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Top ten civil-rights abuses of 2006! [P]
Ten most egregious Bush administration violations of the American spirit of freedom and openness during 2006. It's a sorry-looking list. Original source: http://www.slate.com/id/2156397/ ...
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http://clipmarks.com/content/374DD457-F90C-4573-AFBC-1F97F2D90FE6
TPMCafe || Gretna's Choice
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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/9/10/94823/6592
Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
Firefighters are sent from all over the country to act as "community relations" agents for FEMA. Or to be props for a Bush photo op.
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http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197
The New York Review of Books: John Roberts: The Nominee
Wm. Taylor documents the systematic efforts by child of privelege John Roberts over the course of his career to roll back protections of civil rights and judicial remedies favoring racial...
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18291
New Accounts of Torture by U.S. Troops (Human Rights Watch, 24-9-2005)
Firsthand accounts by soldiers of systematic POW abuse in Iraq and elsewhere
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http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/25/usint11776.htm
New Orleans Officers Taped Beating Man
More examples of NOLA police brutality.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/09/AR2005100901161.html
An American in chains - Sunday Times - Times Online
An excerpt from the forthcoming book, For God and Country, by James Yee, the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo who was arrested, charged with spying, and then exonerated. It's quite a disturb...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1817081_1,00.html
The National Parks Under Siege - New York Times
NYT editorial criticizing the current attempts to (basically) destroy the historical and environmental heritage of the National Parks system by privatizing and commercializing their opera...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/opinion/21fri1.html?ex=1287547200&en=8f6751a120da9f5a&ei=5...
FRONTLINE: the torture question | PBS
Frontline's comprehensive coverage of the development of the current administration's policy on the use of torture, and interviews and documentary showing what the facts on the ground act...
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture
FCNL -- Action Alerts and Updates
For the first time ever, the U.S. government is considering writing into law the acceptability of torture by U.S. agents and military. This is a moral and legal disaster, but even if you ...
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http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=8170141&type=CO
Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy
Cheney's position, put simply, seems to be: we don't approve of torture, and we don't use torture, but we will not allow anyone to take away our absolute, God-given right to torture peopl...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601281.html
Smoking Gun on Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence? 'NY Times' Cites New Document
The 'smoking gun'?
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001434737
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Doubts - New York Times
Is this the 'smoking gun' on prewar Iraq intelligence?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/politics/06intel.ready.html/partner/rssnyt
Salon.com News | Abramoff-Scanlon School of Sleaze
Scanlon, an associate of Abramoff, and his tactics. Notable for the remarks about evanglical Christians (whom he calls "wackos").
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff
WorkingForChange-Some kind of manly
Molly Ivins is really upset.
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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=19865
The FBI's Secret Scrutiny
What the FBI can do with the new "National Security Letter" provision of the Patriot Act.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366.html
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
considerable concern lingers about the legality, morality and practicality of holding even unrepentant terrorists in such isolation and secrecy, perhaps for the duration of their lives.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html
Telegraph | News | 'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers
More scary shit. Random killings, apparently, by private contractors in Iraq.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/27/wirq27.xml&sSheet=/news/2005...
How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball' - Los Angeles Times
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-curveball20nov20,1,6788510.story?ctrack=1&cse...
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel (11/22/05)
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1122nj1.htm#
Vietnam Study, Casting Doubts, Remains Secret - New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/31war.html?ex=1133326800&en=e9aad489f244cb58&ei=5070
RollingStone.com: The Man Who Sold the War : Politics
Truly sick.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?rnd=1133159420973&has-player=true&ve...
t r u t h o u t - Frank Rich | The Wiretappers That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Incompetence at the highest levels, etc.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010806C.shtml
Nixon's Views on Presidential Power, United States v. Nixon (1974), Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Interview, May 1977. The source of the famous Nixon quotation: "If the president does it, it's not illegal."
