Obama and Civil Liberties

Michael Ratner: Peoples' constitutional rights are not going to be the main priority.



The Real News senior editor Paul Jay and head of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Michael Ratner discuss the demolishment of peoples' constitutional rights and civil liberties.

Still 'Undecided', Obama vs Clinton

Still not decided on who you might cast your ballot, or whatever, for?

Well The Real News have a few interviews with Jonathan Schell on his take on the candidates and their possible Foreign Policy Directions.

Who is Jonathan Schell, if you didn't already know:

Based in New York City, USA, Jonathan Schell is a renowned anti-nuclear activist, prolific journalist, lecturer and best-selling author. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and Atlantic Monthly. He is also the author of The Fate of the Earth, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Schell is a board member of IWT - The Real News.

Two are already up on YouTube:

Obama vs Clinton on war and peace


Obama vs Clinton on nuclear weapons


And two aren't as of yet:

Obama vs Clinton on the Middle East

Obama vs Clinton on Pakistan and Afghanistan

Visit The Real News for more coverage on a veriaty of Important Subjects!

The above interviews may or may not help you decide, but more important, as you are the Employer, if you find anything you might disagree with you can start building a reasonable way to help change their minds on the directions they may be heading, and/or positives/negatives of the directions they may set forth if elected, i.e Hired!

And I leave you with this to not ponder, for it's been realized in these past few years, but to possibly use in helping others see the direction that has been set and Must Be Changed:

Conservative Idea of 'Strong on National Defense':
Enhance more Hatreds anywhere possible, through propaganda, destruction, mass death, in order to Continue threats against from similar Failed Policies of Past!

Those Hatreds lead to 'Blowback' by recipients of the many Failed Policies called 'Criminal Terrorism'!

Take the word 'Terrorism', while practising same, and paste it on any group needed to Enhance the Fear in Populations causing Perpetual Conflicts and Huge Profits for any Military Industrial Complex and Control by same for Further Policies setup to Fail!

And when 'Johnny and Jane' come Marching Home, Dump Them {that one cuts across all Political Ideology and Society }

It's Not 'Strong on National Defense', it Destroys 'National Defense' and brings about more and more 'Conflicts of Choice' for Greed and Power!

If we don't hold those Responsible for the Wrath of Failed Policies instituted than in the eyes of the World 'We Have Excepted All That Has Been Done In Our Names' and are thus Just As Guilty!!

David Swanson on Cheney Impeachment!

Did Democrat leadership bury Cheney impeachment?

David Swanson talks about U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich's impeachment bill the debate on Nov. 6, 2007

2007-11-07



David Swanson is the creator of impeachcheney.org, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and Washington director of Democrats.org. A writer and organizer, Swanson has worked for ACORN, the International Labor Communications Association, Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign and many others.

A sign of declining US strategic power

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Aijaz Ahmad: Turkey threatens to invade Iraqi Kurdistan

2007-10-24

Based in New Delhi, Aijaz Ahmad is The Real News Network Senior News Analyst and Senior Editorial Consultant and political commentator for the Indian newsmagazine, Frontline. He has taught Political Science and written widely on South Asia and the Middle East.

Darfur in limbo as political deadlock grips Sudan - 'The Real News'

North and South continue blame game



2007-10-18

As the Darfur crisis continues to deteriorate, Southern Sudan removed its ministers from the Government of National Unity last week. Northern and Southern Sudan remain deadlocked on sharing oil revenue, drawing borders between north and south, and troop redeployment from each others territory. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement(SPLM) accuses Khartoum of multiple breaches of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005. Khartoum denies these charges. Describing the fragile situation, Khartoum based journalist Opheera McDoom says "it could go either way now, we are at a critical turning point."

Update: Despite President Bashir's cabinet shuffle this week, the SPLM said the new ministers "will stay out of government until the application of the terms of the peace accord..." The standoff continues and the crisis in Darfur remains unchanged.

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Can the CIA be sued for torture? 'The Real News'

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Michael Ratner says: claiming kidnapping, imprisonment and torture are a 'state secret', is outrageous.

2007-10-16


Michael Ratner is the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.