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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
The ‘Vaccine Court’ Is Hazardous to Your Health
Post Date: 2017-03-30 17:31:37 by Ada
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The vaccine-industrial complex has created a Kafkaesque system. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act was passed in 1986, under the shadow of multi-million dollar jury verdicts against the makers of the Diphtheria Pertussis and Tetanus (DPT) vaccine. Congress announced that vaccine injuries and deaths are real and provided that vaccine-injured children and their families would be financially compensated. Part of the larger Vaccine Act, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was modeled after workers’ compensation programs. It was to be a “no-fault” program. Very well. As one of the earliest “vaccine attorneys”—a very limited ...
Hillary Unleashed
Post Date: 2017-03-30 08:35:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Hillary Unleashed by Stephen Lendman She’s back. She never went away. In a St. Patrick Day address, she suggested she’ll return to politics - despite a Suffolk University poll showing her popularity at 35%, an all-time low. Asked after an earlier Wellesley College address (her alma mater) what she’d change about her disastrous 2016 campaign, she said: “I’d win.” Anyone so widely reviled should realize she’s unwanted and back off. Not Hillary, perhaps as much focused on undermining Trump as pursing a political comeback. On Tuesday, she spoke at a San Francisco diversity conference, hosted by Professional Business Women of California, invited as ...
Does the Religious Right’s Decline Help the Alt-Right?
Post Date: 2017-03-30 07:48:18 by Ada
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There isn’t a strong relationship between religious observance and racial attitudes. In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Peter Beinart asserted a connection between America’s declining levels of religious observance, the success of Donald Trump’s secular brand of right-wing politics, and the related rise of the so-called alt-right. Beinart’s essay deserves to be read in its entirety, but his basic argument is that liberals should hesitate before dancing on the grave of the religious right. Yes, organized conservative Christians were a major hindrance to certain progressive victories. And with the religious right in disarray and Christianity as a whole experiencing ...
Death at Your Door: Knock-and-Talk Police Tactics Rip a Hole in the Constitution
Post Date: 2017-03-29 08:38:46 by Ada
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“It’s 4 in the morning, there’s headlights that are shining into your house; there’s a number of different officers that are now on the premises; they’re wearing tactical gear; they have weapons; and they approach your front door. Do you think that the ordinary citizen in that situation feels that they have an obligation to comply?”— Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein It’s 1:30 a.m., a time when most people are asleep. Your neighborhood is in darkness, except for a few street lamps. Someone—he doesn’t identify himself and the voice isn’t familiar—is pounding on your front door, demanding that you open up. Your ...
Online Privacy Protections Gone
Post Date: 2017-03-29 08:28:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Online Privacy Protections Gone by Stephen Lendman Last Thursday, majority Senate Republican members passed SJ Res. 34, a joint resolution, rescinding FCC broadband privacy rules. On Tuesday, House members followed suit, Trump sure to sign the measure into law, letting telecommunications and cable companies sell private customer information for profit without their permission - an infringement of their privacy rights. Free Press Action Fund head Craig Aaron said the following: “Ignoring calls from thousands of their constituents, House Republicans just joined their colleagues in the Senate in violating internet users’ privacy rights.” “Apparently they see no ...
Mike Pence Represented Trump at AIPAC
Post Date: 2017-03-28 08:49:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Mike Pence Represented Trump at AIPAC by Stephen Lendman Last March, candidate Trump addressed AIPAC, saying he came “as a lifelong supporter and true friend of Israel.” Its high crimes and threat to world peace didn’t matter then or now. Railing against the Iran nuclear deal he hadn’t read or understood, he lied calling the Islamic Republic is “a problem in Iraq, a problem in Syria, a problem in Lebanon, a problem in Yemen and will be a very, very major problem for Saudi Arabia.” The “problem” he didn’t explain is its sovereign independence. It threatens no countries regionally or elsewhere. Trump let Mike Pence speak for him at ...