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http://www.landmarkcases.org/nixon/nixonview.html
Scripps Howard News Service
Personal account of a retired teacher who discovered, the hard way, that you raise a red flag at Homeland Security by making an usually large credit-card payment (and your funds are froze...
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http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RAISEALARM-02-28-06
EFF: Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc.
The Diebold lawsuit. Old news, but still pretty outrageous.
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http://www.eff.org/legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold
Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored
Yet another piece of fairly strong evidence that the Bush administration was engaging in deliberate deception during the run-up to the Iraq war.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101494.html
Local Teacher's Run-In With Homeland Security Creates Insecurities - Yahoo! News
The Department of Homeland Security ... protecting America from anyone who threatens to be a pain in the ass to Homeland Security agents.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/wjxt/20060406/lo_wjxt/3379371
BadCorp.org: Stop funding your own oppression.
Encyclopedia of unsavory corporate practices, with comprehensive information on who owns what, board memberships, products and brands.
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http://www.badcorp.com
Competitive Enterprise Institute
A shill group for big oil puts out some ads making light of global warming.
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http://streams.cei.org
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Barnette and the Flag Burning Amendment
From lovelydwarf: some thoughts on flags, flag-burning, pledging allegience, loyalty oaths, and history. Long quotation from Supreme Court decision.
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http://www.scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/06/barnette_and_the_flag_burning_1.php
The Chronicle: Daily news: 06/02/2006 -- 03
I had almost managed to forget about the Pennsylvania version of the Academic Bill of Rights. Silly me.
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http://www.chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006060203n.htm
courant.com | Mentally Unfit, Forced To Fight
An extended investigative series (snurl.com/thm0) by the Hartford Courant finds that military authorities ignore mental-health warning signs when making deployment decisions, leading to r...
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http://www.courant.com/news/specials/hc-mental1a.artmay14,0,6150281.story
Seth Borenstein's AP article on energy industry funding of climate change skeptic
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http://www.clipmarks.com/clipmark/4515B7E8-799B-4DF4-89D8-041F632011E6
War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution
The Bush administration is seeking to weaken U.S. laws regarding compliance with the Geneva conventions, esp. as regards "humilitating and degrading treatment" (article 3).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801276.html
When You Fly in First Class, It's Easy to Forget the Dots
Ben Stein comments on the looting of UAL by its executives, and on the lost pensions, wages, and savings of employees.
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060129/ZNYT01/601290928/-1/ZNYT
2 Lodi residents refused entry back into U.S.
Two U.S. citizens are denied reentry into the U.S. from Pakistan unless they agree to FBI interrogations in Pakistan first. Move called "unprecedented."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/26/LODI.TMP
Black Box Voting - Welcome to www.BlackBoxVoting.org, Consumer protection for elections
An organization devoted to uncovering potential fraudulent activity related to the use of electronic voting machines. Extremely extensive documentation.
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http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The denial industry
A story on astroturfing efforts by big business to discredit scientific consensus on global warming, second-hand smoke, etc.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875760,00.html
Olbermann on the military commissions act [3]
Olbermann does it again ... A "special investigation" on the topic: "What is Habeas Corpus, and why does it hate America?" Luckily, we no longer have to worry about Habeas Corpus messing ...
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Olbermann on the military commissions act
Olbermann does it again ... A "special investigation" on the topic: "What is Habeas Corpus, and why does it hate America?" Luckily, we no longer have to worry about Habeas Corpus messing ...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzUljH8EHU
Olberman on the military tribunals act
Olberman's take on the suspension of habeas corpus.
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/18/countdown-special-comment-death-of-habeas-corpus-yo...
Remember Jose Padilla? Um ... we screwed that one up
After pulling accused dirty-bomber (and U.S. citizen) Jose Padilla out of the military justice system, putting him in federal prison, and quietly dropping the sensational dirty-bomb alleg...
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http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-na-padilla19dec19,1,2281371.story?coll=la...