We do not become a safer or stronger nation through civil rights violations. We all should be concerned about the ever increasing number of rights we are losing that this article documents.
The idea of civil rights is that some rights are better off residing in the individual than the state. It is based on the history of governments abusing their power. Two examples of documents which do this are the U.S. Constitution and the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In our history there have been times when civil rights have been suspended, such as the Civil War and World War II, but they have always been during the War only and some sort of due process remained. What we have now is a situation worse by both the length - well over ten years - and extent of deprivation of constitutional rights. Permanent wars mean an excuse to permanently suspend civil rights. As Hunter S. Thompson predicted on 9/12/2001: “The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for peace in our time, in the U.S. or any other country. Make no mistake about it: we are at War now- with somebody - and we will stay at war with that strange and mysterious enemy for the rest of our lives.” (See also Continuous Wars)
The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future.
Other Examples:
- Any President can give everyone in Gitmo their day in court. Restoring habeas corpus is totally at the discretion of the President. Both Republican and Democratic presidents have chosen not to exercise that discretion..
- Guantanamo remains open.
- The Patriot Act passed in 2001 was renewed with no significant objection from either republicans or democrats. This means restricted Civil Rights through the suspension of the constitution. Both Bush and Obama have authorized spying and in some cases killing American citizens. Both republicans and democrats in Congress voted overwhelmingly for it. Congress then by an overwhelming majority passed the National Defense Authorization Bill further suspending the US Constitution and Obama signed it. The second NDD bill passed 98-0 in the US Senate.
- Obama has been far more active than Bush in using the DOJ to imprison whistleblowers such as DeChristopher for exposing an illegal fossil fuel land grab, Manning for wiki-leaks exposing the lies of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and Thomas Drake for exposing the dishonesty and corruption of the NSA.
- The recent agreement shoved down the throats of 49 State Attorney Generals immunized banks from being charged with manufacturing evidence, and using both forgery and perjury to illegally foreclose on homes. This brings into question whether the rule of law can still be enforced in this country.
- It is sad to see the already abused LGBT community prosecuted so politicians can make cheap points among a frightened populace. See reference 534-536.
United States Torture?
The question of torture by the United States goes to our very soul as a country. Wikipedia says, "Extraordinary rendition and irregular rendition describe the abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one nation to another. "Torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States has transferred suspected terrorists to countries known to practice torture." Of course it has been shown that torture does not work, but more importantly it should be obvious to everybody that this is wrong regardless if done by a republican or democrat. Bush started this and Obama and Trump openly continued it. See references 8, 14, 38, 68, 69, 82, 85, 87, 88, 98, 99, 103, 131, 155, 156, 169, 172, 181, 195, 196, 258, 265, 337, 376, 390, 395, 398, 399, 402, 405, 406, 438, 439, 441, 458-462,482, 484, 485, 486, 488, 495, 506, 543-550, 601-603, 618, 619, 623, 654, 655.If it is wrong under Bush or Trump, it is also wrong under Obama. If it is wrong for republicans, it is still wrong for democrats. The solution is simple. Go back to the constitutional guarantees we had prior to 2001. Obama with the enthusiastic support of the democrats has maintained or expanded all civil rights violations Bush started and Trump now continues. Torture and deprivation of due process is wrong under both democrats and republicans. Real change will come only when we start to think outside the two party system.
References
1-Criminalizing free speech
2-“Obama bans war criminals, except our own”
3-Did Obama Order Tar Sands Protesters Jailed?
4-Obama’s FBI Targets Antiwar.com
5-Bush 2.0: 100 Ways Barack Obama Is Just Like George W. Bush
6-President Obama Has All The Legal Authority He Needs To Make Recess Appointments Right Now
7-Dept. of Interior Recommended Federal Charges vs. DADT Protesters – 3 Hours Before They Demonstrated
8-Torture Decriminalized: How the State Department Provides Space for the Culpables’ Book Tours
9-Department of Justice Files Writ of Mandamus Against Judge in Dan Choi Case
10-Department of “Justice”?
11-The ACLU on Obama and Core Liberties
12-BART Police Arrest Journalists, Cite KGO, KTVU at BART Protest. Homeland Security Present
13- Targeted Killing Program: America’s Shameful Response to 9/11
14-DoD Persecutes Guantanamo Guard Who Talked About the Torture
15-Choi Legal Team Responds to DoJ Petition for Writ of Mandamus
16-Freedom Is Not Free at the State Department
17-Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
18-Free Speech and Civil Liberties in the PR Age of Obama
19-Obama DoJ Trying to Codify Lying to Judges Over FOIA-Requested Docs Now: WTF?
