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Your Lost Liberties

Your Lost Liberties

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A must-read. This sums it up. Five Ways Bush’s Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11 By Matthew Rothschild, The New Press. Posted July 24, 2007 at AlterNet. From the new book You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression. Chilling stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. One small bit: The 1976 Levi guidelines prohibited the FBI from investigating the First Amendment activities of individuals and groups…

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Bill Clinton on Fox News

Bill Clinton on Fox News

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I don’t always agree with Bill Clinton, but he sure cheered me up today. I was starting to think he’d completely lost his mind, hanging about with the Bushes. CLINTON: Now, I will answer all those things on the merits, but first I want to talk about the context in which this arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network. ABC just had a right- wing conservative run in their little “Pathway to 9/11,” falsely claiming it was based…

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Provocative Questions

Provocative Questions

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Dennis Rahkonen (‘The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers… Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943? Did conservatives loyal to Hitler pooh-pooh reports of Jews being abused in concentration camps in the same way neocon Bush backers blithely dismiss documentation by…

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Protesting Iraq – Anti-War Photos

Protesting Iraq – Anti-War Photos

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indymedia.us :: International Day of Protest on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq Some photos from all over the USA, and all over the World. From signs: Support the troops – bring them home Dissent Protects Democracy Who Would Jesus Bomb? War is Terror Drop Bush Not Bombs It’s about Lives for Oil and Nothing about Freedom Students Not Soliders No To Imperialism Militarism and Bush Iraq War is Anti-Christian Making a Killing with Your Money No…

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Abuse of Patriot Act Again

Abuse of Patriot Act Again

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Abuse of the Patriot Act – Professor Tariq Ramadan I am a member of the American Academy of Religion, and have been since at least 1990 (maybe earlier). The American Academy of Religion (AAR) is the major scholarly society and professional association of scholars and teachers in religion. With 10,000 members, the Academy fosters excellence in research and teaching in the field and contributes to the broad public understanding of religion and religions. The AAR publishes the flagship scholarly journal…

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