[youtube=http://youtu.be/nwJRefYUqHc] By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Report April 14, 2014 In their first return to the United States since exposing the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance operations, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras were honored in New York City on Friday with the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting. Over the past 10 months, Poitras More
A number of neoliberal societies, including the United States, have become addicted to violence. War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. As war becomes a mode of sovereignty and rule, it erodes the distinction between war and peace. By Henry A More
A number of neoliberal societies, including the United States, have become addicted to violence. War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. As war becomes a mode of sovereignty and rule, it erodes the distinction between war and peace. By Henry A More
The FBI affidavit paints a far more sinister picture, with testimony from “Karen” alleging that members of the FRSO—teachers and trade unionists with long-standing ties to their communities; people whose homes she visited and whose newborn children she cradled in her arms—were actively plotting to take over government buildings in an armed revolution, all while More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/j9TQcFOEfz0] Published on Mar 26, 2014 Brazilian legislators are considering a bill that many are calling the "Constitution of the Internet," in response to the revelations about the National Security Agency's accessing of internet users' data. Already passed by the lower house of the Brazilian legislature, the bill tightens privacy rights for internet users and More
"The NSA engages in this fear-mongering not only publicly but also privately." By Glenn Greenwald 31 Mar 2014 The Intercept Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme fear-mongering to demonize transparency. In sum, every time an unwanted whistleblower steps forward, we are treated to the same messaging: You’re all going to die because More
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/89580768] Click where it says "Watch on Vimeo" to see video. Senator Dianne Feinstein's condemnation of CIA spying marked both a low and high point for the U.S. government. Finally, someone in office is angry enough at the privacy violations occurring daily in the United States to publicly denounce a spy agency's actions. Mark More
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Inimitable Colonel Manners By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com March 19, 2014 [Editor’s note: Our old friend Colonel Manners (ret.) made his first appearance at TomDispatch last October. Today, he’s back for the third time. We have yet to run into anyone more knowledgeable in the mores, manners, and linguistic habits of the national security state. His CV (unfortunately More
On the need for inner tranquility in order to avoid authoritarianism By Werner de Gruijter, Truthout | Opinion 15 March 2014 (Photo: Anne Roberts / Flickr)The preamble of the US Constitution contains this prodigious message: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the More
By Paul Jay, The Real News Network | Video Interview 14 March 2014 [youtube=http://youtu.be/MOp9sVndn4Q] TRANSCRIPT: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: went to see Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. In January, according to Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, that More
Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly truthdig.com March 14, 2014 Photo by bulliver (CC BY 2.0) Sarah Harrison, an editor at WikiLeaks who has also worked with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won’t return to her home country of England because she fears being prosecuted as a terrorist for seeking to influence her government. Harrison’s fear comes More
Joint National Security Council meeting, May 25, 2011. (Photo: The Prime Minister's Office / Flickr) This article, the first of two parts, is adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky on Feb. 28 sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. By Noam Chomsky, Truthout.org | Op-Ed 03 March 2014 A leading principle of international relations More
