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Last updated June 16, 2005

Washington Post: House Votes To Curb Patriot Act

NY Times: Take My Privacy, Please!

NY Times: Supreme Court Overturns Death Row Conviction in Texas

NY Times: Planned Parenthood Is Told to Show Children's Files

In Theses Times: Before Sunset -- Efforts to rein in the Patriot Act

AP: Ex-FBI official: I'm ‘Deep Throat’

NY Times: With the Gloves Off

NY Times: After Talk of Compromise, Panel Is Again Split on Patriot Act

The Nation: Limbaugh vs. Moyers

Christian Science Monitor: Watch where you point that camera

NY Times: Preaching to the Choir? Not This Time

NY Times: There Ought to Be a Law?

NY Times: Plan Would Broaden F.B.I.'s Terror Role

San Francisco Chronicle: They Really Are Watching You

USA Today: Librarian's Brush with FBI Shapes her View of the USA Patriot Act

The NY Times: For This President, Power Is There for the Taking

The NY Times: Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules

NY Times: The Final Insult

Star Tribune: Lesson in Free Speech Brings Day Out of Winona Class

The Boston Globe: Congress set to impose ID card rules

NY Times: F.B.I. Will Exhume the Body of Emmett Till for an Autopsy

NY Times: Routine License Check Can Mean Jail and Deportation

NY Times: Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases

NY Times: Keeping Great Crowds Off the Great Lawn

Washington Post: Impunity

Guardian Unlimited: U.S. Prison Population Soars in 2003, '04

Rolling Stone: Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Reality Can't be Altered or Ignored

NY Times: Five Muslims to Sue U.S. Over Border Detentions

NY Times: Utah Vote Rejects Parts of Education Law

Newsday: Reading Patriot Riot Act

NY Times: Analysis: GOP Filibuster Plan Poses Risks

NY Times: Frist Accused of Exploiting Religion Issue

NY Times Editorial: Bill Frist's Religious War

NY Times: Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue

NY Times: DeLay Asks House Panel to Review Judges

BUZZFLASH: Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable"

NY Times Editorial: Revising the Patriot Act

NY Times: A Culture of Death, Not Life

NY Times: E.P.A. Halts Florida Test on Pesticides

NY Times: Teachers and Classmates Express Outrage at Arrest of Girl, 16, as a Terrorist Threat

NY Times: Girl Called Would-Be Bomber Was Drawn to Islam

NY Times: Two Girls Held as U.S. Fears Suicide Bomb

NY Times: Professor's Lawyer Challenges University

NY Times: Antiterrorism Law Defended as Hearings Start

NY Times: Attacking a Free Judiciary

Big Brother Watches, and Security Companies Profit

NY Times: Wanted: Border Hoppers. And Some Excitement, Too.

NY Times: And Don't Even Get Her Started on the War

NY Times: What's Going On?

The Miami Herald: Police 'showdown' over Schiavo averted

LA Times: A Star Reporter Fights Subpoena, and Criticism

Washington Post: Undeliberative Democracy

NY Times: U.S. Is Examining a Plan to Bolster the Rights of Detainees

NY Times: Schiavo's Parents Ask Supporters Outside Hospice to Go Home

NY Tiimes: Schiavo's Parents Give Up Their Federal Appeals

NY Times: Docs Say Schiavo Videotapes Can Mislead

NY Times: University Changes Its Focus in Investigation of Professor

NY Times: Republicans Discuss Vote on New Stem Cell Policy

NY Times: New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11

NY Times: For Army Recruiters, a Hard Toll From a Hard Sell

NY Times: The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay

NY Times: QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Bill Cosby's Not Funny

NY Times: That Guy Flipping Burgers Is No Kid Anymore

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: It's not your father's America any more

NY Times: Schiavo's Parents Appeal After Judge Declines to Order Feeding

NY Times Editorial: A Blow to the Rule of Law

NY Times: Small Law, Big Implications

NY Times: How Family's Cause Reached the Halls of Congress

NY Times: Congress Passes and Bush Signs Legislation on Schiavo Case

NY Times: Supporters Praise Bush's Swift Return to Washington

NY Times: New Openness in Deciding When and How to Die

NY Times: Nonprofit Groups Question Motive for Federal Actions

NY Times: U.S. Undocumented Immigrant Numbers Surge

NY TImes: Toward a Unified Theory of Black America

NY Times: Predictions Vary for Refuge as Drilling Plan Develops

The Clarion-Ledger Mississippi News: Lumumba suspended for comments

NY Times: Woman Leads Muslim Prayer Service in New York

Revolutionary Worker: Hawaiian Professors Defy the Witch Hunt

NY Times: Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News

NY Times: Judge Blocks the Transfer of 13 Detainees From Guantánamo

Santa Fe Reporter: BEYOND THE GOD POD

NY Times: Judge Won't Dismiss Abu Ghraib Charges

NY Times: U.S. Germ-Research Policy Is Protested by 758 Scientists

NY Times: Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails

The Daily Camera: CU group: Attacks McCarthy-like

NY Times: A Debate Filled With Faith

The Daily Camera: Professors unite against CU probe

NY Times: Gonzales Lays Out His Priorities at Justice Dept.