20-Obama Witch Hunt Against Polar Bear Scientists Takes New Twist – 2nd Scientist Asked to Take Lie Detector Test
21-GOP and Tea Party on Obama’s Foreign Policy “Successes”
22-Bookburning USA: Obama’s Traitor Troops Trash OWS Library as his EPA Awards Book-Burners for Outstanding Recycling
23-Feds Raid Washington State Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
24-Homeland Security Coordinated 18-City Police Crackdown on Occupy Protest
25-The Sound of Democrat’s Silence on Civil Liberties
26-You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring
27-Thought Crime in Washington
28-Passing Defense Senate Bill: Dianne Feinstein’s Tortured Explanation
29-The Obamanable President: UPDATED
30-Obama and the Rule of Law
31-Obama Crowned Himself on New Year’s Eve
32-ACLU trashes Obama over indefinite detention and torture act
33-2012′s Civil Liberties Apocalypse Has Already Happened
34-ACLU Sues Obama Administration over Assassination Secrecy
35-Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy
36-The White House’s Dangerous Dance With the Birth Control Mandate
37-George Will Stands Up for Justice in the Don Siegelman Case
38-URGENT Immediate Action Needed! Help Prevent Obama’s Goons from Further Torturing US Rights Observers in Bahrain
39-Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law
40-Those Weak Losers Who Care about “Law”
41-Pity the Poor Judges
42-Foreclosure Settlement a Failure of Law, a Triumph for Bank Attorneys
43-WikiLeaks: Disgraced Judge Said He Was Targeted for Investigation After Ruling Against Halliburton
44-Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder
45-HR 347: The Anti-Occupy Law
46-Weaponizing the Body Politic
47-Obama’s Vile Assassination Doctrine
48-Obama Justice Department Suffers a Monumental Failure
49-Legal Experts Destroy Rationale for Obama’s Assassination Policy … And Slam Democrats for Supporting It
50-Obama Signs Anti-protest Trespass Bill
51-The Terrorists are Winning: The Erosion of Civil Liberties in America
52-Sending Americans Into Exile — the Obama Way
53-Obama’s Personal Role in a Journalist’s Imprisonment
54-Anti-Occupy Bill (H.R. 347) Unanimously Passed and Signed By POTUS
55-New Obama Executive Order Seizes U.S. Infrastructure and Citizens for Military Preparedness
56-A New Age of Enemies
57-Where is Obama as Police Brutalize Citizens?
58-What About Misconduct in the Don Siegelman Prosecution?
59-Native Americans Protest Keystone XL From A Cage -
Activists compelled to stay in enclosure miles from President’s pro-oil event
60-Tim DeChristopher Transferred Out of “The Hole”, But Questions Remain
61-New Counterorrism Guidelines Gives Authorities Vast Access to Private Info of Innocent Americans
62-US Government Keeping Data on Americans with No Connection to Terrorism
63-The Obama DOJ and Strip Searches
64-75% of Americans Support Workplace Protections for GLBT Folks. Obama is not one of them.
65-Legal Atrocities
66-Creating a Prison-Corporate Complex
67-Investors Want Disclosure of Corporate Political Contributions and Lobbying Expenditures
68-Supreme Court: Law Says Organizations Cannot be Sued for Torture
69-Torture on Trial
70-More Federal Judge Abdication
71-Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors' Prisons
72-Labor Dept. Cancels Child-labor Proposal
73-Income Inequality: Physical Health and Life Expectancy
74-On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons with Torture
75-Obama’s War: Criminalize the Left
76-FOIA Revelations Show Administration Role In Occupy Crackdown
77-Obama Defies Federal Court Ban On NDAA Indefinite Detention
78-How Pensions Violate Free Speech
79-The Great Charter, Its Fate, and Ours
80-Feds Wait Until Late Friday To Admit That, Yeah, They Ignored The 4th Amendment
81-Obama Administration Stonewalling UN Questions about Abuse of Occupy Protesters
82-Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad: How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life
83-John Cusack & Jonathan Turley on Obama’s Constitution
84-Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties
85-CIA Whistleblower on Trial, Holder Closes Final Investigation on Torture
86-In Memory of Joshua Casteel
87-Holder: We Won't Prosecute Harsh Interrogations
88-The Persecution of John Kiriakou: Torture and the Myth of Never Again
89-NDAA Case: Indefinite Detention Injunction Does Irreparable Harm, Obama Admin. Lawyers Argue
90-Charlotte Was Transformed into a Total Securitized Metropolis for DNC
91-Unlike Afghan Leaders, Obama Fights for Power of Indefinite Military Detention
92-NDAA: Hedges, Ellsberg et al Take To Social Media Today To Fight Indefinite Detention Law
93-New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
94-Not One More Day in Jail for Gregory Koger!
95-Obama on Wrong Side in Shell Oil Human Rights Case
96-Obama Strikes Another Nail in The Coffin of America
97-Nonviolent Protester of Drone Wars Sentenced to Federal Prison
98-U.S. Military Judge: ‘Torture’ is Not ‘Relevant’ in Guantanamo Cases
99-Eric Holder Rewards the Teams that Gave Torturers and Mortgage Fraudsters Immunity
100-Preparing for a Digital 9/11
101-Obama Adviser Robert Gibbs Blames Denver Teen’s ‘Terrorist’ Father for His Drone Death
102-Exposed 'Kill Matrix' Gives Permanence to US 'War on Terror' -
The Washington Post Reports on the Codifying of Obama's 'Kill List'
103-WikiLeaks Releases US Military Policies for Detention & Avoiding Accountability for Torture
104-WikiLeaks Reveals 'Systematized Human Rights Abuses' at US Detention Facilities: Docs Show 'Anatomy of the Beast that is Post-9/11 Detention'
105-Obama’s Gitmo Betrayal
106-Institutionalized State Assassinations and the November 6 Election
107-Terror Tuesday Cubed: The ‘Disposition Matrix’ Normalizes State Murder
108-Obama Fights for Indefinite Detention
109-Guantanamo Military Commissions: ‘Piece of a Larger Disturbing Trend Toward Centralized Presidential Power’
110-Dramatic Increase in Surveillance of Americans
111-Will Obama’s Second Term Finally Fulfill his 2008 Promises?
