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Obama Administration Weighs Indefinite Detention (Dina Temple-Raston)
Nov. 26, 2010 (NPR) -- It is starting to look like the president who campaigned on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay may end up doing something wholly different: signing a law that would pave the ...
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TSA Gestapo Empire (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 ...
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The Stench of American Hypocrisy, Part 2 (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 22, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- In a recent column, "The Stench of American Hypocrisy," I noted that U.S. public officials and media are on their high horse about the rule of law in ...
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The Stench of American Hypocrisy (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 15, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ten years of rule by the Bush and Obama regimes have seen the collapse of the rule of law in the United States. Is the American media covering this ...
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The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)
Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of ...
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Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe (Dan Froomkin)
Nov. 12, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ...
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Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners (Matt Taibbi)
Retired judges are rushing through complex cases to speed foreclosures in Florida Nov. 10, 2010 (Rolling Stone) -- The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. ...
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America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The United States Department of Justice (sic) routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus and concocted crimes that are not even on the statutes ...
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Why George W. Bush Should Still Worry (Bill Quigley)
Bush Pens True Crime Book, No Justice for CIA Destruction of 92 Torture Tapes Nov. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to ...
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Amnesty International wants Bush on trial over torture (Press TV)
Nov. 10, 2010 (Press TV) -- The London-based Amnesty International has called for a criminal investigation into former US President George W. Bush's admission of torture. The rights group's call ...
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Nine stories the press is underreporting -- fraud, fraud and more fraud (Dan Froomkin)
From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers -- a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of ...
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