Caitlin Johnstone—–27 Jun, 2020 12:37 / Updated 4 hours ago America is as authoritarian and intolerant of dissent as any tinpot dictatorship. It generally just goes about quashing it in a subtler, more sophisticated way, aided by a conformist, groupthink mainstream…
Category: Un-Constitutional
Giuliani Banging The Trump Drum, But For Whom?
Franklin Foer Staff writer for The Atlantic Rudy Giuliani Is Living the Dream Don’t let his butt-dials distract from his cunning. It can sometimes seem as if Donald Trump has outsourced the defense of his presidency to an erratic buffoon. Rudy…
Impeach The Government—-Not Just Trump
Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades By John W. Whitehead “When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour —…
The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
You Just Might Be A…Thought Criminal Submitted by: ButtCracker The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made…
Farage & Gabbard – Lions Of The Great Realignment
Submitted by: ButtCracker — There is a realignment coming in electoral politics. It began with Ron Paul in 2008 and has been building for more than a decade. We know this story well. That realignment will be about restoring not…
How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent
Submitted by: Buttmeister — Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder guilty of violating bail…
Suspending the Constitution: In America Today, the Government Does Whatever It Wants
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an…
The Constitution Is Not Neutral: Courts of Justice Should Not Act Like Courts of Order
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas For those still deluded enough to believe they’re living the American dream—where the government represents…
Attacking Syria: Thumbing Noses at Constitution and Law
Submitted by: ButtCracker — t was a sad spectacle to see U.S. brass rubbishing the Constitution and trying to silence critics of the U.S. strike on Syria, says Ray McGovern in this commentary. The U.S. Constitution and international law suffered…
The Politicization of the FBI
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Joseph E. diGenova, Former US Attorney Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in the Obama administration, acting under color of…
The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Special Report: In the Watergate era, liberals warned about U.S. intelligence agencies manipulating U.S. politics, but now Trump-hatred has blinded many of them to this danger becoming real, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. Russia-gate is…
America Illegally At War For a Long Time Now
Submitted by ButtCracker — US Senator Rand Paul has spoken out during the debate on war powers, saying that the current wars the US is leading are “illegal,” and that he isn’t “voting to go to war in 50 or…
The Death of the Republic
Submitted by ButtCracker — The deep state’s decision in ancient Rome—dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the United States of 2017—to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in his bath in the year 192…
Border Agents Need A Warrant to Search Travelers’ Phones, EFF Tells Court
The Border Isn’t a Constitution-Free Zone Richmond, Virginia—Border agents must obtain a warrant to search travelers’ phones, tablets, and laptops, which contain a vast trove of sensitive, highly personal information that is protected by the Fourth Amendment, the Electronic Frontier…