Richter Forrest und die NDAA

Carl Mayer, CounterPunch Judge Forrest, of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, issued a ruling on May 16 that will be regarded as a watershed moment in reversing a decade-long bi-partisan assault on civil liberties and the Constitution. Her honor took the...
Renewed Threat of Exclusion Zone on Horizon

Erneute Bedrohung einer Sperrzone am Horizont

Under the guise of public safety, the City of Eugene enacted the “Exclusion Ordinance” in 2008, a law authorizing police to essentially banish citizens from the downtown. Under this law, the mere allegation that a person has committed a criminal violation...

Zuerst kamen sie für die Muslime

Chris Hedges writes on Truthdig.com about Tarek Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, who was sentenced in April in Worcester, Mass., to 17½ years in prison. Hedges says,”It was another of the tawdry show trials held against Muslim activists since 9/11 as a result of the...
Winnemem Wintu Call for Direct Action

Winnemem Wintu fordert zu direkten Maßnahmen auf

The Winnemem Wintu tribe take matters into their own hands In order to defend their right to preserve their way of life, the Winnemem Wintu tribe had been calling on allies to join them in securing a section of the McCloud River so they can perform the Coming of Age...

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