Obama the Warrior A new NYT article sheds considerable light on the character of the Democratic Commander-in-Chief BY GLENN GREENWALD TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012 06:59 AM CDT Salon.com President Obama (Credit: AP) “I am not going to play in this dirty game. This is not democracy. These elections are a joke” — Abdel Fattah, Egyptian subway worker, More
Obama the Warrior A new NYT article sheds considerable light on the character of the Democratic Commander-in-Chief BY GLENN GREENWALD TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012 06:59 AM CDT Salon.com President Obama (Credit: AP) “I am not going to play in this dirty game. This is not democracy. These elections are a joke” — Abdel Fattah, Egyptian subway worker, More
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 More
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 More
Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You By Chris Hedges Posted on Apr 2, 2012 Truthdig The security and surveillance state does not deal in nuance or ambiguity. Its millions of agents, intelligence gatherers, spies, clandestine operatives, analysts and armed paramilitary units live in a binary world of opposites, of good and evil, More
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 More
Obama abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil, who could then be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. (photo: Brennan Linsley/Reuters) Feinstein to Challenge Indefinite Detention Law By Carolyn Lochhead 29 February 12 Reader Supported More
Critics of Indefinite Detention Gain Traction By Adam Klasfield February 27, 2012 Courthouse News MANHATTAN (CN) – A hearing to block the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, anybody accused of planning or supporting terrorism anywhere in the world, may occur as More
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 More
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 More
And You Thought the NDAA ‘Battlefield Justice’ Bill Was Bad… Mark L. Taylor Sunday, 22 January 2012 CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS ALERT! While the extreme unconstitutional aspects of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) have gotten a lot of coverage lately, the broad, systematic, bipartisan congressional attacks on our civil rights continue. And More
Petition to Supreme Court of Alaska to Block NDAA Indefinite Detention Provides Model For All by VVV PR Wednesday, 25 January 2012 RSN Writing for Godot While the mainstream media blackout keeps millions of Americans clueless about the consequences of NDAA 2012 and Constitutional Rights groups do little more than milk the issue, in Alaska More
