The Government and Your Guns
We’re in the grip of twin madnesses, and those who have overcome one of them can still be completely controlled by the other.
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Civil Rights
Life in Prison for a Poem
Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami’s crime consisted of reciting a poem extolling the courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia. For that he’s been sentenced to life in prison. Rather than making itself an instrument for cracking down on dissent, we believe that the Court should uphold Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami’s Life in Prison for a Poem Read More » The Original AbolitionistsIf you’re like me, there are some things you would like to abolish. My list includes war, weapons, fossil fuel use, plutocracy, corporate personhood, health insurance corporations, poverty wages, poverty, homelessness, factory farming, prisons, the drug war, the death penalty, nuclear energy, the U.S. Senate, the electoral college, gerrymandering, electronic voting machines, murder, rape, child abuse, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post. I could go on. The Original Abolitionists Read More » Davids Oppose Israel’s Use of King DavidOne tool being employed by the government of Israel to evict Palestinian people from their homes is the claim that doing so will allow archaeologists to discover historical evidence of the existence of King David. Such evidence is intended to strengthen the claim that Jews are returning to land occupied by Jews millennia ago. Yet the living people moved off their land by Israeli expansion are denied any right to return to it. The King David in the book of Samuel is greedy and cruel, thoughtless Davids Oppose Israel’s Use of King David Read More » Cari Italiani, aiutateci a combattere la tortura in UsaEnglish version below.
Con la condanna degli agenti della Cia coinvolti nell’illegale sequestro dell’imam Abu Omar il sistema giudiziario italiano ha dimostrato che davvero la legge può essere “uguale per tutti”. Ora, quasi diecimila cittadini americani chiedono all’Italia di andare oltre. di David Swanson*, traduzione di Patrick Boylan Quasi diecimila americani hanno già inviato i loro ringraziamenti all’Ambasciata italiana a Washington in seguito alle condanne definitive Cari Italiani, aiutateci a combattere la tortura in Usa Read More » Talk Nation Radio: The War on Whistleblowers With Thomas Drake and Jesselyn RadackJesselyn Radack and Thomas Drake discuss their experiences as government whistleblowers, the retribution they’ve endured, and the currently worsening pattern of secrecy, intimidation, and persecution of whistleblowers in Washington, D.C. Jesselyn Radack is a former ethics adviser to the U.S. Department of Justice who came to prominence as a whistleblower after she disclosed that the FBI committed an ethics violation in its interrogation of John Walker Lindh (the “American Taliban”) Talk Nation Radio: The War on Whistleblowers With Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack Read More » Minnesota Town Bans Signs in Yards Unless They're Pro-WarAt a festival called Peacestock in Wisconsin last weekend, I met a woman who lives in Little Falls, Minnesota. That city had forced her to take down signs in her own yard, signs that said “Occupy Wall Street,” “Back the 99 Percent” and “Boycott Monsanto.” But Robin Hensel noticed that the city itself was displaying, in violation of the same ordinance, a banner reading “We Support Our Troops.” For anyone who’s been visiting outerspace Minnesota Town Bans Signs in Yards Unless They're Pro-War Read More » |