Truthdiggers of the Week> The May Day Occupiers Posted on May 4, 2012  Truthdig.com Every week, Truthdig recognizes an individual or group of people who spoke truth to power, blew the whistle or stood up in the face of injustice. See past winners here, and nominate the next awardee here. Police officers on scooters try to push protesters back More
Truthdiggers of the Week> The May Day Occupiers Posted on May 4, 2012  Truthdig.com Every week, Truthdig recognizes an individual or group of people who spoke truth to power, blew the whistle or stood up in the face of injustice. See past winners here, and nominate the next awardee here. Police officers on scooters try to push protesters back More
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest By ADAM LIPTAK   April 2, 2012   New York Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of More
CCR Calls on Manning Court-Martial Judge to Uphold Right to Open Trial Common Dreams  March 22, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  March 22, 2012 CONTACT: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)  Jen Nessel, CCR, (212) 614-6480   press@ccrjustice.org David Lerner, Riptide Communications, (212) 260-5000   david@riptidecommunications.com Press and Public Must be Given Immediate Access to Documents and Information Filed More
A Common Thread By Carol Masters  WAMM Newsletter   February 2012 But until the occcupation of Wall Street, we had not yet been able to define ourselves as belonging to a collective group with shared interests; shared interests that cross religious, ethnic, and political lines. The proverbial cat was out of the bag, and More
Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood? By Rob Kall  Posted: 02/ 8/2012   Huffington Post It’s not surprising to learn that no nation on earth enshrines in its constitution the right of corporate personhood. Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only More
How Propaganda Targets Iran America’s Founders saw press freedom as a key check on government dishonesty, but today’s media has become a powerful ally of official lies by funneling sophisticated propaganda especially in support of war, as Lawrence Davidson notes about the hysteria over Iran. By Lawrence Davidson   January 6, 2012 consortiumnews.com Winston Churchill once said, “No one pretends that democracy is More
The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it BY GLENN GREENWALD   SUNDAY, JAN 8, 2012 5:18 AM CST   salon.com (updated below – Update II – Update III [Mon.]) This Wednesday will mark the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo prison camp. In The New York Times, one of the camp’s former prisoners, Lakhdar More
A Message From Paul Zeitz: Introducing the Justice Party December 10, 2011, 12 am   Revised: December 13, 2011, 11 pm Paul Zeitz Note: Please find the updated Prospectus and Action Plan here. Introducing the Justice Party  7 December It is my great honor as a Co-Founder and acting Chair of the Justice Party National Committee More
Set Your Doomsday Clock to 11:51 David Swanson (about the author) Dec. 16, 2011   opednews.com The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march toward a police state. The doomsday clock of our republic just got noticeably closer to More
