Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost For War And Tyranny

Unless some last minute changes take place, this latest NDAA will force young women for the first time to register to be drafted into the US military

Ron Paul
By Ron Paul
U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicles line up by the Trondheim Fjord, Norway, Jan. 9. These vehicles from the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway will support exercise Cold Response 16, scheduled for later this month, with crisis response equipment including M1A1 battle tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, artillery, and logistics equipment drawn from Norwegian caves. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps)

For many of us concerned with liberty, the letters “NDAA” have come to symbolize Washington’s ongoing effort to undermine the US Constitution in the pursuit of constant war overseas. It was the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012 that introduced into law the idea that American citizens could be indefinitely detained without warrant

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Anonymous Launches #Gitmo2Chicago to Shut Down NDAA Style Secret Detention Center By Chicago Police

Anonymous & activists will go to social media using #‎Gitmo2Chicago‬ to bring attention to Chicago Police’s secret detention facility that mirrors the CIA’s “black sites.” Is the NDAA here?

Nick Bernabe
By Nick Bernabe

  (ANTIMEDIA) Various activist groups and concerned citizens are coming together to oppose the Chicago Police’s secret torture detention center also known as Homan Square. A bombshell report from The Guardian detailed Homan Square’s practices on Tuesday. We concluded from the report that, Chicago Police are operating a secret

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#Mintcasts: Ferguson Reveals Parallels Between NDAA, Militarization Of Police

In the United States of America, home of the free, our police are gearing up for war, crushing peaceful protests and intimidating journalists.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Police Shooting Missouri

Hey everyone, and welcome to #MintCasts, our MintPress podcast series. I’m Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of MintPress, and I’ll be your host. Detention without charges and intimidation was the order of the day for Ferguson, Missouri, police again, with a heavily militarized force continuing to bully protesters while also vowing to continue

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#MintCasts: NDAA, Barring The US From Indefinitely Detaining, Assassinating US Citizens

Welcome to #MintCasts, our Mint Press podcast series. In this segment we interview the founder of People Against the National Defense Authorization Act (PANDA) to talk about their grassroots effort to bar the NDAA on a local level.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
PANDA

Thanks again for joining today’s conversation where we will be discussing the annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, or better known as the NDAA. This piece of legislation, which most Americans don’t know exists, consists of vague language first seen in the 2012 NDAA that allows the US government to unlawfully and

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Senate’s Latest NDAA Draft Further Tramples Americans’ Rights

Senior legislative counsel for the ACLU estimates that if the Senate has its way, 100 U.S. citizens could immediately find themselves in Guantánamo-like indefinite detention.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke
Guantanamo

The Senate’s draft of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2015 was written behind closed doors and kept secret for around 11 days, but the text of the bill was publicly released last week. In response, Chris Anders, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, wrote a blog post for the

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Is Congress Moving to End ‘Endless War’ or Expand It?

As renewed focus turns to legal authority that underpins US ‘war on terror’ – the cure may be as vile as the disease.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
South Sudan US

The proposed amendment is short, but if passed by the House of Representatives in a vote that could arrive Wednesday afternoon, it could also be sweet—especially for those who have pushed hardest to end the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (or AUMF) which has provided the legal basis for America's so-called "global war on terrorism." As

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