NY Times Op-Ed: Just Say No

NY Times: Judge Says U.S. Terror Suspect Can't Be Held as an Enemy Combatant

NY Times: U.S. Germ-Research Policy Is Protested by 758 Scientists

Newsweek: Terror: A Tangled Web

NY Times Metro Matters: Some Limits on Speech in Classrooms

NY Times Op-Ed: It's Called Torture

NY Times: U.S. Urges Judge to Dismiss Suit on Chemical Use in Vietnam War

The Observer: Professor faces jail in bio-terror scare

NY Times: Case Adds to Outrage for Muslims in Northern Virginia

NY TImes Op-Ed: W.'s Stiletto Democracy

NY Times: Kansas Attorney General Seeks Records of Late-Term Abortions

Revolutionary Worker: The Right-Wing Stealth Attack at Columbia University

AP: CNN News Chief Quits Following Controversial Remarks

The Associated Press: Lawyer to Appeal Terrorism Conviction

NY Times: A Legal Thorn in the Right's Side

NY TImes: Lawyers Take Uneasy Look at the Future

R&R!: The Bush Agenda 2005: Rolling over critical thought, open debate, and truth

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONDEMNS VERDICT IN LYNNE STEWART TRIAL

NY Times: Lawyer on Trial in Terror Case Finds Threat Left at Her Door

Supreme Court Makes It Tougher to Sue Police

NYT: In U.S., 44 Percent Say Restrict Muslims

Washington Post: Intelligence Bill Includes Disputed Anti-Terror Moves

Democracy Now!: 9/11 Intelligence Bill Expands Powers of Patriot Act

NY Times: Bush Names Ex-Police Chief to Top Security Post

Christian Science Monitor: 'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

Inter Press Service News: Activists Crawl Through Web to Untangle U.S. Secrecy

Black Sports Network Op Ed: On Ron Artest

Rights Groups Urge Scrutiny of Gonzales

Boston Globe: Voting errors tallied nationwide

CNET News: CIA Checks Out Chatrooms

Counterpunch: The Bush Administration: A Closed Family System

NY Times: Red Cross Sees Problems at Guantanamo

NY Daily News: Ohio Tally Fit for Ukraine

GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bus

Rocky Mountain News:Secret Service pays visit to Boulder High

R&R!: Statement on Alberto Gonzales Nomination: Just Say NO!

Refuse & Resist!: NO To Bush: Protests Against the Elections

USA TODAY: CIA role inside the USA greater

Between The Lines: Cracks in the Empire: Compilation of insiders who have taken aim at Bush's Iraq Policy

NY Times: FAITH Battle Cry of Faithful Pits Believers Against the Rest

Baltimore Sun: Bigger Brother

Stopping a Police State: A Pocket Guide from Refuse & Resist!

Press Release: Refuse & Resist! Responds to Charge of "Extremism"

NY Post: Radicals Plot Bad Weather

NY Times: Suppress the Vote?

NY Times: Conservative Group Amplifies Voice of Protestant Orthodoxy

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights: Assessing the New Normal

Georgia School Board Requires Balance of Evolution and Bible

Suppression of Dissent & Expanded Police Powers

NY Times: Planned Parenthood Is Told to Show Children's Files

Congressional Quarterly: Animal Rights Groups and Ecology Militants Make DHS Terrorist List, Right-Wing Vigilantes Omitted

The Nation: Limbaugh vs. Moyers

NY Times: Plan Would Broaden F.B.I.'s Terror Role

USA Today: Librarian's Brush with FBI Shapes her View of the USA Patriot Act

NY Times: Keeping Great Crowds Off the Great Lawn

BUZZFLASH: Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable"

NY Times Editorial: Revising the Patriot Act

NY Times: Attacking a Free Judiciary

LA Times: A Star Reporter Fights Subpoena, and Criticism

Washington Post: Undeliberative Democracy

NY Times: University Changes Its Focus in Investigation of Professor

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: It's not your father's America any more

NY Times: Nonprofit Groups Question Motive for Federal Actions

The Clarion-Ledger Mississippi News: Lumumba suspended for comments

Revolutionary Worker: Hawaiian Professors Defy the Witch Hunt

NY Times: Judge Blocks the Transfer of 13 Detainees From Guantánamo

NY Times: Judge Won't Dismiss Abu Ghraib Charges

The Daily Camera: CU group: Attacks McCarthy-like

The Daily Camera: Professors unite against CU probe

NY Times: Gonzales Lays Out His Priorities at Justice Dept.

NY Times: Judge Says U.S. Terror Suspect Can't Be Held as an Enemy Combatant

NY Times Metro Matters: Some Limits on Speech in Classrooms

NY Times: U.S. Urges Judge to Dismiss Suit on Chemical Use in Vietnam War

The Observer: Professor faces jail in bio-terror scare

MediaChannel.org: Demand a Full Accounting on Journalists' Deaths in Iraq

The Associated Press: Lawyer to Appeal Terrorism Conviction

NY Times: A Legal Thorn in the Right's Side

NY TImes: Lawyers Take Uneasy Look at the Future

R&R!: The Bush Agenda 2005: Rolling over critical thought, open debate, and truth

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONDEMNS VERDICT IN LYNNE STEWART TRIAL

Billings Gazette: FBI Visits MontanaGreen Party Official

NY Times: Lawyer on Trial in Terror Case Finds Threat Left at Her Door

CommonDreams.org: First They Came for the Terrorists...

Supreme Court Makes It Tougher to Sue Police

Bill of Rights Defense Comm: Challenge Alberto Gonzales's Nomination for Attorney General

The Progressive: Delaware School Bans Anti-Bush Shirt

Washington Post: Intelligence Bill Includes Disputed Anti-Terror Moves

Democracy Now!: 9/11 Intelligence Bill Expands Powers of Patriot Act

In These Times: Blocking Mr. Torture

Associated Press: Anti-Terror Bill Worries Liberties Groups

Village Voice: Alberto Gonzales's Record as Asst. Chief Executionary under Bush in Texas

The Associated Press: ACLU Seeking FBI Files on Activist Probes

Christian Science Monitor: 'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bus

Rocky Mountain News:Secret Service pays visit to Boulder High

R&R!: Statement on Alberto Gonzales Nomination: Just Say NO!

