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As Edward Snowden Wins One Year Asylum in Russia, NSA Program Tracking Real-Time Internet Use Exposed
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given one year temporary political asylum in Russia. Snowden has reportedly already left the Moscow airport where he has been holed …
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FISA Court: Blurring Lines, Consolidating Tyranny
As the Obama Administration increases its arsenal of surveillance and secret policing tools it grounds the legality of their use at home and abroad on classified FISA court rulings.
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Noam Chomsky | Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane?
Chomsky: Washington's indignation knows no bounds at the thought that someone wanted by the U.S. should receive asylum.
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My Life in Circles: Why Metadata Is Incredibly Intimate
Metadata, no matter what the detractors say, collected over time is an intimate repository of our lives.
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The Coming Cyber-Cold War: US Pioneering Online Attacks
Cyber warfare has established itself, and governments are spending billions in researching how best to use it.
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
Ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesnu2019t have the …
License Plate Scanners, Black Boxes Track Location of Millions of Motorists
Documents obtained by the ACLU reveal location records are being stored by law enforcement agencies across the nation without oversight.
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Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press
Norman Solomon: Efforts to quash press freedom are in sync with the unrelenting persecution of whistleblowers.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
What the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin America
In all of the data the US gathered, it missed one crucial fact: that Latin America is no longer Washington's backyard.