112-Obama Won't Fight For Gay Marriage His Second Term
113-Breaking Private Manning
114-Top CIA Official: Obama Changed Virtually None of Bush’s Controversial Programs
115-Torture Superpower
116-Breaking Private Manning
117-Bradley Manning Takes Stand, Puts Military Captors on Trial
118-Defense Bill Nixes Ban on Indefinite Detention for US Citizens
119-NDAA 2013 - Indefinite Detention Without Trial is Back
120-Email and Internet Spying on Americans: Congress Extends Police State FISA Law
121-Revealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy
122-Senate Reauthorizes Surveillance Law for Five More Years Without Reform
123-GOP and Feinstein Join to Fulfill Obama's Demand for Renewed Warrantless Eavesdropping
124-Martial Law by Executive Order
125-Secrecy of Memo on Drone Killing Is Upheld
126-How Zero Dark Thirty Brought Back the Bush Administration
127-Incarceration of Native Americans and Private Prisons
128-NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions
129-Obama Quietly Signs Abusive Spy Bill He Once Vowed to Eliminate:
After Senate Rejects Oversight Amendments, Bill Sails into Law
130-Prison Math
131-Renditions Continue under Obama, despite Due Process Concerns
132-The Reality of Political Prisoners in the United States: What September 11 Taught Us about Defending Them
133-The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States: A Look at the Racial Disparities Inherent in Our Nation’s Criminal-Justice System
134-Three Ways Obama Carried Bush’s Tyrannical Torch, in Just One Week
135-US Support for Dictatorship in Iraq Sowing Future Chaos
136-When Power is Unaccountable: Why the NDAA is Unconstitutional
137-20 Extraordinary Facts about CIA Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention
138-CIA Torture Architects Debunk ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Scenario
139-Comparing Obama and Bush’s Records on Wartime Civil Liberties
140-Freedom or Death at Guantánamo
141-Guantanamo Military Commissions: Only The Judge Is In Control, Except When He Isn’t
142-Lessig and Demand Progress: Demand justice for our friend Aaron Swartz
143-2 Years in Jail for Sitting on a Milk Crate? The Shocking Ways America Punishes Poor People Living on the Street (Hard Times, USA)
144-Justice Department Memo Reveals ‘Legal Case’ for Drone Strikes on Americans
145-GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping
146-FAA Releases New Drone List—Is Your Town on the Map?
147-Obama Admin. Goes “Ocean’s ’13″ on Senate Intelligence Committee
148-Why Targeted Assassinations Violate US and International Law
149-Hedges v. Obama: Did the Bill of Rights die today?
150-Obama Waives Child Soldier Ban in Yemen and Congo
151-Arrested for Your Politics in America? It's Already Happening
152-John Yoo and the Obama White Paper and Killing Americans in America and Yemen
153-Obama Maneuvers to Keep Kill List Memos Permanently Secret
154-Obama moves to keep kill list memos secret forever
155-The Latin American Exception: How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth
156-“I Begged for Them to Stop” Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
157-One Thousand Days Too Many
158-Clapper v Amnesty: Courts and Congress v Our Constitution
159-Our Options Have Narrowed
160-“I Begged for Them to Stop”
161-A Devastating 26-Word Challenge to President Obama's Leadership
162-Declassified: US Government Colluded With Big Banks to Monitor, Disrupt Occupy Protesters as ‘Criminal Threats’
163-Senate Approves Obama's 'Kill List' Architect to Lead CIA
164-lsberg: In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander
165-The War Against Bradley Manning -- A War Against All Who Speak Out Against Injustice
166-Yes, the president can kill Americans on U.S. soil
167-‘Death of a Prisoner’
168-Growing Support for Same Sex Marriage
169-CIA Whistleblower: “US is a Police State, Obama Consciously Allows Torture”
170-US Support for Emerging Dictatorship in Iraq May Have ‘Catastrophic’ Effects
171-US-Backed Regime in Bahrain Bans All Protests
172-Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centers
173-Bill Moyers Essay: The Hypocrisy of ‘Justice for All’
174-Corporate Kangaroo Courts Supplant Our Seventh Amendment Rights
175-Corporations Are Robbing Us Of Our Right to a Fair Trial
176-Daniel McGowan Back in Jail Days After Writing About His Secretive Prison Unit for Huffington Post
177-25 years after Chico Mendes, killings in the Amazon are endemic
178-Environmental Activist, Prosecuted as If He Was Terrorist, Was Held in Isolation for Political Speech
179-And Justice for Some
180-In Light of Hunger Strike UN Condemns Guantánamo as Breach of International Law, Urges Closure
181-Is President Obama pro-torture?
182-Judge overrules Obama to protect women’s health
183-Will Congress Act to Stop US Support for Honduras' Death Squad Regime? In Honduras, Reagan-era atrocities are back as the Obama administration funds a state implicated in murdering opponents
184-Obama poised to give presidential seal of approval to gross labor rights violations in Colombia
185-Report: Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People In Jail For Owing Money
186-Julian Assange may be unable to leave Britain until 2015
187-'Cartoonish form of despotism' - Assange on Bahrain activist Rajab's imprisonment
188-Chris Hedges Strategy for Radical Change at Green Party of New Jersey Convention
189-Lockdown, USA: Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt
190-DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats
191-EMFing Democracy: Destroying Detroit In Order To “Save” It
192-Trading Democracy for ‘National Security’
193-Military decrees media access to Manning’s hearing is a privilege, not a right
194-Report: Obama Officials Authorized New ‘Cybersecurity’ Warrantless Surveillance Program, Fresh Immunity Given to ISPs
195-The Obama GITMO Myth: New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp
196-U.S. condoned torture after 9/11, must close Guantanamo: report
197-The Hijacking of Human Rights by Chris Hedges
198-US Senate declares the entire USA to be a "Battleground".