USA TODAY: CIA role inside the USA greater

Elaine Cassel: The Other War- A Three Year Assault on Civil Liberties

Los Angeles Times: IRS Investigating NAACP for Criticism of President

Washington Post: Policing is Aggressive at Bush Events

The Progressive: Three Teachers Evicted from Bush Event for Wearing "Protect Our Civil Liberties" T-Shirts

Common Dreams.org: To Be Silenced, Or Not to Be: That is the Question

SF Bay Guardian: The new COINTELPRO

Baltimore Sun: Bigger Brother

CBS News: FBI's Anti-Terror 'October Plan'

Assocated Press: Two Sue Feds Over Anti-Bush T-Shirt Arrest

ACLU Criticizes Secret Service Investigation of News Website That Posted RNC Delegates' Names

Tomdispatch.com: The New Homeland Security State

The Progressive: NYPD Violates Protesters; Rights, Says NYCLU

Village Voice: The Waiting Game: City Keeps Hundreds in Jail Too Long at RNC

The Progressive: Tales of Big Brother

Common Dreams: Squelching Protest: The Great American Hush-Up

Refuse & Resist! Press Statement

NY Times: F.B.I. Goes Knocking for Political Troublemakers

NY Newsday: Activists Dismiss Poilce Security Fears

NY Times: A.C.L.U. Board is Split Over Terror Watch Lists

NY Times: A.C.L.U. Board is Split Over Terror Watch Lists

NY Times: Pushed by U.S., Greece to Allow Troops at Olympics

National Lawyers Guild: The "Demonstration Zone" at the Democratic National Convention

NY Times: U.S. 'Correctional Population' Hits New High

Intl Action Center: The Police State Has Come to Boston

NY Times: Antiwar Group Says Its Ad Is Rejected by Clear Channel

Counterpunch: Ashcroft's War on Art - Sanitized for Your Protection

Counterpunch: Pre-emptive War; Pre-emptive Arrests, Bush's Police State and Independence Day

Washington Post: The FBI's Art Attack

Critical Art Ensemble: "Bioterror" Charges Downgraded to "Mail Fraud" in Stealth Indictment

Los Angeles Time: You Have Rights -- if Bush Says You Do

Critical Art Ensemble: FBI ABDUCTS ARTIST, SEIZES ART

National Lawyers Guild Condemns Georgia's Declaration of State of Emergency for G-8 Meeting

Counterpunch: The Most Important Thing I learned in School This Year: You Can't Mock the President or Say "Balls"

Daytona News Journal: Hard Lessons from Poetry Class: Speech is Free Unless It's Critical

WINS: NYPD Officers Get "Terrorism" Cards

Wall Street Journal: Colleges Object To New Wording In Ford Grants

C.J. Laity: Bush Administration Restricts Editors

Associated Press: Secret Service questions student on drawings

NY Times: Computer Student on Trial for Aid to Muslim Web Sites

Seattle Post Intelligencer: Be Careful What You Say

MY Times column: A Justice's Sense of Privilege

NY Times: Taking the Liberalism out of Liberal Arts

Associated Press: Supreme Court to rule on giving name to police

The Progressive: Army Spies on Law School Conference

Forward: Groups Back Bill to Monitor Universities

USA Today: Proposed 'Academic Bill of Rights' makes inroads

Associated Press: N. Y. Ministers Charged for Marrying Gays

Herald-Times (Indiana) Conservative Students Force Change in Class Curriculum & Professor Out

R&R! Alert: “Academic Bill of Rights” – Part of the Whole Right-Wing Agenda, Aimed at Removing Leftists from Universities

NY Times: A Lightning Rod on Gay Marriage, and Her Split Town

Wayne State University Newspaper: Proposed Bill Aims at More Neutral Ideologies Among Faculty

The Progressive: Protester=Criminal?

FindLaw.com: Ashcroft's Subpoena Blitz

Village Voice: The Ideology Police

NY Daily News: Republican National Convention may get GI Patrol

Chicago Sun Times: Police infiltration of Protest Groups Upsets Rights Activists

Not in Our Name, Chicago: Condemnation of Infiltration of the Movement by Chicago Police

Salon: Outlawing Dissent

National Lawyers Guild: Victory - Government Withdraws Subpoena

NY Times: Subpoenas on Antiwar Protest are Dropped

Des Moines Register: Federal prosecutors back off in peace probe

NY Times: Antiwar Froum in Iowa Brings Federal Subpoenas

Des Moines Register: Anti-war Inquiry Unrelated to Terror

Delphic Times (Drake University): Campus Reacts to Government Sanction

Refuse & Resist!: Just Say NO to Grand Jury Attack on the Anti-War Movement

Associated Press: Feds Win Right to War Protesters' Records

WCBS TV: Are You On Uncle Sam's No Fly List?

National Lawyers Guild: Legal/Activist Group Will Not Divulge Membership Information

NY Times: Missteps and confusion seen in Muslim Chaplain's "spy case"

Boulder Weekly: Big Brother Under the Bumper

The Progressive: Protest at Your Own Risk

SF Chronicle: Protesters Way of New Tactic by Feds Against Greenpeace

Boston Globe: Squelching dissent in the name of security

Revolutionary Worker: FBI Memo Reveals Spying on Antiwar Movement

Village Voice: J. Edgar Hoover Back at the 'New' FBI

Reuters: Amnesty International Calls for Probe of Miami Protest Policing

Miami Herald: Union Says Police Broke Promise

The Progressive: Ashcroft's Cointelpro

Associated Press: Eight Legal Observers Arrested at FTAA Talks, Four Beaten

Washington Post: Texas Conservative Students List Professors "Too Politicized"

Counterpunch: Ashcroft's Cointelpro - Neutralizing Dissent in America

Baltimore Sun: Patriot Act Stifles Dissent on Campus

CommonDreams.org: The Miami Model - Paramilitaries, Embedded Journalists & Illegal Protests

LA Times: American armed forces are assuming major new domestic policing and surveillance roles

Miami Herald: He respected the badge, but "not in Miami"

Urgent Call to Action: FTAA Protesters Brutalized in Miami!