US Support Lets Global Terrorism Flourish
Post Date: 2017-03-26 08:55:52 by Stephen Lendman
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US Support Lets Global Terrorism Flourish by Stephen Lendman America created ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra and other terrorist groups. It maintains support for the scourge it claims to oppose. Its so-called war on terrorism is a fabricated hoax. The way to defeat it isn’t by terror-bombing cities to rubble on the phony pretext of combating it. It’s by ending support. Without it from America, NATO, Israel and other regional rogue states, these groups will wither and fade away. Instead, they flourish because Washington uses them as imperial foot soldiers. Instead of cooperating with Russia in combating them, America and its rogue allies continue supplying them with weapons, ...
Inventing Reasons to Bash Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-25 08:05:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Inventing Reasons to Bash Russia by Stephen Lendman Washington remains hostile toward Russia for its sovereign independence. Along with China, it’s an obstacle to America’s aim for unchallenged global dominance. Both countries are formidable nuclear powers, giving bipartisan US hawks pause about engaging either militarily. It doesn’t stop them from fabricating reasons to bash them, America’s failed Afghan war the latest example. On Thursday, US NATO commander General Curtis Scaparrotti lied to Senate Armed Services Committee members, saying: “I’ve seen the influence of Russia of late - increased influence in terms of association and perhaps even supply to ...
The Political Class Murders Itself
Post Date: 2017-03-24 13:30:40 by X-15
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The point at which the Roman Republic moved from republic to empire is generally placed at the point when the Senate granted Octavian almost unlimited power and he adopted the title Augustus. Some historians argue it was when Caesar crossed the Rubicon or when Octavian defeated Antony at Actium. The implication is that once the transition was started, there was no turning back. The more useful analysis is to think of it as a process, with roots in the Republic, that evolved to the point where dictatorship was inevitable. The die was most likely cast when the Republic began to compromise its own rules for limiting and distributing power. The system they had created was a reflection of the ...
COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF POLICE WHO POUNDED ON WRONG DOOR, DIDN'T IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, THEN KILLED INNOCENT MAN FOR HOLDING A GUN
Post Date: 2017-03-24 11:04:20 by Horse
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ATLANTA, Ga. — According to a federal appeals court, police will not be held accountable for banging on the wrong door at 1:30 am, failing to identify themselves as police, and then repeatedly shooting and killing the innocent homeowner who answered the door while holding a gun in self-defense. Although 26-year-old Andrew Scott had committed no crime and never fired a single bullet or lifted his firearm against police, he was gunned down by police who were investigating a speeding incident by engaging in a middle-of-the-night “knock and talk” in Scott’s apartment complex. In ruling in favor of qualified immunity for police, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh ...
NYT Editors Support White House Regime Change
Post Date: 2017-03-24 08:09:31 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Editors Support White House Regime Change by Stephen Lendman Times editors refuse to accept Hillary’s defeat, continuing a relentless anti-Trump campaign. They consider his main offenses triumphing last November, challenging Obama’s deplorable legacy, and rhetorically wanting improved relations with Russia - reasons enough to want him weakened or removed from office, a shocking indictment of a scoundrel media supported debauched system. Trump, with justification, claims he and close associates were spied on. On Wednesday, House Select Committee on Intelligence chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R. CA) said “on numerous occasions, the Intelligence Community incidentally ...
Michael Moore: Anti-Trump Coup Supporter
Post Date: 2017-03-24 07:54:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Michael Moore: Anti-Trump Coup Supporter by Stephen Lendman His irrational anti-Trump rage lost him credibility months ago. He’s either deranged, a Democrat party plant, funded by Trump-hating extremists like Soros, prematurely senile, or all of the above. Throughout last year’s presidential campaign, he openly supported war criminal, racketeer, perjurer Hillary. After her defeat, he called for her to be installed as president anyway. Ahead of Trump’s inauguration, he urged disrupting it - wanting it “block(ed), obstruct(ed),” and otherwise interfered with to prevent him from becoming president. He tried bribing Republican electors to defect, saying “(i)f ...
