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Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014
The NDAA for 2014 will effectively authorize indefinite surveillance of everyone.
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Vindicated: USMA Officer Upholds Tradition of Christian Privileging in the Military
A commissioning ceremony at West Point over Memorial Day weekend vindicates Page's decision to leave West Point for its failure to uphold church-state separation and join the Military Religious …
TransCanada’s Keystone XL, the Safest Pipeline Ever – Says Who?
The southern portion of the KXL pipeline is over 75 percent complete but resistance continues and will likely intensify now that construction anomalies have been revealed by mandatory testing.
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Checks, Lies and Bankster Red Tape
Thom Hartmann: Just when we thought the big banks couldnu2019t hit a new low, they do.
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NSA Spying Extends to Contents of US Phone Calls
The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls, a participant said.
The Terror Diaspora: The US Military and the Unraveling of Africa
As the war in Afghanistan — a conflict born of blowback — winds down, there will be greater incentive and opportunity to project U.S. military power in Africa.
Guantanamo Prisoner Al-Nashiri’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
Attorney Marjorie Cohn analyzes the legal issues raised by the Al-Nashiri pretrial hearings in Guantanamo last week and concludes that the new, improved military commissions can still put someone …
Four Paradoxes of the Nuclear Age
A 1950 Japanese film entitled Rashomon describes an incident in which four witnesses to a crime give wildly contradictory but equally plausible accounts of what happened. In the on-going …
Conscience of Edward Snowden, Courage Is Contagious
As the revelations of mass NSA surveillance raised shock-waves around the globe, 29-year old Edward Snowden came forward to identify himself as the one behind the largest leak in …
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Off With Their Heads
The French were right: the best way to deal with the rich is to behead them - at least figuratively, if not physically. Opposing capital punishment does not mean …