NY Times: F.B.I. Scrutinizies Antiwar Rallies

Alternet: Arresting the Future

NY Times: G.O.P. Convention Has Police Alert and Protesters Planning

Berkeley Coaltion to Stop the War: Free Speech is Under Attack at Berkeley

Village Voice: State Law Would Pin the T-word on Animal Rights and Eco Protesters

Denver Post: Walter Cronkite - The New Inquisition

Guardian UK: US Puts Right to Protest at Risk

The Myth of Free Speech

LA Times: Ashcroft is Pulling Out all the Stops to Prosecute Protesters

Message from Greenpeace on Ashcroft Prosecution of Their Organization

Counterpunch: Ashcroft's War on Greenpeace

Revolutionary Worker: The Persecution of Sherman Austin

L.A. Times: Ashcroft is pulling out all the stops to prosecute protesters.

Alternet: Personal Voices - Why I Refuse to Recite the Pledge

Democracy Now: Sherman Austin - The U.S. Govt Wanted to Make an Example of Me

NY Times: Greenpeace Faces Federal Charges

Associated Press: US Government Terrorism Spying Project Changed

Chicago Tribune: For Those Who Wish to Dissent: Speech, Silence and Patriotism

In These Times: Warning! You Are Being Watched

NY Times: Ashcroft Limiting Prosecutors' Use of Plea Bargains

AP: Judge: Evidence collected properly against lawyer

MSNBC: Security Measures Fan Fierce Debate

Democracy Now!: The US Government Wanted 'To Make an Example Out of Me:'Young Webmaster Heads to Prison for Political Website

Village Voice: Watchdog Reveals Effort to Gag Anti-Bush Causes

LA Independent Media Center: Kafka Pays a Visit to Los Angeles Activist

NY Times: Six Groups Said to Be Monitored in U.S. for Possible Qaeda Links

NY times: U.S. May Fine Some Who Shielded Iraq Sites

Washington Post: Iraq War Protesters Face Fines as Human Shields

NY Newsday: Federal Judge Reins in NYPD on Questioning Protesters

Counterpunch: Don't do Interviews Before Flying - I was Detained by Airport Cops

Independent UK: US Anti-war Activists Hit by Secret Airport Ban

The Progressive McCarthism Watch: Suspicious Reading Material at the Coffee Shop

Tri Valley Herald: California Alters Rules on Spying

NY Daily News: Online Army Takes on Terror

LA Weekly: Weapons of Mass Compliance

Sunday Herald (UK): Uncle Sam's Enemies Within

The Progressive McCarthyism Watch: An Upside Down flag and a Dead Coyote

NY Times: San Francisco Drops Charges Against Most War Protesters

WorkingForChange.com: Protesters are not Terrorists

San Francisco: Court Rules in Favor of Anti-War Protestors

IndyMedia: Seattle Police Attack Demonstrators Protesting LEIU Conference

ACLU: Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post 9-11 America

New York Civil Liberties Union: Report on Arresting Protest

Star-Telegram: Eyes of Texas, US on Legislators

The Progressive: Midnight Raid

Village Voice: Examining NYPD Crackdowns on Activists

LA Times: Media Monopolies Have Muzzled Dissent

Alternet: Patriot Raid

NY Times Magazine: Spooked

NYTimes: A Flashback to the 60's for an Antiwar Protester

NY Times: Speak Out: The Police Are All Ears

Village Voice: Charles Schumer - Ashcroft's New Ally

UMass-Boston professor arrested supporting students anti-war actions

Arkansas Student Arrested for Anti-war Shirt

Reuters: Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists

Associated Press: Teachers Suspended Over Student's Anti-war Art

The Progressive McCarthyism Watch: Air Passenger Finds Note in his Luggage

WorkingForChange.com: Some Dare Call it Treason--Attacking the Anti-war Movement

Village Voice: NYPD Spying on Political Activists

NY Times: High School Tells Student to Remove Antiwar Shirt

Associated Press: FBI-CIA Partnership Alarms Civil Libertarians

CNN: NYPD & Political Surveillance

FBI Using Campus Police for Spying

AP: Police, Air Force investigators may have worked on 'spy files'

UK Observer: Bush's Clampdown on Civil Rights

NY Times: Police DNA Dragnets Criticized

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: New Power of the FBI

CAL students found in violation of USA Patriot Act

Salon.com: Grounded by Federal Blacklist

Portland OR police spying on political organizations

Associated Press: Man Sentenced for 'Burning Bush' Comment

How They Spy on the Peace Movement

US Newsday: How rights have changed after September 11th

Associated Press: Coloraldo Police Forced to Show Police Files

RW: The Persecution of Raisethefist.com

Washington Post: Va. Boy's Defiant Words Draw Police Response

Analysis/Information on the Patriot Act & Patriot

Washington Post: House Votes To Curb Patriot Act

NY Times: Take My Privacy, Please!

Associated Press: Senate Gives FBI More Patriot Act Power

In Theses Times: Before Sunset -- Efforts to rein in the Patriot Act

Congressional Quarterly: Animal Rights Groups and Ecology Militants Make DHS Terrorist List, Right-Wing Vigilantes Omitted

NY Times: After Talk of Compromise, Panel Is Again Split on Patriot Act

Associated Press: Early Version of New Patriot Act Gives Administration Everything It Asks For

USA Today: Librarian's Brush with FBI Shapes her View of the USA Patriot Act

Newsday: Reading Patriot Riot Act

BUZZFLASH: Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable"

NY Times Editorial: Revising the Patriot Act

NY Times: Antiterrorism Law Defended as Hearings Start

NY Times: Judge Won't Dismiss Abu Ghraib Charges

NY Times: Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails

Washington Post: Attorney General Urges Renewal of Patriot Act

NY Times: Gonzales Lays Out His Priorities at Justice Dept.

