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  • Martial Law - is this for real?
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ian
    Look what I found posted to my door this morning! It was a multi-page document printed on bright red paper. I took a look out my window, and sure enough, there’s an army humvee parked down the streets with a couple of soldiers milling about. What the fuck is going on? !!! ATTENTION !!!
    This is an official communication from the United States Government. Read and understand these instructions! Failure to comply with these instructions may result in arrest.
    As of 30 September (…)

  • LOCKHEED MARTIN AND UK CENSUS COLLUSION
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    Lockheed Martin is one of the shortlisted contractors to provide data capture and storage services for the United Kingdom 2011 Census.
    Lockheed Martin has many contracts with the United States Department of Defense. The company is involved with contracts in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
    The UK Green Party has assembled a petition. They are concerned that census submissions will not be safe from being incorporated into the US integrated systems. “Most worrying is their claim (…)

  • The 5:32 AM Train to Washington, D.C.
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The actual outlook [for the survival of Civilization] is very dark!” — George Orwell
    Baltimore, MD — The commuter train belonging to the MARC Line, pulled out of Penn Station, on Aug. 7, 2007, at exactly 5:32 AM. I was lucky to get a seat. It was overbooked and headed for Washington, D.C. about an hour away. The first thing I noticed on the train was how quiet it was. No one was talking. There was no chattering—just—silence. The passengers were mostly sleeping. Some had on their head (…)

  • How Democracy Works: Democratic Deceit and Denial on War, Impeachment, Health Care and Prisons
    26 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, July 26, 2007 by The Black Agenda Report
    How Democracy Works: Democratic Deceit and Denial on War, Impeachment, Health Care and Prisons
    by Bruce Dixon
    Most Americans, and most Democrats want an end to war. Most Americans favor impeachment, and when alternatives are described to them, most favor a single-payer health care system on the French or Canadian model. When Republicans captured the House and Senate in the third year of Bill Clinton’s administration the (…)

  • White House Policy Illegally Silences Americans Critical of Bush, ACLU Charges (6/28/2007)
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    White House Policy Illegally Silences Americans Critical of Bush, ACLU Charges (6/28/2007)
    Civil Liberties Group Sues Former White House Staffer for Ejecting Taxpayers from Public Events
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org
    WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against a former high-level White House staffer for enacting a policy that unlawfully excluded individuals perceived to be critical of the administration from public events where (…)

  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler: President and Attorney General are engaged in a criminal conspiracy
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, said today that there is no question that the warrantless wiretaping engaged in by the Bush Administration is a felony offense and that the President and Attorney General engaged in a criminal conspiracy worse than Watergate. Nadler was referring not to the mysterious program that the Acting Attorney General refused to support, but rather to the (…)

  • The War on Free Expression
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    The War on Free Expression - by Stephen Lendman
    In a post-9/11 climate, the right of free expression is under attack and endangered in the age of George Bush when dissent may be called a threat to national security, terrorism, or treason. But losing that most precious of all rights means losing our freedom that 18th century French philosopher Voltaire spoke in defense of saying "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." (…)

  • Mind Management is not Democracy
    14 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When British marines were captured by the Iranians, we were told they were in Iraqi waters, as though that was completely natural. Several thousand miles from their own country, sailing an area subject to border dispute, their captain having told British TV that they might be picking up intelligence about Iran; nothing unusual there. Especially for an arrogant former imperial power reduced to snuggling up to the USA and acting as its junior partner in arousing hatred for the western world. (…)

  • China Reports on USA Human Rights Abuses
    19 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Human Rights Record in the United States in 2006 China’s report on Human Rights Violations in America
    by China’s State Council
    Global Research, March 13, 2007 Information Office of China’s State Council - 2007-03-07
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    BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — States and to promote the international cause of human rights, we hereby publish the Human Rights Record of The Information Office of the State Council published a document titled "The (…)

  • Full Text: The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006
    15 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — The Information Office of the State Council published a document titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006" here on Thursday. Following is the full text:
    On March 6, the U.S. Department of State released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006. As in previous years, the State Department pointed the finger at human rights conditions in more than 190 countries and regions, including China, but avoided touching on the human (…)