The White House will push Congress to ‘make it easier to wiretap the internet’.
Posts Tagged ‘law’
Obama Wants All Your Internets to Belong to Him
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Sayyid in National NewsTags: civil liberties, FBI, internet surveillance, law, libertarian, NSA, Obama Administration, US, US Congress, warrantless wiretapping program
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One Law for the Lion, One Law for the Lamb
Posted: 21 September 2010 by Kevin Carson in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, anarchism, anti-Statism, Bradley Manning, history, Iraq War, Kevin Carson, law, libertarian, Mike Rogers, morality, Philosophy, US, war crimes, Warfare and Conflict
Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops and Prosecutors
Posted: 15 September 2010 by Kevin Carson in National News, Political ScienceTags: criminal justice system, Kevin Carson, law, liberty, Nancy Grace, Newspeak, prisons, Wendy Murphy
Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system ‘shrills’ pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called ‘crime fighters’.
Report: Government Scientist Concedes 300% More Oil in Gulf Than Estimated, 90% of Gushed Oil ‘Unaccounted For’
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: Bill Lehr, BP, corporatism, Deepwater Horizon, environment, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf oil spill, law, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Newspeak, Transocean, University of Georgia, University of South Florida, US
Today, N.O.A.A. senior scientist told Congress that he was wrong about how much oil gushed into the Gulf, how much remains and conceded almost all of it is not accounted for, days after academic researchers ripped his two-week-old report to shreds. Documents reveal BP is withholding information from Transocean regarding the April 20 explosion that caused the gusher.
Daily Briefing—16th Aug 2010
Posted: 16 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Adam Habib, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Afghanistan motherlode, Bangladesh, banking, China, civil liberties, double-dip recession, Federal Reserve, gay marriage, Hamid Karzai, home foreclosures, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IDF, India, Islam, Islamophobia, Jammu and Kashmir, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, law, oil, Pakistan, Poland, private military contractors, Prop 8, PTSD, Riz Khan, Robert Gates, Robert Naiman, Stanley McChrystal, Stephen Lendman, Taliban, UJ, UK, universal jurisdiction, Uzbeks, war crimes, workers rights
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Khadr Show-’Trial’ Blacked Out of NY Times, So Obamaphiles Won’t Care (Video)
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Asim Qureshi, Bagram Air Base, Bush Administration, civil liberties, criminal justice, electoral politics, fascism, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, international law, law, libertarian, mainstream media, military commissions, MSM, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Osama bin Laden, rendition, Sunny Hundal, Teymoor Nabili, Todd Kent, torture, US, War, War on Terror
The first military commission of a detainee renditioned to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay under the Obama Administration opened Tuesday. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was kidnapped eight years ago in Afghanistan at the age of 15 by the U.S. military, threatened with rape in detention at the U.S. air base at Bagram, transferred to Guantánamo where he was tortured until he confessed that he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. Monday evening, Texas A&M at Qatar associate professor Todd Kent noted that it will likely not be a political issue for the Adminsitration because the mainstream media is downplaying it, though criminal justice is a large part of the president’s avatar, at Al Jazeera English’s “Inside Story”—which focused on the coming so-called ‘trial’ (23:41):
‘Dozens’ of American Citizens Maybe Targeted for Assassination by Obama Administration
Posted: 28 June 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Anwar al-Awlaki, Bush Administration, Central Asia, CIA, civil liberties, Colombia, counterterrorism, Democrats, DHS, drones, due process, Eli Lake, extrajudicial assassinations, fascism, Glenn Greenwald, Homeland Security, human rights, international law, Jason Ditz, John Brennan, JSOC, law, liberals, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Philippines, progressives, Somalia, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror, Yemen
Glenn Greenwald was on “The Dylan Ratigan Show” at MSNBC discussing the Obama Administration’s extension of the previous administration’s extrajudicial assassination program to include citizens of the U.S. (h/t: Scott Horton – 3:28):
Arbitrary Government Kidnapping Under the Cloak of ‘Objectivity’
