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Wisconsin Judge Rules Against Trump's Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-03-12 08:11:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Wisconsin Judge Rules Against Trump’s Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman On Friday, federal District Court Judge William Conley issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) for the wife and child of a Syrian refugee, living in America since 2014. His ruling applies only to them, but opens the door to similar ones, potentially nationwide, along with other efforts to get Trump’s travel ban judicially overturned, one state at a time. Names of the individuals involved in the Wisconsin case are unreported to protect their identities for obvious reasons - given disturbing Islamophobia in America. The plaintiff is a Sunni Syrian Muslim, given refugee status in America over two years ago. ...
US spies still won't tell Congress the number of Americans caught in dragnet
Post Date: 2017-03-11 18:46:54 by hondo68
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Electronic surveillance programs Prism, Upstream hang in the congressional balance.Enlarge / A page from a classified PowerPoint presentation highlighting two US surveillance programs disclosed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The Guardian In 2013, a National Security Agency contractor named Edward Snowden revealed US surveillance programs that involved the massive and warrantless gathering of Americans' electronic communications. Two of the programs, called Upstream and Prism, are allowed under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That section expires at year's end, and President Donald Trump's administration, like his predecessor's administration, ...
Turkey's Tyrannical Rule
Post Date: 2017-03-11 12:42:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey’s Tyrannical Rule by Stephen Lendman Recep Tayyip Erdogan rules with an iron fist, heading a virtual fascist dictatorship masquerading as democratic. Anyone criticizing or challenging his leadership risks imprisonment, including public figures, journalists, academics, other intellectuals, human rights activists, even young children - on charges ranging from insulting the president to terrorism, espionage or treason. He purged or imprisoned over 100,000 regime critics - from the judiciary, military, police, media and academia. His state of emergency imposed after last summer’s coup attempt “target(s) criticism, not terrorism,” according to UN High Commissioner ...
Trump and Palestinian Puppet President Speak by Phone
Post Date: 2017-03-11 08:10:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump and Palestinian Puppet President Speak by Phone by Stephen Lendman Israeli-anointed Palestinian puppet Mahmoud Abbas lacks legitimacy. His so-called 2005 election was rigged to install him in office. His term expired in January 2009. He’s still there, remaining as long as Israel and Washington want him. He’s more stooge than statesman, a Palestinian Quisling. He’s a longtime Israeli collaborator, serving as its enforcer, a self-serving Judas goat, hugely corrupt, betraying his people for special benefits he’s afforded - remaining in office as long as he serves his masters in Tel Aviv and Washington. On Friday, he and Trump spoke by phone for the first time. A ...
Four States Sue to Overturn Trump's Racist Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-03-10 12:46:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Four States Sue to Overturn Trump’s Racist Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman Hawaii was the first to sue, discussed in a previous article. State Attorney General Doug Chin called Trump’s revised executive order “Muslim Ban 2.0.” “Under the pretense of national security, it still targets immigrants and refugees. It leaves the door open for even further restrictions,” he said. On Thursday, Washington, Oregon and New York announced they’ll challenge Trump’s ban. Other states may follow - Minnesota next, according to NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, adding: “While the White House may have made changes to the ban, the intent to discriminate ...
America in Turmoil: From Deep State Insurgency to Deep State Spying – WikiLeaks’ Vault 7
Post Date: 2017-03-10 11:26:34 by Ada
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Even those not following the latest evidence of the tyrannical noose tightening around our necks, know something has gone terribly wrong in America. Through NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations four years ago, we learned that US citizens, as well as foreign countries, are the most spied upon in human history. But this week’s latest massive WikiLeaks’ release, aka Vault 7, amounts to almost 9,000 pages of CIA documents collected from 2013 through 2016 that disclose highly classified hacking secrets. With this largest dump of confidential CIA files ever published, the world is beginning to realize just how far gone our privacy rights are, becoming virtually ...
War Criminal Obama Wins JFK Profile in Courage Award
Post Date: 2017-03-10 07:25:40 by Stephen Lendman
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War Criminal Obama Wins JFK Profile in Courage Award by Stephen Lendman Obama is no JFK! Despite committing horrific war crimes straightaway in office, Nobel committee members awarded him their 2009 peace prize, further mocking its legitimacy - honoring criminality, snubbing worthy recipients. Obama boasted about being at war throughout his tenure - after promising to end wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They rage endlessly. Obama raped Libya, Syria and Yemen, replaced democracy in Ukraine with fascist tyranny, partnered with Israeli wars on Gaza, waged drone wars in multiple theaters, largely killing civilians, and enforced police state ruthlessness domestically. Days earlier, he was ...
China's Report on US Human Rights Abuses
Post Date: 2017-03-09 13:55:50 by Stephen Lendman
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China’s Report on US Human Rights Abuses by Stephen Lendman China’s annual reports on US human rights abuses counter ones produced by the State Department - judging other nations, ignoring America’s high crimes at home and abroad. Examining its 2016 domestic and foreign record, China again exposed the myth of America’s claim about being a human rights defender. Using data from the US Justice Department, FBI, other US agencies, state ones, think tanks, the UN, international and US media, China reported what America wants concealed. Its incarceration rate is the world’s highest by far. In 2016, 58,125 gun violence incidents occurred, “including 385 mass ...
