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Obama court nominee wrote memos justifying drone strikes on U.S. citizens
Post Date: 2014-05-08 07:12:15 by Ada
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The White House on Tuesday said it will show senators secret memos justifying the drone strike on U.S.-born Al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki that was written by one of President Obama's appellate court... Harvard Law School scholar David Barron is an Obama administration nominee for a federal appeals court. He is also the author of government memos that make legal justifications for killing U.S. citizens overseas with drone strikes, which is why his selection to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals has been delayed. The White House has agreed to allow lawmakers to review at least one of the drone memos after U.S. senators and the the American Civil Liberties Union expressed ...
The Dirty History of Habeas Corpus
Post Date: 2014-05-08 05:52:09 by Ada
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The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror, Anthony Gregory, Cambridge, 432 pages How powerful is the law? The laws of armed conflict—grandly and euphemistically called “international humanitarian law”—have never been better cultivated by so many jurists, yet somehow hundreds of thousands of Iraqis managed to die after our 2003 invasion, with a perhaps greater number perishing due to the economic sanctions between our Gulf Wars. The era since World War II has also seen an expansion of defendants’ rights in criminal procedure, yet in the past 30 years the arc of our history has bent toward mass incarceration on a ...
Fascism's Dark Side
Post Date: 2014-05-08 04:24:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Fascism's Dark Side by Stephen Lendman An earlier article called Ukraine the epicenter of European fascist reemergence. Kiev putschists reflect it. Last Friday's Odessa massacre shows how far they'll go. No-holds-barred barbarism explains it. What happened exceeded the horrors of early reports. Neo-Nazi Right Sector thugs set Odessa's Trade Union House ablaze. People were trapped inside. Dozens were massacred. Scores more were injured. Many remain missing. They're either dead or in neo-Nazi hands. If alive, they face torture and other forms of abuse. They won't survive. They might as well be dead. Early reports way underestimated what happened. It's ...
Cantor: Lerner Will Be Held in Contempt, Holder Should Follow Up
Post Date: 2014-05-07 16:28:36 by BTP Holdings
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Cantor: Lerner Will Be Held in Contempt, Holder Should Follow Up Tuesday, 06 May 2014 09:04 PM By Greg Richter House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he expects the House to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress on Thursday and hopes Attorney General Eric Holder follows up on it. On April 28, Lerner's attorney sent a letter to congressional leaders arguing that holding her in contempt would be "un-American." She appeared in 2013 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and made a statement that she was innocent before asserting her Fifth Amendment right not to testify. Republicans say Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment right when ...
Gangster State America
Post Date: 2014-05-07 07:07:54 by Ada
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Where Is America’s Democracy? Anyone who looks carefully behind the veil of words cannot find democracy in America. For years I have been writing that the US government is no longer accountable to law or to the people (see, for example, my book, How America Was Lost). The Constitution has been set aside, and the executive branch is degenerating into Caesarism. Government is used to impose agendas that result from the symbiotic relationship between the neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony and the economic interests of powerful private interest groups, such as Wall Street, the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and extractive industries (energy, ...
Impeach Obama! Do It Now!
Post Date: 2014-05-07 03:34:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Impeach Obama! Do It Now! by Stephen Lendman It's essential. It's more urgent now than ever. Madness defines his agenda. He promised hope and change. He delivered permanent wars, domestic ruthlessness and betrayal. He's ideologically out-of-control. He presides over a homeland police state apparatus. He's recklessly advancing America's imperium. His quest for global dominance risks the unthinkable. Confronting Russia risks global conflict. It risks potential nuclear war. It risks possible armageddon. It bears repeating. Madness defines US policy. Obama bears full responsibility. Neocons infest his administration. Stopping him before it's too late matters most. ...
America's Hidden Hunger Crisis
Post Date: 2014-05-07 03:34:04 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Hidden Hunger Crisis by Stephen Lendman Imagine tens of millions hungry in the world's richest country. Imagine bipartisan complicity ignoring a growing crisis. Imagine uncaring policymakers. Imagine them cutting vital programs able to help when sizable increases are needed. Imagine serving monied interests at the expense of popular ones. Imagine enriching themselves in the process. Outnumber Hunger (OH) is a nationwide campaign. It enlists people in the growing fight against hunger. It works cooperatively with Feeding America (FA). More on FA below. Hunger is a major problem. For nearly 50 million Americans, it's a daily reality. Around 13 million families are ...
Government Failure.gov
Post Date: 2014-05-05 17:11:49 by Lorie Meacham
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Headlining at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the president garnered huge laughs over the fact that he’s destroying the American healthcare sector and has failed to provide an alternative: “Of course, we rolled out HealthCare.gov,” Obama said of his tough year in 2013. “That could have gone better.” “In 2008, my slogan was ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013, my slogan was control-alt-delete,” Obama said. Following the president, comedian and actor Joel McHale continued the theme: The launch of HealthCare.gov was a disaster. It was so bad, I don’t even have an analogy because the website is now the thing ...
