Liberties
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Bradley Manning Suffering in Solitary Confinement By Kristen Saloomey
While the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, fights his legal battles in front of the cameras (or from the palatial estate in Britain where he is under “house arrest”) the American soldier accused of releasing secret US government documents to him remains hidden from public view. Army Private Bradley Manning has spent seven months in… Continue reading
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Lynne Stewart Transferred to Texas By Stephen Lendman
Seven previous articles discussed Lynne Stewart’s case and status, explaining the gross injustice against a heroic human rights lawyer who devoted her career to defending society’s poor, unwanted, and unfairly persecuted – defendants deprived of due process without an advocate like her. Continue reading
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Jody McIntyre: It is rough out there
“Suddenly, four policemen grabbed my shoulders and pulled me out of my wheelchair. My friends and younger brother struggled to pull me back, but were beaten away with batons. The police carried me away. Around five minutes later, my younger brother was also forced through, the wheelchair still in his hands.” Continue reading
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America’s human rights rhetoric tarnished by actions — RT
62 years ago, the United Nations adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, making today, International Human Rights Day. America’s first lady at the time, Eleanor Roosevelt, helped inspire the 1948 agreement – a global pledge critics say the US is failing to follow. Continue reading
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A symbol of flawed justice — RT
While American prisons overflow with prisoners, radical journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row for almost three decades with no end to his legal process in sight as he continues his fight against the US criminal justice system. Continue reading
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What the TSA is NOT Telling You about Full Body Scans…
There are about 350 full-body scanners being used in close to 70 U.S. airports, and that number is expected to increase to 1,000 scanners by the end of 2011. Dubbed “naked” scanners because they give a graphic image of your body, including genitalia and other personal effects like sanitary napkins, the devices are raising privacy… Continue reading
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US elections: Public policy privatized, ‘democracy’ bought and sold
This is a special election year in the US. For the first time, corporations are allowed to funnel as much money as they want into political campaigns – and they are definitely not missing out on the chance to buy influence on Capitol Hill. The election system in the US is such that it is… Continue reading
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I Pity The Nation That Needs To Jail Those Who Ask For Justice By Arundhati Roy
For her recent talk on Kashmir writer Arundhati Roy has come under threat of “sedition” charges in India. These speeches are currently being analyzed by Delhi police. Continue reading
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Julian Assange: How A Whistleblower Should Leak Information (Full Transcript)
You have secret information that the world needs to know. Here are some simple things that you need to know. Continue reading
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“Blood on British Hands”: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee 239 British National Shaker Aamer by Felicity Arbuthnot
So Shaker, now nearing nine years on, remains in helpless, voiceless, limbo. “The only time I have seen him emotional was over his family. I was able to get photographs of his youngest child into him, but that was very heartbreaking for him, in a way he didn’t want to see it. I saw him… Continue reading
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Invasive Cyber Technologies and Internet Privacy: Big Brother is only a “Ping” or Mouse Click Away By Tom Burghardt
Increasingly, secret state agencies ranging from the CIA to the National Security Agency are pouring millions of dollars into data-mining firms which claim they have a handle on who you are or what you might do in the future. Continue reading
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Obama Continues Most of Bush’s Wiretap Policies
Shayana Kadidal: Government refuses to disclose possible wiretapping of civil rights lawyers Continue reading
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FBI Raids Activists’ Homes in Sinister COINTELPRO Replay By Tom Burghardt
In a replay of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s infamous COINTELPRO operations targeting the left during the 1960s and ’70s, America’s political police launched raids on the homes of antiwar and solidarity activists. Heavily-armed SWAT teams smashed down doors and agents armed with search warrants carried out simultaneous raids in Minneapolis and Chicago early morning… Continue reading
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The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana By William John Cox
For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the… Continue reading
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Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks’ Assange withdrawn
21 August, 2010 – BBC News Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but did not give any further explanation. The warrant was… Continue reading
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“MARTIAL LAW” G20 CHARGE DISAPPEARS
It appears government doesn’t want to test Public Works Protection Act in court Continue reading
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CCR and ACLU File Lawsuit to Allow Challenge to Targeted Killings off the Battlefield
Today CCR along with the ACLU filed a joint lawsuit to challenge the legality and constitutionality of a licensing scheme that requires lawyers to seek government permission to represent individuals that same government intends to kill. The U.S. government has claimed the power to target and kill U.S. citizens and other individuals anywhere in the… Continue reading
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Travesty in Progress: Omar Khadr and the US Military Commissions By Lisa Hajjar
When Khadr was captured on July 27, 2002, following a firefight in the Afghan village of Ayub Kheyl, he was blinded in one eye, shot twice in the chest and buried under rubble. The critically injured 15-year old was airlifted to the Bagram air base on the outskirts of Kabul where he was interrogated for… Continue reading
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The Sentencing of Lynne Stewart By Michael Steven Smith
She wasn’t prosecuted for what she did, not under the Clinton administration, nor during the first years of George W. Bush. Then came 9.11. Bush’s Attorney General John Ashcroft flew into New York City in 2003 and announced Lynne’s indictment on the David Letterman show. The crime? A novel one. Conspiracy to provide material aid… Continue reading
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The Ministry of Truth: Obama’s War on the Internet Philip Giraldi
The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 