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ITPI Requests All Communications on Privatizing Detroit’s Public Services; City Has Five Days to Respond to FOIA Request
Late yesterday, In the Public Interest (ITPI) filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all correspondence relating to the contracting of Detroit's public services from December of last …
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DEA Using NSA Surveillance to Crack Down on Drug Crimes?
A new report reveals that a secretive DEA unit funnels surveillance info from gov't agencies to law enforcement — and tells them to hide it.
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The Twisted Value Judgments Behind US Sanctions Policy
Senator Lindsey Graham, the most radical authoritarian in the radically authoritarian U.S. Senate, has introduced a legislative measure that would impose trade sanctions on any country that offers asylum …
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud
The concept of a do-it-yourself retirement was a fraud.
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Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy
Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship.
The Greatest Threat to Global Food Security: Capitalism
The current Industrial mass production of food for profit is a political, economic and social crisis that has devastating effects on human health and threatens the survival of the …
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Criminalizing Journalism: Manning, Media and You
While Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the entire trial as a whole brings up grave questions about the future of freedom of the press.
Welcome to Post-Constitution America: What If Your Country Begins to Change and No One Notices?
The Bradley Manning verdict signals the beginning of the
ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (Part V)
Lambert Strether takes a look at Obamacare and how it is creating an imbalanced system underneath the guise of equality.
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“One Threat” — Progressive Power Unifying
Dave Johnson discusses corporate-funded conservatives and their war on democracy.