from Democracy Now!:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and the main [...]
The U.S. government just paid approx. USD 3 billion to lil’ Kim from North Korea for the service to flock the American people together against an external nuclear threat, instead of getting toppled by the flock themselves. Clever, but sooo 80ies …
The deception failed poorly. The U.S. Government like the American economy is in its death throes …
North Korea gives bankrupt America the last global stage to present its deceptional [...]
washingtonsblog.com
April 1, 2013
Take That’s Kidz uses song and video to communicate War Crimes, bankster looting, and media liesof the criminal 1% will end when we “come out” for peace, love, and fun. Solutions are obvious, after all.
To be clear: we advocate application of US law to end obviously unlawful wars that our own official government reports state were “justified” with lies known to be false as they were told. We advocate for US leaders to act within their Oaths [...]
Chris Hedges: Update On Anti-NDAA Lawsuit Vs. Obama
‘It’s frightening how hard Obama is fighting us.’
Outstanding interview. Chris Hedges outside the hearing for the second circuit court of appeals in the Hedges v Obama NDAA lawsuit. NDAA gives Obama the power to indefinitely detain any American any time for virtually any reason.
Obama Admin & NDAA Getting Sued
Journalist and activist Tangerine Bolen is one of eight plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the NDAA. [...]
From Azizonomics:
I expected to spend quite some time writing about the Obama administration’s successful appeal against Katherine Forrest’s historic gutting of the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA. Yet I can add very little to Glenn Greenwald’s summation:
In May, something extremely rare happened: a federal court applied the U.S. constitution to impose some limits on the powers of the president.
That happened when federal district court judge Katherine Forrest of the [...]
rt.com
September 18, 2012
A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process.
Last week, a federal judge ruled that an temporary injunction on section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 must be made permanent, essentially barring the White House from ever enforcing a clause in the NDAA that can let [...]
The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.
On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention [...]
From Zero Hedge:
Back in January, Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges sued President Obama and the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, specifically challenging the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force or, the provision that authorizes military detention for people deemed to have “substantially supported” al Qaeda, the Taliban, or “associated forces.”
Hedges called the president’s action allowing indefinite detention, which was signed into law with little opposition from either [...]
Chris Hedges, a former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and winner of the Southern California Onlie Journalist of the Year 2012 award, is writing about it. Just another sign that the truth about debt and oil and population and all that (i.e. the 3Es) is starting to become more widespread…
Chris Hedges: Growth Is the Problem (September 10, 2012)
“The quality of our lives will depend on the quality of our communities. If communal [...]
Obama’s Department of Justice is demanding a federal judge dismiss the injunction with which she sought to uphold the constitutional rights of the American people.
On May 16th, federal judge Kathleen Forrest granted a preliminary injunction to plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against Barack Obama and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), striking down those sections of the Act that provide the president the power to indefinitely detain American [...]
From Liberty Blitzkrieg:
First of all, I want to thank all of the readers of my blog, my followers on twitter and everyone that shared my most recent piece. The response to my NDAA article from Friday evening has exceeded my wildest expectations and is a very encouraging sign for the future…
Liberty is in a bull market. This proves to me without a shadow of a doubt that people are finally [...]
From Liberty Blitzkrieg:
Despite a mainstream media blackout on the topic, the alternative media is abuzz with this week’s hearing on the constitutionality of the clearly unconstitutional NDAA.
In case you don’t remember, section 1021 of the NDAA, which Obama signed into law on December 31 of last year, allows the government to lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely without a trial. At the time of signing, Obama penned a pathetic letter to [...]
The global struggle for real democracy has reached a precious moment of truth: In Egypt, the Tahrir Uprising has morphed into an unpopular Presidential election where neither candidate represents the youth who sparked the revolution. In Wisconsin, a vibrant bottom-up insurgency has resulted in a humiliating electoral defeat. Meanwhile in Greece, a openly fascistic party is gaining momentum. And then there is Occupy which has thus far been unable to recapture the magic we created last [...]
RT
Sorry, Mr. President. A US Federal judge has clarified a decision made last month with some news sure to upset the Obama administration: the White House cannot use the NDAA to indefinitely detain American citizens.
Judge Katherine B. Forrest has answered a request made by US President Barack Obama last month to more carefully explain a May 16 ruling made in a Southern District of New York courtroom regarding the National Defense Authorization [...]
by George Washington
Former lawyer John Titus has made a fantastic movie called Bailout: The Dukes of Moral Hazard.
It’s a cross between Michael Moore and Hunter S. Thompson.
Titus walks away from his mortgage, and uses the money to take his buddies – including professional comedian John Fox – on a Winnebago tour around the country
They go on a bender, meet some of the Americans hurt by Wall Street and D.C. financial fraud, and show outstanding [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Bruce Afran, talk about the significance of the extent to which she struck down this statute.
BRUCE AFRAN: Well, it’s quite incredible, in a sense, because it’s rare that statutes are struck down completely. Judge Forrest struck down the entire provision of the NDAA governing indefinite detention of civilians and U.S. citizens. She said this provision is overbroad. She said it clearly embraces speech, even if it doesn’t intend to. And she [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Bruce Afran, talk about the significance of the extent to which she struck down this statute.