NY Times: Judge Says U.S. Terror Suspect Can't Be Held as an Enemy Combatant

NY Times: Case Adds to Outrage for Muslims in Northern Virginia

NY TImes Op-Ed: W.'s Stiletto Democracy

Washington Post: Intelligence Bill Includes Disputed Anti-Terror Moves

Democracy Now!: 9/11 Intelligence Bill Expands Powers of Patriot Act

GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bus

San Francisco Chronicle: GOP Stops Challenge to Patriot Act

Counterpunch: Ashcroft, Snoops and Gag Orders - the Secrets of Surveillance

Village Voice: Patriot Act Besieged

Revolutionary Worker: The Danger of the USA Patriot Act

Associated Press: Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional

Associated Press: ACLU Says Patriot Act Unconstitutional

OneWorld US: Patriot Act Expansion Moves Through Congress

ColorLines RaceWire: Patriot Peril

Counterpunch: Return of the Secret Courts

Counterpunch: Return of the Secret Courts

American Library Assn: Our Right to Read in Privacy

Hearst Newspapers: Ashcroft's Power Grows in Terrorist Witch Hunt

NY Times: Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data

Washington Post: Fierce Fight Over Secrecy, Scope of Patriot Act

Constitution Battered by War on Terror, Says Lawyers Group

Dallas Morning News: Patriot Act Available Against Many Types of Criminals

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs: A High Holiday Guide to the Patriot Act

Free Expression Policy Project: Update on the USA Patriot Act

Counterpunch: Onward, Ashcroft Soldiers!

Washington Post: Ashcroft faces GOP criticism

Revolutionary Worker: The USA Patriot Act and Other Dangerous Things

Counterpunch: Background of a Crisis - Civil Liberties After September 11

NY Times: Accusations of Abuse in Report on USA Patriot Act

Revolutionary Worker: The New Domestic Order by C. Clark Kissinger

Village Voice: Patriot Act II - Devil in the Details

CrsisPapers.com: Germany In 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism

Washington Times: Patriot Act of 2001 Casts Wide Net

NY Times: Excerpt From Analysis of Detention of Foreigners After 9/11 Attacks

The Other War

Washington Post: Patriot Act Use Expands

St Petersburg Times: With Patriot Act, companies forced to play informant on customers

In These Times: Imprisoned by the Patriot Act

NY Times: Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon

Center for Public Integrity: Bill Moyers Interviews Chuck Lewis on Patriot Act II

Center for Public Integrity: Report on Proposal Patriot II Act

Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to U.S. Law and Policy Since 9-11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Village Voice: FBI Snoops at Libraries

NY Times: Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent

FindLaw: Patriot II the Sequel: Why It's Even Scarier Than the Patriot Act

Baltimore Sun: Patriot Act II Worse than Original Act

The Nation: David Cole - Patriot Act's Big Brother

ACLU: Detailed Analysis of Patriot Act II

Findlaw.com: Analysis of USA Patriot Act II

FAIR alert on Patriot II legislation

St. Petersburg Times v Patriot II

ACLU on Patriot II

Bill Moyers interview Chuck Lewis on Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003

U.S. to Limit Rights of Suspects

CBS News: New Anti-Terror Bill

The Public I: Justice Dept Plans to Expand Patriot Act

Che Cafe Collective as UCSD told in violation of USAPA

Librarians Under Siege

Executive Orders & the Expanded Presidential Power

NY Times: Poll Shows Dwindling Approval of Bush and Congress

NY Times: Don't Follow the Money

UK The Times: The Leak That Changed Minds On The Iraq War

London The Sunday Times: The Secret Downing Street Memo

NY Times: Senator Clinton Assails G.O.P. at Fund-Raiser

NY Times: Truth and Deceit

MSNBC: Bush blasts Amnesty report on Guantanamo

NY Review of Books: The Secret Way to War

Congressional Quarterly: 1600: A Fortified White House

NY Times: With the Gloves Off

NY Times Editorial: The President's Stem Cell Theology

NY Times: After Talk of Compromise, Panel Is Again Split on Patriot Act

The Nation: Limbaugh vs. Moyers

NY Times: A Modest Victory for Bush, but Challenging Tests Lie Ahead

NY Times: Deal Draws Criticism From Left and Right

NY Times: Text of Senate Compromise on Nominations of Judges

SF KRON: President Bush renews appeal for vote on nominees

NY Times Editorial: Patterns of Abuse

NY Times: It's All Newsweek's Fault

LA Times: White House Sets Stage for Social Security Talks

The Nation: Newsweek Was Right

San Francisco Chronicle: They Really Are Watching You

The NY Times: For This President, Power Is There for the Taking

The NY Times: Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules

NY Times: The Final Insult

NY Times: Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases

Rolling Stone: Bush's Most Radical Plan Yet

NY Times: Attacking a Free Judiciary

NY Times: Gonzales Lays Out His Priorities at Justice Dept.

NY Times: Judge Says U.S. Terror Suspect Can't Be Held as an Enemy Combatant

NY Times: U.S. Germ-Research Policy Is Protested by 758 Scientists

The Observer: Professor faces jail in bio-terror scare

NY Times: Case Adds to Outrage for Muslims in Northern Virginia

NY TImes Op-Ed: W.'s Stiletto Democracy

NYT: Ex-Military Lawyers Object to Bush Cabinet Nominee

Washington Post: Intelligence Bill Includes Disputed Anti-Terror Moves

Democracy Now!: 9/11 Intelligence Bill Expands Powers of Patriot Act

NY Times: Bush Names Ex-Police Chief to Top Security Post

Christian Science Monitor: 'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bus

R&R!: Statement on Alberto Gonzales Nomination: Just Say NO!

