1. Bush\'s Gold Currency: Fear
(Newsletter)

...o-founder of the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus, issued the following remarks in advance of House consideration of the Defense Authorization for FY 2009, which authorizes nearly $70 billion in emerg...

2. Pentagon Taking Over U.S. Foreign Policy
(Opinions/Daily)

...ng the agenda for U.S. relations.”   Moreover, the Pentagon has been spending funds authorized by the 2006 National Defense Authorization Act to train foreign militaries and has invested the mone...

3. Martial Law Alert Over Swine Flu
(Opinions/Politic)

...borders. This plan remains active and US laws authorize it, including Sections 1076 and 333 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 that amended the 1807 Insurrecti...

4. US Troops on US Streets
(Opinions/Daily)

...And this is a violation of that, it seems to me. President Bush tried to get around this act a couple years ago in the Defense Authorization Act that he signed that got rid of some of those restrict...

5. Rep. Waters on Iraq war funding
(Editor/Daily)

...o-founder of the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus, issued the following remarks in advance of House consideration of the Defense Authorization for FY 2009, which authorizes nearly $70 billion in emerg...

6. Has America become Fascist?
(Opinions/op-ed)

... in place, even if no coup has occurred. As Naomi Wolf writes in "The End of America" (Chelsea Green) the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill's Section 333 allows the president "to declare ...

7. The Martial Law Act of 2006
(Opinions/Politic)

... at home. But the 2006 reforms basically threw any concern about dictatorial abuses out the window. Section 1076 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2006 changed the name of the key provision in the ...

8. Signing Statement Silence
(Opinions/Politic)

...that intelligence agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. This week President Bush signed the Defense Authorization bill into law, and then added a statement announcing his ...

9. Breaking the Sound Barrier
(Editor/Daily)

...ongressman Kucinich, welcome to Democracy Now! Alerted of what? Alerted to what? REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: There will be a defense authorization bill on the floor today under a suspension of the rules, ...

10. Q&A: Private Military Contractors and the Law
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...ting jurisdiction over David Passaro.   3 18 U.S.C. section 3267(1)(A), as amended by the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2005, P.L. 108-376 Section 1088 (118 Stat. 206...