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Thank You, NSA.
Political corruption will destroy the world. We have the means to eradicate it using today's technology. All that is lacking is the political will, as the people who could …
Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass
As the post-coup regime in Ukraine sends troops and paramilitaries to crack down on ethnic Russian protesters in the east, the US news media continues to feed the American …
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John Pilger | The Strangelove Effect – or How We Are Hoodwinked Into Fighting a New Cold War
While President Obama seeks more money for nuclear weapons than at the peak of the Cold War, the era of the comedy movie, “Dr. Strangelove,” it's no joke …
“There’s a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali”
Documentary film forces viewers to cope with a black man who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee in a white world.
Taxes, the Rich, and Our Known Universe
Pundits and political scientists are always searching for that simple theory that'll explain just what makes our politics tick. Where should they be looking? How about in the eyes …
Arationalism, Negative Epistemology & Geopolitics
Musa al-Gharbi explains the (anti)philosophy in his research on the unlikely intersection of theology, cognitive science and Middle East geopolitics.
Brennan Center Urges Congress to Pass Democracy Restoration Act
Based on Brennan Center proposal, bill would restore voting rights to 4.4 million Americans.
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One Nation the US Actually Should Liberate
Jon Olsen's new book, Liberate Hawai'i: Renouncing and Defying the Continuing Fraudulent US Claim to the sovereignty of Hawai'i, makes a compelling case — a legal case as well …
The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Programme That Wasn’t
When US Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz unsealed the indictment of a Chinese citizen in the UK for violating the embargo against Iran, she made what appeared to …
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Abe’s NSA? The Japanese Government Embraces Secrecy
In an effort to please the United States, Japan's Parliament made NSA-like provisions law.