Refuse & Resist!: NO To Bush: Protests Against the Elections

Between The Lines: Cracks in the Empire: Compilation of insiders who have taken aim at Bush's Iraq Policy

NY Times: FAITH Battle Cry of Faithful Pits Believers Against the Rest

NY Times: After Terror, a Secret Rewriting of Military Law

NY Times: Without a Doubt - The Faith-Based Presidency

NY Times: A Doctrine Under Pressure: Pre-emption Is Redefined

Newsweek: Election Day Worries

Reuters: Mulling How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack

Truthout Commentary: Bush's Judges - Right-wing Ideologues

Truthout Commentary: Bush's Judges - Right-wing Ideologues

NY Times: Secret Warrants Increased in 2003

Knight Ridder Newspapers: Bush administration accused of suppressing, distorting science

Feminist Daily News Wire: Bush Makes Second Recess Appointment of Right-Wing Judicial Nominee

San Antonion Current: Bush Signs Parts of Patriot Act II into Law - Stealthily

Washington Post Editorial: Too Much Power

US News & World Report: Keeping Secrets

NewsMax: General Franks Doubts Constitutuion Will Survive WMD Attack

Christian Science Monitor: Secret 9/11 Case Before High Court

Counterpunch: Shock and Awe in the Moussaoui Case

NY Times: Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law

Newsday: Jimmy Breslin column - A Fate Sealed Under Secrecy

Findlaw.com: Defendants, Not Combatants

FindLaw.com: Mounsieur Moussaoui

NY Times: U.S. Will Defy Court's Order in Terror Case

Newsday: A Fate Sealed Under Secrecy

Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on U.S. Military Courts

Counterpunch: Dark Star Chambers

Village Voice: Nat Hentoff: Justice Denied at the Source

Lawyers Comm for Human Rights: Supreme Court Allows Secret Deportation Hearings To Stand

NY Times Analysis: For Jailed Immigrants, a Presumption of Guilt

Supreme Court Allows Secret Deportations to Continue

Counterpunch: Things Have Changed; A Nation of Fear

The Nation: Bringing the War Home

The Progressive: No Lawyers Allowed

Time Magazine: Can John Ashcroft fight terrorism on our shores without injuring out freedoms?

NY Times: Bush Expands Government Secrecy

NY Times: Secret Courts in US

"Big Brother" Surveillance: Total Information Coll

NY Times: Take My Privacy, Please!

Christian Science Monitor: Watch where you point that camera

San Francisco Chronicle: They Really Are Watching You

Big Brother Watches, and Security Companies Profit

The Observer: Professor faces jail in bio-terror scare

The Associated Press: ACLU Seeking FBI Files on Activist Probes

NY Times: Federal Plan to Keep Data on Students Worries Some

NY Times: In Texas, 28,000 Students Test an Electronic Eye

Rocky Mountain News:Secret Service pays visit to Boulder High

New York Review of Books: Uncle Sam Is Watching You

Washington Post: Privacy eroding, bit by byte

NY Times: Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care

NY Times: Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

NY Times: Chicago Moving to 'Smart' Surveillance Cameras

Associated Press: Airlines Told to Turn Over Passenger Data

Associated Press: Chicago Mayor Unveils Surveillance Plan

About.com: National ID Threatens Liberty

About.com: National ID Threatens Liberty

WABC-TV: NYPD to Shadow 56 Protesters Believed Most Dangerous

Associated Press: "The private sector has become Big Brother's little helper"

Christian Science Monitor: Pentagon Seeks OK to Spy on Americans

NY Times: U.S. Nearing Deal on Way to Track Foreign Visitors

NY Times: F.B. I. Got Records for Air Travelers

UPI: Program to Implant RFID Tags in Homeless

Washington Post: Anti-Terrorism Network Launched by Homeland Security

Crain's Business: Judge denies Ashcroft's request for patient medical records

Pacific News Service: Land of the Not-So-Free

Revolutionary Worker: Big Brother in the Mail

NY Times: Court Leaves the Door Open for Safety System Wiretaps

NY Times: Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone is Keeping Tabs

The Observer (UK): Big Brother Latest - Now Your Cellphone Can be Used to Track You Down

CNET News.com: Court to FBI - No Spying on In-car Computers

TomPaine.com: The Eyes Have It - Surveillance Cameras in Classes

ACLU: Matrix - Defunct Big Brother Spying Program Resurfaces as "Little Brother" in Four States

Counterpunch: The Matrix (Interstate Snoop, Not the Movie)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Maxtrix Links Private Data

The Progressive: Mexican Data Grab

Village Voice: How Much to Airlines Know About You?

Village Voice: Power Over the People. Intrusion Alert - It's the Government

Counterpunch: US Envisions the End of Anonymous Mail through US Postal Service

PCWorld.com: Who's Watching You Surf?

Working for Change: Privacy Invasions R Us

Counterpunch: Smile, You're on Federal Camera

Village Voice: Big Brother Gets a Brain

In These Times: Total Information Awareness : The Name Game

Associated Press: Super Diary Worries Privacy Activists

Electronic Privacy Infomartion Center: Alert 5/23/03

BushBlog.com: "Total Information Awarness" Revisited

Guardian UK: Pentagon Readies Massive Spying System

AP: Pentagon System Hopes to ID Walks

NY Times: Walk This Way

Reuters: Military Says Computer Dragnet to Include Limits

Village Voice: Watchdog Color-Codes Government Infringements on Privacy

NY Times: FBI Accused of Intercepting Associated Press Mail

Inside Cisco's eavesdropping apparatus

USA Today: White House Seeks to Expand DNA Database to Juveniles

Washington Post: Something Suspicious is in the Air

Associated Press: Delta Airlines to Track All Passengers

Associated Press: TIA Program combs personal information

NY Times: State Department Link Will Open Visa Database to Police

ACLU Report on Technological Surveillance

US Building Internet Monitoring Center

Police, State Department to Share Database

Big Brother Being Watched, With New Alarm

US to Make Airlines Give Data on Americans Going Overseas

Village Voice: Nat Hentoff - We'll All be Under Surveillance

The Observer: How mobile phones let spies see our every move

General Ashcroft's Campaigns

NY Times: New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11

NY Times: Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails

The Associated Press: Lawyer to Appeal Terrorism Conviction

NY TImes: Lawyers Take Uneasy Look at the Future

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONDEMNS VERDICT IN LYNNE STEWART TRIAL

