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“We have already seen journalists such as [you] and Laura Poitras detained and denied access to a lawyer and due process. This law will make legal any such detentions. It will permit the military, on American soil, to throw journalists and activists in a military prison without trial or due process.” — Carl Mayer Alexa O’Brien speaks More
A corrupt Supreme Court backs the rich; fascism reigns in elections. —RiseUpTimes By Mike Ludwig, Truthout.org | Report 02 April 2014 McCutcheon Rapid Response at the Supreme Court/Public Citizen (Photo: Flickr) Demonstrations were held across the country Wednesday as the Supreme Court continued chipping away at federal campaign finance reforms with a 5-4 ruling striking down the federal cap More
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/90190228] Click Watch On Vimeo to view animated cartoon. By Mark Fiore truthdig.com March 27, 2014 The Hobby Lobby case, which will determine whether corporations have religious freedom and thus the right to deny their workers contraception despite the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, is being heard by the Supreme Court. Read More
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Next Battleground in the War on Whistleblowers By Peter Van Buren TomDispatch.com March 4, 2014 Read Tom Englelhardt's introduction here. The Obama administration has just opened a new front in its ongoing war on whistleblowers. It’s taking its case against one man, former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Marshal Robert MacLean, all More
Protester disrupts the Supreme Court over its Citizens United decision By Al Kamen February 27th, 2014 www.washingtonpost.com PopularResistance.org Above: Kai Newkirk in front of the US Supreme Court “Just released from jail after disrupting a Supreme Court session yesterday to raise up the voice of the vast majority of Americans who believe democracy should be More
The justification for this secret court—as is usual in the development of 20th century secret police states—is national security. By William Pfaff Jul 10, 2013 truthdig.com The current of awkward revelations concerning the clandestine or publicly misrepresented practices of the present and recent American administrations goes on. A long exposition in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune More
Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces Voting Rights Act with Katherine Harris Acts by Greg Palast for Truthout Tuesday, 25. June 2013 They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King’s grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping More
Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces Voting Rights Act with Katherine Harris Acts by Greg Palast for Truthout Tuesday, 25. June 2013 They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King’s grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping More
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Assange and Correa, Drones and Justice, Obama and the Affordable Care Act The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum / July 3rd, 2012 Dissident Voice Julian Assange I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had More