199-Peter Van Buren: If the Government Does It, It’s “Legal”
200-The Dictators and Billionaires Take Control
201-How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
202-‘…and I did Not Speak Out, but Then They Came for… the AP’
203-Nation’s Leading Journalists: Leak Investigations Chilling Our Reporting, Hurting Public’s Right-To-Know
204-Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes - Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges
205-Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?
After supporters protested his “sham” trial, Abdulelah Haider Shaye would have been pardoned. Then Obama intervened.
206-How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
207-Feds Say Peace Activists Who Trespassed Onto Nuclear Facility Are A National Security Threat
208-Man faces life in prison for filming cops
209-FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
210-JUSTICE: Inconvenient truths about Obama's address on terrorism, liberties
211-The CIA: Keepers of the Hit Lists - War Crimes as Policy
212-The Bill of Rights Exists: An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein
213-They Should Have Listened To Feingold: Obama Vs. The Only Senator Who Voted Against The PATRIOT Act
214-Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse'
215-US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining - Officials use little-known 'military and state secrets privilege' as civil liberties lawyers try to hold administration to account
216-JUSTICE: Green Shadow Cabinet stands with Bradley Manning
217-The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning by Chris Hedges
218-Ag-Gag Laws Silence Whistleblowers
219-Backgrounder on Obama's Big Data Domestic Spying System
220-California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk
221-Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
222-Declassified: US Government Colluded With Big Banks to Monitor, Disrupt Occupy Protesters as ‘Criminal Threats’
223-Despite What the President Said, There's Nothing “Transparent” About a Secret Court Issuing Secret Rulings
224-Court: Chevron Can Seize Americans' Email Data - In an almost unprecedented decision, a federal judge has allowed Chevron to subpoena Americans' private email data—and said the First Amendment doesn't apply.
225-DOJ Says Public Has No Right To Know About The Secret Laws The Feds Use To Spy On Us
226-Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits
227-In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
228-John Roberts’ scary secret powers: Running the shadowy FISA court, where 10 of 11 judges he appointed are Republican, could even trump his SCOTUS role
229-Lawrence Lessig on Big Brother’s Prying Eyes
230-California chalk protester hit with gag order
231-Murdering Occupy
232-Obama Signs 2013 NDAA, Blocking Closure of Gitmo - Obama initially threatened a veto, but instead signed it into law with a vague proviso
233-Pennsylvania Activist Arrested For Writing Pro-Health Care Message In Chalk
234-For investigating private intelligence practices, American journalist faces 105 years in prison
235-Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years For Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms
236-Remember When the Patriot Act Debate Was All About Library Records?
237-Obama Closes Office Working to Shut Down Gitmo: Obama has fundamentally signed on to the belief that individuals can be held forever without due process
238-While DOMA is Gone, the Supreme Court has Crushed Consumers and Citizens this Week
239-Activist Heavyweights Convene Against NDAA
241-Court Clerk Fired For Helping Secure DNA Test That Proved A Man’s Innocence
242-NYPD assaults judge trying to protect handcuffed homeless man from beating, judge sues
243-Documents Show How White House and Democrats Worked to Protect the Banks Against Protests: Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?
244-Homeland Security Creates "Constitution-Free" Zones
245-Exclusive: FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes
246-How We Got From 9/11 to Massive NSA Spying on Americans: A Timeline
247-Anti-Protest Law Passes Nearly Unanimously And Is Signed By The President
248-Man’s decision to pull over & record police activity cost him his dog’s life; now could land him 5 years in prison - Hawthorne man says police retaliation is the reason he now faces felony charges
249-NDAA Indefinite Detention Without Trial Approved by Appeals Court
250-North Carolina Cop Suspended – Without Pay – for Arresting Man Video Recording him
251-NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots (The administration has been amping up stats about foiled plots to bolster support for mass surveillance)
252-Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill
253-Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
254-Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
255-The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA by Chris Hedges
256-Thou Shalt Not Praise His Name: Rep. Lewis Praises Snowden . . . Then Quickly Retracts Praise
257-The Manning Trial Began on 9/11 - Welcome to Post-Constitution America
258-U.S. Tortured Detainees And Top Officials Are Responsible: Report
259-Under Obama II, Five More Years…of Widespread Government Surveillance
261-Why Have Police In America Turned Into Such Ruthless Thugs?
262-Photography is not a Crime
264-America's political prisoners exposed
265-'Big, striking horror:' US military doctors allowed torture of detainees, new study claims
266-EFF Files 22 Firsthand Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association
267-Fracking Activist Silenced for Doing EPA's Work
268-How Dollarocracy is Destroying America
269-Muzzling the Freedom of Information Act
270-Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes - video animation
271-Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s New NSA Bill Will Codify and Extend Mass Surveillance of Americans
272-Three Ways Obama Carried Bush’s Tyrannical Torch, in Just One Week
273-US: Forced Guilty Pleas in Drug Cases -Threat of Draconian Sentences Means Few Willing to Risk Trial
274-Protesting Big Bank Financing of Toxic Industries May Get You a Year in Jail, While Execs Go Free
275-Bill of Rights?
