Is the United States turning into a police state, as former Reagan-era official and columnist Paul Craig Roberts suggests in a recent interview on Russia Today?
Roberts was referring to the Feb. 3, 2010 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in which National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens could be assassinated by [...]

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The following is an important message from Project Fly-Home which I am reproducing in full:

Abousfian Abdelrazik meets the press in Montreal on his return to Canada on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Photo: Tatiana Gomez
Delist Now!: Six-Month Campaign to Free Abousfian Abdelrazik from the
Prison Without Walls
June 27th will mark the one-year anniversary of Abousfian Abdelrazik’s return [...]

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The campaign to send George W. Bush and several of his closest conspirators to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to answer for their crimes against humanity is building up steam.
It all started when Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law filed a complaint on January 19, 2010 with [...]

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Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales for crimes against humanity, more specifically, “their criminal policy [...]

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According to the Supreme Court, the federal government violated Omar Khadr’s constitutional rights and that Khadr’s rights continue to be violated. Nevertheless, the court refuses to order the government to do the right thing — seek Khadr’s repatriation from the Guantanamo hell-hole that he has lived in for the past 7 years.
Shame!

Photos of Omar Khadr [...]

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Thousands of gun-toting troops will not help the Haitian people. The Canada Haiti Action Network has launched a petition campaign to change the “relief” effort in Haiti from military to humanitarian.
You can sign the petition here. Pass it on!

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I cringe when I hear folks like Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon use the word “solidarity” in the same breath as “Haiti.” I’m all for solidarity with the Haitian people, but when it is expressed by the likes of Cannon, I gag.
The Haitian disaster relief program is a thinly disguised military operation to secure the [...]

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It’s Martin Luther King Day in the United States. It’s a big deal in the land of toxic derivatives; even the stock markets are closed in his memory.
Once harassed and stalked by the the FBI, King’s memory is now regularly and hypocritically invoked by those who stand on his shoulders.
Were King alive he would have [...]

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Opponents of profiling are missing the point. Profiling makes a lot of sense. The main problem  is that we are profiling the wrong kinds of people.
Instead of watching out for people who actually have a track record for mass destruction and terrorism, we are directing our efforts against folks who might be pissed off at [...]

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Under the pretext of fighting al-Qaida, Obama is planning to transform Yemen into another Afghanistan. U.S. Special forces are reportedly in the country, as are British commandos. Expect the “war on terrorism” rhetoric to escalate as America moves more resources into the country to “stabilize” it. A planned international meeting on Yemen hosted by Britain [...]

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