Bill C-51 brings “the entire Charter into jeopardy, undermines the rule of law, and goes against the fundamental role of judges as the protectors of Canada’s constitutional rights.”

Canadian Bar Association

Canadians from coast to coast are holding rallies in a bid to stop Bill C-51 calling Conservative government’s anti-terror legislation “insidious, deceitful, and totalitarian”

And so, it’s not surprising that the country’s lone libertarian presidential candidate is the one Republican with the courage to call out his party for the disastrous route this government has taken since the weeks after 9/11… When Dick Cheney and the neo-cons found a route to Iraq, a route through the drafty mind of a president, a complicit mainstream media and a public dog-trained to believe whatever a president says about national security.

Der Patriot Act räumt den US-Geheimdiensten weitgehende Befugnisse bei der Überwachung von Zivilisten ein. Nun laufen die Bestimmungen des Patriot Acts am 31. Mai aus. Für NSA, FBI, CIA & Co. hieße dies zum Beispiel: Richter müssen Abhöraktionen wieder genehmigen, Hausdurchsuchungen dürfen nicht mehr geheim stattfinden.

According to the International Business Times, Saudi Arabia received a huge arms deal of $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets. They were just one of the 20 nations who donated to the Clinton Foundation and went on to receive more than $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales during the tenure of Clinton as Secretary of State.

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President Barack Obama on Friday urged the Senate not to let the National Security Agency’s power to collect Americans’ phone records expire, warning that U.S. intelligence agencies could be left in the dark.

Most of Congress took a break this week. Not U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from west Michigan.

Amash stood watch over a House empty of most representatives to guard against the possibility that the leadership would renew controversial surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act while members were away.

Thousands of websites are blocking Congress’s access to their sites in a show of force to protest the Patriot Act.

Led by the online activist group Fight for the Future, more than 10,000 sites have added code that redirects any visitors from Internet protocol (IP) addresses from Congress away from their site and towards a protest page.

You have conducted mass surveillance of everyone illegally and are now on record for trying to enact those programs into law. You have presented Americans with the false dichotomy of reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act or passing the USA Freedom Act. The real answer is to end all authorities used to conduct mass surveillance. Until you do, thousands of web sites have blocked your access, and more are joining every day.

(25.Mai) Die Westmächte, die Türkei und die Golf-Araber haben den IS vorausgesehen. Die Entwicklung wurde begrüsst – als Massnahme gegen das Assad-Regime in Syrien.

Talk is rife of a ‘major shift’ in US policy toward Latin America with the emphasis on diplomacy and reconciliation. Even most progressive writers and journals have ceased writing about US imperialism.

However, there is mounting evidence that Washington’s negotiations with Cuba are merely one part of a two-track policy. There is clearly a major US build-up in Latin America, with increasing reliance on ‘military platforms’, designed to launch direct military interventions in strategic countries.

Moreover, US policymakers are actively involved in promoting ‘client’ opposition parties, movements and personalities to destabilize independent governments and are intent on re-imposing US domination.

As a pro-Israel, pro-peace organization, we are committed first and foremost to Israel‘s security and its survival as a democracy and a state with a proud Jewish character – things that only a two-state peace agreement can deliver. Regrettably, for his entire career – including his three previous terms in office as Prime Minister – Netanyahu has demonstrated by his own actions that rather than seeking Israeli-Palestinian or Israeli-Arab peace, he is wholly supportive of settlements and an expansionist ‚Greater Israel‘ agenda.

“By collecting all of your records, we’re wasting so much money, so much time, and the haystack’s so large we can’t find the terrorists,” Paul said. “I’m for looking at all of the terrorists’ records – I just want their name on the warrant and I just want it to be signed by a judge just like the constitution says.”

UNITED NATIONS: India has launched a virtual Memorial Wall to honour its soldiers who laid down their lives while serving in UN peacekeeping operations, a precursor to the eventual construction of a permanent memorial wall at the world body‘s headquarters proposed by the country.