276-Court Blocks NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Reforms, Removes Judge Who Found Program Unconstitutional
277-Obama & Holder Win Court Case, Keep Thouands in Prison Under Unfair 80s Crack Sentencing Laws
278-'Ag-gag' law that thwarts investigations on factory farms is challenged in Utah
279-Cecily McMillan's Occupy trial is a huge test of US civil liberties. Will they survive?
280-Chris Hedges: Fighting the Militarized State
281-Chris Hedges: Legalizing Oppression
282-Chris Hedges: The Crime of Peaceful Protest
283-Chris Hedges: The Post-Constitutional Era
284-Confused logic approves NYPD surveillance of Muslims
286-Life in the Emerging American Police State: It's Time for a Second American Revolution.
288-Persecuted and Imprisoned for Environmental Activism
292-Hedges v. Obama: Supreme Court Leaves NDAA Intact
293-How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error
294-Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers
295-Nevada Governor Blasts Feds’ ‘First Amendment Area’ in Bundy Dispute
296-Barrett Brown: The Criminalization of Web Links
298-Coalition Files Lawsuit Against Idaho Ag-Gag Law That Targets Journalism, Whistleblowing & Speech
301-Supreme Court Won’t Hear Chris Hedges’ Indefinite Detention Case
303-The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years
305-Torture Laid Bare at Nuremberg, and Maybe Guantanamo?
306-The Creeping Expansion of Corporate Civil Rights
307-UN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts
309-Time To Release John Kiriakou, As Senate Releases Torture Report
310-"NATO 3" Trial: Terror Case Called Weak, Chicago Police Witch Hunt Alleged
311-Plein Air Artist Alex Schaefer Collides with the Commercialization of Art and Activism
312-Cecily McMillan’s Guilt: Injustice at Its Most Basic
313-Just Say No to Tasering Students and Militarizing Our Schools
316-"Bush's Fourth Term Continues": Guantanamo, Torture, Secret Renditions; Indefinite Detention
317-10 Supreme Court Rulings — Before ‘Hobby Lobby’ — That Turned Corporations Into People
320-Authors: Obama’s DOJ Puts Nixon To Shame
321-Cecily McMillan Sentenced to 90 Days Prison & 5 Years Probation for Being Assaulted By Cop
322-Cecily McMillan’s ‘Law Of Love’ Suffers US Injustice
323-Drone Lawyer: Kill a 16 Year-Old, Get a Promotion
325-The Jaw-Dropping Prison Pipeline No One Talks About
326-Editorial: Sentence against Ithaca drones protester is a farce and an outrage
327-Man Sentenced to 30 Days for Catching Rain Water on Own Property Enters Jail
328-An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country? The Empire as Basket Case329-GOVERNMENT ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR ANTI-OBAMA FACEBOOK POSTS
330-Great Moments From Roberts Court Dissents
331-Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Beaten, Arrested for Silent Protest at Clinton Speech
332-How Corporate America Shut the Courthouse Doors to Average People
336-If the Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
337-In Effect, Appeals Court Rules Torture & Abuse Is All ‘Foreseeable’ Part of Job at Guantanamo Bay
340-It’s Time to Reform the Supreme Court — Here Are Five Ways to Do It
341-Jail the Bankers? Obama Has Been Their Staunchest Defender
342-Jury Nullification: Why Every American Needs To Learn This Taboo Verdict
343-Lawyers: Man Jailed for Nine Years Is Innocent, Railroaded in Bush’s War on Terror
344-Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters
345-Marissa Alexander Now Faces 60 Years in Prison for Firing a Warning Shot in Self Defense
347-Officials Cast Wide Net in Monitoring Occupy Protests
348-Peter Van Buren: RIP, The Bill of Rights
349-Peter Van Buren: What We’ve Lost Since 9/11 (Part 2)
350-Top Journalists and Lawyers: NSA Surveillance Threatens Press Freedom and Right to Counsel
351-Prison Officers Routinely Brutalize Mentally Ill Inmates at Rikers Island But Are Never Punished
352-Read Justice Ginsburg's Passionate 35-Page Dissent of Hobby Lobby Decision
353-Senate Democrats confirm drone memo author for second-highest US court
354-The Most Destructive Presidencies In U.S. History: George W. Bush & Barack H. Obama
355-Todd Miller: Bill of Rights Rollback in the U.S. Borderlands
356-New Report: NCIS Hid Medical Evidence About Guantanamo Suicides
357-Obama directive makes mere citing of Snowden leaks punishable offense
358-U.S. Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements
359-Why is Obama administration prosecuting sexual torture victim Rasmea Odeh?
360-Why There’s A No-Fly Zone Over Ferguson, Missouri
361-Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest
362-Ferguson Unmasks the War on Black America
363-Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part I
364-Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part II
365-Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part III
366-California Supreme Court rules that silence can be evidence of guilt
368-Human Rights Lawyer Arrested For Standing On NYC Sidewalk Waiting For Kids To Use Bathroom
369-Israel Bars Amnesty, Human Rights Watch Workers from Gaza
370-Ten Facts About Police Violence in Ferguson Sunday Night
371-U.N. urges U.S. to stop police brutality after Missouri shooting
372-Israel lobby group outlines dirty tricks against campus Palestine activists
373-The Ordeal of Stanley L. Cohen: Justice as Farce by Chris Hedges
374-Court Admits It Was Wrong to Prohibit Newspaper From Publishing Details on Gas Company’s Pipe Safety
375-FBI Dismisses Murder Plot against Occupy Leaders as NSA and Big Business Cracks Down on Dissent
377-Citizen Journalist Arrested, Jailed for Asking Wisconsin Politician a Question
378-Justice Department Bans Reporters, Non-Residents from Ferguson Town Hall Meetings
379-UN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy Rights
380-Top Ten US Aid Recipients All Practice Torture
384-The 10 Worst Civil Liberties Violations of 2014: It’s been an exceptionally awful year.
