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Bradley Manning Trial and Unconstitutional Secrecy

by Maxwell Abbott — June 11, 2013 - 7:29am
  • Topics: Internet, Terrorism, War / Peace

    • After more than three years in custody, Pfc. Bradley Manning's trial finally began on June 3. The 25-year old Oklahoma native has already pled guilty to ten charges, but faces prosecution on 12 more relating to the 2010 release of restricted government documents to Wikileaks.

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    "Operation Tripwire" -- the FBI, the Private Sector, and the Monitoring of Occupy Wall Street

    by Beau Hodai — May 24, 2013 - 7:12am
  • Topics: Activism, Terrorism, Banking, Corporations, Democracy, Human Rights, U.S. Government

    • This article was first published by PRWatch.org on December 31, 2012, while we were writing our report "Dissent or Terror: How the Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street," published by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy in May 2013. We re-release it now as part of a PRWatch series on the new report.

    Records obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate that the FBI employed tactics under a "counter terrorism" initiative called "Operation Tripwire" in the monitoring of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists.

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    CMD Opposes Anti-Muslim Intelligence Tools

    by Patrick Moran — October 17, 2011 - 6:01am
  • Topics: Terrorism, Democracy, Religion

    • The Center for Media and Democracy has signed onto a letter with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and 26 other civil and human rights groups urging Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) director Robert Mueller to reform intelligence tools that express an anti-Muslim bias.

    The letter addresses FBI intelligence guidelines for law enforcement that purport to identify when a religious convert becomes a "Homegrown Islamic Extremist," but the list of "indicators" are behaviors protected by the First Amendment. The FBI has publicly declared that "strong religious beliefs should never be confused with violent extremism," but these guidelines contradict that message.

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    Koch's "Response" Agrees with Parts of Greenpeace Toxic Koch Report

    by PRW Staff — August 31, 2011 - 7:16am
  • Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Terrorism, Environment

    • By John Deans of Greenpeace, August 26, 2011.

    On August 25, 2011, Koch Industries issued a response to the Greenpeace report that CMD cross-posted last week, via KochFacts.com. Below is Greenpeace's August 26, 2011, counter-response to Koch. The original can be found here.

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    Toxic Koch: Keeping Americans at Risk of a Poison Gas Disaster

    by PRW Staff — August 25, 2011 - 9:38am
  • Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Terrorism, Corporations, Energy, Environment, War / Peace

    • By Will Vickery

    NPR Erases Domestic Terrorism

    by Anne Landman — May 11, 2010 - 3:05pm
  • Topics: Journalism, Terrorism, Propaganda

    • National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast a story on May 9 by Dina Temple-Raston titled Terrorism in the U.S. Takes on a U.K. Pattern that started out with the following flawed premise:

    FreedomWorks/Tea Party Leader Dick Armey Lobbied for Terrorist Group

    by Anne Landman — March 22, 2010 - 2:21pm

    Dick ArmeyThe magazine In These Times reports that in his previous position with the lobbying firm DLA Piper, Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey promoted the interests of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, otherwise known as Mujahedeen-

    Main Source: 
    In These Times, March 21, 2010

    Cheney's Huge Blunder

    by Anne Landman — February 24, 2010 - 9:40am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Terrorism, U.S. Government

    • In April, 2009, former vice president Dick Cheney called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release classified memos he said demonstrated how well "harsh interrogation methods" -- torture -- worked to prevent terrorist attacks and save lives. But investigators with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) just released a report saying that the CIA memo Cheney cited as justifying U.S. torture contains "plainly inaccurate information" that undermines its conclusions.

    "The President Won't Say the Word 'Terrorist,'" and Other Right-Wing Spin

    by Lisa Graves — January 5, 2010 - 12:12am
  • Topics: Terrorism

    • I've noticed a strange echo lately in claims by right-wingers that supposedly President Obama will not say the word "terrorism" or "terrorist." On January 2nd, Chris Matthews had two fellows on to debate about the White House's Saturday radio

    "Love IS Worth Fighting For" -- Lt. Dan Choi

    by Lisa Graves — October 4, 2009 - 7:29am
  • Topics: Iraq, Terrorism, Democracy, Gay / Lesbian, Human Rights

    • "Love is worth fighting for." That's how Lt. Dan Choi ended his remarks this weekend about his journey from West Point to Iraq to discharge under the continuing Pentagon policy of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT). It really made me think about this deeply flawed policy I have opposed privately over the years. Because, as Lt. Choi distilled it so well, love is worth fighting for.

    He is one of only eight people in his graduating class at West Point who majored in Arabic, and so his story also brought home to me the gap between the rhetoric about the "global war on terror" (GWOT) and the reality, in a particular way. Since I left the government over four years ago, I have been speaking out about misplaced priorities involving terrorism, civil liberties, and human rights.

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