constitutionless TSA institutes “suspicionless searches”
The federal law enforcement agency called the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun to deploy brigades of agents to perform what it calls “suspicionless searches” in several US cities....
View ArticleUS courts rubberstamp immunity for corporate crime wave
A panel of three federal judges unanimously ruled Thursday that citizens cannot seek damages from private telecommunications companies that assist the US government as it conducts massive warrantless...
View Articlejoint chief fears theoretical alliance between drug smugglers and Islamic...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, who recently toured several South American countries told reporters of his concerns that today’s drug smugglers will possibly become...
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Count Von Count Counts 20 Times the Administration Has Blown Off Targeted Killing Memo Requests : emptywheel Remember: Sequestration was Obama’s Idea : Black Agenda Report Jury Finds Occupy Wall...
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Hell Breaks Loose in Europe as Banking Crisis Unfolds: Depositors’ Money May Be Seized : alternet The Internet is a surveillance state : CNN Opinion Obama To GOP: I’m Serious About Cutting The Social...
View Articlesoft totalitarianism : self-censorship and acceptance of corporate surveillance
The revelation from one of the world’s few remaining independent press organizations, the Associated Press, that, subsequent to the federal government’s attempt to criminalize the act of reportage, its...
View ArticleUS shutters 21 embassies in the middle east and warns travelers of possible...
The US State Department has shuttered 21 embassies and consulate offices across the Middle East and North Africa including embassies in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Qatar, Kuwait,...
View ArticleDEA fakebook : parallel construction
Reuters has reported that the National Security Administration has been sharing information gleaned through its extensive secret systems of surveillance with the Drug Enforcement Administration for...
View ArticleThe profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits...
View ArticleTo hell with the heelots and then, to the hills
As this divided, infrastructurally decrepit, middle class obviated, finance industry indentured, environmentally forsaken, compassion suppressing, rich get richer, war is the only answer, private...
View ArticleTroubled waters as Israeli newspaper is accused of editorial dishonesty
The artist-activist Roger Waters has responded sharply to the editors of Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper who published an interview by Alon Hadar with the co-founder of the music group “Pink Floyd”...
View ArticleThe eternal bloodlust of the spotless brain
When my sick brother was fitted with deep brain stimulators to attempt to address some of the most debilitating symptoms of the progressive and cureless brain affliction called Parkinson’s disease...
View ArticleAll I could think of is running
About five real people were there when he was describing the thin blue air. A normally perfect day, the kind of day you may see that a kid could have drawn with crayons in that universal.kid.artwork...
View ArticleUnclear on the concept cavalcade continues to corrupt citizens’ consciousness
Ripped from the headlines, the news seems to suggest that rank and file democrats are following their standard bearer’s ‘style’ when it comes to solving some of the more pressing and complex problems...
View Articlefederal judge legalizes illegal surveillance, criminalizes free association
Mirroring, or perhaps parroting, the neo-fascistic theories underpinning the televised comments of President Barack Obama this past summer where he acknowledged that his government, with the full...
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