Heavy-Handed Federal Border Patrol Hurts U.S. Ranchers
Post Date: 2014-05-05 17:08:12 by Lorie Meacham
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Many conservative Americans who despise the increasingly-militarized police state tactics showing up throughout the Nation are unwittingly advocating for citizens and landowners in States along the Border to endure such abuse. This video provides evidence of why throwing money at the U.S.’s border with Mexico without first fixing the bureaucratic problems in Federal Border Patrol efforts is hurting American citizens. VIDEO at link.
Virginia proposal would limit size of gatherings at private homes
Post Date: 2014-05-05 17:06:22 by Lorie Meacham
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A plan to ban "frequent and large gatherings at neighborhood homes" is a lawsuit waiting to happen, a Fairfax County supervisor predicts. Officials will get an idea Wednesday when public-comment hearings begin in Virginia's most populous county. "I believe the county is risking a lawsuit and/or a Constitution challenge by interfering with peoples' right to assemble," Supervisor Pat Herrity said in a statement. The proposed zoning ordinance limits "group assembly" at residences to 49 people a day. Such gatherings "shall not occur more frequently than three times in any 40-day period." County officials say they have received complaints about ...
Odessa: Ukraine’s Waco [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-05-05 07:20:12 by Ada
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Kiev fascists show their faces The murder of at least 38 people in the city of Odessa in the midst of Kiev’s "anti-terrorist" offensive last Friday revealed the true face of the fascist regime that has seized power in Kiev – and the Western media is doing everything it can to cover up the truth. Most "mainstream" accounts of what happened there are filled with ambiguity: it’s "not clear" who’s responsible, they say. Everybody was supposedly throwing Molotov cocktails and so who’s to say who started which conflagration? And yet the truth is getting out there. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that "police said at least 31 ...
Scandalous Scoundrel Media Big Lies
Post Date: 2014-05-05 04:03:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Scandalous Scoundrel Media Big Lies by Stephen Lendman They proliferate daily. Shameless propaganda substitutes for hard truths. it mocks legitimate journalism. It fronts for power. It does so reprehensibly. It betrays readers and viewers in the process. It exceeds the worst of Cold War misinformation. It increases chances for global conflict. It drives things unconscionably toward it. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. On May 4, RT International did responsible fact-checking. "MSM uncertain who is behind deadly Odessa blaze," it said. Hard evidence omits doubt. Video footage delivers clarity. Not according to scoundrel media liars. RT put it this way, saying: "Despite ...
State Department Big Lies
Post Date: 2014-05-03 13:27:53 by Stephen Lendman
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State Department Big Lies by Stephen Lendman John Kerry repeats them ad nauseam. They come in country reports. They're in press releases. They're in daily briefings. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It reminds governments of their obligation to support it. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." On May 2, a State Department Fact Sheet addressed world press freedom. It did so disingenuously. Washington goes all-out to ...
Right Sector Thugs Attack Odessa Activists
Post Date: 2014-05-03 04:30:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Right Sector Thugs Attack Odessa Activists by Stephen Lendman Kiev putschists helicoptered them in. They came with orders to cause mayhem. They attacked federalization supporters. They did so violently. Gunfire was heard. Three deaths were reported. So were over a dozen injuries. The House of Trade Unions was set ablaze. Neo-Nazis did so with anti-Maidan activists inside. Reports said 38 people died. Thirty succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Eight perished jumping out of windows. Another 50 needed medical treatment. Ten policemen were affected. An emergency meeting followed. Mayor Vladimir Nemirovsky said: "We are making all possible intensive measures to restore law and ...
Bloomberg at Harvard
Post Date: 2014-05-02 15:26:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Bloomberg at Harvard by Stephen Lendman He's a multi-billionaire. He made money the old-fashioned way. On March 24, 2014, Forbes ranked him 16th on its World Billionaire List. It estimates his net worth at $33 billion. He's founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg LP. It's a global financial data/media company. He's a Johns Hopkins/Harvard Business School graduate. From January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2013, he was New York City mayor. On March 5, Harvard University named him 2014 commencement speaker. It's scheduled for May 29. Choosing him follows Harvard tradition. Rare exceptions occur. Last year Oprah Winfrey spoke. She's an African-American multi-billionaire. ...
Race and Freedom
Post Date: 2014-05-02 05:39:38 by Ada
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Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy suggesting that African-Americans might do well to consider slavery over freedom, and Sterling offering disjointed comments that reveal his evident beliefs in white supremacy. Bundy is a Nevada rancher who became a hero to the right for standing up to the heavy hand of federal suppression of property rights in the West. He and his family had been grazing their cattle on land they believed was theirs or the state Nevada’s for more than 100 ...
US State-Sponsored Terrorism
Post Date: 2014-05-02 03:59:38 by Stephen Lendman
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US State-Sponsored Terrorism by Stephen Lendman Washington notoriously points fingers the wrong way. It whitewashes its own crimes. Its latest Country Reports on Terrorism 2013 omits the world's leading sponsor. More on it below. Terrorism is what they do, not us, it's claimed. Reasons why imperial wars are waged are suppressed. Might justifies right. Nations are destroyed to free them. Lives and freedoms lost don't matter. They're small prices to pay. Mind manipulation turns truth on its head. People are convinced wrongs are right. Wars are glorified in the name of peace. Peaceful countries become cauldrons of violence. Instability rocks them. Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...
