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
The American character Fareed Zakaria warns the war on terror will never end. Obama and Romney still won’t debate our surveillance state. BY GLENN GREENWALD MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012 05:49 AM CDT salon.com (Credit: iStockphoto/BrianAJackson) (updated below) Fareed Zakaria, normally a reliable and pleasant purveyor of conventional “centrist” wisdom, has a genuinely good and surprisingly confrontational CNN column More
The American character Fareed Zakaria warns the war on terror will never end. Obama and Romney still won’t debate our surveillance state. BY GLENN GREENWALD MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012 05:49 AM CDT salon.com (Credit: iStockphoto/BrianAJackson) (updated below) Fareed Zakaria, normally a reliable and pleasant purveyor of conventional “centrist” wisdom, has a genuinely good and surprisingly confrontational CNN column More
Surveillance State democracy As the FBI seeks full access to all forms of Internet communication, it is not voters who need to be convinced. BY GLENN GREENWALD SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 06:37 AM CDT salon.com President Barack Obama at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., on, Friday.(Credit: AP) CNET‘s excellent technology reporter, Declan McCullagh, reports on ongoing More
Surveillance State democracy As the FBI seeks full access to all forms of Internet communication, it is not voters who need to be convinced. BY GLENN GREENWALD SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 06:37 AM CDT salon.com President Barack Obama at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., on, Friday.(Credit: AP) CNET‘s excellent technology reporter, Declan McCullagh, reports on ongoing More
NYPD spying program aimed at Muslims BY GLENN GREENWALD FEB 22, 2012 Salon.com Mohammed el-Sioufi, an accountant and vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque in Newark, is interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department’s surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. (Credit: AP/Charles More
The Cancer in Occupy by Chris Hedges February 6, 2012 by Truthdig.com via Common Dreams The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical More
