Guantanamo: Obama Betrays His Promises and the Rule of Law
United States President Obama issued an executive order on Monday, March 7, 2011 setting up indefinite detention at Guantanamo. Detainee’s cases will go under a “periodic administrative review.” The Obama administration also announced that it will use military commissions for “new terrorism cases.” Some of the prisoners rotting at Guantanamo have been detained by the […]
Patriot Act: Protecting You From Freedom And Democracy
On Tuesday, Congress is voting on the renewal of three key provisions of the Patriot Act. There is nothing patriotic about the Patriot Act, unless you define patriotism as the passivity of citizens giving up their own civil liberties for the illusion of “security” under the constant intrusive eyes of an Orwellian Big Brother government. […]
Supreme Court Versus Democracy: One Year After The Corporate Fascist Coup
Today is a sad day for the vague hope of keeping democracy alive in the United States. A year ago, Friday, the US Supreme Court gave its controversial 5-4 ruling in the case known as Citizens United. The Supreme Court ruling opened the unlimited flood of corporate money into the US electoral system, by giving […]
Haiti: Murderer Baby Doc Duvalier Charged With Theft
On January 16, Baby Doc Duvalier made an unexpected and uninvited return to Haiti to, according to his own words, “help the Haitian people”. From 1971 to 1986 Baby Doc “helped” Haitians by using the little money the Haitian treasury had as his own piggy bank, by embezzling hundreds of million of dollars from international […]
Palin and Angle Didn’t Use Political Rhetoric, They Gave Jared Loughner Instructions.
These two people have acted in a way that can arguably be attributed to the cause of the deaths of six individuals, including a federal judge and a young child, as the actions they prescribed – the second amendment remedy against a particularly targeted individual – were being carried out. Incitement to violence? Conspiracy to commit murder? Soliciting a criminal act against a specific individual? Willful disregard? All of these, and perhaps others, are questions that warrant, at least, an investigation.
