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A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
Go to House Report 109-333 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads:
"There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the ’United States Secret Service (…)

Was Everything we did a Total Waste of Time? by Rory Winter
January 24, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
As a peace campaigner from the ’eighties, one of the questions I keep asking myself is: given the imminent threat of nuclear war in the Middle East why is the UK peace movement unable to replicate the effectiveness of the ’80s?
We can find all kinds of reasons for this, including the mistaken priority that both CND and the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) appear to put on solely organizing (…)

I don’t understand Former Ambassador Wilson’s recounting of how he met the Prince of Darkness , syndicated columnist Bob Novak. In the Vanity Fair profile on the Wilsons ("Double Exposure " , Jan. 2004) we hear this version of events : " But Wilson was CAUGHT OFF GUARD when he received a phone call from Robert Novak , (July 9, 2003 ) who according to Wilson, said he’d been told by a CIA source that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA. "Could you confirm or deny" , Novak is reported as (…)

"He is claiming absolute power that no one in American history has ever claimed. This cannot stand," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
"If you’re dealing with what appears to be a criminal conspiracy by the president, the vice president, the attorney general and others, you cannot ask the attorney general and the people under him to fairly investigate," Nadler said. "Obviously, they will dismiss this out of hand because they will not admit how real this is.
"I want to be absolutely clear, (…)

SOME BASIC PROBLEMS WITH GEORGE W. BUSH
By Peter Fredson
January 24, 2006
Like many Americans, I have spent much time in the past 5 years trying to figure out who George Bush is, how in the world he was considered to be Presidential Material, what he is trying to do, and why his character shows so many flaws but yet his supporters are willing to forgive, overlook, or disbelieve any of his negative elements.
Any analysis is difficult as he surely does not act alone, or with ordinary (…)

There are no well defined boundaries between any thing or any people ...except in ignorant minds. Peace, happiness, wholeness, love, all exist right here, today, right now in this moment ...only the mind leads you astray.
In order to fathom reality, you must let go of the concept of time and distance, and other illusions created by men. Those who adhere to time as a measurement, as a truth, will always find themselves imprisoned and constrained ...indeed, believing in time becomes a source (…)

Do you think Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago 7 (exception Bobby Seale) were civilian assets for the police from the very begining as has been documented by Skolnick?
Short preface 3/17/2004.
After this preface there is re-typed, VERBATIM, my original investigation report of 1972. Since there is currently supposed Anti-Iraq War Movements, it is instructive to study prior such movements. Why? To determine, by example, if the leadership and direction they are taking secretly serves the (…)

The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.
"A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.
Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. They said the hearings would focus on the secret electronic surveillance program and whether Mr. Bush violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Administration sources said the (…)

By Mary MacElveen
As each year goes by, I think of the body politics and throw up my hands since I no longer see any candidate worth fighting for. As we go on, I am reminded of a short speech given by the fictional Chief of Staff on the West Wing, Leo McGary where he said: “Because I’m tired of it year after year after year after year having to chose between the lesser of who cares? Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar (…)

By Dave Zirin, Dave Zirin is the author of "What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States" and a columnist for Slam magazine.
THE NEW Disney film "Glory Road" tells the story of a basketball game that put sports in the middle of the civil rights movement. But it also recalls a time when the ordinary actions of coaches could unwittingly transcend sports and make a mark on history.
Key to the legacies of the two Hall of Fame coaches at the heart of "Glory Road" is how (…)