For over two years now I have been speaking and writing about what I call deep events. I mean by deep events the traumatic and unexpected episodes that recur periodically in US history and...
Although it may be surprising to Americans who aren't paying attention, the Bill of Rights applies to American veterans, as well as the rest of us. Theoretically, that is...
First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
So I must ask -- If "Congress shall make no law...", who made the law that allows police on horseback to trample an Iraq War Veteran? Or 'pre-emptively' arrest, and confiscate the equipment of, i-media and other noncorporate media entities? Or press felony "conspiracy to riot in the furtherance of terrorism" charges against 20-somethings who go about feeding people?
If you've not recently looked at HistoryCommons.org's "Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11" timeline, this would be a good time to do so, in addition to reading the following.
Now that you're suitably outraged, what will you do? Resistance is personal. Democracy is not a spectator sport. What will you, personally, do today?
Recently I published two articles pointing to suggestive similarities between the recurring deep events in recent American history -- those events which, because of their intelligence aspects, are ignored, misrepresented, or covered up in...
by John Byrne
rawstory.com
September 23, 2008
It certainly pays to be Treasury Secretary if your former firm is a brokerage
house, a new study says.
Goldman Sachs Group -- formerly run by Treasury Secretary...
Iceland tops list of peaceful nations, U.S. 97th
Tue May 20, 2008 5:08pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2032733320080520
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iceland is the world's most peaceful nation while the United States is ranked among the bottom third,...
"Government complicity in the OKC Bombing and the 9/11 attacks has been proven not only by the obstruction of justice but by the use of terrorist dupes, be they willful dupes or not....
