Source: news.scotsman.com
A man shot in the chest during a dawn raid on his home by anti-terror police told yesterday how he feared his family were going to be killed "one by one". Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, broke down in tears as he described being wakened by his younger brother's screams as 250 police …
This article is written in response to the article The Coming American Civil War written by a Newsvine member with the pen name Behind My Screen. It is a very well written article.
Source: zephoria.org
Just because things can be made persistent or information about people's social lives can be revealed does not mean that it should be done.
Source: washingtonpost.com
"We're arresting people for talking about things, thinking about things, training for things," said Andrew McBride, a former federal prosecutor in Alexandria.
Source: news.independent.co.uk
The women of Basra have disappeared. Three years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, women's secular freedoms - once the envy of women across the Middle East - have been snatched away because militant Islam is rising across the country.
Source: xMule.ws
This is a list of all civil rights violations that happened in relation to the raid on The Pirate Bay’s Servers 5 days ago. This is wrong. The White House had no right to order this raid. Seems like the MPAA holds more sway than I previously thought.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Murdered blacks get little notice, but Rosenbaum's death did because "1) He was a white male, 2) he was a prominent journalist and 3) he was Jewish." The Rev. Anthony Evans, president of the D.C. Black Church Initiative, unloaded both barrels at Kenneth Wainstein, U.S.
Source: MSNBC
A recent survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University indicates that Black men in America today are deeply divided over the way they see themselves and their country.
Source: cnn.com
Locals say soldiers from one ethnic group are systematically raping and mutilating women from another group, with the intention, they say of destroying their child-bearing capabilities.
Source: cbs13.com
(AP) SAN FRANCISCO Police may enter Californians' homes without warrants to arrest those suspected of driving under the influence, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case testing the scope of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seiz …
Source: nytimes.com
They just keep chipping away at my rights.
Source: csmonitor.com
(A recent Gallup poll found 58 percent of Americans opposing same-sex marriage and 39 percent favoring it.
Source: motherjones.com
Restrictionists in Congress are trying to push legal immigrants, and even some naturalized citizens, to the edges of society. And the cultural message this sends to people here and people around the world—if you don’t speak fluent English, you don’t belong here.
Source: alternet.org
Michelle Goldberg writes that the largest and most powerful mass movement in the nation -- evangelical Christianity -- has set out to destroy secular society.
Source: breitbart.com
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, is proposing to use DNA and fingerprint technology to create a worker ID database.
Source: silicon.com
"Throughout May anti-ID card group No2ID has been running a campaign encouraging people to renew their passports, which the group said will keep people out of the National Identity Register (NIR) - the database behind the system - until 2016."
Source: alternet.org
From secret detention centers to warrantless wiretapping, Bush and Co. give free rein to their totalitarian impulses.
Source: mg.co.za
Ironically, while Bush is being flogged for allowing the eavesdropping of Americans without a court order and defenders say national security interests comes first, Zimbabwe has presented a similar bill that will enhance the strict control of the country's telecommunication.
Source: huffingtonpost.com
Eleven members of the US House of Representatives plan to take President Bush to court to defeat the Republican budget bill that was improperly signed into law without both the House and the Senate voting to pass the same version of it.
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday police can enter a house without a warrant when they believe an occupant is seriously injured or threatened, a case that pitted police powers against privacy rights.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The humanist movement of the 20th century, one of my favorite topics: The book, The Bystander: John F Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality, focuses on the often fraught relationship between Jack Kennedy and the American civil rights movement.
Source: ajc.com
Rep John Lewis strode down the sidewalk wearing a gray pinstriped suit and blue dress shirt open at the neck. "They don't like for you to wear a tie," he said. By "they" he meant the police who were waiting to arrest him.
Source: today.reuters.com
In a case that has sparked fierce criticism of U.S.
Source: gulfnews.com
The US pledge to facilitate reforms and democracy in the Middle East was dealt another blow yesterday in Egypt and Syria when security forces in both countries raided houses of opposition leaders and scores of activists on charges of endangering stability and instigating the publi
There is no chance of American acceptance of gay marriage in our lifetime. Demanding it will only cause a marriage protection amendment to be added to the constitution.