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Showing posts with label civil liberties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil liberties. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Seth Harp — I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy

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Has America become a police state? This reporter suggests so. (But you knew that already unless you've been out to lunch since 9/11 and...
Friday, June 14, 2019

HOME TRUTHS AND PRESS FREEDOM – WHAT THE CASES OF JULIAN ASSANGE AND IVAN GOLUNOV MEAN FOR THE AUSTRALIAN PRESS, AND VICE VERSA — John Helmer

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For those [journalists] who want to keep their jobs, police raids and prosecutions are reminders when self-censorship isn’t enough to prev...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Caitlin Johnstone — Biggest Nunes Memo Revelations Have Little To Do With Its Content

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In addition to Assange’s assertion that government secrecy has far less to do with national security than political security (a claim he ha...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

John W. Whitehead — America Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Psychosis

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Whitehead founded  The Rutherford Institute  to preserve and defend human rights and civil liberties in a non-partisan way. He issues a star...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Jeremy Scahill — James Clapper Has a Classified Blog. It’s Called “Intercept.”

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Taking James Clapper to the woodshed over civil liberties. And yes, no joke. Clapper's classified blog is called "Intercept....
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Reuters — Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence

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Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to scan all of its users emails for specific information at the behest of US inte...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Ted Rall — Empty Symbolism – Why the Freedom Act Sucks

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Marketed as pro-privacy reform of the rancid Patriot Act, the USA Freedom Act is about to become law . Though nothing could be further from...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

digby — When fascism came to America ... it was wearing a black robe

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“I think privacy is actually overvalued,” Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, said during a confere...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Ray McGovern — The Mystery of Ray McGovern’s Arrest

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On Oct. 30, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern was arrested for trying to attend a public speech by retired Gen. David Petraeus. McGovern had hope...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Fascism, American-Style

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It can't happen here? “Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of eme...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Greg Palast — Palast's Biggest Exposé Ever — 3.5 Million Voters Threatened with Purge

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A six-month-long nationwide investigation by Al Jazeera America has discovered that voting officials in 27 states, almost all of them Repub...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Lawrence Davidson — Eroding Principles of Human Rights

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A step backward for rights-based liberalism, thanks to presidents G. W. Bush and Barack Obama. Consortiumnews.com Eroding Principles of...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

David Kravets — Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to “Orwellian world”

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Let's hope that Sonia Sotomajor becomes the next William O. Douglas . Ars Technica Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Heather Digby Parton — Militarized cops’ scary new toys: The ugly next frontier in “crowd control

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Now that the sight of American police decked out as if they are replaying the events of Blackhawk Down has alerted the American public to t...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

John Napier Tye — Meet Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans

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Even after all the reforms President Obama has announced, some intelligence practices remain so secret, even from members of Congress, that...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created in One of the Freest Countries in the World

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A constitutional lawyer in the White House seems determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties.... It is of no slight im...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

David Ferguson — Ed Snowden claims he raised concerns with NSA officials more than 10 times (via Raw Story )

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Ed Snowden claims he raised concerns with NSA officials more than 10 times (via Raw Story ) Former security contractor and National Sec...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Jonathan Turley — Ninth Circuit Rules Google Must Remove “Innocence of Muslims”

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I rarely disagree with Turley, but here I think that  Chief Judge Alex Kozinski got it right in writing the opinion. The right to free s...

Kevin Zeese — Breaking News: Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan's Trial For Police Assault Postponed Again

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I can't believe that this trumped-up charge is being taken seriously by the prosecutor. Apparently, the court may agree. Hopefully, this...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Fred Guerin — Privacy as the New Free-Trade Zone of Corporate Exploitation

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What is the precise connection between human surveillance, the collection of different forms of data and metadata, and a system of corporat...