Federal Court Enjoins NDAA An Obama-appointed judge rules its indefinite detention provisions likely violate the 1st and 5th Amendments By Glenn Greenwald May 17, 2012 “Salon‘ — A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Chris Hedges, Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Glenn Greenwald, Government, Indefinite detention, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
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The G8 talks will be an opportunity for Barack Obama to vent US frustration at Europe’s failure to find a solution to the debt crisis. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP link http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/17/barack-obama-eu-growth-crisis Barack Obama is to put pressure on Germany to ease the pain of austerity with policies to boost growth, as he uses two days of talks with the G8 industrial nations [...]
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After some complimentary and well deserved comments for Davies from Leveson at the Leveson Inquiry it may be time to look a bit more at Nick Davies. He is the author of a book called Flat Earth News that examines quite closely the role of the media and propaganda in the fabric of political [...]
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