Today's breaking news is that Edward Snowden - a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) who released internal NSA documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post - has fled to Latin America. He's been joined by Wikileaks employee Sarah...
NATO 3: Cook County Judge Rules Illinois Terrorism Statute Constitutional
Chicago, IL Judge Thaddeus Wilson - holding down the house in Room 303 of the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, IL - ruled the Illinois terrorism statute constitutional on its face. This ruling was issued approximately two months after the attorneys defending the...
“NATO 3”: Constitutionality of Illinois Terrorism Statute to be Decided March 27
Judge Thaddeus Wilson will hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of the Illinois terrorism statute - signed into law in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks - on March 27 at 2:00 PM CST. That announcement was made at the first oral argument at Cook County Courthouse...
Kazakhstan, a human rights disaster, hosts Iran Talks
Allen Ruff and I have written extensively about Kazakhstan and about the typical hypocrisy at-play in the kleptocratic country. We published an article in the aftermath of the Zhanaozen Massacre about the U.S. imperial Great Game being played in Kazakhstan and Central...
New Photo Released of “Gloves,” One of the Two NATO Summit Undercover Cops
Occupy Chicago has released another photo of "Gloves," one of the two undercover police informants from the May 2012 NATO Summit, which took place in Chicago, IL. They have placed it on Facebook and Twitter. "Gloves," acting as an infiltrator in the run-up to the...
NATO 3 Court Date Set for One Day Before Two-Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
The People's Law Office in Chicago - which is representing one of the original "NATO 3" activists preemptively arrested before the May 2012 NATO Summit and charged with conspiracy to commit an act of "domestic terrorism" - wrote an update blog post on Nov. 19 that...
The Military-Industrial-Media Complex Comes to Charlotte for the DNC
Jingoistic platitudes were all the rage at the recently-completed Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Foreign Policy Magazine's Uri Friedman reported that Democratic Party apparatchiks used Osama Bin Laden's name, in bragging about slaughtering him, some 21...
Antiwar.com Obtains More Photos of “Mo” and “Gloves,” Video of Journalist Arrested for “Aggravated Battery”
Antiwar.com has obtained several more photos of the alleged police infiltrators, known by the aliases "Mo" and "Gloves," both of whom were allegedly tasked with acting as informants in the arrests of the group of NATO Summit activists know popularly known as the "NATO...
Pictures of Second “NATO 5” Informant, “Gloves,” Published For First Time on Antiwar.com
Today, on the morning of the pre-trial hearing of the "NATO 3," -- who are being charged with "conspiracy to commit terrorism," "terrorism" and "possession of incendiary devices"-- another explosive (excuse the pun) revelation has been made by Occupy Chicago. In an...
Three Chicago NATO Summit Activists Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, Providing Material Support for Terrorism
Robert (left) and Daniel (right), the two activists released Friday night (Photo by Steve Horn) Two more antiwar activists, in from out of town to protest the NATO Summit, were released from a police station on the south side of Chicago late tonight at roughly 10:00...
