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NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Passes Senate After Rand Paul Calls It An ‘Abomination’
NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Passes Senate After Rand Paul Calls It An ‘Abomination’ By Matt Sledge 12/21/2012 huffingtonpost.com The Senate passed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act that was stripped of a prohibition of the indefinite military detention of US citizens on American soil by an 81-14 vote on Friday, but only after […]
Noam Chomsky: America, Moral Degenerate
Noam Chomsky: America, Moral Degenerate Democrats and Republicans alike embrace torture and assassination policies that are an attack on 800 years of civil rights law. December 13, 2012 | CIVIL LIBERTIES AlterNet.org Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives / By Eric Bailey, Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky and Eric Bailey of Torture Magazine discuss America’s human rights record under President Obama, and the military […]
Alexa O’Brien> A letter to my family and friends about the NDAA and me
A letter to my family and friends about the NDAA and me By Alexa O’Brien on October 3, 2012 12:00 AM October2011.org Dear friends and family, I am reassured to know that you have my back, and that you have done everything to prevent the US Government from threatening to detain me indefinitely without charge for my work as […]
Stephen Lendman> Battleground Chicago
Battleground Chicago Chicago cops beat NATO protesters. By Stephen Lendman (about the author) May 22, 2012 opednews.com Chicago police have an odious reputation for brutality. It’s well deserved. On Sunday, it showed up forcefully. The whole world watched. Baton-wielding cops confronted protesters violently. Official policy is swing first, ask questions later, and blame victims for […]
Chris Hedges> The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost
The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost by Chris Hedges Monday, March 26, 2012 Truthdig via Common Dreams I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out the questioning as part […]
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal 29 February, 2012 RT Washington: US park police detains a Christian religious activist during a pro-life demonstration in front of the White House in Washington on February 16, 2012. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad) Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The […]
Creeping Fascism> Ask the Cop on the Corner, Ask the Cop at Your Front Door
Ask the Cop on the Corner, Ask the Cop at Your Front Door Creeping Fascism by RON JACOBS February 17-19, 2012 Counterpunch The list contines to grow. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The essentially unprovoked police attacks on protesters, bystanders and journalists at Occupy protests around the nation. The continuing murder of […]
Alexander Cockburn> Time for the Tumbrils!
Time for the Tumbrils! by Alexander Cockburn February 12, 2012 creators.com Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse pointed out in one of his books that the Pentagon had given up on verbs. Pentagonese consisted of clotted groups of nouns, marching along in groups of three or four. Verbs, which connected nouns in purposive […]
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