April 29, 2012
The Supposed Legality of Murder By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/supposed-legality-murder War is legal, but pointing out its illegality is not mistaken; it’s irrelevant and un-strategic. That’s the argument I’m hearing from a number of quarters. Chase Madar has a terrific new book on Bradley Manning in which he argues that [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bradley Manning, Center for Constitutional Rights, Pakistan, U.N. Charter, United State, United States Constitution, Yemen
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April 16, 2012
. Stop Obama’s Drone War in Pakistan by Matthew Rothschild The Pakistani government and its opposition parties have just come together in a rare show of unity to demand that the United States cease all drone attacks inside their country.As well they should The United States hasn’t declared war on Pakistan. The U.S. has no [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Obama, Pakistan, Taliban, United State, United States Constitution
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March 31, 2012
Can America’s Descent Possibly Be Reversed? By Scott Lazarowitz March 30, 2012 “”LRC” – My articles for LRC have been increasingly difficult and frustrating to write. More recently I have been trying to get people to understand America’s current police state. Yes, I have received some favorable emails when my [...]
Tags: Anti-war Movement, BarackObama, Bill Clinton, Civil liberties, Constitution, George W. Bush, Hunger Games, Jimmy Carter, Nazi Germany, Oval Office, President of the United States, United State, United States Constitution, White House
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March 19, 2012
By Keith JohnsonIn early March, Attorney General Eric Holder declared open season on American dissidents by claiming that the president has the ultimate authority to murder any citizen he considers a threat. Speaking before Northwest University of Law in March, Holder stated that although the Constitution’s guarantee of due process is ironclad, “it does [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Due process, Eric Holder, Holder, Obama, Ray McGovern, United State, United States Constitution
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January 9, 2012
http://warisacrime.org/content/corporate-personhood-worse-ending-it-easier-you-think Corporate Personhood Worse, Ending It Easier, Than You Think By David Swanson Don’t take it from me. Take it from the book being published today that will mainstream the movement to end corporate personhood: “Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You [...]
Tags: Citizens United, Corporate personhood, Monsanto, Richard Nixon, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States, United States, United States Constitution
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December 25, 2011
Secret Wars and the Rule of Law by Tim Kelly, December 21, 2011 The president of the United States now wages secret wars virtually independent of Congress and in direct violation of the United States Constitution. Earlier this month, the White House issued several findings authorizing U.S. intelligence services to carry [...]
Tags: Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Congress, Foreign Assistance Act, Iran, Mossad, Syria, United State, United States, United States Constitution
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November 22, 2011
Photo Credit: Newsweek Caught on Camera: 10 Shockingly Violent Police Assaults on Occupy Protesters Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they’re unlikely to be held accountable. November 18, 2011 | Occupations across the country have born the brunt of some [...]
Tags: Alternet, Guardian, Iraq, Iraq War, New York Civil Liberties Union, Port of Oakland, United States Constitution, YouTube
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August 31, 2011
Ralph Nader: 10 Painful Lessons of 9/11 By Ralph Nader The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance of first responders and our soldiers [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Geneva Conventions, Iraq, Porter Goss, Ralph Nader, Reinhold Niebuhr, United States, United States Constitution, USA PATRIOT Act
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August 11, 2011
Why Congress Must Stop Obama’s Libyan Warmongering Doug Bandow August 9, 2011 Babies have short attention spans. Congressmen are even worse. A couple months ago legislators were outraged over the willingness of President Barack Obama to ignore the Constitution by going to war in Libya. Now the issue is all but forgotten. The debt-limit fight [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, BarackObama, George W. Bush, Libya, NATO, United State, United State Congress, United States Armed Forces, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution, White House
Posted in Libya, Obama, Obama warmonger, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, War, War and economics, War is a crime, War means war, War on Islam and Muslims, War on terror | No Comments »
July 7, 2011
Libya air strike “Much rumbling has emanated from the US Congress on Libya – centered around technicalities around the War Powers Act [sic],” writes Pepe Escobar in the Asia Times. “As the semantic contortions involved in the Libya tragedy have already gone way beyond Newspeak, this means in practice US drones will keep joining NATO fighter [...]
