Chase Madar writes at Tomdispatch.com The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army, will be pulling out all the stops when it calls to the stand a member of Navy SEAL Team 6, the unit that assassinated Osama bin Laden. The SEAL (in partial disguise, as his identity is secret) is expected to tell […]
The Dictator: Imagine if America was a Dictatorship (Video)
The Dictator: Imagine if America was a dictatorship:
Great Moments in Police Clearing of Protesters: Zucotti Park, Nov. 15, 2011 (Democracy Now! Video)
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Top Ten Ways the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden said that he stepped forward because he came to realize that the US government is engaged in invasions of Americans’ privacy on a vast and unprecedented scale, and was hiding its interpretation of the law from the American people. Given that the NSA is contravening the 4th amendment guarantees against unreasonable search and […]
Turning the Tables on the Surveillance Class (Cole on Majority Report)
Here are part 1 and part 2 of Michael Brooks’s interview of me on Sam Seder’s Majority Report on Monday. Part 1: and Part 2:
Police Clear Taksim Square: Turkey’s Protests and the Neoliberal Market (Cole interview)
Update On Tuesday morning, police in Istanbul moved on protesters at Taksim Square, using teargas and water cannon to clear them out. Police began dismantling the barricades erected by protesters. 301Plus News reports Prime Minister Erdogan’s aggressive and confrontational style with the protesters has prompted the Chinese news agency Xinhua to do a story on […]
Its the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count
The Second Amendment to the Constitution is interpreted by lawmakers and judges in an absolute manner. Every American, we are constantly told– even mentally ill ones like the shooter at Santa Monica College who killed 6 persons on Friday, hunting our children as though they were wild game– has the right to stockpile semi-automatic weapons […]
Istanbul Rising: VICE Explains the Turkish Protests (Video)
VICE: “On Friday, May 31, Turkish riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray into a peaceful protest held to save Gezi Park, one of the last green areas in central Istanbul. This set off the biggest civil uprising in the history of the Turkish Republic, calling for Prime Minister Erdogan’s resignation. The unrest has […]
Gitmo comes Home to America: Torture, Gag Orders and Legal Dirty Tricks have Corrupted the System (Brittain)
Victoria Brittain writes at Tomdispatch.com A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have at last brought Guantanamo, the notorious offshore prison set up by the Bush administration early in 2002, back into American consciousness. Prominent voices are finally calling on President Obama to close it down and send home scores of prisoners […]
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