BRUCE AFRAN: Well, it’s quite incredible, in a sense, because it’s rare that statutes are struck down completely. Judge Forrest struck down the entire provision of the NDAA governing indefinite detention of civilians and U.S. citizens. She said this provision is overbroad. She said it clearly embraces speech, even if it doesn’t intend to. And she [...]
Concerning post #1504, and #1571.
Judge Blocks Portion of NDAA
A federal judge Wednesday issued an injunction against a National Defense Authorization Act provision that grants the military the right to detain anyone it suspects of involvement in terrorism. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in favor of a group of plaintiffs, including Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, who filed a lawsuit against the legislation within weeks of President Obama signing it.
Hedges was joined in the suit [...]
He adds that ordinary people are caught in the vice of unregulated corporate capitalism — with no escape.
Great Interview that tells it like it is…
The Case Against the NDAA: Lawyer for Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Others
Perhaps the most important court case of our lifetime right now:
… the most chilling exchange on Thursday took place between government lawyers and Judge Forrest. The judge, who will probably rule in May, repeatedly asked for assurance that the plaintiffs would not be subject to detention under the NDAA. It was an assurance the two government lawyers refused to [...]
It was reported a few months back that Chris Hedges, amongst others, filed a lawsuit against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Below is an update on those proceedings as described in Hedges’ latest article:
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It is in conference rooms like this one, where attorneys speak in the [...]
Infowars.com
January 25, 2012
Alex talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author and Middle East expert Chris Hedges about his lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Obama signed at the end of 2011. Hedges is the author of The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress, Collateral Damage, American Fascists and other titles.
Saman Mohammadi
Prisonplanet.com
January 21, 2012
“In 1789, France entered a period of revolutionary change which was to see the complete restructuring of the state, the collapse of the monarchy, and its replacement by a republic. By 1793, France was riven by civil war and factional struggles and had also opened hostilities upon several neighbouring states. At home, political dissent and economic collapse were repressed by the use of political terror. For many contemporaries, as [...]
NDAA provision could be a one way ticket to Gitmo for reporters, claims class action lawsuit
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Journalist Chris Hedges has filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama over his signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, claiming that the ‘indefinite detention’ provision of the bill could see him sent to Guantanamo Bay simply for doing his job.
The controversial legislation, signed into law [...]
Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges
Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president [...]
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AP / Dusan Vranic
Detainees pray at the U.S. military detention facility known as Camp Bucca in Iraq in this 2009 photo.
By Chris Hedges
Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force [...]
Washington’s Blog
January 14, 2012
“Its Always When The Foot Soldiers of the Elite Won’t Carry Out the Forms of Draconian Control that These Dead Regimes Crumble”
Pulitzer prize winning reporter Chris Hedges pointed out recently (starting at 5:05):
I was in Leipzig on November 9, 1989 with leaders of East German opposition and they told me that – perhaps within a year – there would be free passes back and forth across the [...]
Chris Hedges‘ Speech in Front of Goldman Sachs Leads to Arrest …
11-4-2011
Chris Hedges made this statement in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Thursday morning during the People’s Hearing on Goldman Sachs, which he chaired with Dr. Cornel West. The activist and Truthdig columnist then joined a march of several hundred protesters to the nearby corporate headquarters of Goldman Sachs, where he was arrested with 16 others.
Goldman Sachs, which received more subsidies and [...]
New weekly link, resource and cartoon postings at
http://3es.weebly.com/ EXTRA CARTOONS AND RESOURCE Links this week
Highlights this week
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept11/Zeus-debt-forgiveness-9-11.html Endgame: When debt Is fraud, debt forgiveness is the last and only remedy
http://priceofoil.org/2011/08/31/report-exporting-energy-security-keystone-xl-exposed/ Will the Keystone XL pipieline really provide US energy security? Or just get it out to the global market easier?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-north-dakota-miracle-not-all-about-oil North Dakota’s Economic Miracle
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-08-31-the-dilemma-of-growth-as-dramatized-by-the-voices-in-my-head The dilemma of growth as voices in my head
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/08/time-for-review-economic-power.html Time for review
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8317 The Seneca Effect
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/25-signs-that-the-financial-world-is-about-to-hit-the-big-red-panic-button 25 [...]
Mr. Fish
By Chris Hedges
In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. He ages, grows feeble and finally childish. He is told [...]
By Chris Hedges
These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America.
We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temple where greed and profit are the highest good, where self-worth is determined by the ability to amass wealth and power at [...]
by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig
A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity [...]
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Must See Film: Michael Moore Meets Hunter S. Thompson
by George Washington
Former lawyer John Titus has made a fantastic movie called Bailout: The Dukes of Moral Hazard.
It’s a cross between Michael Moore and Hunter S. Thompson.
Titus walks away from his mortgage, and uses the money to take his buddies – including professional comedian John Fox – on a Winnebago tour around the country
They go on a bender, meet some of the Americans hurt by Wall Street and D.C. financial fraud, and show outstanding [...]