10 September 2013 — 21st Century Wire
As train wreck politicians go, it would be difficult to top the case study of Republican US Senator John McCain from Arizona.
Tag: Arizona
Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law By Greg Palast
25 June 2013 — Truthout
Replaces Voting Rights Act with Katherine Harris Acts
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 away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Photo Essay: Profit and Violence in the Name of Comprehensive Immigration Reform By Todd Miller
17 April 2013 — NACLA Border Wars
On April 16, the U.S. Senate’s so-called “Gang of 8” released their 844-page plan for comprehensive immigration reform entitled the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. The border policing aspect of the bill (among many other things) envisions $3 billion for more surveillance systems, including unmanned aerial drones, $1.5 billion for more barriers on the boundary, and the addition of 3,500 more Customs and Border Protection agents (CBP includes the U.S. Border Patrol). This would be on top of the $18 billion (figure from 2012) that the U.S. government already spends on border and immigration enforcement per year, an expense that is more than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.
Video: A Sea of Tears in Caracas
7 March, 2013 — The Real News Network
In a raw emotional outpouring, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans walk along side the coffin of President Hugo Chavez
America's Credit and Housing Crisis: New State Bank Bills By Ellen Brown
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26 February, 2012 — Web of Debt
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Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works. Hawaii’s innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess. County-owned banks are being proposed that would tackle the housing crisis by exercising the right of eminent domain on abandoned and foreclosed properties. Arizona has a bill that would do this for homeowners who are current in their payments but underwater, allowing them to refinance at fair market value. |
BREAKING: Copyright Lawyers Oppose SOPA … And Say It Won’t Even Work By Washington’s Blog
18 January 2012 — Global Research – Washington’s Blog
SOPA Won’t Work
Many experts have said that the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are not only draconian, but that they fail to address the root problem.
Flashpoints Audio: NATO Bombing of Libya: Civilians as “Military Targets”?
1 August 2011 — Global Research – Flashpoints
From Global Research’s Special Correspondent Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Wikileaks Newslinks for 24 June 2011
24 June 2011 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks Sheds Light on Legal Standstill Over ‘Well Regarded’ Fugitive on …
New York Times
But new insight into the international tug of war over Pluimers can be found in a diplomatic cable released earlier this year by the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. That cable, written in 2006 by officials at the US embassy in The Hague, indicates that …
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/06/23/23greenwire-wikileaks-sheds-light-on-legal-standstill-over-75458.html
Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 April, 2010: The Military Occupation of Our Minds
Arizonans React to New Immigration Law By Rachel Winch
29 April, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America
On April 15, armed federal agents, some in black ski masks, set up checkpoints in the largely Latino neighborhood of South Tucson. The ICE and DEA agents carrying out Operation in Plain Sight, billed as the largest operation against human-smuggling networks, raided commercial transportation companies, sparking a panic in the community just two days after the Arizona legislature passed what The New York Times has described as the ‘broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations.’
Perhaps this is a preview for what’s to come in Arizona, now that Governor Janet Brewer has signed into law the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, better known as SB1070. Arizona police will be required to ask people whom they have a ‘reasonable suspicion’ are in the country ‘unlawfully’ to provide their documentation and, without a warrant, arrest them if they cannot prove their legal status.
Although the bill states that authorities will not ‘investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin,’ the governor herself could not identify what, beyond having brown skin and speaking Spanish, constitutes reasonable suspicion. ‘I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like,’ she explained. ‘I can tell you that there are people in Arizona who assume they know what an illegal immigrant looks like.’
The New Dark Age 