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Occupation Wall Street Arrests “Utterly Illegal”
Seven hundred people participating in the The O…
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Extrajudicial Killing of U.S. Citizen
VINCENT WARREN, PARDISS KEBRIAEI, via Emily Whitfield, press at ccrjustice.org, and David Lerner Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which had previously brought a challenge in federal court to the legality of the authorization to target U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, said today: “The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki by American drone attacks is the latest of many affronts to domestic and international law…”
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Wall Street Protests Spread
The Occupy Wall Street protests are spreading to other cities, see with live streaming at. ARUN GUPTA, ebrowniess at yahoo.com A founding editor of the New York City based Indypendent, Gupta just wrote the piece “The Revolution Begins at Home: An Open Letter to Join the Wall Street Occupation.”
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Left-Right Alliance Against Government Reading Your Email Without a Warrant
A broad array of groups from across the political spectrum have joined together to launch the “Not Without a Warrant” campaign against the government reading personal email without a warrant. The campaign states: “The government’s power to read your email, access your private photos stored online and track your daily movements is defined in a 1986 law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The privacy protections of ECPA have not been updated since 1986. They say that the government can access your communications and surveil you without getting a warrant from a judge. Isn’t it time for privacy to catch up…
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* Saudi Women and Elections * Students Convicted for Protesting Israeli Ambassador in California * Banned from India Because of Kashmir Coverage? * Putin’s Russia
JAAFAR AL-SHAYEB, jafar at alshayeb.org Avail…
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Violence at Continuing Wall Street Protests
AP is reporting: “About 80 people were arrested Saturday as demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange marched through lower Manhattan, police said. The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest is entering its second week.” See the video “
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Nader: Postal Crisis “Manufactured”
Reuters reported this week that President Obam…
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Troy Davis Case Highlights Death Penalty Problems
BARRY SCHECK, PAUL CATES, pcates at innocencep…
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Execution of Troy Davis and the “Culture of Killing”
AP reports: “Georgia executed Troy Davi…
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UN Speech on Palestine: “Yes, Mr. Obama, Peace is Hard…”
The New York Times reports: “President O…
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