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Glenn Greenwald> Edward Snowden’s worst fear has not been realised – thankfully
The NSA whistleblower’s only concern was that his disclosures would be met with apathy. Instead, they’re leading to real reform. Glenn Greenwald The Guardian, Friday 14 June 2013 14.00 EDT This column was written by Glenn Greenwald for the Guardian’s newspaper edition In my first substantive discussion with Edward Snowden, which took place via encrypted online chat, he […]
Bamford> Connecting the Dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillance, and the NSA’s Massive Spy Center
An aerial view of the NSA’s Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers and gathering data from tech companies including Apple, Microsoft and Google. The Obama Administration defends the National Security Agency’s need to collect such records, but critics call it a huge […]
Fmr. FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley was a whistleblower after 9/11 attacks. She talks about recent NSA leak.
Click here for Coleen Rowley video on Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Coleen Rowley: Surveillance programs create huge profit for private contractors Rowley: More importantly, stopping terrorists through mass data collection doesn’t work She says just look at how the Bush administration failed on 9/11 despite early warnings Rowley: Secretive spying programs harm national security […]
Video> Glenn Greenwald Clashes With Mika Brzezinski, Accuses MSNBC Host Of Using ‘White House Talking Points’
Click here to watch the full video and debate on HuffingtonPost.com SavageNationClips Published on Jun 10, 2013 Guardian UK reporter Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday to discuss his coverage of the NSA whistleblower case. During the process, he took umbrage with host Mika Brzezinski’s use of White House “talking points” to defend […]
‘Beyond Orwellian’: Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program & Petition
FISA court order ‘broadest surveillance order ever issued’ against private citizens – Jon Queally, staff writer Published on Thursday, June 6, 2013 by Common Dreams Update: (3:59 PM) As government officials and Verizon itself responded to the Guardian’s NSA domestic spying story throughout the day, concern over the program’s scope and implications only deepened among its army of critics. Responding to the […]
Glenn Greenwald> Video: Whistleblower Edward Snowden and NSA Surveillance
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’ Sign a thank you to Edward Snowden at RootsAction.org Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations June 10, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society […]
The Antiwar Movement is a Victim of the War on Terror | Come Home America
“This illustrates the troubling, continuing efforts of the federal government to monitor protected speech activity without evidence or even allegation of criminal activity.” Posted on May 30, 2013 by Darryl W. Perry Come Home America On May 21, Antiwar.com announced that Founder and Managing Editor Eric Garris, along with Editorial Director Justin Raimondo, filed a […]
Kathy Kelly> Thanking Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning’s Trial begins on June 3, 2013 by Kathy Kelly May 29, 2013 Direct to WAMMToday A few evenings ago, as the sky began to darken here in Kabul, Afghanistan, a small group of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APVs), gathered for an informal presentation about WikiLeaks, its chief editor Julian Assange, and its most prominent […]
Henry A. Giroux | Lockdown, USA: Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt
“In a society where critical analysis and explanation of violent attacks of this nature are dismissed as terrorist sympathizing, there is a stultifying logic that assumes that contextualizing an event is tantamount to justifying it. This crippling impediment to public dialogue may be why the militarized response to the Boston Marathon bombings, infused with the […]
Glenn Greenwald> The Boston bombing produces familiar and revealing reactions
As usual, the limits of selective empathy, the rush to blame Muslims, and the exploitation of fear all instantly emerge Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 April 2013 09.52 EDT Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston marathon as an explosion erupts near the finish line of the race Photograph: Stringer/REUTERS There’s not much […]
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