NY Times: Paul Krugman - Ashcroft's Hidden Terrorist

San Francisco Chronicle: UC Berkeley Scientists Taking Offensive Against Foes of Charles Darwin

NY Times: Administration Sets Forth a Limited View on Privacy

Counterpunch: Ashcroft Goes After the Left

Counterpunch: God's General Unmuzzled

LA Times: Ashcroft is Unprintable, and Glad of It

NY Times: Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law

The Nation: On the Road With Ashcroft

Las Vegas Review Journal: Ashcroft's tour - Fundamental threats to our basic liberties have been greeted with a rousing ho-hum

Counterpunch: Brother John's Traveling Patriot Salvation Show

NY Times: F.B.I. Accused of Corrupting Computer Surveillance

NY Times: Ashcroft Blasts Efforts to Weaken Terrorism Law

Washington Post: Critics Say Ashcroft Wants to "Blacklist" Judges

Democracy Now: Judge Drops Two Terrorism Counts Against Lynne Stewart

Counterpunch: The Next Time You Crack a Lawyer Joke

Counterpunch: You Call This Justice? How Ashcroft Coerces Guilty Pleas

Counterpunch: Lynne Stewart Case - How Many More Strikes Does Ashcroft Get?

NY Times: Judge Dismisses Terror Charges Against Lawyer

New York Law Journal: Judge Narrows Charges Against Lynne Stewart

Lynne Stewart Defense: Favorable Decision 7/22/03

Elaine Cassel: Scalia Dissent - Hateful Diatribe from the Morals Police

Toronto Star: Ayatollah Ashcroft's law

Salon.com: The Secret Society - Under Ashcroft, America is Becoming an Orwellian State...

Al-Ahram (Cairo): Ashcroft's Cruel Version of America

NY Times: Ashcroft Seeks More Power to Pursue Terror Suspects

NY Times: Ashcroft Defends Detentions as Immigrants Recount Toll

NBC News: Ashcroft Wants Patriot Act Widened

Counterpunch: Secrecy is the Enemy of Democratic Government

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights on Indefinite Detentions of Haitian Asylum Seekers

Immigration News Briefs: Ashcroft Rejects Release on Bond

NY Times: Illegal Aliens Can Be Held Indefinitely, Ashcroft Says

Village Voice: Bracing for Bush's War at Home

Terror Alerts Manufactured?

Challenging the Patriot Act

NY Times: After Talk of Compromise, Panel Is Again Split on Patriot Act

USA Today: Librarian's Brush with FBI Shapes her View of the USA Patriot Act

Newsday: Reading Patriot Riot Act

NY Times: U.S. Is Examining a Plan to Bolster the Rights of Detainees

NY Times: Judge Blocks the Transfer of 13 Detainees From Guantánamo

NY Times: Case Adds to Outrage for Muslims in Northern Virginia

Inter Press Service News: Activists Crawl Through Web to Untangle U.S. Secrecy

Counterpunch: Prevarications About the Patriot Act

UC Berkeley Proposed Academic Senate Resolution on the Patriot Act

NYCLU: New York City Council Passes Resolution to Uphold Civil Liberties

R&R! Atlanta: Librarians on the Front Lines - Panel

Agence France Presse: City of LA Defies Bush Over Extending Patriot Act

Center for American Progress: Literary Dissent by Sara Paretsky

Village Voice: Bashcroft: New Yorkers Protest Attorney General's Tour to Promote Patriot Act

Middle Tennessee News: A knock at the door, and Patriot Act becomes frighteningly real

NY Daily News: They Turn Their Back on Pledge

American Library Association responds to Attorney General remarks on librarians and USA PATRIOT Act

Constitution Battered by War on Terror, Says Lawyers Group

Time to Refuse & Resist!

Together We Must Stop the Wartime Police State! Refuse & Resist!

Washington Post: Ashcroft Defends Anti-Terrorism Law

Reuters: Australian Lawyers Criticize US Military Tribunals

Washington Post: Patriot Act Faces New Challenges in Court

American Civil Liberties Union: ACLU Files Challenge to USA Patriot Act

Center for Constitutional Rights: Amicus Brief filed on behalf of so-called "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla

Associated Press: Librarians Chafe Under USA Patriot Act

Boston Globe: Arab Groups in US File Lawsuit Seeking to Curb Patriot Act

Reuters: House Takes Aim at Patriot Act Secret Searches

Sacramento Bee: Patriot Act foes seeking capital allies

Talllahassee Democrat: Questioning Where America is Headed

Village Voice Nat Hentoff: Is Ashcroft Fit for Office?

