Lt. Commander Kevin Bogucki is a Navy JAG officer serving as defense counsel for enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo. He has made it his mission to expose what he calls the “Kafka-esque absurdity” of the military justice system put in place after the 9/11 attacks. (more…)
September 2014
Sat 27 Sep 2014
A Navy Lawyer Cries Foul on Gitmo’s Kafkaesque Legal System
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
Wed 24 Sep 2014
Meet the Activist Group That’s Making Student Loan Debt Disappear
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , FinanceNo Comments
I messed up. But I’m not alone. Seven out of ten college graduates have an average of $29,000 in debt along with their diploma. It sucks, and I’m one of the lucky ones. Since I’ve put off grad school primarily for this reason, I’m only looking at my student loan debt for the next seven-ish years. My heart breaks for those who don’t see an end. (more…)
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Compassion or conviction – that’s the choice more and more communities across the country are facing as the effects of 12 years of war are increasingly seeping into the American legal system. (more…)
Sat 20 Sep 2014
Post-9/11 Muslim Charity Prosecution
My passion for the protection of civil liberties was sparked at the age of 14 when I saw a documentary on the Allies’ liberation of Bergen-Belsen. For the past 40 years, in an effort to understand how something like that could happen, I’ve been reading first-hand accounts of 1930s and 1940s Europe and the former Soviet Union. Over the last 25 years I began noticing similar circumstances (more…)
Sat 20 Sep 2014
Today, only 2 percent of cases in the federal system go to trial, and 4 percent of cases in the state system go before a jury. As a result, accepting a deal from prosecutors — despite one’s guilt or innocence — has become a common choice for individuals accused of a crime. (more…)
Sat 20 Sep 2014
Google Acts Like Privatized NSA: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
Google’s practices are “almost identical” to those of the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, Julian Assange has said. (more…)
Sat 20 Sep 2014
CIA Halts Spying In Europe
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has curbed spying on friendly governments in Western Europe in response to the furor over a German caught selling secrets to the United States and the Edward Snowden revelations of classified information held by the National Security Agency, according to current and former U.S. officials. (more…)
Sat 20 Sep 2014
Anti-Islam ad campaign to run on New York City buses and subways
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , DemocracyNo Comments
Controversial blogger and activist Pamela Geller has paid $100,000 to place advertisements on New York City buses and in subway stations that feature anti-Islamic messages and images including one of James Foley,the American journalist beheaded by Isis in August. (more…)