WikiLeaks Releases Documents on CIA Hacking Tools
Post Date: 2017-03-09 08:55:18 by Stephen Lendman
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WikiLeaks Releases Documents on CIA Hacking Tools by Stephen Lendman On March 7, WikiLeaks published 8,761 documents, revealing secret CIA spying and hacking tools, saying: The dump represents “the majority of (Langely’s) hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.” The documents, called Vault 7, came from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. Edward Snowden tweeted “(s)till working through the publication, but what @Wikileaks has here is genuinely a big deal. Looks authentic.” Separately, he tweeted “first public evidence USG secretly ...
Obama Monitoring Trump
Post Date: 2017-03-08 13:50:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Monitoring Trump by Stephen Lendman Former presidents usually respect the right of their successors to govern without interference. Obama changed the rules, maybe supported by big money backers like George Soros and likeminded international con men. Perhaps he’s involved in staging anti-Trump protests, challenging him in underhanded ways instead sticking to justifiable criticism. Reportedly his close aide Valerie Jarrett moved into his luxury new Washington home, two miles from the White House - intended as a nerve center to undermine Trump, ultimately aiming to oust him from office. In late January, Obama expressed support for anti-Trump protests, saying “citizens ...
Big Brother Spying by America
Post Date: 2017-03-08 07:37:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Big Brother Spying by America by Stephen Lendman US spy agencies trample on Bill of Rights protections. Their spying domestically and abroad is pervasive. Anything goes is official policy, rule of law principles circumvented. Edward Snowden earlier said he hoped his revelations would make people worldwide aware of how their freedoms and protections are compromised. Mass surveillance goes on in ways few people realize. Numerous techniques are used - metadata collected unrelated to national security without court authorized warrants. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, Apple, and major telecommunications companies are complicit in spying on their customers. Phone ...
Hawaii Challenges Trump's Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-03-08 07:26:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Hawaii Challenges Trump’s Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman It’s the first state to file suit, challenging Trump’s revised travel ban. The new version resembles the old one with a face lift. State attorneys said court filings coming Wednesday request a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order, blocking Trump’s executive order. Law Professor Neal Katyal representing Hawaii said while “the new executive order covers fewer people than the old one,” it still “suffers from the same constitutional and statutory defects.” Hawaii earlier asked a federal judge to lift the stay so it could file an amended lawsuit. In February, US District Court ...
Bahrain Regime Moves to Eliminate Opposition
Post Date: 2017-03-07 13:37:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Bahrain Regime Moves to Eliminate Opposition by Stephen Lendman Al-Wefaq was Bahrain’s largest political society, its most popular. Last July, it was suspended and dissolved. The National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad) is the country’s leading secular opposition. On Monday, the ruling al-Khalifa regime began legal proceedings to dissolve it over fabricated claims about “incit(ing) acts of terrorism and promoting violent and forceful overthrow of the political regime” - no evidence presented, nothing suggesting accusations are credible. The despotic al-Khalifa monarchy wants all challenges to its ruthless rule eliminated. Groups and individuals critical of the ...
Trump Co-opted to Stay Hardline on Russis
Post Date: 2017-03-07 08:25:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Co-opted to Stay Hardline on Russia by Stephen Lendman After a few weeks in office, Trump abandoned notions of improved ties with Russia. Putting Russophobes in charge of defense, national and homeland security dashed hopes for better relations. The reported upcoming appointment of Russophobe Fiona Hill as White House Director for Europe and Russia provides more evidence. American geopolitical policy seems like Obama never left. Endless imperial wars rage. The risk of US confrontation with Russia and China remains - by design or accident, nuclear war not off the table as hoped for with Hillary’s defeat. A ray of good news came from Trump’s mid-February press ...
Trump's New Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-03-06 13:38:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s New Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman His new executive order, issued Monday, reworked his earlier one - rejected at the federal district and appeals court levels. How this one fares remains to be seen. It’ll likely be challenged. Like the earlier one, it’s all about politics, unrelated to border control and keeping the nation safe from foreign terrorists - ISIS and others Washington created and supports. It calls for improved “screening and vetting protocols associated with the visa-issuance process and the” US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). It suspends for 90 days entry of certain (undefined) aliens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and ...
Ukrainian Putschists Sue Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-06 13:25:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukrainian Putschists Sue Russia by Stephen Lendman Kiev’s illegitimate regime is suing Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on false charges of violating the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” Let’s get this straight. The US-installed putschist regime in Kiev, waging terror war on its Donbass citizens, wants Russia held accountable for its own high crimes. You can’t make this stuff up. The case could drag on for months or years, the outcome meaningless as the ICJ has no enforcement authority. Or it could end quickly if ...
