Intelligence Squared Debate: Snowden Was Justified
February 13, 2014
[h/t Matt Feeney]
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The Pauls Are Leading the Way on Snowden, NSA
February 13, 2014
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced this week that he is suing the Obama administration in a class-action lawsuit over the surveillance excesses of the NSA, as revealed by documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Specifically, he is challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata. “We think it may well be the largest class-action […]
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The Day We Fight Back
February 11, 2014
We are fighting back too at Antiwar.com. Please visit The Day We Fight Back for events in your area. If you are in Los Angeles, please join us tonight at Casey’s Irish Pub at 613 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, California at 7:30pm. Restore The Fourth Los Angeles is hosting an event featuring the Tenth […]
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Obama, Bound By No Law, May Assassinate Another American
February 10, 2014
An important story from the Associated Press today explains how the Obama administration is considering whether to extra-judicially assassinate another American citizen in contravention of the suspect’s constitutional rights to due process. The suspect, the AP reports, is an American citizen and member of al-Qaeda, “and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill […]
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Scahill, Greenwald on DemocracyNow Discuss NSA-Drone Story
February 10, 2014
Read their story at the new online magazine The Intercept here.
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Is the US Trying to Install a Ukrainian Government, or Leaving It Up to Ukrainians?
February 7, 2014
The U.S. State Department’s top diplomat for Europe Victoria Nuland made headlines yesterday when an audio recording of her phone conversation with the U.S. Ambassador with Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was released. Rumors are swirling that the Russians were surveilling the U.S. diplomats and released the audio recording to embarrass the United States. What was so embarrassing […]
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The Truth About Cease-fire Violations Between Israel and Gaza
February 6, 2014
Here’s how the relationship between Israel and Gaza works: successive “cease-fires” are repeatedly adopted and continuously violated, leading more often to skirmishes than to lulls in violence. Israel bombs Gaza with airstrikes, Gaza shoots rockets into Israel. Then a new “cease-fire” is imposed. If you were to ask anyone, from a casual observer to a […]
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Author of the Patriot Act Says NSA Bulk Collection Is Illegal
February 5, 2014
Since the revelations about the NSA from Edward Snowden’s leaks last year, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who authored the Patriot Act, has come out in opposition to certain NSA surveillance practices, particularly bulk collection of Americans’ telephone metadata. The NSA says that its authority to vacuum up all Americans’ call records comes from the Patriot Act’s […]
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The Jet that Ate the Pentagon
February 4, 2014
According to the Project on Government Oversight, “The U.S. is going to spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35, and it still isn’t meeting its goals. Watch the video and find out how this happened.” Several commentators including Winslow Wheeler and William Hartung discuss this flying monuments to government waste.
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Edward Snowden Interview: The Public Had A Right To Know About These Things
February 4, 2014
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