Rally Against the Patriot Act in San Francisco Bay Area

Working for Change: Interview with Isabel Allende

Madison WI: Libraries Rebel Against Patriot Act

Associated Press: Palo Alto Librarians, Police chief Protest Patriot Act

Reuters: Philadelphia City Council Condemns Patriot Act

Green Bay WI News Chronicle: Local Library Objects to USA Patriot Act

The Progressive: Interview with Janeane Garofalo

MSNBC: A Mean-Spirted America

Journal News: Library Association head questions Patriot Act estimate

NY Times: Civil Rights Lawyers Seek Teeth For Rules on Police Surveillance

League of Women Voters: Resolution Against the Patriot Act

Counterpunch: Fight the Patriot Act: Now It's Alaska

AP: Town Rebels Against Patriot Act

Boston Globe: Literary Groups Decry Patriot Act As Invasion Of Privacy

Fox News: Librarians Rising Up against the USA Patriot Act

Oakland High School Teachers Protest Grilling of Students by Secret Service for comments on Bush

Time Magazine: Librarians unite against government's new ability to peek at what you read

The New American: Trading Freedom for Security

CBS News: Librarians Bristle at Patriot Act

Philadelphia Inquirer: Patriot Act Prompts Outcry by Librarians

Boston Phoenix: It's time to defend our liberties before Patriot Act II makes protest a crime

Washington Post: CA Local Officials Defy Patriot Act

Dallas Morning News: New Patriot Act Creates Uproar, Brings Together Uncommon Allies

NY Times: Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers

NY Times: Challenge to Govt Use of Wiretaps Against Political Groups

Libraries Posting Information on Patiot Act

Hartford Courant: Legality of Patriot Act Questioned

Associated Press: Bookseller Purges Files to Avoid Searches

Denver Post: Editorial Against Patriot II

Nat Hentoff Editorial on Patriot Act

Patriot Act Earns Council's NO Vote

Cities in Revolt Against Patriot Act

Resist This! Speaking & Acting Against the Repress

NY Times: U.S. Urges Judge to Dismiss Suit on Chemical Use in Vietnam War

R&R!: The Bush Agenda 2005: Rolling over critical thought, open debate, and truth

NYT: Tokyo's Flag Law: Proud Patriotism, or Indoctrination?

PAUADP: You did it-- Execution Halted!

Inter Press Service News: Activists Crawl Through Web to Untangle U.S. Secrecy

Black Sports Network Op Ed: On Ron Artest

Canadian Press : A very Canadian protest

NY Times: Colleges Can Bar Army Recruiters

BORDC: Action Alert: Keep Anti-Immigrant Provisions from Intelligence Reform; Observe Bill of Rights Day (Dec. 15)

PAUADC: Stop George Banks' execution in Pennsylvania!

The News Journal: School orders boy to cover his T-shirt; 'The Real Terrorist Is In The White House' is called a distraction by school officials

CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY OF NEW YORK ON BEHALF OF ALMOST 2000

R&R!: Statement on Alberto Gonzales Nomination: Just Say NO!

Refuse & Resist!: NO To Bush: Protests Against the Elections

UPI Analysis: 'Unconventional' Heroes

For Activist Centers in NYC during the RNC -- DON'T TALK!

Blue Jays Slugger Stands Up Against War

Blue Jays Slugger Stands Up Against War

Newsday: Right to Protest is Being Stomped On

NY Times: Gay Marriage Debate Shifts to Small New York Township

Voices in the Wilderness: What Country is This? Hogtied and Abused at Ft. Benning

OneWorld.net: FBI Surveillance Plans Spur Opposition

Center for Constitutional Rights: Support Ashcroft's Removal From Office

NYC Anti-war Forum: Know Your Rights

New York Times: 'No Fly' List Is Challenged in a Lawsuit

Nat Hentoff in Village Voice: Vanishing Liberties

Jefferson Muzzle Awards Against Free Speech

Today Show Goes Dark on Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins: 'A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation...'

Refuse & Resist! ALERT to those who may be arrested in anti-war demonstrations

The Nation: Shocks to the Constitution

Refuse & Resist Police State USA by Clark Kissinger

Refuse & Resist Message: Stop The War! Resist Attacks on Anti-war Organizations!

Associated Press: Actors Guild Warns Against Blacklisting

Democracy Now: Michigan High School Student Sent Home for Wearing T-shirt

Will a Police State Protect Your Liberty?

ACLU Challenging Police Spying in Denver

San Francisco Chronicle: Democracy and Education - Big Bad Book Ban

Alternet: Changes After 9-11 - Not What You Expected

Attorney Lynne Stewart Case

Findlaw.com: The Lynne Stewart Guilty Verdict: Stretching the Definition of "Terrorism" To Its Limits

Revolutionary Worker: Then They Came for the Lawyers; Interview with Lynne Stewart

Counterpunch: Stretching the Definition of "Terrorism" to New Limits

Village Voice: Punishing Mmes. Stewart

Truthout.org: First They Came for Lynne Stewart...

National Lawyers Guild: National Day of Outrage in Response to Lynne Stewart Verdict

The Associated Press: Lawyer to Appeal Terrorism Conviction

NY TImes: Lawyers Take Uneasy Look at the Future

NY Times: Civil Rights Lawyer Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONDEMNS VERDICT IN LYNNE STEWART TRIAL

NY Times: Lawyer on Trial in Terror Case Finds Threat Left at Her Door

Reuters: NY Jury Could Be Split in Lawyer's Terrorism Case

Reuters: Lawyer Stewart Faces 'Hyped' Charges - Defense

NY Times: Prosecutors Challenge Credibility of Translator

Refuse & Resist!: Support Lynne Stewart as She Testifies

NY Times: On Stand, Terrorist's Lawyer Denies Aiding Violent Cause

Revolutionary Worker: Trial of People's Lawyer Lynne Stewart Begins

NY Time: Lawyer Accused of Aiding Terrorism Sees Fear as Obstacle

CounterPunch Wire: Lynne Stewart Case Gets More Chilling

Democracy Now: New Superseding Indictment Against Lynne Stewart - Interview

Associated Press: Ashcroft Issues New Indictment Against Lynne Stewart

Findlaw.com: Analysis of the Lynne Stewart Case

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