Stealing from the Citizenry: How Government Goons Use Civil Asset Forfeiture to Rob Us Blind
Post Date: 2017-03-24 07:07:50 by Ada
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“Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime. Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found guilty in a court of law, with civil forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose homes, cars, cash or other property. Americans are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but civil forfeiture turns that principle on its head. With civil forfeiture, your property is ...
Trump and Transition Team Spied On
Post Date: 2017-03-23 08:16:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump and Transition Team Spied On by Stephen Lendman On Wednesday, House Select Committee on Intelligence chair Devin Nunez (R. CA) issued a statement, saying “on numerous occasions, the Intelligence Community incidentally collected information about US citizens involved in the Trump transition.” “Details about US persons associated with the incoming administration - details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value - were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.” “I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked” - their identities revealed, likely for political reasons. “To be ...
Washington's Little Known Spy Agency
Post Date: 2017-03-22 08:51:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington’s Little Known Spy Agency by Stephen Lendman US spying is institutionalized - on anyone, anywhere for any reason or none at all. Invented national security threats, targeting dissent and whistleblowers, along with challenging press freedom undermine fundamental rights. In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme Court called "(f)reedom of thought the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” In Texas v. Johnson (1989), Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, said “if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because ...
Fox News Legal Analyst Silenced
Post Date: 2017-03-22 08:27:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Fox News Legal Analyst Silenced by Stephen Lendman Former law professor, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano was legal analyst for Fox News until silenced over allegations of Obama using Britain’s GCHQ spy agency (its NSA equivalent) to monitor Trump - meaning his phone and online communications. Whether true or not, it’s possible, arguably likely. London’s Guardian earlier reported GCHQ “secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world’s phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process vast streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency ...
Trump v. Televised Congressional Hysteria
Post Date: 2017-03-21 09:02:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump v. Televised Congressional Hysteria by Stephen Lendman Americans are ill-governed and ill-served by officials at all levels of government - federal, state and local. On Monday, clear evidence showed it. Disgraceful witch-hunt McCarthyism was on display for viewers tuning in to see. Hysterical House Select Committee on Intelligence members disgraced themselves during tediously long testimony by FBI Director James Comey and NSA head Michael Rogers. Committee members obsessed over nonexistent Trump ties to Russia, his charges about Obama wiretapping him, nonexistent Moscow US election hacking, Putin bashing, and security leaks. Comey acknowledged an ongoing classified investigation ...
Bernie Sanders: America's Most Popular Con Man
Post Date: 2017-03-21 08:18:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Bernie Sanders: America’s Most Popular Con Man by Stephen Lendman He’s been saying one thing and doing another for over 30 years in public life, proving he’s a self- serving dirty politician like virtually all others. Rare exceptions prove the rule. His revolutionary, man-of-the-people rhetoric is empty, his soul for sale at the right price. He’s more demagogic rabble rouser than straight talk public servant. So why is he popular among Americans? It’s not because of his deplorable voting record, supporting undemocratic Democrat policies 98% of the time. They include backing imperial wars, NATO’s killing machine, Israeli apartheid, and the Wall Street- ...
NYT Editors Lied Suggesting Sabotage Undermined Hillary's Campaign
Post Date: 2017-03-21 08:03:16 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Editors Lied Suggesting Sabotage Undermined Hillary’s Campaign by Stephen Lendman The Big Lie persists. The Times is a lying machine - along with other media scoundrels refusing to accept Trump’s triumph last November. Plenty about his agenda to warrants criticism. Claiming electoral theft is over-the-top sour grapes. He won. She lost. That should have been the end of it. Not in a nation where democracy is more fantasy than real, where Trump haters bash him for the wrong reasons. In an editorial deplorably headlined “Comey’s Haunting News on Trump and Russia,” Times editors barely stopped short claiming Trump campaign collusion with Russia to “sabotage ...
