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Amy Goodman: Corporate Media No Longer Mainstream, But Extreme- Uptake Video
Amy Goodman: Corporate Media No Longer Mainstream, But Extreme “This is no longer a mainstream media, but an extreme media beating the drums for war,” journalist Amy Goodman tells the National Conference For Media Reform meeting in Denver. Published on Apr 7, 2013 Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND […]
Glenn Greenwald> Bradley Manning: the face of heroism
Bradley Manning: the face of heroism The 25-year-old Army Private, this generation’s Daniel Ellsberg, pleads guilty today to some charges and explains his actions Glenn Greenwald Thursday 28 February 2013 15.38 EST guardian.co.uk Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images (updated [Friday]) In December, 2011, I wrote an Op-Ed in the Guardian arguing that ifBradley […]
FBI Sharing Facial Recognition Software With Police Departments Across America
FBI Sharing Facial Recognition Software With Police Departments Across America By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com August 25, 2012 It is no secret that facial recognition technology is on the rise with amazing leaps forward in efficiency, nor is it a secret that the federal government maintains a centralized biometric database. This program is so massive and coordinated that even governors have been overridden in […]
Alexander Reed Kelly> Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design By Alexander Reed Kelly July 24, 2012 truthdig.com Furryscaly (CC BY-SA 2.0) NEW YORK—Nicholas Merrill wants to change the world. So he tells me over rice and beans at Lupe’s East LA Kitchen in Soho, roughly a dozen blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He is perfectly serious. At 39 […]
Glenn Greenwald> How America’s Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear
How America’s Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear Once the government is able to monitor everything we do and say, we will be unable to fight back. By Glenn Greenwald AlterNet July 4, 2012 | Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of a speech delivered by Glenn Greenwald at this month’s Socialism 2012 conference, on the […]
Video> Scahill: Obama still relying on the blank check the Bush administration gave him for endless war
Scahill: Obama still relying on the blank check the Bush administration gave him for endless war Submitted by sosadmin on Sun, 04/29/2012 – 12:50 Privacy SOS Please note that by playing the above clips YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. Yesterday advocates from all over the world met […]
Tom Engelhardt> Data Mining You> How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Intelligence Bureaucracy That Ate Our World Posted by Tom Engelhardt April 3, 2012 TomDispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: To catch Timothy MacBain’s latest Tomcast audio interview in which I reflect on the unnatural growth of the U.S. national security state, click here, or download it to your iPod here. It’s a subject that lies […]
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Shadow Side of Imperial Bullying
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Shadow Side of Imperial Bullying Steve Clemens. November 4, 2011 Mennonista It was in conversation with the Iraqi doctors visiting from Najaf that I inquired about Muqtada al-Sadr and the role he and his militias might play in Iraq after the U.S. uniformed troops leave by the end of this year. […]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, WikiLeaked at the State Department
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, WikiLeaked at the State Department Posted by Peter Van Buren at 9:37am, September 27, 2011 TomDispatch It’s hardly a secret at this late date that, while the Obama administration arrived in office promoting “a new standard of openness” in government, in practice it’s cast not sunshine, but a penumbra of gloom over the […]
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