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
The Price of War> Estimated U.S. cost: $4 trillion | FROM EXPLORATIONS | BY SUSAN SELIGSON Bostonia> Boston University Fall 2011 “These wars have been financed mostly by borrowing, so they are like no other war in U.S. history,” says CAS’ Neta Crawford. Photo by Cydney Scott Neta Crawford hopes to deepen the public’s understanding of the More
Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It’s Already Here by James Corbett The Corbett Report BoilingFrogsPost.com 03 January, 2012 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkFoSt6aKQ&w=560&h=315] A TV station in Boston airs a story about a library that sent a police sergeant to collect overdue library books from a 5-year-old girl. The Associated Press reports on a 70 year old woman in More
Obama Should Veto Empire Over Republic Coleen Rowley Posted: 12/ 3/11 Huffington Post Tell your congresspersons and senators who passed the NDAA they should be ashamed and tell the president (also via Senator Mark Udall’s petition) he needs to keep his promise to veto this Act in order to save our Republic. The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our More
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties Bill Quigley December 1, 2011 CommonDreams.org The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, More
FOCUS: The Patriot Act, Cyber-Edition Lockheed Martin employees at work in the company's NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center, which monitors internet threats, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. (photo: Eric Schulzinger/Lockheed Martin Corp.) The Patriot Act, Cyber-Edition 24 October 11 By Zachary Katznelson, American Civil Liberties Union Cybersecurity is the new buzzword in Washington, capturing a wide More
The Legacy of 911: An Institutionalization of Terror at Home and Abroad by Chip Pitts Saturday 10 September 2011 Bill of Rights Defense Committee ¦ Op Ed Nation of Change Our national character seems to have morphed into national caricature – an extreme, almost cartoon version of characteristics our nation possesses at its More
Take action Shine a light on the FBI A new campaign by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee BORDC.org Over the past decade, the FBI has abused its investigative powers, failed to respect its own guidelines, and avoided accountability by keeping its actions secret and actively misleading courts, Congress, and the American people. Stop the More
