Criminalizing Dissent Photo by CTJ71081 (CC-BY) By Chris Hedges Posted on Aug 13, 2012 truthdig.com I was on the 15th floor of the Southern U.S. District Court in New York in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest last Tuesday. It was the final hearing in the lawsuit I brought in January against President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense More
Criminalizing Dissent Photo by CTJ71081 (CC-BY) By Chris Hedges Posted on Aug 13, 2012 truthdig.com I was on the 15th floor of the Southern U.S. District Court in New York in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest last Tuesday. It was the final hearing in the lawsuit I brought in January against President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense More
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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More
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 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMThvPamS8M&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR2cduG3LHA&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVRuXENENpg&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrycFgPuJd0&w=560&h=315] Please note that by playing the above clips YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. More
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 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMThvPamS8M&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR2cduG3LHA&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVRuXENENpg&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrycFgPuJd0&w=560&h=315] Please note that by playing the above clips YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. More
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 More
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. More
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 More
