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How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent Iranian Electrical Engineer
Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering …
Court Rejects Voter Suppression Efforts
Almost 47 years to the day after a peaceful voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, ended in violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a federal court in Philadelphia struck …
Bribing Israel
The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …
Fukushima in Light of Minamata
Japan is still struggling to deal with the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and will be for a long time. This makes the triple disaster of March 11, 2011 …
In Afghanistan, the Dam Breaks
The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there …
What Other Skeletons Lurk in the NYPD’s Closet?
(Photo: Giacomo Barbaro / Flickr) The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has been embroiled in national controversy after revelations that the department secretly infiltrated cities and …
Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Norm, Not the Exception in the United States
On March 6 members of an off-shoot of Anonymous, Lulzsec, were arrested as a result of an FBI informant, Sabu, who the media describes as a Lulzsec leader. The …
How We Cured “the Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself
A homeless man on the streets of Washington, DC. (Photo: Elvert Barnes / Flickr) It’s been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Goldman Sachs Thinks You’re a “Muppet,” and More
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Former NSA Official’s Advice to Fellow Whistleblowers: “You Better Lawyer Up“
Thomas Drake. (Photo: Pam Rutter / Flickr) In a January interview with Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expressed concern that the First Amendment, …