Category Progressives
The Lawyer Who Represented Terrorists Heads to Prison, as Unapologetic as Ever | Village Voice
“I’m busier than ever,” he says, and with the wave of a hand proceeds to tick off a list. “I’m in the final draft of an appeal on U.S. v. Amina Ali, which is due August 23. I’m preparing for a trial on a significant drug-and-gun conspiracy in the Northern District of New York sometime […]
ANTIFA 2014 Internationale
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Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
Launched in 2008 – the year of the global banking crisis – the DoD ‘Minerva Research Initiative’ partners with universities “to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US.”Among the projects awarded for the period 2014-2017 is a Cornell […]
Flashback: A Look Back at the Church Committee’s Investigation into CIA, FBI Misuse of Power | Democracy Now!
We take a look at one of the most famous special Senate investigations of government misconduct. In the mid-1970s, a US Senate committee chaired by Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho conducted a massive investigation of the CIA and FBI’s misuse of power at home and abroad. The multi-year investigation examined domestic spying, the CIA’s […]
Right-Wing Extremists in Montana File for Legislative Races as Democrats | Hatewatch
Democratic primary voters in some Montana legislative districts will see new and unfamiliar names on the ballot this year. That’s because at least eight Democratic candidates are actually far-right “constitutionalists” and Tea Party activists. One of them is the current Republican vice-chairman for Sanders County. Two of the others have turned out to be homeless.Most […]
Obama hires Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda$$$ | Thom Hartmann – News & info from the #1 progressive radio show
Even the most restrictive and security conscious of persons can be exploited. Through the targeting and information reconnaissance phase, a person’s hometown and high school will be revealed. An adversary can create a classmates.com account at the same high school and year and find out people you went to high school with that do not […]
China issues report on U.S. human rights – People’s Daily Online
BEIJING, Feb. 28 — China published a report on the United States’ human rights record on Friday, in response to U.S. criticism and “irresponsible remarks” about China.”The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013″ was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, in response to “Country Reports on Human […]
Civil liberties watchdog concerned the RCMP has informants in B.C. anti-pipeline groups | Georgia Straight, Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
The Straight previously reported that the complaints rest on information contained in a package of emails sent between RCMP officers, CSIS agents, and government entities such as the National Energy Board between December 2012 and April 2013.Now, Paterson is calling attention to the significant portions of those documents that authorities redacted before releasing them to […]
Christopher H. Pyle – Be afraid, be very afraid, of spying by U.S. Army
[Thursday, December 5, 2002] After I testified against the surveillance in 1971, Sen. Sam J. Ervin’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights hired me to write two book-length reports on the Army’s spying. To do this, I had to read the contents of six Army computers containing spy reports. What struck me most was not the harm […]
In 1972, the CIA Director Relabelled “Dissidents” As “Terrorists” So He Could Continue Spying On Them … And Nothing Has Changed Washington’s Blog
Henceforth, Colby wrote in a memorandum after that meeting, the label “international terrorist” would replace “political dissident” as the target of the CIA’s illegal domestic operations. As part of this image transformation, Helms did what Hoover had done many times—and would do again in April 1971 to protect COINTELPRO when he thought it was about […]
Statement from Moriah Stephenson, one of the two activists facing potential “terrorism hoax” charges. | Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance
I know the sound of terrorism. I felt the Murrah Building Bombing shake my body; I will never forget. My grandfather, a doctor, provided free medical care for those wounded. I was chosen to paint a tile for the memorial. Calling non-violent, peaceful protesting “terrorism” is an insult to all of those who suffered due […]
David Edward Hyland: March 7, 1947—December 8, 2013 – World Socialist Web Site
Dave’s lasting political legacy is that in 1985-1986 he led the faction of the Workers Revolutionary Party WRP that declared its support for the International Committee of the Fourth International ICFI and opposed the efforts of the party’s central leadership, Gerry Healy, Cliff Slaughter and Mike Banda, to liquidate the Trotskyist movement in Britain and […]
How the FBI Conspired to Destroy the Black Panther Party – In These Times
The first evidence to support Rush’s allegation surfaced in March 1971, when a group of anonymous activists who called themselves the “Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI” broke into a small FBI office in Media, Pa. to expropriate more than 1,000 documents. In doing so, the Commission exposed the FBI’s “COINTELPRO” program, a […]
Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries | VICE Canada
Many people say we have fought for freedom and democracy. Given this consensus one might think veterans are as entitled as anybody to contribute to the political discourse, as serving senior officers regularly do. Not so.The American and British militaries clamped down on social media in the mid-2000s—on the grounds of security, they claim. The […]
Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses | The Unbounded Spirit | Culture of Resistance
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, […]
The Scandal of Racist Marijuana Arrests—and What To Do About It | The Nation
Big city police departments are among the worst offenders. Police in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York have arrested blacks for marijuana possession at more than seven times the rate of whites. Since 1997, New York City alone has arrested and jailed more than 600,000 people for possessing marijuana; about 87 percent of the arrests […]
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