Extradition of Julian Assange threatens First Amendment, Press Freedom (tags)
JURIST: My favorite Supreme Court Justice of all time is William O. Douglas. A staunch defender of the First Amendment, he asserted in his book Points of Rebellion, “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.”
Revised: Michael Brown Story Killed All Focus To Semitic Hate Crimes in Gaza (January 4, 2 (tags)
In the first week of August heat was really coming to boil over massive and blatant war crimes perpetrated by Israelis against Palestinian civilians in Gaza this summer of 2014. Even Benjamin Netanyahu was busy contacting supposedly our U. S. Congress-people then in early August to shield his-self, and his likes, from war crime allegations and potential tribunals. Suddenly along came to the media radar Michael Brown’s death just when the world was in a real uproar about repeated violence and blatant attacks on civilians and children —knowing intuitively such attacks were deliberate crimes.
Challenging Wrongful Convictions (tags)
police state
drones
We're All Bradley Manning (tags)
police state
Why Manning’s Identity Shall Remain Private (tags)
The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (S.A.M.E.) and Zenger’s Newsmagazine support the struggle of alleged WikiLeaker Private Manning against a U.S. government that held him in solitary confinement for nearly two years under conditions so arduous they constitute torture, and now is putting them on trial in a court-martial even though President Obama has already compromised the process by declaring them guilty. S.A.M.E. and Zenger’s also support Private Manning’s right to choose their own gender identity, and as a result we will not assign them a first name or any gender-specific references.
San Diegans Rally Against Citizens United Decision (tags)
Though the original location had to be changed when agents of the Department of Homeland Security blocked off the original one, San Diegans nonetheless held a rally January 20 against the Citizens United decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, which opened the floodgates for even more corporate influence over American politics and elections.
Poisoning Mother Earth: Fukushima and America's Gulf (tags)
eco-insanity
2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt (tags)
repression
Grassroots Support for Aristide's Return (tags)
Aristide's return
Revolutionary Change in Egypt: Internal or Made in USA? (tags)
revolution
San Diego Activists Turn Out to Support Bradley Manning (tags)
San Diego’s progressive community turned out for a downtown rally September 19 in support of Bradley Manning, alleged leaker of the 90,000 pages of documents about the war in Afghanistan and the so-called “Collateral Murder” video of a U.S. attack on civilians in Iraq in 2007, who’s currently being held awaiting trial in an Army brig. Law professor Marjorie Cohn, anti-war veteran Chuck Wynette and other speakers called for Manning to be set free whether he leaked the papers or not.
“Earth Is for People, Not for Corporations” (tags)
Election fraud expert Steven Freeman headlined “Earth Is for People, Not for Corporations” at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood July 1. The event featured a wide variety of anti-corporate presentations and showed the role of corporations in promoting and profiting from every current social evil, from war to the exploitation of immigrants and denial of the reality of climate change. It also exposed the role of corporate media and discussed ways people can challenge it.
Israel's New Initiative: Barbarism and Piracy at Sea (tags)
more Israeli crimes against humanity
The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda (tags)
LP is a guardian of Washingto-Israeli power
BTL:Obama's Double Standard Gives Some but Not All 9/11 Defendants Civilian Trials (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
The Coup in Honduras: A Teachable Moment for Obama? (tags)
President Barack Obama‘s main duty under the U.S. Constitution is to see to it that the laws are “faithfully executed.” By a UN Treaty, approved by the Senate, in 1994, torture is against U.S. law. No ifs, ands or buts about it. No exceptions! In Honduras, some apologists for the “de facto” regime, are pretending that they followed the law, when they gave their president the boot. Will Obama play the same “pretend game” on Torture? Stay Tuned. .
Condoleezza Rice Challenged on War and Torture at Stanford (tags)
Stanford University students, staff, alumni, and community have called for Condoleezza Rice to be held accountable for war crimes and torture. Challenging her return to the University, they are petitioning for a probe into her alleged violations of international and U.S. law.
Fire John Yoo campaign arrives in SoCal (tags)
John Yoo, architect of the infamous "Torture Memos", is now teaching at Chapman University Law School. Anti-torture activists are continuing the fight that began in Berkeley to fire and disbar war criminal John Yoo.
Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas (tags)
the blame game
BTL:FBI Agents at Guantanamo Kept "War Crimes File" (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
BTL:House Defies Bush Demand for Telecom Warrantless Wiretap Immunity (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide (tags)
The ugly face of US imperialism
The Cuban Five: Imprisoned for opposing Terrorism (tags)
The National Lawyers Guild and several legal and human rights organizations have called on the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to launch a formal investigation of the United States government’s continuing violation of human rights of five political prisoners known as the Cuban Five.
[btlsummary]In an Echo of Watergate... (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
The Watada Mistrial: Here's What Really Happened (tags)
A first-hand report from the trial in Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington, another in the continuing series of historic trials of American military resisters to the Iraq War. Contrary to the current corporate spin, the judge was doing just the opposite of "protecting Lt. Watada's rights" by declaring a mistrial. Rather, the judge did not want this case to go to any factfinder who had any chance of being fully informed of Lt. Watada's belief that the war in Iraq is illegal. For more on the Watada trial and other resisters, go to couragetoresist.org.
Fewer polar bear cubs survive in Alaska (tags)
Fewer polar bear cubs survive in Alaska
Marijuana, the anti-drug (tags)
Marijuana, the anti-drug
Insurance companies looking to outsource health care (tags)
Insurance companies looking to outsource health care to the developing world.
US to screen all who enter, leave country (tags)
US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan (tags)
US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan
Water for millions at risk (tags)
Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt faster than expected
Navy officer tapped to head LA schools (tags)
Navy officer with no experience tapped to head LA schools
Kenneth Lay's conviction erased from record (tags)
Kenneth Lay's conviction erased from record
The Dow's phony new high (tags)
The Dow's phony new high
Chicago plans to add 100 stealth cameras (tags)
Chicago plans to add 100 stealth cameras
Profiteering
millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage (tags)
millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage
Border fence could spell environmental disaster (tags)
Border fence could spell environmental disaster
Weapons bound for Israel said to pass through California
BTL:Progressive Groups Fear Radical Right Supreme Court Shift if Alito Confirmed (tags)
Interview with Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
White Washing War Crimes, by Mumia Abu-Jamal (tags)
Who will solve these war crimes?
Put the WAR on trial!! Events supporting war resister Pablo Paredes (tags)
Defend Pablo: Put the WAR on Trial !!! 4 days of protest and events to support war resister Pablo Paredes as he faces court martial by the US Navy
PABLO PAREDES COURT MARTIAL EVENTS / PROTEST (tags)
Defend Pablo: Put the WAR on Trial 3 days of protest and events to support war resister Pablo Paredes as he faces court martial by the US Navy May 10th - May 13th 2005 San Diego, CA
War in Iraq: Selected Articles (tags)
The following is a selection of relevant and poignant articles that I have found, or that have been recommended to me while researching the history and motivations of US involvement with Iraq. I have tried to highlight articles that refer directly to primary sources or first hand experience, while representing a solid alternative to the mainstream understanding.
pbnberkeley news notice - 2/5/03 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!