Like Freedom? Then You Won't Like the FREEDOM Act
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act). The …
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Like Freedom? Then You Won't Like the FREEDOM Act
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act). The …
globalresearch.ca/like-freedom-freedom-act/5707529
Feudal Japan's Edo and the US Empire
Hiroyuki Hamada | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-25
After the warlord period of 15th century, Japan was united by a few families and then by a shogun family. The period is called the Edo period. They disarmed civilians and established a mild caste system. The country was closed except for a few ports controlled by the central government, travel restrictions were put in …
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Because 'Anne Frank Did Not Die in a Gas Chamber,' Jewish Activists Cite Disease in Nazi Death Camps in Call to Free Detained Immigrants
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-24
"Crowded, unsanitary detention camps are a death sentence for the people inside. These are the conditions that killed Anne Frank, who died of typhus in 1945." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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One video shows the violence that anti-hunting activists face
Glen Black | thecanary.co | 2020-03-23
A video by Devon County Hunt Sabs (DCHS) reveals the violence that anti-hunting activists face. The sab group published footage that it says shows several men attacking and robbing a hunt saboteur. And it says the police aren't taking the incident seriously. | "Thugs piled on top of him": | DCHS attended a meet of the Silverton Hunt in Upton Pyne, outside of Exeter, on 14 March. Its report on the day said that sometime during the afternoon, terriermen with the hunt "broke the passenger side window" of the group's Land Rover. An…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/03/23/one-video-shows-the-violence-that-anti-hunting-activists-face/
Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-20
As lockdowns and layoffs sweep the U.S., mutual aid groups are forming to protect and provide for the vulnerable, including the elderly, incarcerated, undocumented and unhoused. We look at the incredible community networks across the country that are coming together to protect their neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic
Can the World's Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War?
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
If there is a lesson for peace-loving Americans in the Obama and Trump presidencies, it is that we cannot just walk out of the voting booth and leave it to a champion in the White House to end our wars and bring us peace. In the final analysis, it really is up to us…
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