Tag: Washington DC

VelvetRevolution.us Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his single engine plane crashed three miles...

Stephen C. Webster RawStory.com A career Army officer who survived the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claims that no evacuation was ordered inside the Pentagon, despite flight controllers calling in warnings of approaching hijacked...

The following 'Open Letter to the Anti-war Movement' was issued today by World Can't Wait. Right -- there is NO "good war" in Afghanistan, NO good "war on terror" at all! And this evening, we received an Open Letter from Cindy Sheehan, which is reprinted next. "Despite an Obama victory, many people in our nation are fed up to nearly bursting with empty rhetoric and change only for the worse." Indeed!
So Dear Thinking, Angry Reader ... what will you do tomorrow? What will you do Monday? Each of us must wrestle through this issue with ourselves immediately. "What part will I play in turning this thing around?" Resistance is personal. Stand up!

Thursday, 27 May 2004 Column: Catherine Austin Fitts Mapping The Real Deal With Catherine Austin Fitts Audio Special Financial Sense NewsHour Radio & Net Talk Show Presenting Catherine Austin Fitts...

About the ACLU Safe and Free Campaign: There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security.

Habeas corpus isn't a fancy legal term. It's the freedom from being thrown in prison illegally, with no help and no end in sight. No president should ever be given the power to call someone an enemy, wave his hand, and lock them away indefinitely. The Founders made the president subject to the rule of law. They rejected dungeons and chose due process.

We all know the difference between fairness and persecution. If we do not act immediately to fix the Military Commissions Act and restore our constitutional rights, basic protections like habeas corpus could be lost forever, and our country would become unrecognizable.

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While the US media obsesses on delegates, superdelegates and whether or not Hillary Clinton is using math formulae hallowed by MSNBC, we learn that US interrogators used snakes to torture prisoners (that's right, PentaPost...