious intolerance and Islamophobia in a country with an image of open-mindedness and tolerance.

New York.- Dominican-born judge Diccia Pineda-Kirwan won a bench in the New York State Supreme Court, according to preliminary tallies of the recent local elections in the United States. She is the only woman of Latino background of the six competitors for the bench from Queens-the State’s 11th Judicial District, to win the balloting for the 14-year term. Judge Pineda-Kirwan is currently seated in the New York City civil Court of Queens County. She graduated from the City University of New York (CUNY), Queens County.