Civil Liberties, Rights, Justice
The Banned Books From School
Sep 6th
The Banned Books From School. By Rassilons Shorts - This is from the AARP Bulletin. The list of books banned by American schools and libraries includes many of the classic. Here’s our list, prepared to coincide with the American Library Association’s annual Banned Book Week, Sept 25-Oct 2.This is not all the books that are [...]
Act of honor, or betrayal?
Jul 14th
Washingtonpost.com Former NSA Executive Thomas A. Drake May Pay High Price For Media Leak F or seven years, Thomas A. Drake was a senior executive at the nation’s largest intelligence organization with an ambition to change its insular culture. He had access to classified programs that purported to help the National Security Agency tackle its [...]
Woman Sees Her Home Confiscated Over a Water Bill
Jun 13th
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund By Fred Schulte and Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert One raw day in early February, Vicki Valentine stood by helplessly as real estate investors snatched her West Baltimore home over what began with an unpaid city water bill of $362. As snow threatened to fall, she watched a work crew [...]
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange “in Danger”’Assange Is in Some Danger’
Jun 12th
Daniel Ellsberg: Wikileaks’ Julian Assange “in Danger” – The Daily Beast Daniel Ellsberg (John McDonnell, The Washington Post / Getty Images As feds hunt for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange in hopes of preventing him from publishing diplomatic secrets, Samuel P. Jacobs talks with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he should stay out of America—and [...]
Throw the Top BP Executives and Its Two SubContractors in Federal Prison Until the Gulf Well is Capped and Damages Paid
May 28th
OpEdNews May 27, 2010 Throw the Top BP Executives and Its Two SubContractors in Federal Prison Until the Gulf Well is Capped and Damages Paid By Mark Karlin Reprinted from BuzzFlash Since the Supreme Court in January declared that “Corporate Personhood” is the law of the land, let’s treat British Petroleum like a person and [...]
Rand Paul’s Libertarian La-La Land
May 25th
washingtonpost.com Rand Paul wins the Kentucky Senate primary race Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul, defeated opponent Trey Grayson in the Kentucky Republican Senate primary on May 18. By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Not so fast, everybody. Rand Paul can’t abruptly disavow the extremist views on civil rights that he’s been [...]
Rand Paul Wants It Both Ways
May 25th
Campaign forAmerica’s Future By Terrance Heath May 24, 2010 – 4:06pm ET When I heard Rand Paul’s statement about the civil rights act, I had a sense of deja vu. Not only that I’d heard them before, but that I run into the peculiar conservative phenomenon they represented: wanting have it both ways on an [...]
Citizen Alioune: How Not to Deal With Muslims in America
May 24th
Sunday 23 May 2010 by: Stephan Salisbury Alioune Niass, the Sengalese Muslim vendor who first spotted the now infamous smoking SUV in Times Square and alerted police, is no hero. If it were not for the Times of London, we would not even know of his pivotal role in the story. No mainstream American newspaper [...]
Citizen Alioune: How Not to Deal With Muslims in America
May 24th
Sunday 23 May 2010 by: Stephan Salisbury Alioune Niass, the Sengalese Muslim vendor who first spotted the now infamous smoking SUV in Times Square and alerted police, is no hero. If it were not for the Times of London, we would not even know of his pivotal role in the story. No mainstream American newspaper [...]
8 Words That Could Save Our Country
May 1st
AlterNet / By David Morris “Corporations are not people. Money is not speech.” These are fundamental truths that our nation needs to remember — and add to the Constitution. May 1, 2010 | A rogue Supreme Court seems hellbent on establishing a corporate oligarchy. Congress can’t stop it. Every time Congress or state legislatures tries [...]