386-Nader and Fein at HLS: "America's Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama"
387-Newsletter: Respect Our Human Rights Or We'll 'Shut It Down' includes Universal Declaration of Human Rights
390-America Didn’t Just Prosecute Torturers, We Executed Them
393-Banning Dissent in the Name of Civility
394-Historical Truth, Nazis and the Corruption of the Federal Judiciary
395-How Torture Wins In the US Marketplace of Ideas
397-After Hearing, Capitol Police Arrest Lawyer for Shouting Question at Clapper About NSA Surveillance
398-Did Richard Zuley Participate in Renditions to Guantanamo?
399-Let Us No Longer Keep Silent About Torture
400-Loretta Lynch: She’s Black, and That’s All the Black Caucus Cares About
401-Tomgram: Matthew Harwood, The Fear of Lone-Wolf Terrorism Rises
402-Admit that torture does not work
404-Our silence over Charlie Hebdo — freedom of speech for whom?
405-Over Easy: David Hicks, an Innocent Man tortured at Gitmo
406-Torture Supporters have Better PR and Marketing People
407-Prominent U.S. judge quits Justice Dept evidence commission in protest
408-Robert Scheer: On Civil Liberties, Obama’s ‘Probably the Worst President We’ve Had’
409-Seven Lessons From How Police Crushed Occupy
410-These Six American Heroes Said No to Torture
411-The Real American Exceptionalism: From Torture to Drone Assassination, How Washington Gave itself a Global Get-Out-of Jail-Free Card412-Torture If You Must, But Do Not Under Any Circumstances Call the New York Times
413-When the Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln
414-Admit that torture does not work
415-Blacks Launch Class Action Suit Against Ferguson & Jennings MO Alleging Discriminatory Over-Policing
416-Held for hours at secret Chicago 'black site': 'You're a hostage. It's kidnapping'
417-War Declared Against Chicago PD Over Secret Jail
419-An Indiana woman is facing 20 years in prison for "feticide"
420-Attack on Small Farms: Michigan Removes ‘Right-To-Farm’ & Bans Backyard Farms
421-Best of TomDispatch: Karen Greenberg, Barbarism Lite423-Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low
424-The Biggest Outrage in Atlanta’s Crazy Teacher Cheating Case
425-Another state bans agency from discussing climate change
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House Votes To Sell Apache Land To Foreign Corporation, The Tribe Is Furious
427-Man Gets Prison Sentence for Collecting Rainwater on his Own Property
428-First Amendment, ‘Patron Saint’ of Protesters, Is Embraced by Corporations
429-How Ferguson Uses Cops and the Courts to Prey on Its Residents
430-Indiana Wants to Put This Woman in Prison for 70 Years Because She Had a Miscarriage
431-Justice Department's Ferguson report resonates across the US
432-Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter — The Hashtag That Became a Civil Rights Movement
433-Michelle Alexander Speaks Out on “The New Jim Crow”
434-Noam Chomsky: Corporations, not leftist academics, enforce politically correct limits on speech
435-Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
436-Texas woman invokes ‘religious freedom’ argument to fight $2000 fine for feeding the homeless
438-Djibouti Was Complicit in CIA Torture of Terrorism Suspects, Report Charges
441-UN torture investigator calls for access to US prisons, Gitmo detainees
442-Tomgram: Andrew Cockburn, How Assassination Sold Drugs and Promoted Terrorism
443-A Double Standard on Leaks? As Whistleblowers Jailed, Petraeus Escapes Prison & Advises White House
444-Gen. Petraeus: Too Big to Jail
445-Ramsey Orta, Man Who Recorded Eric Garner Death, Remains Jailed Despite Family Having Raised Bail
446-3 Black Churches burnt in North Carolina, Georgia and S.Carolina in the past 5 days.
447-Three Black Churches Have Burned Since Dylann Roof’s Brutal Terrorist Attack
448-Is the TPP Okay With Slavery? Really?
449-ObamaTrade Rewards US Corporations That Profit From Slavery
450-Wyoming Makes It A Crime To Collect Evidence Of Pollution On Public Lands
451-Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Own Property
452-In Wyoming it’s now illegal to collect data about pollution
453-Study: Democracy on the Retreat in More Than 96 of the 193 UN Member States
455-FBI Documents Reveal Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
456-What the FBI's Occupy Docs Do—and Don't—Reveal
458-The Forgotten Man Who First Blew the Whistle on CIA Torture
459-For American Psychological Association, National Security Trumped Torture Concerns
460-I Went to Prison After Exposing US Torture. Why Weren’t the Perpetrators Charged?
462-"Time to Reopen the Case on CIA Torture" John Kiriakou, Daily Beast
463-Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays
466-CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
471-Bill Moyers: Oh, America - 6 Months in Prison for Taking Pictures of a Protest Against Drones?
473-The Mirage of Justice by Chris Hedges
474-City spent $1 million trying to fire this teacher — and failed
475-Teaching About Political Prisoners Will Get You Fired! An Exclusive with Marylin Zuniga
476-Why You Shouldn’t Visit the Maldives
477-Fighting Environmental Racism in North Carolina
478-Reminders on MLK Day that pollution is often an affront to civil rights, too
479-Equal Justice?
