[MCM] DoJ won't charge Bush/Cheney's torture lawyers

News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government 05 May 2009 http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

[MCM] Pentagon denies the awful truth, gets BUSTED!

It has long been standard counter-propaganda practice--especially by those in power-- to claim that some very damning video exposé was "taken out of context." That line was used throughout the war in Vietnam, then Desert Storm, and then Bush/Cheney's new war on Iraq. Remember Rumsfeld jeering th

[MCM] America needs a voting rights movement!

Certainly Obama and the Democrats won't do it; and, of course, the GOP would never do it; so the only players who can make it happens are ourselves. MCM May 6, 2009 America Needs a Voting Rights Movement By Nancy Tobi http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Needs-a-Voting-Rig-by-Nancy-Tobi-0

[MCM] Latest voting news from DVN

"Daily Voting News" from Ellen Theisen: Congratulations to the Florida activists who succeeded in killing a really bad bill! The debate on the Voting Rights Act and photo ID continues. Happy Cinco de Mayo. NAtional: Voting Rights Milestone

[MCM] Millions wasted on voter registration in '08

Obviously wasted, since millions nationwide showed up to vote, only to be told that they weren't registered. The panacea offered here, however--"an automated system," with (presumably) all-electronic voter rolls--would certainly enable more such disenfranchisement, unless it were rigorously pol

[MCM] Correct link re: Pentagon's denial of troops' Christianist activisim

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/139824/al_jazeera_strikes_back_at_pentagon%2C_releases_unedited_footage_of_u.s._soldiers%27_%27bible_study%27_in_afghanistan/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's

[MCM] 98 detainees tortured to death

As of 2006?? MCM US interrogators may have killed dozens, human rights researcher and rights group say BY JOHN BYRNE http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/06/us-interrogators-killed-dozens-human-rights-researcher-and-rights-group-say/ United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detain

[MCM] Proof of citizenship required for GA voters (and more from DVN)

>From Ellen Theisen: Under the current Voting Rights Act, U.S. Department of Justice approval will be needed to implement a newly passed Georgia law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, a law which "opponents say would keep the poor, elderly and minorities away from the ballot

[MCM] The case of Syed Fahad Hashmi

Is this another one that Holder won't go near? MCM >From Corey Robin: Dear friends and colleagues: We're writing to update you on the case of Syed Fahad Hashmi, our former student at Brooklyn College who is still being held in solitary confinement awaiting trial on four counts of providing