Posted: 21 June 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Abdulmutallab, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, centrism, civil liberties, Department of Justice, DOJ, Eric Holder, Ezra Klein, fascism, Geneva Conventions, Glenn Greenwald, Greg Craig, Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus, human rights, indefinite detention, intellectual class, international law, Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Bernstein, Jonathan Chait, journalism, Lanny Davis, law, liberty, Manufacturing Consent, media, Military Commissions Act, Mohamed Hassan Odaini, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Adminsitration, Pakistan, Peter Connolly, prolonged detention, propaganda, Ross Douthat, US, US Congress, War on Terror, Yemen
‘Pro-Peace’ Congressman Called Out for Enabling Israel Atrocities
Posted: 8 June 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, Africa, Alan Grayson, Amnesty International, antiwar movement, AntiWar radio, Audit the Fed bill, Chris Guiness, Federal Reserve, Gaza blockade, Gaza Massacre, Goldstone Report, HR 1207, HR 867, human rights, international law, Iraq War, Israel, Israel lobby, law, libertarian, Middle East, Murray Rothbard, Newspeak, Operation Cast lead, realpolitik, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, Stephen Walt, TARP, taxation, The War is Making You Poor Act, US Congress, Zionism
Report: Human Experimentation at the Heart of Bush Administration Torture Program
Posted: 7 June 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Abu Zubaydah, Brent Mickum, Bush Administration, Campaign Against Torture, CIA, Department of Justice, fascism, Frank Donaghue, Geneva Conventions, HIG, High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, human rights, ICRC, indefinite detention, international law, Jane Mayer, Jason Leopold, Jay Bybee, Jeffrey Kaye, John Durham, John Yoo, law, Military Commissions Act, Nathaniel Raymond, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, OHRP, OLC, OPR, Paul Gimigliano, PHR, Physicians for Human Rights, PSYOPS, Red Cross, Stephen Soldz, Steven Bradbury, torture, torture memos, US, war crimes, War Crimes Act, War on Terror, waterboarding
Jason Leopold, deputy managing editor at Truthout, reports on the Physicians for Human Rights report, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program.”
More on BP’s Fate in a Free Market
Posted: 7 June 2010 by Kevin Carson in National News, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, BP, C4SS, capitalism, corporatism, EPA, free market, Gary Chartier, Gulf oil spill, Iain McKay, Kevin Carson, land grants, law, libertarian, limited liability, market-anarchism, Shawn Wilbur, state capitalism, US
Kevin Carson’s repsponse to comments on his previous post, “BP Would Be Toast in a Truly Free Market.”
Daily Briefing—6th-7th June 2010
Posted: 7 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, ATT, Bagram Air Base, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, Britain, caste system, China, EU, European Union, FDA, Freedom Flotilla, G20, Gaza blockade, Gitmo, global bank tax, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, habeas corpus, Hamid Karzai, Hugo Chavez, human rights, IDF, international law, Iran, IRGC, Israel, labor unions, law, Mike Adams, Pakistan, peace jirgas, Reliance of India, Sapin, Taliban, torture, Turkey, UN, UN Security Council, UNHRC, UNSC, Venezuela, Wikileaks, Yemen
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Weekend Briefing—4th-5th June 2010
Posted: 5 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Anene Ejikeme, Bagram Air Base, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, corporate personhood, Dahr Jamail, David Uhlmann, DEA, DPRK, Egypt, financial crisis, Free Gaza Movement, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gulf oil spill, Gustavo Cadevila, illegal immigration, indefinite detention, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Issandr El Amrani, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, KBR, law, limited liability, military industrial complex, MJ Rosenberg, MV Rachel Corrie, Naoto Kan, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Noah Shachtman, North Korea, Obama Administration, oil spills, Pat Buchanan, PTSD, Recep Erdgoan, South Korea, Thomas Knapp, Turkey, Wall Street, Washington lobbyists, West Africa, Will Grigg
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BP Would Be Toast in a Truly Free Market
Posted: 2 June 2010 by Kevin Carson in National News, Political ScienceTags: BP, British Petroleum, campaign contributions, capitalism, corporatism, Don Blankenship, electoral politics, free market, Gluf oil spill, Gulf oil spill, Kevin Carson, law, libertarian, limited liability, Massey Energy, Murray Rothbard, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, state capitalism, Steven Horowitz, Transocean, US
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