Tags: International Criminal Court, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, United State, United States Armed Forces, United States Congress, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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July 6, 2011
Every once in a while the news for those of you who think that decency and equality and freedom really means something gets good. The non stop erosion of liberty by the rampant and incorrigible forces of reaction is what seems so strong. Yet the fact that their power rests in opinion is proven time [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Howard McKeon, John McCain, Libya, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Taliban, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Congress, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
Posted in Democracy, Democracy in Asia, Democracy in the Arab World, Democracy Now!, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Swanson, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War child victims, War Chomsky views, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
June 20, 2011
By Ralph Nader The meticulous Harvard Law Review editors should be rolling over in their footnotes. The recidivist violations of constitutional and statutory requirements by their celebrated predecessor at that journal – Barack Obama has reached Orwellian dimensions in the war against Libya. You see, the widespread daily bombing of Libya, the strict naval blockade [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Ralph Nader, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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June 5, 2011
America’s Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars Submitted by Stephen Lendman on Sat, 2011-06-04 08:33 Corporatism and Fascism America’s Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars – by Stephen Lendman With regard to war, international and constitutional laws are clear. Under the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, only Congress may declare war, not the president. That, in fact, last happened [...]
Tags: Libya, middle east, NATO, Robert McNamara, United Nations Charter, United State, United States, United States Constitution, US Constitution, War Powers Resolution
Posted in US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
June 2, 2011
Poverty Is A Lie By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58055 Yes, yes, poverty exists, just as war does, and the two feed off each other. When I titled a book “War Is A Lie” I meant that the justifications offered for wars were false and that the idea that we must always have wars is false. Our [...]
Tags: Jeffrey Sachs, Living Wage, Poverty, Poverty in the United States, U.S. Constitution, United States, United States Constitution, William P. Quigley
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Poverty | No Comments »
May 30, 2011
Wars are very easy to start and continue as long as you have the troops and the mindless support of party politicians and a totally propagandised public. Here in Australia we are perhaps the best of the you lead and we will Folsom mentality when it comes to war. In the past it was usually the UK who we followed almost [...]
Tags: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Judicial review, Julia Gillard, Marbury v. Madison, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States, United States, United States Constitution
Posted in Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Peace Movement, people's protests, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Constitution, Demographics of Syria, Federal government of the United States, Future of Freedom Foundation, Jacob G. Hornberger, Law, Syria, United State, United States Constitution, US Constitution
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Air war, Al Qaeda, anti zion protests, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Armageddon, Art and general issues, Assange, Assassination, Atomics Corporation, Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bin Laden, Bolivia, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, China, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Consent, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Egypt, elections, Elites, Environment, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Gaza, Genocide, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Global capitalism and imperialism, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hillary, Human Rights, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Indigenous, Intifada, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel diaspora and deceit, Jason Ditz, Leon Panetta, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Peace Movement, Pentagon, people's protests, Police forces and Middle East, political self satisfaction, Portugal, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Qaddafi, Racism, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Swanson, torture, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action, zionism | No Comments »
May 16, 2011
60 More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57853 Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush’s lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney’s wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law [...]
Tags: John McCain, John Yoo, Libya, NATO, United Nations, United States, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, economic measures, Economy, Gitmo, Global capitalism and imperialism, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Leon Panetta, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror | No Comments »
May 14, 2011
What’s So Important About a Declaration of War? by Tom Mullen, May 14, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Presidential hopeful Ron Paul insists that the U.S. government shouldn’t go to war without a declaration of war. His son Rand has also taken this position, as have several libertarian-leaning Tea Party candidates. According [...]
Tags: Congress, Declaration of war, Federal government of the United States, George W. Bush, Osama BinLaden, Ron Paul, United State Congress, United States, United States Constitution
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April 12, 2011
Obama’s Fateful Abuse of War Powers By Former Congressman Paul Findley, Co-founder of CNI The acts of war ordered by President Barack Obama against the government of Libya violated provisions of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution of 1973. He also exceeded his authority by pledging U.S. combat support to the United Nations [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Member of Congress, Paul Findley, Richard Nixon, United Nations Security Council, United States, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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