Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 2024 was a pivotal year for international humanitarian law. On the one hand, the International Court of Justice and the […]
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NSA Leads come from others’ police work, not from data mining: the case of Headley (Rotella)
Sebastian Rotella writes at ProPublica June 12: This story has been updated with NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander’s Senate testimony on surveillance. Defending a vast […]
Sen. Rand Paul: Snowden’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ seeks “to defend the Fourth Amendment”
Sen. Rand Paul pushes back against the National Security Agency and its massive surveillance of telephone records, in an interview with Jake Tapper of CNN. […]
You are the Terrorist (Video)
“You are the Terrorist” German with English subtitles; chilling.
Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square: Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday launched an assault on the demonstrators in Taksim Square. It was a puzzling and desperate act, which threatened […]
The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)
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 […]
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)
Democracy Now! was the only media to do an extensive on the scene video report: “>
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 […]
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: