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The Consequences of Legalizing “GI Jesus Tourette’s Syndrome“
I've often wondered as to precisely how many of the scores upon scores of imbecilic, fundamentalist Christian members of the United States Congress have ever served even one nanosecond …
Life in the Rural Police State of Monsanto
Worldwatch Institute says that the GMO regime has initiated a ‘new era of feudalism.’
ObamaCare’s Relentless Creation of Second-Class Citizens (Part II)
ObamaCare uses a complex and intricate Rube Goldberg-esque system of eligibility rules.
UK Grapples with Spying Disclosure
British news outlets struggle to figure out what to do with the revelation that their government and the NSA spied on members of the last G8 summit.
Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014
The NDAA for 2014 will effectively authorize indefinite surveillance of everyone.
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.
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 …