Our privacy is getting hit from two sides — from corporations as well as the government. By John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus January 29, 2014 We’ve become all too comfortable opening up our lives to the scrutiny of others. (Photo: bclinesmith / Flickr) Some years ago when I was fielding complaints from authors through the More
A society consisting of the sum of its vanity and greed is not a society at all but a state of war. — Lewis Lapham By Henry A. Giroux 13 January 2014 Truthout.org | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The Gilded Age is back, with huge profits for the ultrarich, hedge fund managers and the major players in the financial More
A society consisting of the sum of its vanity and greed is not a society at all but a state of war. — Lewis Lapham By Henry A. Giroux 13 January 2014 Truthout.org | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The Gilded Age is back, with huge profits for the ultrarich, hedge fund managers and the major players in the financial More
WILLIAM RIVERS PITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:52 truthout.org Tonight, I raise a glass to many upon many, and to many more again. I raise a glass to those who ran to the sound and the smoke and the screams and the blood on Boylston Street in Boston, to do what More
WILLIAM RIVERS PITT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:52 truthout.org Tonight, I raise a glass to many upon many, and to many more again. I raise a glass to those who ran to the sound and the smoke and the screams and the blood on Boylston Street in Boston, to do what More
...civil liberties groups including the ACLU and the NACDL did not endorse the privacy recommendations the ASA ultimately is urging state legislators to consider. And at least three members of the ASA's policy committee, including its chairperson,are associated with defense contract industries such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. By Candice Bernd Thursday, 24 October 2013 More
The business of war is more profitable than ever. [youtube=http://youtu.be/3ARUVpS05Cc] Published on Sep 4, 2013 TheRealNews Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on FACEBOOK! Check the WAMMToday More
The Politics of Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power "The imaginary of war and violence informs every aspect of American society and extends from the celebration of a warrior culture in mainstream media to the use of universities to educate students in the logic of the national security state." By Henry A Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis Wednesday, More
The Politics of Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power "The imaginary of war and violence informs every aspect of American society and extends from the celebration of a warrior culture in mainstream media to the use of universities to educate students in the logic of the national security state." By Henry A Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis Wednesday, More
Anniversaries From “Unhistory” by: Noam Chomsky 6 February 2012 Truthout | Op-Ed Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. June 14, 1966. (Photo: Lt. Col. Cecil J. Poss, USAF) George Orwell coined the useful term More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFPN-XFGk0&w=560&h=315] How to Reverse the Corporate Coup d’Etat A Conversation With Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig Monday 30 January 2012 TruthOut Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig, Yes! Magazine | Interview and Video Protesters against Citizens United demonstrate outside the Sacramento Capitol, California, January 21, 2012. (Photo: Public Citizen) "We've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. More
The World War on Democracy Thursday 19 January 2012 truthout by John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis B-1B Lancer Bombers on a runway at Diego Garcia, November, 2001, during the bombing campaign in Afghanistan. (Photo: Senior Airman Rebeca M. Luquin, U.S. Air Force) Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent More
