Monthly Archives: November 2017

Supreme court cellphone case puts free speech – not just privacy – at risk

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“On Wednesday, the supreme court will consider whether the government must obtain a warrant before accessing the rich trove of data that cellphone providers collect about cellphone users’ movements. Among scholars and campaigners, there is broad agreement that the case could yield the most consequential privacy ruling in a generation.  Less appreciated is the significance of the case for rights protected by the first amendment.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/supreme-court-cellphone-data-carpenter-first-amendment

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Tennessee Judge Jailing People For Smoking Cigarettes

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“Drug courts are a very blunt tool with which to address drug dependency. They become even more questionable when used as social engineering to punish people who aren’t committing any crime other than a social faux pas by smoking.”

Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/jailed-smoking-cigarettes-tennessee-judge-abuse-drug-court-system

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From North Korea, With Dread

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“The risk of war is greater than the public appreciates. There’s a complacency surrounding this crisis, which has been kicked down the road by several American presidents. Now, with war more likely than ever, talks are even more urgent, and we hope this video can serve as a call for politicians on both sides to seek exit ramps for peace.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/28/opinion/columnists/missile-test-north-korea.html

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Is Trump Going to Lie Our Way Into War With Iran?

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“Americans aren’t exactly itching for a new war. (A majority, in fact, believes the country would be better off staying in the nuclear deal with Iran.) So how can the Trump administration build a case for a pre-emptive strike?  Those claims of a nefarious alliance with Al Qaeda might help.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/opinion/is-trump-going-to-lie-our-way-into-war-with-iran.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&_r=0

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U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean

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“Coast Guard officials say they can do this because the drug smugglers aren’t under arrest until they reach U.S. shores, but some of the worst cases are drawing criticism even from Coast Guard officials.  Many families, in fact, believe that their loved ones — husbands, fathers, sons — had disappeared.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/28/u-s-coast-guard-operating-secret-floating-prisons-pacific-ocean/900462001/

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Pentagon tried to block report on child sex among Afghan forces

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“The Pentagon tried to block an independent assessment of child sex abuse crimes committed by Afghan soldiers and police, instead insisting on the creation of its own report offering a far less authoritative review of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S. allies, according to an aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).  Afghan security personnel have been known to recruit young boys as servants, sometimes to use for sex. There is a broader practice in Afghan society to dress some boys as women and have them dance at gatherings. Known as bacha bazi, it was banned under the Taliban but revived after the U.S. invasion in 2001.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/11/26/pentagon-tried-to-block-independent-report-on-child-sex-among-afghan-forces-senate-office-says/

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UK condemns war in Yemen while selling £4.6bn in arms to Saudi Arabia

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“SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said regime must ‘stop killing children’ as he condemned the Government for failing to suspend selling arms to Riyadh during the devastating three-year conflict in Yemen.”

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-british-arms-weapons-sales-saudi-arabia-billions-snp-ian-blackford-attack-government-a8082181.html

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A Thanksgiving for JFK

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“Hope?  Not because he was assassinated, but why he was assassinated.”

Read more: https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-thanksgiving-for-jfk/5619187

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Alfred McCoy: The Future of the American Empire

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“Alfred McCoy was a young rebel academic who waded into the war zone in Southeast Asia to investigate the relationship between the CIA, crime syndicates, and local drug lords. The result, which the Agency tried unsuccessfully to suppress, was his classic The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. In the 45 years since, McCoy has consistently probed the underside of American global power, analyzing how the United States uses covert interventions, local proxies, torture, and worldwide surveillance to maintain its global empire.”

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/alfred-mccoy-the-future-of-the-american-empire/

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Pennsylvania Cops Raid Elderly Couple for Marijuana Plants That Weren’t

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“Edward Cramer returned home in the midst of the raid, only to be met by leveled police guns, removed from his car, arrested, and placed in the police car with his wife for the next two hours. According to the lawsuit, Cramer repeatedly asked to show police that the plants were hibiscus, with the flowers clearly in bloom, to no avail.”

Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2017/nov/17/pa_cops_abuse_elderly_couple_over_hibiscus

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