Archive for the 'Human Rights' Category

A Revolutionary Plan for Democracy in America

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Barack Obama – (KMGH)
Last week Barack Obama gave a speech laying out his plan for getting more citizens active in serving American society.x40 Some points of his plan are: to boost the numbers in the military, Peace Corps and Americorps, to make it easy to volunteer, and to give volunteers help with the cost [...]

Boston Tea Party Hit Corporate Monopoly

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Boston Tea Party was a direct action against a corporate monopoly that led to the birth of the United States. The raiders of the Tea Party pledged silence for 50 years. One of them, George R. T. Hewes, lived that long and got his story published. He tells how the British government [...]

Supreme Court Skips Amendment 4, Keeps Catch-22

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear a case to stop President Bush’s domestic warrantless wiretapping, and let stand a 2-1 Appeals Court ruling that threw out the case on a technicality—a catch-22.x20 The ACLU brought the case on behalf of some journalists, scholars and lawyers, who claim that the specter of [...]

Big Brother Bad Idea Still Breathing

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

In 2002, John Poindexter, a major outlaw in the Iran-Contra scandal, took the reins of the U.S. Defense Department’s Total Information Awareness project (TIA).x10 One of the features of TIA, was the “Terrorism Futures Market”, which would set up a web site to allow people to bet on future violent events, such as terror [...]

Thomas Jefferson’s Gravestone

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The citizens of Washington, D.C., planned a celebration for the United States’ 50th anniversary, and invited the living signers of the Declaration of Independence, among whom was its author, Thomas Jefferson. But he was too sick to attend, and sent his regret in a letter41:

It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be [...]