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Noam Chomsky: U.S. Openly Brags About Boom Times for Its Drone Wars, While Casually Abandoning Our 800 Year-old System of Due Process

Slowly the foundations of liberty are ripped to shreds, torn apart Satellite Magazine / By Steven Garbas, Noam Chomsky  September 25, 2013  alternet.org This article first appeared at Satellite Magazine, whose author Steven Garbas met with Chomsky in Cambridge, Massachusetts earlier this year to discuss the development of the drone era under president Obama. Noam Chomsky: Just driving in this morning I was More

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Juan Cole: Top 10 Things That Don’t Make Sense About NSA Surveillance, Drones and Al-Qaida – Truthdig

 If the NSA and ATF have the telephone, credit card and internet records of all Americans, why don’t they stop mass shootings?  NSA  By Juan Cole  Posted on Aug 6, 2013  truthdig.com This piece first appeared on Juan Cole’s website, Informed Comment. In a Reuters Exclusive, John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke reveal that the National Security Agency shares information it gleans More

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Secret Court Renews Controversial NSA Surveillance Program

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) extends the NSA's authority to gather telephone data from millions of Americans Editor's Note:  This star chamber court operates with impunity. It has no Congressional oversight. To see the members of the court, click the Read More at the end of the article. Posted on Jul 21, 2013   Truthdig.com   A top More

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(Video) Jeremy Scahill> The War Against Whistleblowers & Inside America’s Covert Wars

At this year's Socialism Conference in Chicago, Jeremy Scahill spoke about the war against whistleblowers, what a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens and the difference between having principles and playing a partisan game. [youtube=http://youtu.be/4xU-eH7IpCw] Published on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by The Nation via Common Dreams videonation  Published on Jul 11, More

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(Video) Jeremy Scahill> The War Against Whistleblowers & Inside America's Covert Wars

At this year's Socialism Conference in Chicago, Jeremy Scahill spoke about the war against whistleblowers, what a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens and the difference between having principles and playing a partisan game. [youtube=http://youtu.be/4xU-eH7IpCw] Published on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by The Nation via Common Dreams videonation  Published on Jul 11, More

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