Is Martial Law Coming Soon?
Post Date: 2014-05-01 16:44:47 by BTP Holdings
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Is Martial Law Coming Soon? A number of recent events have given rise to the question of whether the United States is heading towards martial law, sometime in the near future. We are seeing an increased militarization of police forces across the land, as well as more and more police excesses, as those militarized forces flex their muscles in the direction of the citizens they are supposedly sworn to protect. The Bundy ranch is only the most recent of these excesses. Probably the most infamous of them is the way that police forces dealt with the Boston Marathon Bombing. In the aftermath of that atrocity, police instituted what was essentially martial law on their own authority. Citizens ...
Fack Checking Scoundrel Media Lies
Post Date: 2014-05-01 03:18:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Fact Checking Scoundrel Media Lies by Stephen Lendman Edward Herman and David Peterson contributed an important chapter to a forthcoming cutting edge book on Ukraine. It's titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." Watch for it. It's coming soon. Amazon lists it. Herman and Peterson explain Western propaganda "in overdrive," saying: "(D)eeply ingrained Cold War ideology remains in Western capitals and their political and intellectual culture." "It's best understood as a dichotomous or binary system: One side is 'good,' the other side is 'evil.' " "One side acts on behalf of ...
“We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled By Laws”
Post Date: 2014-04-30 23:36:11 by Lorie Meacham
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“We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled By Laws” Pulitzer prize winning reporter Chris Hedges – along with journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, activist Tangerine Bolen and others – sued the government to join the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans. The trial judge in the case asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys. The government refused to promise that journalists like Hedges won’t be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge. The trial judge ruled ...
Supreme Court: Pennsylvania cops no longer need a warrant to search citizens’ vehicles
Post Date: 2014-04-30 17:02:49 by Horse
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Pennsylvania police officers no longer need a warrant to search a citizen’s vehicle, according to a recent state Supreme Court opinion. The high court’s opinion, released Tuesday, is being called a drastic change in citizens’ rights and police powers. Previously, citizens could refuse an officer’s request to search a vehicle. In most cases, the officer would then need a warrant — signed by a judge — to conduct the search. That’s no longer the case, according to the opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery. The ruling, passed on a 4-2 vote, was made in regard to an appeal from a 2010 vehicle stop in Philadelphia. Local police and ...
Ukraine Hypes a Nonexistent Russia Threat
Post Date: 2014-04-30 16:12:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukraine Hypes a Nonexistent Russian Threat by Stephen Lendman For the first time since WW II, overt fascists hold real power in Europe. They hold major government posts. They menace regional stability. They threaten world peace. Ukraine is Exhibit A. Olexander Turchynov is illegitimate coup-appointed putschist president/parliament chairman. He's Ukrainian armed forces commander-in-chief. He's Batkivshchyna/All-Ukrainian Union/Fatherland party deputy chairman. He's militantly fascist. He deplores democracy. He prioritizes hardline rule. He tolerates no opposition. He hyped the Big Lie. He did so to create a nonexistent enemy. He did it to generate fear. He acted to enlist ...
The BLM: Scourge of "Lesser Breeds Without the Law"
Post Date: 2014-04-30 08:30:07 by Ada
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The conflict between the BLM and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has laid bare evidence of deeply entrenched institutional racism. No, I’m not referring Mr. Bundy’s awkward but earnest effort to encourage people of all ethnic backgrounds to seek an end to the suffocating embrace of government paternalism. I’m talking about the fact that the Bureau of Land Management is an enforcement arm of a Regime that continues to treat American Indians as “heathens” and “savages” with no rights worthy of official recognition. Like Cliven Bundy, Raymond Yowell operated a small cattle ranch in Nevada, and refused to pay the federal government grazing fees to which they ...
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to NDAA Detention Power
Post Date: 2014-04-29 17:48:07 by Lorie Meacham
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The US Supreme Court has further enhanced the administration’s ability to detain anyone, at any time, on any pretext today, when it refused to hear the Hedges v. Obama case, meaning an Appeals Court ruling on the matter will stand. The case stems from a 2012 lawsuit brought by Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky and others, and sought to block the enforcement of a 2012 National Defense Authorization Act statute that allows the president to unilaterally impose indefinite detention on anyone, without access to courts, if he personally believes something they did “aided” the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Courts initially banned such detentions, over intense objection from ...
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to NDAA Detention Power Refuses to Hear Hedges v. Obama Case
Post Date: 2014-04-29 16:33:15 by Horse
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The US Supreme Court has further enhanced the administration’s ability to detain anyone, at any time, on any pretext today, when it refused to hear the Hedges v. Obama case, meaning an Appeals Court ruling on the matter will stand. The case stems from a 2012 lawsuit brought by Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky and others, and sought to block the enforcement of a 2012 National Defense Authorization Act statute that allows the president to unilaterally impose indefinite detention on anyone, without access to courts, if he personally believes something they did “aided” the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Courts initially banned such detentions, over intense objection from ...
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