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O'Harrow explores how the government is teaming up with private companies to collect massive amounts of data on citizens and how, he writes, "More than ever before, the details about our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe."...

Amnesty International Calls on Police to Stop Using TASERs on Children, the Elderly, and Persons With Disabilities...

On February 3, the United States Senate confirmed former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to be the new attorney general. With the vote, an individual closely associated with the most criminal actions and decisions of the Bush administration will fill the chief law office in the land....

Respected comrade targeted by racist police. An injury to one is an injury to all. Alton has been threatened in his car by police before. He called the police and made it clear that he would not let them murder him. Being commited to defending yourself is distinctly different from "threatening to attack a police officer." That the officers in question knew of his statement, made at a previous profiling incident, is further evidence of a criminal conspiracy among racist police....

In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we speak with leading British human rights lawyer, Gareth Pierce. She is the lawyer for two of the four British citizens recently released from Guantanamo Bay and has represented the Birmingham Six and Guilford Four. Actress Emma Thompson played her character in the movie "In the Name of the Father." In a rare interview, Pierce says that Guantanamo Bay is evidence of "an appalling chasm...for the whole of our society morally to have fallen into.&q...

I made this report to DOJ in September, 2004. I have heard nothing from them. No one wants to investigate a politically motivated crime. The thugs and criminals are the police, judges, and Tribal authorities, whose crimes are protected by the government. Should you know of an attorney who would like to take on an interesting case, have him contact me....

The family of a man who died after a jailer shocked him with a stun gun has reached a $500,000 settlement over his death....

On January 20, 1969, during the inaugural parade for Richard Nixon, I stood in a crowd of onlookers on Pennsylvania Avenue and when Nixon's limousine passed by I threw an apple at the car. It bounced off the car behind the one carrying Tricky Dick (who now seems like a liberal compared to the likes of George W., Bill Clinton and John Kerry; seriously). No law enforcement authority rushed into the crowd looking for the perpetrator. Imagine if I had repeated my act at today's inauguration. Ever...

Bob Ecoffey, the recently downsized Director of Bureau of Tribal Police, and the person responsible for naming Arlo Looking Cloud responsible for the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, has been troubled by the very dream which helped Indian Bob indict Arlo. Some people have been poking holes in that dream which was originally interpreted by an medicine man, and most recently adjudicated by Judge Lisa Cook. And the dream still just won't give Bob any rest, so we had to call in the FBI to inve...

March 15th, 2005, will mark the ninth year of the International Day Against Police Brutality (IDAPB). It first began in 1997 as an initiative of the Black Flag collective in Switzerland, with the help of the Montreal Collective Opposed to Police Brutality. The date was chosen because on March 15th, two children, aged 11 and 12, were beaten by the Swiss police....