Obamagate Scandal
Post Date: 2017-03-06 08:56:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Obamagate Scandal by Stephen Lendman If Obama ordered Trump Tower wiretapped as Donald Trump claims, evidence may or may not be easily obtained. If FISA court authorization occurred, a congressional inquiry could prove it. If conducted warrantless by the NSA, CIA or FBI, verifying Trump’s claim will be much harder. Cooperation by agency heads would be needed. NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers is an Obama administration holdover. So is FBI head James Comey. CIA director Mike Pompeo is a Trump appointee. If Obama got FISA court authorization to wiretap Trump Tower, or a server the building uses for electronic communications located anywhere, court records would verify it. Still, ...
The NYT Dismisses a Potential Obamagate Scandal
Post Date: 2017-03-06 08:22:49 by Stephen Lendman
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The NYT Dismisses a Potential Obamagate Scandal by Stephen Lendman Throughout Obama’s tenure, The Times supported his criminality and other abuses of power - his imperial aggression in multiple theaters, subservience to Wall Street and other corporate favorites, crushing neoliberal harshness harming America’s most vulnerable, and police state ruthlessness. He let Big Brother spy on everyone legally and illegally at home and abroad - recording our phone and electronic communications with or without judicially authorized warrants. Is it out of the question to think he did nothing to interfere with Trump’s campaign, including monitoring his communications? One-sidedly ...
Trump to Separate Undocumented Refugee Mothers from Children
Post Date: 2017-03-06 08:11:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump to Separate Undocumented Refugee Mothers from Children? by Stephen Lendman According to Reuters, “(w)omen and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by US authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security” - citing unnamed government sources. The idea is to discourage mothers in unfavored countries from coming to America with children - treating them harshly to dissuade others from seeking refuge here. Detention facilities for undocumented immigrants are deplorable, hundreds of thousands of detainees inhumanely treated, conditions as bad or worse than imprisoned criminals face - at an enormous ...
Mr. President, Your Predecessor Actually Wire Tapped ALL Of Our Phones… What Are You Going To Do About It?
Post Date: 2017-03-05 14:34:36 by hondo68
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President Trump went on a Tweet storm this morning, presumably because at some point in the last 24 hours he learned that his predecessor President Obama reportedly “wire tapped” the phone lines in Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign. In the process of tweeting, the President actually confirmed what many of us already know – we are being actively monitored by a domestic police state. We can fully sympathize with the President’s outrage over being wiretapped, but it should be no surprise to our readers. Back in 2011 we noted, to accusations of being conspiracy theorists, that everything Americans do is being monitored, including real-time monitoring of our ...
Trump Asks Congress to Investigate Obama Over Wiretapping
Post Date: 2017-03-05 13:19:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Asks Congress to Investigate Obama Over Wiretapping by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, his press secretary Sean Spicer issued a statement, saying reports “concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling.” “President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.” He added neither the White House or Trump will comment further “until such oversight is conducted. A previous article discussed two ...
Banning Howard Zinn's Books
Post Date: 2017-03-05 08:58:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Banning Howard Zinn’s Books by Stephen Lendman Best remembered as an activist historian, scholar, educator, and author of numerous books, including his notable “People’s History of the United States,” Zinn died in January 2010 at age 87. He impacted the lives of his students, readers and many others, including my own. He wrote about history too few others teach, never discussed by major media. He spoke publicly at hundreds of meetings and rallies. When he began teaching, he said he “could not possibly keep out of the classroom (his) own experiences.” He “never concealed (his) political views: (his) detestation of war and militarism, (his) anger at ...
Trump Abandons Cooperation with Russia
Post Date: 2017-03-05 08:44:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Abandons Cooperation with Russia by Stephen Lendman Trump’s campaign rhetoric about cooperating with Russia in combating terrorism was bluster without follow-through, according to AP News, saying: He’s “telling advisers and allies that he may shelve, at least temporarily, his plan to pursue a deal with Moscow on the Islamic State group and other national security matters, according to administration officials and Western diplomats.” It doesn’t surprise given longstanding US hostility toward Russia, especially during the Cold War and Putin’s tenure. Trump stacked his administration with defense, national and homeland security hardliners. Reportedly he ...
Trump's Wiretapping Accusation: Part of a Coup Plot if True
Post Date: 2017-03-05 08:32:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Wiretapping Accusation: Part of a Coup Plot if True by Stephen Lendman Pre-and-post election, pro-Hillary dark forces, supported by media scoundrels, invented reasons to vilify Trump, wanting him delegitimized. Failing to prevent his electoral triumph, relentless attacks continue. Targeting key administration officials Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway and likely others to come is part of a sinister plot to weaken him - ahead of likely aiming to oust him from office for the wrong reasons. There’s plenty about his agenda to criticize. Instead the Big Lie about nonexistent Russian US election hacking persists. So do phony allegations of Trump’s links ...
Trump Tower Wiretapped by Obama?
Post Date: 2017-03-04 13:21:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Tower Wiretapped by Obama? by Stephen Lendman According to Trump, Obama wiretapped Trump tower pre-election, tweeting: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” “Is it legal for a sitting President to be -‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” “I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election ...
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