480-More Than 1 In 4 Americans Now Believe the U.S. Government is the Enemy of the People
482-The Guantánamo in New York You’re Not Allowed to Know About
483-The Worst Civil Liberties Betrayals of 2015
484-Guantanamo Has Been Open Longer Under President Obama Than President Bush
485-Obama Never Had a Plan to End What Guantánamo Represents
486-United Nations Panel Slams U.S. Record on Police Brutality, Torture, Child Migrants & Guantánamo
488-Myanmar’s Peace Prize Winner and Crimes Against Humanity
489-New York State passes anti-boycott legislation | The Ugly Truth
491-Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit - The New York Times
492-Newsletter: End The Security State | PopularResistance.Org
493-Stop night deportation raids - Jill2016
494-The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
500-Map: 116 environmental activists were killed in just one year
501-US Government Declaring All Out War on Tiny House Living
502-59 Journalists Murdered in Honduras Since Clinton-Backed Coup
503-Obama signs anti-BDS bill into law
504-A Conversation on Privacy With Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald
505-Loretta Lynch: government shouldn't require reports of people killed by police
506-Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, No Justice at Gitmo
507-"The Assassination Complex": Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Probe Secret US Drone Wars in New Book
509-Arrested for asking questions about corruption
510-Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump Will Have Terrifying Powers. Thanks, Obama.
513-Eighteen Examples of Racism in Criminal Legal System
514-Betraying Water Protectors, Obama Set to Approve Dakota Access Pipeline
515-Newsletter: Standing For Justice, Unity For Power & Inspiring Each Other
517-Supreme Court Eliminates Political Corruption! (By Defining It Out of Existence)
518-North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open records request
519-If White People Love Drugs So Much, Why are the Prisons Full of Blacks?
521-Loretta Lynch 'pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions' on $1.7bn payments to Iran
522-Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers
523-Domestic violence is still not grounds for divorce in Mississippi
525-Newsletter: Justice Takes A Lifetime
526-Obama Renews Bush's 9/11 State of Emergency
527-Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill
528-Tomgram: Judith Coburn, On the Mean Streets of America
530-Documentary Filmmaker Faces Up to 45 Years in Prison for Covering Pipeline Protest
532-Students are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America – and Being Threatened for It
533-Supreme Court Gives Police Blank Check
534-Woman Harassed in Bathroom for Appearing Transgender — and She’s Not Alone
536-LGBT People and Mental Health
538-The Untouchables: America’s Misbehaving Prosecutors, And The System That Protects Them
539-Tiny Homes Banned in U.S. at Increasing Rate as Govt Criminalizes Sustainable Living
540-Tomgram: Harwood and Stanley, Policing the Dystopia
541-Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, What Actually Keeps Americans Safe
542-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Exhibit One in Any Future American War Crimes Trial
543-Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing
544-‘Civilized’ nation can’t justify torture
547-U.N. Chief Admits He Removed Saudi Arabia From Child-Killer List Due to Extortion
548-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Justice for Torturers?
549-Torture, Rape & Murder Continue
550-Rwanda, the Clinton Dynasty, and the Case of Dr. Léopold Munyakazi
551-When Librarians Are Silenced
553-‘Where Evil Resides’: Veterans ‘Deploy’ To Standing Rock To Engage The Enemy — The US Government
554-Hundreds of Cops Divert and Foil Thousands of Protesters Outside NY Presidential Debate
555-Gutting Habeas Corpus - The Inside Story of How Bill Clinton Sacrificed Prisoners’ Rights for Political Gain
556-The Obama Legacy Part IV: Protecting the Racist State, Scorning Black America
557-The Roots are in the System: Charlotte and Beyond
558-Lawmakers across the US are finding ways to turn protesting into a crime
560-Civil Asset Forfeiture: Where Due Process Goes to Die
565-New Bill Would Force Arrested Protesters to Pay Police Overtime, Other Fees
566-PRISONER ABUSE: PATTERNS FROM THE PAST
567-Schumer, Gillibrand Co-Sponsor Senate Bill That Would Make Boycotting Israel A Felony
568-Sotomayor’s blistering SCOTUS dissent warns America is turning into a prison state
571-U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel
572-Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The CIA and Me
573-Which will it be: Unequivocal support for Israel or our First Amendment rights?
577-'Blank Check to Kill With Impunity': Trump to Quietly Scrap Drone Restrictions
578-Activists are being charged under terrorism laws for the first time in Britain – this sets a dangerous precedent Are the authorities threatening disproportionate sentences to scare off future protests – and to allow the Government’s deportation regime to continue unhindered?
579-Anti-Trump protesters risk 60 years in jail. Is dissent a crime?
580-Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Searching Of Homes, Media Silent
582-Newsletter: Dissent Under Attack By Government & Corporations
584-Has asset forfeiture gone too far? Truck seizure case sparks outrage, a call for change
585-Has the Liberal Media Enabled a Nationwide Crackdown on Trump's Political Enemies?
587-Let’s Make America Free Again
588-Letter of the Law: What Cities Should Know About Permitting Demonstrations
589-Pipeline protester speaks out for first time after nearly losing her arm
590-5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty
591-Tiny Homes Banned in U.S. at Increasing Rate as Govt Criminalizes Sustainable Living
592-Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
593-Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And 'Media Influencers'
595-Protesters are increasingly being labeled domestic terrorist threats, experts worry
596-Report: United States Falls To 49 In Ranking Of Gender Equality A newly published World Economic Forum report notes that gender equality is eroding for the first time in 11 years, when the WEF began monitoring it.
