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The families of four private security contractors killed in Fallujah in March 2004 have filed a ground-breaking lawsuit charging Blackwater USA with fraud and wrongful death.

The first thing that happens is that the regime in question starts bothering some American company. They start demanding that the company pay taxes or that it observe labor laws or environmental laws.

We turn now to what the UN calls "one of the world's worst humanitarian crises" - Sudan's Western region of Darfur. The African Union has set a deadline for the end of this month for warring parties in the Darfur region to agree on a new ceasefire.

What the prosecutor said, and he's for the most part, in the court papers, simply re-reporting what Scooter Libby has said in his Grand Jury testimony, the Grand Jury testimony being kept secret by the Grand Jury rules but allowed to be made public during different events in pretrial.

Amy Goodman speaks with Naseer Aruri, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He's author of the book, Dishonest Broker: America's Role in Israel and Palestine. His forthcoming book is Palestine and the Palestinians.

Amy Goodman speaks with Ahmad Sharif and his father, Jabbar Sharif. Two and a half years ago Ahmad lost his eyesight and right arm after being caught in crossfire. She also speaks with Khalid Hamdan Abd who brought his three-year-old daughter Alaa to the United States for medical treatment.

The war or – the world, actually, is not safer, as President Bush used to say. Just about a week ago Osama bin Laden came out with an audio tape saying that he is planning or preparing to launch more attacks against the United States.

No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush, says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people – millions – support your revolution, support your ideas, and yes, expressing our solidarity with you.

The Hamas organization is an outgrowth, really a formal outgrowth, of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was a transnational organization founded in Egypt, which established branches in the '30s and '40s in Jordan and Palestine and Syria and elsewhere.

Today is the beginning of the new year for the original peoples of the world, in which we seek equality and justice. With the strength of the people, with the unity of the people, we will put an end to the colonial state and to the neo-liberal model.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting Abramoff says he has information that could implicate 60 lawmakers. One Republican lawmaker -- Congressman Robert Ney of Ohio -- has already been subpoenaed. We speak with researcher Judd Legum about the lawmakers involved.

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now için Jane Goodall ile son derece ilgi çekici bir sohbet yapmış: "İnsan beyniyle kalbi arasındaki bağlantıda bir terslik oldu ve biz bilgeliğimizi kaybettik. Zeki olmakla bilge olmak farklı şeylerdir."

The government claims that the E.L.F. and the A.L.F. are somehow sort of domestic terrorists; and yet, what they do is they wind up arresting people who are peaceful activists. And it is another example of how this administration has criminalized dissent. And it is really troubling.

Just last week, Richard Ben-Veniste of the September 11 Commission expressed concern that Congress has paid too little attention to the TALON program. He said, quote, "I'm particularly apprehensive about the expansion of our military's role in domestic intelligence gathering."

No Mention of al Qaeda or Plot to Attack U.S. in Indictment

Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison.

on President Bush, Mahalia Jackson, James Baldwin, Louis Armstrong, the Rebuilding of New Orleans and What Gives Him Hope

ANN WRIGHT: There are 846 crosses that have been placed by Arlington West out of Los Angeles. It's only, you know, less than really, oh, a fourth of what the 1,800 and -- gosh, I don't even know how many now tragically have been killed, Americans killed.

HADI JAWAD: It is remarkable, what's happening here in Crawford, Texas. Of course, we opened our doors about two-and-a-half years ago on Easter Sunday, 2002, and we told Cindy that we have been waiting all this time for you and everybody else to show up, and we are so glad they did.

COLLEEN ROWLEY: Well, actually, in the F.B.I., I do have a certain amount of residual pride. For instance, at Guantanamo, where did the emails come from people who were speaking out about some of these, you know, either torture or close to torture, abuse, at least, abusive situations?

CHARLIE ANDERSON: I'm here because, just like Cindy, I have questions. I want to know why I was sent into an unnecessary war without body armor in be a unarmored Humvee. I want to know why there wasn't even enough ammunition for me to protect myself.

MIMI EVANS: My son should be leaving within a week to ten days, and I'm here. It's funny, every sunrise is beautiful, but it just reminds me that he's one day closer to leaving, and I'm getting more and more anxious about that. I felt – in fact, I said goodbye to him on Monday of this week.

STATE SEN. BECKY LOUREY: I'm so glad to be here at Camp Casey.

NADIA McCAFFREY: I had to be here. I had to support Cindy. I had to support the mothers. I came because what she started is very important. I think it's going to make history. This is the first time when we have some attention. I'm talking about the war, the Gold Star Families especially.

A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond

The crucial thing here is not just that this is a single victory for the White House and that Judge Roberts was part of it, but rather, if you look over his career, deference to the Executive Branch, a sense of favoring the power of the Presidency over the other branches, is the most consistent thre

We go to Britain to speak with author and activist Milan Rai about how a leaked British government study concluded that British foreign policy, and the Iraq war in particular, was a key cause of young Britons turning to terrorism.

I was in the army and, you know, just seeing the things that have been going on. And it was a hard decision for me to go. I just know that after everything that is over with, if I had stayed, it would have been more difficult for me to get a job in the area that I live in. By Ryan Johnson.

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a very famous letter from a Birmingham jail to white clergy who opposed him, and it was about racial segregation and violence against black people.

We're facing a structural change in the oil and energy industry that's likely to be permanent, and that structural change is that the output cannot keep up with demand; and what you have to add to the equation is surging demand for oil around the world, especially in the United States and China and