By Muriel Kane | RawStory.com | Aug. 4, 2008
When a California medical marijuana dispensary, Organica Collective, was raided last Thursday by agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and local police, the Los Angeles Times ran a dramatic story on the incident, accompanied by a set of photographs showing the raid and its aftermath.

By Erin Rosa | Colorado Independent | Jul. 30, 2008
Federal and state law enforcement officials will increase intelligence operations during the Democratic National Convention, overseeing an information war room that will be staffed around the clock with analysts who access a dozen databases while receiving reports of "suspicious activity" — activity that some civil libertarians claim could be nothing more than engaging in anti-war protests or photographing federal facilities that could be targeted for terrorist attack.

By Erin Rosa | Colorado Independent | Jul. 19, 2008
The U.S. Army and Colorado National Guard have announced intentions to reserve more than 500 hotel rooms for lodging during the Democratic National Convention, hinting at the number of military personnel that may be in Denver for the high-profile event that is expected to draw an estimated 50,000 protesters.

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Dennis Kucinich's statement at the Judiciary Hearing on the limits of Executive Power, false information and the invasion of Iraq.

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The White House admits frequent control and manipulation of O'Reiley, Hannity and FOX News.
The White House admits to communist/fascist like Propaganda.

The Associated Press | Jul. 24, 2008
The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged mental harm."

By Lindsay Beyerstein | MajikThise | Jun. 23, 2008
Harold Pollack argues that Democrats should refrain from trashing Cindy McCain for her history of drug addiction. There's no shame in being a recovering addict--or an active user for that matter, provided your habit isn't hurting other people.  However, Cindy McCain chose to feed her addiction in particularly loathsome ways.

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A message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich who will be presenting his case for impeachment this Friday before the House judiciary committee. Support the Congressman by logging on to http://kucinich.us and signing the petition.

By Courtney Zubowski, Michelle Homer, Mark Greenblatt | KHOU 11 News | Jul. 23, 2008
A Continental Airlines flight carrying seven members of Congress from Houston to Washington was forced to make an emergency landing after it lost cabin pressure Tuesday afternoon.

By Ron Paul | CampaignForLiberty.com | Jul. 22, 2008
If they expected us to retire quietly from the scene, the political elite are in for a surprise. Today I am making some very big announcements. First, from August 31 to September 2 in Minneapolis, we will host a handful of events that will shake the political establishment. Everything will culminate on Tuesday with the official launch of the Campaign for Liberty at the Rally for the Republic.

By Chuck Baldwin | NewsWithViews.com | Jul. 18, 2008
Free republics are not known to have long life expectancies. At the ripe old age of two hundred and thirty-two, America is definitely showing her age. She is long past her prime, and some are predicting her demise. No, some are PLANNING her demise.

By Mike Whitney | CounterPunch.org | Jul. 21, 2008
Obama's candidacy is over; kaput. He's already stated that he has no intention of stopping the war, so he has disqualified himself. That's his prerogative; no one put a gun to his head. His op-ed in Monday's New York Times just removes any lingering doubt about the matter. What Obama proposes is moving the central theater of operation from Iraq to Afghanistan. Big deal. Why is it more acceptable to kill a man who is fighting for his country in Afghanistan than in Iraq?

By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Jul. 17, 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth.

By John F. McManus | The John Birch Society | Jul. 10, 2008
Two former secretaries of state spent the past year concocting a new plan to give the president a role in war-making that the Constitution does not allow.