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USA-News« Previous EntriesRNC Raids Have Been Targeting Video ActivistsTuesday, September 2nd, 2008By Liliana Segura | In the run-up to the Republican convention, Minnesota police launched a series of preemptive raids to intimidate protesters and quash dissent. "St. Paul is a free country!" cried a resident of Iglehart Avenue, a neighborhood street in St. Paul, Minn., as she watched her next-door neighbor's house being overtaken by police officers on Saturday afternoon. Just one in a series ... tagged USA-NewsVIDEO: Democracy Now! Unlawfully ArrestedTuesday, September 2nd, 2008Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan. ST. PAUL -- Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest ... tagged USA-NewsRon Paul Kicks Off Campaign for LibertySunday, August 31st, 2008By Barbara L. Minton | Remember Ron Paul, the candidate who annoyed reporters, the left and the right by trying to talk about the real issues facing Americans during the presidential contender's debate? Although he gets very little media coverage aside from ridicule, he is still around and trying to get Americans to wake up to the threat to their liberty presented by the forces behind globalization. His latest initiative ... tagged USA-NewsChomsky: Britain Failed To Stop US Shameful ActsSunday, August 31st, 2008Britain has failed in its duty to stop the US from committing "shameful acts" in the treatment of suspects detained during the war on terror, one of America's most respected intellectuals Noam Chomsky warns. In an interview with The Independent, Professor Chomsky calls on the government to use its special relationship with Washington to secure the closure of Guantanamo Bay. The emeritus professor of linguistics said that he has heard only ... tagged USA-NewsBush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on TerrorSaturday, August 30th, 2008By ERIC LICHTBLAU | WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda. Seven years after the Sept. 11 ... tagged Bush and USA-NewsProtesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU chargesSaturday, August 30th, 2008By John Byrne | The ACLU issued a stinging rebuke to the Denver Police Department Wednesday, alleging that the department may have violated laws and constitutional rights of protesters arrested outside the Democratic National Convention. In the letter, obtained by RAW STORY, the ACLU revealed that the police refused those arrested access to attorneys. Police did not let detainees use phones unless they posted their own bonds, and even failed ... tagged USA-NewsPOLITICS DRIVEN BY FICTION: MADE FOR TVSaturday, August 30th, 2008By Sam Smith | The confluence of Barack Obama's stadium acceptance extravaganza and John McCain's pick for vice president offers superfluous but final proof that Americans have been consigned to spend their lives as part of a crowd scene in an HBO special. Both Obama and Palin have come out of nowhere, rising to preeminence not on the basis of achievements, politics or service but by having all the ... tagged USA-News3,000 Vets, War Protesters Hand-Deliver Their MessageSaturday, August 30th, 2008By Patti Thorn | DNEVER - "Follow Us. Welcome to Denver," read the electronic sign on the police vehicle. And with that conciliatory gesture, an unpermitted march for peace was allowed to proceed Wednesday afternoon through downtown Denver streets - peacefully. It was easily the largest demonstration in a week filled with them. See video of the march here and here. At least 3,000 Iraq war veterans and war ... tagged USA-NewsRunning for War President at Any CostWednesday, August 27th, 2008By Robert Scheer | Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran’s nuclear program is unchecked and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid news except for Sen. John McCain, who thrills to a repeat of the danger lines of the Cold War, and now stands a good chance of being our next president. A very good chance, ... tagged USA-NewsJoe Biden and the political establishment’s overriding goalWednesday, August 27th, 2008By Glenn Greenwald | Writing in a New York Times blog yesterday, Clinton pollster Mark Penn hails the selection of Joe Biden as "a smart and successful choice" and says this: From Al Gore on, the role of the vice president seems to have fundamentally changed. It used to be where the winner parked the loser or some other figure that he wanted to neutralize. ... tagged USA-NewsThe Future of Death at the PentagonWednesday, August 27th, 2008The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department Tomgram | What a difference four and a half years makes. When I first penned "The Wild Weapons of DARPA," in March 2004, I was a new TomDispatch writer; the war in Iraq was not yet a year old; the war in Afghanistan had been bubbling for less than two and a half years, and I suggested that "what's left of the USSR is a collapsed ... tagged USA-NewsFascism Anyone?Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. By Laurence W. Britt | The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm. We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog ... tagged USA-NewsTwo arrested in DNC protestsMonday, August 25th, 2008By Sue Lindsay | The first session of DNC Court was convened at 4:15 today in Denver County Court. Four people appeared, but only two had been arrested in relation to convention protests. The court was filled with more than a dozen deputies, prompting County Judge Brian Campbell to ask, "How come we got more law enforcement than we got prisoners?" A number of deputies who normally aren't assigned to court duty, as ... tagged USA-NewsDictatorial Power on War and TreatiesMonday, August 25th, 2008By Jacob G. Hornberger | If anyone still has any doubts about whether President Bush is exercising powers that any self-respecting dictator would relish, all he has to do is consider the military pact that Bush is entering into with Iraq. The pact involves the continued U.S. military occupation of Iraq as well as a date on which U.S. military forces will be expected to exit the country. Let’s first ... tagged USA-NewsDem Convention Begins: Time To Suspend DisbeliefMonday, August 25th, 2008By Ruth Conniff | If the all-too-familiar sight of a slightly paunchy Joe Biden jogging to the podium, his white comb-over waving gently in the breeze (think "energy!") to accept the job as Barack Obama's Vice Presidential pick wasn't enough to give you pause, there was the Bidenesque speech that followed. The "change" campaign is now co-chaired by one of the longest serving members of the Senate, who voted ... tagged USA-News« Previous Entries |
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