The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet from the free-speech-isn’t-free dept This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill — despite a bunch of law professors explaining to them how this [...]
Cyber Command Prepares the Ground for High-Tech War Crimes Published on 11-17-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | By Tom Burghardt – BLN Contributing Writer While a bureaucratic turf war rages between the CIA and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) over which secret state agency will be authorized to launch network attacks outside a “war zone,” [...]
(CorbettReport) – Earlier this month, the United States Coast Guard upheld its self-declared status as a ‘special’ branch of the military with the ability to prosecute civilians in military tribunals. This startling declaration, unreported in the media, came in a Decision on Appeal related to the case of Lieutenant Eric Shine, a commissioned Naval officer [...]
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Canada: Secret Cold War Plan Included Mass Detentions October 14th, 2010 Via: CBC: At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation. The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, [...]
Germany to Roll Out ID cards with Embedded RFID; They Will Also Be Used for Establishing Identity Online Published on 08-23-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Cryptogon Via: International Business Times: The production of the RFID chips, an integral element of the new generation of German identity cards, has started after the government [...]
By Katherine Smith John W. Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, “a kind of evangelical Christian civil liberties union” is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law, social and human rights. In his essay, Does Life Have Meaning or Are We Merely Bobbleheads in Bubbleland? [...]
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Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review Glenn Greenwald Reuters/Jonathon Burch. A detainee holding cell is pictured at the detention centre at the U.S. Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul. May 22, 2010 (updated below – Update II) Few issues highlight Barack Obama’s extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As [...]
Extrajudicial Killings: US Government “Death List” for American Citizens by Prof. Francis A. Boyle Global Research, February 10, 2010 This extrajudicial execution of human beings constitutes a grave violation of international human rights law and, under certain circumstances, can also constitute a war crime under the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949. In addition, the extrajudicial [...]
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Global Research, January 31, 2010 Can the White House Control the News by Sherwood Ross Now that one of every four Americans gets the news online, a communications authority wonders if the White House is still able to control the news. “The transformation of media has not only undermined the imperial institutions of the mainstream [...]
Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens Glenn Greenwald January 27, 2010 (updated below – Update II) The Washington Post‘s Dana Priest today reports that “U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people.” That’s no surprise, of course, as Yemen [...]
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Israeli military rule and incarceration procedures Alice Rothchild January 21, 2010 Dr. Rothchild, author of “Broken Promises Broken Dreams” , reports from Ramallah, where she was visiting as part of a health and human rights delegation – 17 January 2010 Ala Joradat, the program manager of Adameer, a Palestinian human rights organization that focuses primarily [...]
President Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council of Governors Executive Order will Strengthen Further Partnership Between the Federal and State and Local Governments to Better Protect Our Nation The President today signed an Executive Order (attached) establishing a Council of Governors to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect [...]
By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted October 24, 2009. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all,” says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala. Editor’s Note: The shocking transfer of public wealth to Wall Street’s pockets is illustrated vividly in [...]
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August 23, 2009 Gaza / PNN – With the academic year about to begin, the Gaza Strip is falling short on schools. During the major Israeli attacks of late December and January, many schools were destroyed or partially destroyed. They have not been repaired or rebuilt because reconstruction materials are still banned under the siege. [...]
