District Sentinel Radio: Torture And Trade In The Senate
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Civil Rights
Talk Nation Radio: Kevin Gosztola on Harassing, Prosecuting, Imprisoning the Wrong People
Kevin Gosztola is a journalist for Firedoglake.com and co-host of the weekly podcast
Talk Nation Radio: David Segal on Ending Mass Surveillance, Keeping the Internet Free
David Segal is the Executive Director of Demand Progress. He discusses the current struggles to end mass surveillance by the U.S. government
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The U.S. Bill of Rights Rewritten to Match Reality
There just might be a big boost in government honesty soon, as both houses of Congress have now passed with two-thirds votes and sent to the states for ratification a potential 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution bearing the unofficial title “The Truth in Advertising Amendment.” This is the text as passed by Congress:
Amendment 28
Preamble: The first through tenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed.
1. Congress shall make no law respecting
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A Better Way to Read the First Amendment
Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment, a new book by Burt Neuborne, at first appears an unlikely work to serve much purpose today. Who wants to celebrate slave owner James Madison’s view of freedom as embodied in a long outdated Constitution in desperate need of updating or rewriting? And who wants to hear it from a former legal director of the ACLU who just signed a petition supporting the hiring of Harold Koh, defender of drone murders and presidential wars of
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Talk Nation Radio: Karen Dolan on the Criminalization of Poverty
Karen Dolan is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and directs the Criminalization of Poverty project there. She also is a member of the team at the Economic
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Drone Victims Take Germany to Court for Abetting U.S. Murders
Andreas Schüller is an attorney on the staff of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. He is the lead attorney on a suit being brought by ECCHR and Reprieve against the German government on behalf of three Yemeni survivors of a U.S. drone strike. The case will be heard May 27th in Cologne.
Their suit argues that it is illegal under German law for the German government to allow the U.S. air base at Ramstein to be used for drone murders abroad. The suit comes after the passage
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To End Government Spying, Stop Buying Stuff
The thrust of Robert Scheer’s new book, They Know Everything About You, is that the U.S. government’s mass surveillance and permanent storage of everything you do on the internet is piggybacking on Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, AOL, Yahoo, and other companies that suck up and permanently store every scrap of information about you that they can lay their virtual hands on — and that this data mining is driven primarily by the profit to be gained from carefully
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Talk Nation Radio: Brian Terrell: Anti-Drone-War-Movement Is Growing
Brian Terrell discusses a recent major protest of drone murders at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada and the state of the anti-drone-war movement. Brian is a
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Admit that torture does not work
To: Keifer Sutherland and Kathryn Bigelow
Admit awareness of the fact that torture does not work in real life. Sign the petition.
Why is this important?
The popularity and acceptability of torture have soared in the United States and around the world. This is not simply because the United States has tortured. The U.S. government, many of its policies, its wars, and key torture supporters have not seen similar boosts in popularity.
A major contributor to torture’s improved image has been Hollywood, led by two productions that have popularized the false belief
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