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Green Presidential Candidate McKinney Blazes NC Trail With Incendiary Speech

McKinney Blazes NC Trail With Incendiary Speech
by Matt Saldaña

Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has moved from blue to green, and similarly, she demonstrated her move to the left side of the political spectrum in a speech she gave in Durham: “It’s time to move from protest to resistance.”

anonymous – July 24, 2008 – 1:05pm

The New Reefer Madness: Arresting People in Pain

The New Reefer Madness: Arresting People in Pain

Bruce Ramsey / Times Editorial Columnist
July 23, 2008
Seattle Times

The police raid on Martin Martinez, a Seattle man who uses marijuana to dull the chronic pain from a motorcycle accident, made the page-one headline last Thursday: "Was Pot Raid Justified?" Martinez's lawyer, Douglas Hiatt, insists vehemently that it was not.

anonymous – July 23, 2008 – 4:06pm

New Spying Law Quickly Challenged

New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
by William Fisher

NEW YORK - Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last week.

anonymous – July 23, 2008 – 1:41pm

System That Convicts Innocent Needs Reform

System That Convicts Innocent Needs Reform
by Jesse Jackson

On July 9, the long agony of JonBenet Ramsey’s family was brought at least to a partial close. On the basis of new forms of DNA testing, the Boulder, Colo., district attorney wrote a letter of apology to her father, John Ramsey, because the results cleared him and his late wife of any involvement in the girl’s murder.

anonymous – July 22, 2008 – 7:54pm

ACLU Asks FCC to Scrutinize ISP Surveillance of Customers’ Internet Habits

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2008
4:30 PM

anonymous – July 22, 2008 – 1:00pm

Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security

Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
by Dean Baker

Billionaire investment banker Peter Peterson is back on the warpath. He just established a new foundation with a $1 billion endowment, the main purpose of which is to cut back spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

anonymous – July 22, 2008 – 10:46am

Going Green

Going Green

by Katrina vanden Heuvel

In his Washington Post column last Friday, EJ Dionne writes that Al Gore is playing “his usual role of unpaid party visionary by arguing that we can ease the climate crisis

anonymous – July 21, 2008 – 11:02pm

Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now

Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army’s investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives:

anonymous – July 21, 2008 – 8:29am

Mother’s Milk of Politics Turns Sour

Mother’s Milk of Politics Turns Sour
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

anonymous – July 19, 2008 – 4:04pm

Spying Uncovered: Documents Show State Police Monitored Peace and Anti-Death Penalty Groups

Spying Uncovered: Documents Show State Police Monitored Peace and Anti-Death Penalty Groups
by Nick Madigan

BALTIMORE - Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released documents show.

anonymous – July 18, 2008 – 12:44pm
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