Nozomi Hayase: WikiLeaks’“Mediastan”; The True Fifth Estate Bringing the...
“Freedom of Speech is a truly liberational force in the world. It allows us to challenge, and if necessary, reject or dismantle official narratives and structures. It frees thoughts and feelings from...
View ArticleWho Buys the Spies? The Hidden Corporate Cash Behind America’s Out-of-Control...
Democratic leaders are full-fledged players in the national surveillance state, right along with Republicans. By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, Jie Chen October 21, 2013 AlterNet.org Photo Credit:...
View ArticleJohn Cole Cartoon: The NSA Snake
truthdig.comFiled under: Constitutional Rights, International, National Security Complex, U.S. Foreign Policy Tagged: America’s Surveillance State, barack obama, Cagle Cartoons, cartoon, Edward...
View ArticleCollect it all: America’s surveillance state
Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA’s surveillance programme in the US and abroad. Fault Lines Last Modified: 07 Nov 2013 AlJazeera.com Some of the US’ best secrets are out since former...
View ArticleSpencer Ackerman: Fisa court documents reveal extent of NSA disregard for...
Incensed Fisa court judges questioned NSA’s truthfulness after repeated breaches of rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy Spencer Ackerman in New York Tuesday 19 November 2013 13.42 EST...
View Article[Video] Greenwald Sacks BBC’s Stephen Sackur
Glenn Greenwald “The Goal Of The U.S. Government Is To Eliminate ALL Privacy Globally!” Posted on Nov 29, 2013 truthdig.com Stephen Sackur of BBC’s “HARDtalk” appeared absurd this week when he...
View Article▶ “There is a War on Journalism”: Jeremy Scahill on NSA Leaks & New...
Published on Dec 5, 2013 Six months ago today, Glenn Greenwald published his first article about Edward Snowden’s leaks from the National Security Agency in The Guardian newspaper. British police are...
View ArticleWAMM: A Visit with Edward Snowden
Lighting Candles in the Dark By WAMM WAMM Newsletter November/December 2013 Portrait of Coleen Rowley by realist painter Robert Shetterly in the series, “Americans Who Tell the Truth: Models of...
View Article▶ Coleen Rowley: FBI whistleblower, Moscow trip and freedom endangered by...
Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent and 2011 whistleblower recently returned from Moscow where she traveled with three other Americans to present Edward Snowden the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in...
View ArticleMedia: The NSA files and the network effect
The modern leak needs a new kind of reporting, and news organisations are adapting by finding collaborations of scale Posted by Emily Bell Sunday 15 December 2013 The Guardian Edward Snowden on the...
View Article▶ As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance “Almost Orwellian,” Obama Prepares to Leave...
Published on Dec 17, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - A federal judge ruled Monday the National Security Agency”s bulk collection of American’s phone records “almost certainly” violates the Fourth...
View ArticleNoted Whistleblowers Speak Up for Edward Snowden
Blowing the whistle on powerful factions is not a fun thing to do, but it is the last avenue for truth, balanced debate and democracy By Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Katharine Gun, Peter Kofod, Ray...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Making the Right Call on NSA
The headline recommendation from the five-member review group is that the NSA stop compiling a comprehensive record of all our phone calls. By Eugene Robinson December 20, 2013 truthdig.com...
View ArticleReed Richardson: What the Press Should Learn From the “Snowden Effect”
However, the Snowden revelations and their subsequent publication haven’t just had an impact on issues of privacy and national security. They’ve also occasioned a re-awakening of a debate about the...
View Article▶ The NSA Is Coming to Town! WAMM Singers
NSA Carols Sung by the WAMM Singers (Women Against Military Madness) http://youtu.be/oS7t7wt0th4 THE NSA IS COMING TO TOWN TUNE: Santa Claus is Coming to Town You better watch out, You better not...
View ArticleNew York Times Editorial: Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it...
View ArticlePatrick Smith: Our Orwellian reality. Drone wars, surveillance, a lapdog...
Our government lies to itself — and to us. Like Edward Snowden, it is time for us all to stand up for our values. PATRICK L. SMITH January 2, 2013 Salon.com George Orwell, Edward Snowden (Credit:...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Last Gasp of American Democracy
The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin, in his essential book “Democracy Incorporated,” calls our system of corporate governance “inverted totalitarianism,” which represents “the political coming of...
View ArticleTikkun: Q & A with Coleen Rowley, F.B.I. Whistleblower: Part One
By Timothy Villareal January 3, 2014 Tikkun.org In 2002, then-F.B.I. agent Coleen Rowley appeared on the cover of Time magazine, along with two corporate whistleblowers, as Time’s Persons of the...
View Article▶ David Swanson: Obama Fans Aren’t Even Pretending That Was a Good Speech
Obama’s speech and new “policy directive” eliminate the Fourth Amendment. By davidswanson - Posted on 17 January 2014 WarIsACrime.org President Barack Obama gave a eulogy for the Fourth Amendment...
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