Iraq War Illegal Propaganda-Gate Links Fest

The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
All The News That Isn’t - Network Television’s Propaganda In Uniform
Glenn Greenwald is developing David Barstow’s [...]

What They Were Saying: Gifts Of Links From The Commenters At Unclaimed Territory

I try to read Glenn Greenwald’s Unclaimed Territory blog posts on Salon.com immediately followed by the comments. The regular commenters there include a poet/historian/philosopher/veteran/patriot, scholars wearing the robes of various disciplines, rabble rousers with literary elan and the occasional Bush dead ender, pot stirring with a resounding thud.
Yesterday the commenters to this post [...]

Daily Constitutional: Spring Divertissements, Torture and Illegal Propaganda

[UPDATE] The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
I’ve neglected the Constitution, instead lured by the scents, sounds and sights of Spring [...]

Hospital Surge Capacity Myth Busters

The Washington Post’s Spencer Hsu presented a two part series (parts one and two) about the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearings on Emergency Department Surge Capacity and Medicaid funding cuts. I posted about the stark picture behind the experts’ testimony a couple of days ago. Today, I’d like to elaborate a [...]

Killing the Constitution

 

Stirrings of Populism?

The traditional media has steadfastly refused to cover domestic surveillance and the stripping of the Fourth Amendment until just recently, when a little ray of light escaped from that black hole.  What happened?
The equivalent of a roller shade suddenly losing its spring and popping up unexpectedly in the form of the House Democrats unexpectedly refusing [...]

Science Debate 2008: We Built It; Will They Come?

Today’s email brings an update from the organizers of Science Debate 2008:
Every Nobel laureate we’ve spoken to has said the same thing: the next four to eight years are critical and the next president has the potential to determine the future health of all life on earth.
Last Tuesday Bill Gates testified before Congress saying that [...]

History Repeats

Which one isn’t like the others? 
The key that people who claim that you have nothing to fear if you aren’t doing anything wrong, is that no distinctions are made at all.  Doing something wrong is beside the point.  Invasion of privacy and a police state are used to control, to subdue and to gain full [...]

…Traitorous, Treasonous, Dictator, Thief

Gypsy, Gypsy please tell me
What my fortune’s going to be
Rich-man, Poor-man, Beggar-man, Thief
Doc-tor, Law-yer, In-di-an Chief
Tink-er, Tail-or
Cow-boy, Sail-or
Traitor, Treasonous, Dictator, Thief

A Tribute to the Activist Lawyers in Pakistan

A Tribute to the Lawyers and People of Pakistan - Protest
Hat Tip EagleZee

The Emergency Department Crisis - NSFW Video

All of your fears in one convenient video.  Did I mention - NOT SAFE FOR WORK?  I thought so.

Preamble and Article I of the US Constitution

 
From the website, Founding Fathers:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of [...]

Mukasey’s Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee: Tyranny

h/t HouseJudiciary

Laughing Through the Tears

Stephen Colbert on the cheerfulness of torture.

Article Two: Sheldon Whitehouse on the Constitution and the Protect America Act

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse - D-RI - a former US Attorney, presents a Constitutional primer and rebuttal to the Protect America Act, which infringes upon the Fourth Amendment and which undermines Article Two of the Constitution.