No Peace Outside ‘The Box’ Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Prisoners
Jeff Rockefeller never got past the eighth grade growing up in Troy. He spent his 20s in the Capital District Psychiatric Center and has struggled wi
A Ranking GOP Homophobe’s KKK Connection
SELWESKI: GOP homophobes step into KKK rhetoric April 6, 2013 What started out as a snit over a Facebook post and grew into a political controversy, str
CISPA Permits Police to do Warrantless Database Searches
Amendment was shot down that would have required warrants before police could peruse shared information for any evidence of hundreds of different crimes. P
Foul The 1960 Richard Nixon-Jackie Robinson Alliance
" ... You couldn’t steal home against Jim Crow — the racists had bought off all the umpires. ... " April 15, 2013 This is the third of three columns o
Ann Coulter “To Prevent Mass Murders, Lock Up Crazy People”
For an antecedent of Ms Coulter's prescription for reducing gun violence, see "Nazi Persecution of the Mentally and Physically Disabled." -- AC Ann Coulte
Feds’ New Cell Phone Spying Device Raising Privacy Concerns
“ ... 'If the government shows up in your neighborhood, essentially every phone is going to check in with the government,' said the ACLU’s Soghoian. ..
Priests of Our Democracy The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge
" ... The then-president of Brooklyn College, Harry D. Gideonse, believed he was fighting a just war against communism. He stripped professors of tenure, f
“Call Me, I Dare You” Nevada State Senator Blocking Anti-NDAA Bill
Note from People Against the National Defense Authorization Act (PANDA): On March 26th, we asked you to contact Representative Tobin of Arizona, who was b
White Student Union Prompts National Attention
March 27, 2013 The White Student Union was recently labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit that tracks the activities of o
Jailed Black Militant Russell Maroon Shoatz Publishes New Book
Re "Maroon": " ... The name is derived not from the brownish-red color, but from a Spanish term for “fugitive,” cimarrón, and it refers to runaway sl
DARPA’s 1.8 Gigapixel Drone Camera is a High-Res Fourth Amendment Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
By Joshua Kopstein The Verge, February 1, 2013 As unmanned aerial vehicles continue to populate the skies above battlefields and college campuse fast
“A WELL REGULATED MILITIA” THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on the Second Amendment, vol. 76, 2000: 195 Posted for Educational use only. The printed edition remains canonical. For
Roy Cohn’s New York Times Obituary, Aug. 3, 1986
August 3, 1986 Roy Cohn, Aide to McCarthy and Fiery Lawyer, Dies at 59 By ALBIN KREBS Roy M. Cohn, the flamboyant, controversial defense lawyer who was c
Bill Proposes Compensation for Forced Sterilization Victims in Virginia
BY CHELYEN DAVIS The Free Lance-Star, January 22, 2013 RICHMOND—Lewis Reynolds reckons he was about 9 when a rock hit him in the head, causing seizur
Grief And Anger At Aaron Swartz’s Memorial; Prosecutor Linked To Another Hacker’s Death
The information activist was “doomed to be just Aaron,” recalls a friend. But a prosecutor was “hellbent on destroying his life.” By Rob Fishman Bu
“Operation Tripwire” — the FBI, the Private Sector, and the Monitoring of Occupy Wall Street
By Beau Hodai PRWatch, December 31, 2012 Records obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Dem
God Save the Queen, the Fascist Regime?
The historical significance and therefore symbolic power of our royalty should not be underestimated
By Lewis Garland
The Periscope Post, 29 May 2012
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How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy
AC note: I have to ask Naomi Wolf if she still believes that the U.S. is "going fascist" -- a claim that had some validity 50 years ago when John Kennedy w
EPIC Sues CIA for Release of Documents Concerning NYPD Collusion in Domestic Spying
EPIC Sues CIA For Release Of Documents Concerning Domestic Spying It Swears It's Not Doing from the whatever-happened-to-'if-you-have-nothing-to-hide...?'
Guns, Race and America’s Collective Psychosis
By ISHMAEL REED CounterPunch, December 21-23, 2012 When I appeared on a panel with Chris Hedges during the Miami International Book Fair, I told him and t