598-The US Coast Guard is operating floating prisons in the Pacific Ocean, outside US legal protections
599-Tomgram: Erin Thompson, Curating Guantanamo
600-Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Gitmo's Living Legacy in the Trump Era
602-Trump’s Nominee For CIA Director: This Is What Happens When There’s No Justice For Torture
603-Torture-Tainted Nominations Recall Failure to Prosecute Bush-Era Abuses
607-U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel
609-Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members
613-Tomgram: John Feffer, The Real Disuniting of America
615-Supreme Court rules employers can ban class action lawsuits in arbitration
617-There’s Only One Country That Hasn’t Ratified the Convention on Children's Rights: US
618-We’ve Known for 400 Years That Torture Doesn’t Work
619-Will a Torturer Become CIA Director?
620-Democrats Join Republicans In Bill Criminalizing Speech Critical Of Israel - I cannot imagine any reason for this egregious offense against the First Amendment except to please AIPAC and their AIPAC associated donors.
621-Israel boycott ban: Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offense for public bodies and student unions - Critics say move amounts to a 'gross attack on democratic freedoms'
623-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Psychologists Say No to Torture
624-Kavanaugh and Supreme Court to Planet: Drop Dead Within a day of a frightening UN warning about global warming, the Court lets stand an anti-EPA decision written by then-Judge Kavanaugh.
625-Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings
626-Bill McKibben Calls FBI Tracking of Environmental Activists "Contemptible"
627-Democrats Join Republicans In Bill Criminalizing Speech Critical Of Israel
628-Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism, by Chris Hedges
629-Judge orders female genital mutilation charges be dropped in historic case
630-US votes against UN resolution condemning gay sex death penalty, joining Iraq and Saudi Arabia
631-After Standing Rock, protesting pipelines can get you a decade in prison and $100K in fines
632-Bills Criminalizing Pipeline Protest Arise in Statehouses Nationwide
634-38 Years Prison and 148 Lashes for Iranian Human Rights Defender
635-Deprivation and Despair: A New Report
636-'Protesters as terrorists': growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime Conservative lawmakers have put forward laws criminalizing protests in at least 18 states since 2017 that civil liberties advocates say are unconstitutional
637-Legal Experts Aghast as 'Bloodythirsty' Right-Wing Supreme Court Sanctions Torturous Executions The ruling, warned one expert, "legalizes torture and effectively reverses 60 years of progressive precedent. It transforms a barbaric view of the 8th Amendment into the law of the land. It is horrific."
638-Oil Lobbyist Touts Success in Effort to Criminalize Pipeline Protests, Leaked Recording Shows
639-People Are Getting Busted For Committing Freedom Of Speech, Which Is Not A Good Sign
640-More Police Raids As War On Journalism Escalates Worldwide
641-Manning to Judge on Whistleblowers, Freedom of the Press, and Civil Rights
643-The Supreme Court, gerrymandering, and the Republican turn against democracy
644-The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for Police to Arrest You for Filming Them
645-Texans could get a year in prison for protesting pipelines on their own land
646-The Supreme Court Just Stopped Local Sheriffs From Carjacking to Pay the Bills
648-‘Mirthless Laugh’ - The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange
649-Pentagon Fires Guantanamo Prison Commander for Calling Attention to US Crimes
650-Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?
651-Lab Owner Arrested for Falsifying Results of Drug Tests
652-Oil Companies Persuade States to Make Pipeline Protests a Felony
653-Federal Appeals Court Green Lights Discrimination Against Non-Theists - It's yet another in a problematic line of recent decisions that allow government entities to endorse and promote religion (just about always Christianity) as long as it’s being done for "historic" purposes.
654-U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls for Julian Assange to Be Freed, Citing “Psychological Torture”
655-UN Torture Report: ‘Demonized’ Assange Has Faced ‘Psychological Torture’ - The UN special rapporteur on torture has blasted four nations for imposing psychological torture on Julian Assange.
656-British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence
657-How the Supreme Court Is Rebranding Corruption
658-Anti-Protest Bills Around the Country
659-Assange can't view evidence, court told
660-DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic - One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency.
661-Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law
662-Global Human Rights and Environmental Communities Condemn the House Arrest of U.S. Human Rights Lawyer Steven Donziger - Prominent organizations call for Donziger’s immediate release and warn of chilling effect on other human rights lawyers who stand up to corporate polluters
663-Hacker who helped expose Ohio rape case pleads guilty, faces more prison time than rapists
664-How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
665-New gag law prevents exposing animal abuse on farms
666-Ohio anti-protest bill could criminalize support for pipeline demonstrations
667-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Orders Mass Arrest of Housing Justice Village Protesters
668-Proposed Book Banning Bill in Missouri Could Imprison Librarians
669-South Dakota Governor Signs Executive Order Prohibiting Israel Boycotts
670-Journalist Max Blumenthal Arrested, Hit With Political Prosecution Related To Venezuela Reporting
672-Unprecedented and Unconstitutional: The Government Bailout of Religion during a Pandemic
673-Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement
674-Violent Right Wing Forces Have Been Activated, It Requires Strategic Action To Stop Them
676-Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Bill Granting Immunity to Motorists Who Kill Protesters
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