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Glenn Greenwald> Video> On radical executive power and US political and media culture
On radical executive power and US political and media culture Hampshire College • Critical Social Inquiry Lecture March 5, 2013 Glenn Greenwald: Last month, I spoke at Hampshire College on radical executive power and US political and media culture; that was followed by a conversation on those topics with the writer and philosophy professor Falguni […]
Lawrence Davidson> War and Institutionalizing Abuse
War and Institutionalizing Abuse By Lawrence Davidson Sunday, 17 February 2013 MWCNews.net What is War? In the halls of Congress and confines of the Oval Office, the perception is that the U.S. is at war with an enemy called al-Qaeda. Is this actually the case or is the claim an exaggerated piece of propaganda that has conveniently […]
Fazaga v. FBI: Eroding democracy, in two dimensions at once
Fazaga v. FBI: Eroding democracy, in two dimensions at once “Over the past decade, federal judges have turned a blind eye to corporate complicity in human rights abuses, the National Security Agency’s dragnet warrantless wiretapping scheme that captures and records essentially all email exchanges and phone calls even absent any individual suspicion, and now the FBI’s resurrection of COINTELPRO tactics […]
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> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in […]
RT> Senators terrified with abuse of Patriot Act’s secret laws
Senators terrified with abuse of Patriot Act’s secret laws opednews.com March 18, 2012 RT U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (AFP Photo / Chip Somodevilla) Horrified with the way the US government uses the Patriot Act against its own people, two senators have been trying to make these practices public for years. Tired of being ignored, […]
Petition to Supreme Court of Alaska to Block NDAA Indefinite Detention Provides Model For All
Petition to Supreme Court of Alaska to Block NDAA Indefinite Detention Provides Model For All by VVV PR Wednesday, 25 January 2012 RSN Writing for Godot While the mainstream media blackout keeps millions of Americans clueless about the consequences of NDAA 2012 and Constitutional Rights groups do little more than milk the issue, in Alaska […]
The Price of War> Estimated U.S. cost: $4 trillion
The Price of War> Estimated U.S. cost: $4 trillion | FROM EXPLORATIONS | BY SUSAN SELIGSON Bostonia> Boston University Fall 2011 “These wars have been financed mostly by borrowing, so they are like no other war in U.S. history,” says CAS’ Neta Crawford. Photo by Cydney Scott Neta Crawford hopes to deepen the public’s understanding of the […]
Video> The Corbett Report> Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It’s Already Here
Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It’s Already Here by James Corbett The Corbett Report BoilingFrogsPost.com 03 January, 2012 A TV station in Boston airs a story about a library that sent a police sergeant to collect overdue library books from a 5-year-old girl. The Associated Press reports on a 70 year old woman in Utah who […]
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