Who's the coward, John Kerry?
Edward Snowden, you say? The man who took the American spying and military apparatus, arguably the most powerful man-made force on the planet, head-on? Who left the privilege of membership within that...
View ArticleSupreme Court on mobile phone searches: "Get a warrant." There, was that so...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable...
View ArticleJohn Kerry 2014 repudiates John Kerry 1971
Fulbright Commission hearing on the Vietnam War, 1971 John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, April 22nd, 1971: In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam which...
View ArticleCanada: Don't let the Parliament shooting be your anthrax attacks
Functionally, that means that CSIS will be able to get a warrant in a secret proceeding, and use that warrant to employ CSEC to intercept all the communications of a Canadian living abroad. That power...
View ArticleFCC Chairman floats Net neutrality for corporations but not for people
The unbearable clarity of "common carrier" status :: :: The title of this post is neither hyperbole nor metaphor. It is literal. F.C.C. Considering Hybrid Regulatory Approach to Net Neutrality By...
View ArticleAnd with that, the CIA's torture cover-up succeeds spectacularly.
President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and their administration ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to torture people. The CIA tortured people.Not "used enhanced interrogation techniques on...
View ArticleOn the credibility of a certain Russian aerospace company
[T]he Kuznetsov company in the Russian city of Samara suggested the blame lay not with its NK-33 engines, which formed the basis for the AJ-26 engines, but rather with their later modification in the...
View Article2 °C doesn't sound so bad
Americans don't get the metric system. When you're trying to point out to an American audience how dire the consequences of human-caused global warming are, please use terms that Americans understand...
View ArticleRussian state press runs fake MH17 shoot-down photo
US dismisses Russian MH17 pictures that blame Ukraine for disaster Russian state media shows purported satellite images of fighter jet intercept but White House says claim is ‘preposterous’ Associated...
View ArticleAction: People's Hearing on the Future of the Internet, San Francisco, 7 PM Thu.
What: Bay Area Speaks: A People's Hearing on the Future of the Internet When: Thurs., Nov. 20: Rally outside at 5:30 PM; hearing starts at 7:00 PM Where: San Francisco City Hall, Room 305 Who: We're...
View ArticleSay, heard anything from the Khorasan Group lately?
The scariest gang of super-sub-human villains of all time? Y'know... the Khorasan Group?...Anything at all?...Maybe there was one little blip, still only from official government sources. I don't know,...
View ArticleJustice in the USA, circa 2014
Long Prison Term/ExileScot-FreeOn-the-Spot ExecutionLeak classified documents exposing lawbreaking, corruption, waste*Leak classified information supporting the administrationExpose acts of...
View ArticleWant to tell the California Democratic Party what to do? Go vote this weekend!
Do you want to influence the agenda that the California Democratic Party sets for our state? Then put democracy into the Democratic Party, and make your voice heard! This weekend, January 10th and...
View ArticleNew AUMF already contains a possible wave-the-bloody-shirt lie
Whereas ISIL is responsible for the deaths of innocent United States citizens, including James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller; Authorization for Use of Military...
View ArticleWhy yes, FBI Director Comey, that is what it means to live in a free country
In the context of: The Federal Bureau of Investigation's all-consuming lust for instant backdoor decrypted access to every 1 and every 0, everywhere, and Computer, telecommunications, and Internet...
View ArticleDamn you, Democrats, run the "Daisy" ad
Run it now.The moment is ripe. Like you should've done with the debt ceiling and default fiasco, a moment when you could've destroyed all Republican public credibility in one fell swoop. This time it's...
View ArticleBritish 2003 Iraq Provincial Gov Coordinator: Marvel at the sophistication
A reporter for the Guardian interviewed former British provincial governor coordinator in Iraq Emma Sky about her new book, The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq. Behold this...
View Article39M Californians: You have ONE JOB today (TPP, +WA OR CO ND MO FL VA MD DE...
We only have two senators representing our gigantic state, and one of them voted for fast-track (Trade Promotion Authority) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership last time around. Now the House of...
View ArticleVindication for Valtin on the APA & Torture: An Appreciation
For the past decade, former American Psychological Association member Valtin took to these pages to expose the involvement of a number of psychologists in CIA and US military torture and to advocate...
View ArticleNow the Feds know how it feels to be a civil liberties advocate
Some Justice and F.B.I. officials have been frustrated that the White House has not moved more quickly or been more outspoken in the public relations fight that the tech companies appear to be...
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