Jim Hightower> Repeal the Patriot Act

 "We the People have now learned that all three branches of government have furtively conspired for seven years to violate our privacy—so, no, we don't trust any of them."  Jim Hightower  Published: Wednesday 19 June 2013  NationofChange.org It's back. The Patriot Act — that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors More

Jim Hightower> Repeal the Patriot Act

 "We the People have now learned that all three branches of government have furtively conspired for seven years to violate our privacy—so, no, we don't trust any of them."  Jim Hightower  Published: Wednesday 19 June 2013  NationofChange.org It's back. The Patriot Act — that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors More

'Beyond Orwellian': Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program & Petition

FISA court order 'broadest surveillance order ever issued' against private citizens - Jon Queally, staff writer Published on Thursday, June 6, 2013 by Common Dreams  Update: (3:59 PM) As government officials and Verizon itself responded to the Guardian's NSA domestic spying story throughout the day, concern over the program's scope and implications only deepened among its army of critics. Responding to the More

‘Beyond Orwellian’: Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program & Petition

FISA court order 'broadest surveillance order ever issued' against private citizens - Jon Queally, staff writer Published on Thursday, June 6, 2013 by Common Dreams  Update: (3:59 PM) As government officials and Verizon itself responded to the Guardian's NSA domestic spying story throughout the day, concern over the program's scope and implications only deepened among its army of critics. Responding to the More

Tom Dispatch> Naming Our Nameless War> How Many Years Will It Be?

 For well over a decade now the United States has been “a nation at war.” Does that war have a name? TD's version of must-see TV: last week, Andrew Bacevich argued Stephen Colbert (or at least the character he plays) to a draw in a telling and funny episode of "the Colbert Report" which takes up the issue More

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