C.I.A. Torture Left Scars on Guantánamo Prisoner’s Psyche for Years
Post Date: 2017-03-20 09:20:09 by Ada
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Nearly a decade after C.I.A. interrogators tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in Al Qaeda’s bombing of the American destroyer Cole in 2000, the prisoner continued to experience lingering psychological consequences, including “nightmares that invoked being chained, naked and waterboarded,” newly declassified documents show. The detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, is facing the death penalty over charges before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay that he helped plot the Cole attack, which killed 17 sailors, as well as an attack on a French- flagged oil tanker in 2002 that killed a Bulgarian man. The newly declassified documents are part of a petition in a ...
The King of Hatefacts
Post Date: 2017-03-19 14:45:47 by Ada
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Oh, no! Steve King gone done it now! He said, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” Then he doubled down by claiming that blacks and Hispanics would be at each other’s throats if whites ever became a minority. When pushed to apologize, he threw in some caveats about how race-mixing doesn’t bother him and you could adopt a black baby if it makes you feel better, but he refused to take back his #hatefacts. The backlash was instantaneous. A black guy called him “bigoted and racist.” An Asian showed King a picture of Asian babies. Jeb Bush said it “doesn’t reflect our values” and Chelsea Clinton said it was ...
Dershowitz: Courts Psychoanalyzing Trump — If Obama Issued Travel Ban, It Would Be Constitutional
Post Date: 2017-03-19 13:03:27 by Ada
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Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” while discussing federal courts in Hawaii and Maryland halting President Donald Trump’s new restrictions on travelers from majority-Muslim countries, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said if Trump’s predecessor former President Barack Obama had issued the same order, the courts would not have intervened on the constitutionality of the executive order. “The idea of focusing so heavily on campaign rhetoric and essentially saying, look, if Obama had issued the very same order with the same words it would be constitutional, but if Trump issues it, it’s unconstitutional because he said some things about ...
Trump's Budget Cuts $10 Billion in Foreign Aid, Israel Unaffected
Post Date: 2017-03-18 08:38:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Budget Cuts $10 Billion in Foreign Aid, Israel Unaffected by Stephen Lendman Trump’s proposed budget slashes discretionary spending, except for militarism, warmaking, veterans and Israel. It continues getting $3.1 billion annually in largely military aid, despite facing no threats - the amount increasing to $3.8 billion each year when the current 10-year agreement expires in 2018. Netanyahu asked for $4.5 billion annually. Perhaps Trump and Congress will oblige ahead, cutting more domestic social spending to offset the increase. According to the Congressional Research Service, “Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of US foreign assistance since World War ...
Trump's Cruel and Inhuman Budget
Post Date: 2017-03-17 07:40:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Cruel and Inhuman Budget by Stephen Lendman It’s a budget only Wall Street, war-profiteers, other corporate predators, and America’s privileged class could love. It calls for large increases in defense and homeland security spending instead of vitally needed major cuts in both at a time America’s only enemies are ones it invents. More money for US veterans is long overdue. They’re abysmally treated. They deserve much better. A 6% budget increase helps but isn’t enough. If America waged peace instead of permanent wars, wounded, maimed and traumatized vets wouldn’t exist. Trump’s budget cuts other discretionary spending across the board, ...
The Deplorable State of US Governance
Post Date: 2017-03-17 07:23:29 by Stephen Lendman
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The Deplorable State of US Governance by Stephen Lendman America is owned and run by powerful interests. Politicians and bureaucrats serve them. Elections when held assure dirty business as usual always wins. A nation permanently at war risks ending like on earth. Fundamental freedoms are disappearing, police state laws replacing them. Monied interests alone matter, at the expense of beneficial social change. Conditions for ordinary Americans are deplorable. Poverty is a growth industry, unemployment and underemployment at Depression era levels, human deprivation a major unaddressed issue. America devotes an inordinate amount of spending on militarism and imperial wars. Essential ...
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