Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being [...]

Días pasados cometí un “error imperdonable”: criticar acerbamente a la Secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton cuando ante el quinto asesinato de un científico iraní se limitó a encogerse de hombros y decir que aquello era resultado de las provocaciones de Teherán al negarse a suspender su programa nuclear. Un programa, dicho sea al pasar, que [...]

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan let slip in an interview with the BBC that she had been on a conference call with the mayors of 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy Wall Street movement. That is, municipal authorities appear to have been conspiring to deprive Americans of their first amendment rights to [...]

For almost 40 years, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s infamous Angola State Prison, in what is thought to be the longest period of enforced solitude in America’s vast prison gulag. Amnesty International says their treatment is “cruel and inhumane and a violation of the US’s [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder told hundred of Muslims near San Francisco that the FBI’s sting operations penetrating mosques across the country are an essential “tool in uncovering and preventing terror attacks.” But of course, most of the FBI’s high profile prosecutions for alleged domestic terrorism involve plots that were hatched in [...]

Las últimas redadas de agentes federales en hogares y oficinas de pacifistas son consideradas por defensores de las libertades civiles como una nueva prueba de que Estados Unidos se convierte en un “Estado de vigilancia”, donde el derecho a la privacidad y otras protecciones constitucionales desaparecen. El viernes pasado, agentes del Buró Federal de Investigaciones (FBI) [...]

Mientras permanezcan en las prisiones del Imperio, los Cinco estarán siempre en la agenda de los pueblos. Es bueno recordarlo ahora, cuando al evocarse los 12 años de la detención de René, Fernando, Ramón, Antonio y Gerardo, se celebrará en el mundo la V Jornada Internacional de Solidaridad con esta causa emblemática para la humanidad y para la justicia. Han pasado doce años, en efecto, desde que los cinco héroes cubanos fueron intervenidos por el Buró Federal de Investigaciones de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y sometidos a diversos procedimientos penales y judiciales que aún no han concluido.

The power of Zinn’s scholarship—which I have watched over the past few weeks open the eyes of young, mostly African-Americans to their own history and the structures that perpetuate misery for the poor and gluttony and privilege for the elite—explains why the FBI, which released its 423-page file on Zinn on July 30, saw him as a threat. Zinn, who died in January at the age of 87, did not advocate violence or support the overthrow of the government, something he told FBI interrogators on several occasions. He was rather an example of how genuine intellectual thought is always subversive. It always challenges prevailing assumptions as well as political and economic structures.

Fuente: Asia Times Online Traducción: Germán Leyens, Rebelión por M K Bhadrakumar 23 de marzo, 2010 La noticia de que el Buró Federal de Investigaciones (FBI) ha llegado a un convenio declaratorio con David Coleman Headley, quien tuvo un papel crucial en la planificación del atentado terrorista en Mumbai en noviembre de 2008, en el que murieron 166 personas, [...]

Source: Antiwar by William Fisher November 29, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a law that critics say treats human rights advocates as criminal terrorists, and threatens them with 15 years in prison for advocating nonviolent means to resolve disputes. The case is known as Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, and is the [...]