
Month: July 2013


XKeyscore: NSA Tool Collects ‘Nearly Everything A User Does On The Internet’

The Manning Verdict: A Very Pyrrhic Victory

Sea World Entertainment and Guantanamo Bay: Captivity, Torture and Slow Death
Pressure from European Union heightens political crisis in Slovenia
Denmark’s social democratic-led government targets health service for cuts

Australia: Queensland flood victims still living in freight containers
Congressional committee passes legislation attacking the Postal Service and its workers
Senate confirms deputy attorney general under Bush as new FBI chief
Obama outlines “grand bargain” to slash corporate taxes
The conviction of Bradley Manning: A travesty of justice
Balkanization of Key Mideast States Arabs, Beware the “Small States” Option
The Illusion of Israeli/Palestinian Peace for Our Time
Ho Chi Minh and the Declaration of Independence
That Most Charming of Couples: Nationalism and Hypocrisy
Bradley Manning Cleared of ‘Aiding the Enemy’ but Guilty of Most Other Charges
The Moral Verdict on Bradley Manning: A Conviction of Love in Action
Australia’s Election Campaign Is Driven By A Barbarism That Dares Not Speak Its Name
8 Shocking Ways America Leads the World
Egypt: Divide and Conquer?
The Power Behind the Rebels Why No Revolution Exists in Syria
West War Crimes in Syria Exposed

How Rich is Congress?
Enhanced video – Shooting of Sammy Yatim by Toronto Police
Taliban free hundreds in Pakistan jailbreak
UK: Splitting of Doncaster children services a model for further privatisations
Australian Greens fraudulently posture as defenders of refugees

Australian think tank proposes military base on PNG’s Manus Island
UK: Splitting of Doncaster children services a model for further privatisations
New York City public housing tenants protest plans for luxury development
Obama rejects federal aid for Detroit
The Egyptian coup and the tasks facing the working class

The G20 wants to tax the multinationals
In Defense of Hezbollah, a “Terrorist” Organization

Major Opinion Shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA Surveillance and Privacy

“Big Data” Dynamo: How Giant Tech Firms Help the Government Spy on Us and Gut Privacy
The Assassination of Julian Assange “We Steal Secrets”: A Masterclass in Propaganda
US Anti-Russia Policy Won’t Fly

US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

An Anarchistic Understanding of the Social Order Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Resistance, and a Place for the Sciences
The Business of Mass Incarceration

The Boycott of Israel Eight Years In
America, the Powerful and the Powerless

Where there is no logic, power will do
US vice president visits India to strengthen ties against China
Germany: Left Party defends the secret services
California pensions remain underfunded despite fiscal gains
Japan seeks pre-emptive military strike capabilities
Four in five Americans economically insecure
Mounting toll of dead, injured from crackdown by Egyptian junta
Obama’s bogus crusade for the “middle class”

A Shameful Day to Be a US Citizen

Another Journalist With Children in the Israeli Military
They Know Much More Than You Think
If Trayvon Were Pakistani…
Egypt’s Military Junta Playing With Fire
“Overwhelming” Evidence of Plot to Assassinate Venezuela’s Maduro
Grow Sugar And Shut Up! 60 Years of Cuban Revolution:
Robert Fisk Reports From Cairo The Future for Egypt is Looking Increasingly Bloody
Egypt – Dozens Killed – Thousands Wounded
How We are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – And What To Do About It

Kerry uses Arabs to bully Palestinians
British police stole IDs of dead children to infiltrate political organisations
Britain’s Royal birth: Media frenzy amid public indifference
US-Australian military exercise rehearses for war against China
Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying gulf oil spill evidence
US pressures Russia to extradite Snowden, vowing “he will not be tortured”
Egyptian military breaks up pro-Mursi rallies in bloody crackdown
Greece and Detroit—a new stage in the social counterrevolution
The Two Faux Democracies Threaten Life On Earth
Ex-US General: We Pay a Price for Backing Israel
Al-Qaeda Unleashed Against Syria and Iraq With Acceptance of the West

Democratic Establishment Unmasked: Prime Defenders of NSA Bulk Spying
Senate Bill Authorizes Sanctions on Russia or any Other Country Offering Snowden Asylum
Edward Snowden’s Fear of Flying is Justified
The Militarization of America
The Corporate Media’s Mass Hypnosis
Obama’s Master Class in Demagogy 101
How Goldman Sachs Robbed You Of Five Billion Dollars
German report on horrendous treatment of refugees on Europe’s borders
Prosecution delivers closing arguments in Manning trial
At least 80 killed in Spanish train crash
Australian opposition leader demands military response to refugee “emergency”
UK: The unlawful killing of deportee Jimmy Mubenga
Michigan dissolves two school districts
Japan scrambles fighters against Chinese plane in East China Sea
Egyptian coup leader al-Sisi threatens mass repression
US Congress defends the methods of a police state

John Wayne, the New Economy and the American Male Worker
How Iraq will win the Arab Spring

The Threat of Nuclear War, North Korea or the United States?
Whistleblowers expose unspeakable conditions in Australian refugee camps
New Pakistani government desperate for IMF bailout
State government retaliates against leaders of California prisons strike
Snowden remains in airport as Russian officials send mixed messages
After White House intervention, House defeats constraints on domestic spying
The militarization of America
America’s Newest Suharto / Pinochet Calls for More Violence in Egypt
Palestinians: Talks Won’t Resume Without Israeli
Iraq Invades the United States
The Amash Amendment: A Vital Shield From Unwarranted NSA Surveillance
Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
Brazil: Extractive Capitalism and the Great Leap Backward
Blessed Are the Rich
Bankers Own the World

Soon, no more obstacles to the new Sykes-Picot
Portugal’s “National Salvation” pact fails

Brazil’s unions, “left” parties and the July 11 “general strike”
UK health secretary gives go-ahead for closure of Trafford General Emergency unit
Canada: Safety Board issues tepid call for more oversight in wake of rail disaster
Euro zone debt burden continues to rise
Leaked emails reveal conspiracy to throw Detroit into bankruptcy
US military plans direct intervention in Syria
Obama touts economic “recovery,” steps up assault on workers
Mossad’s Pardo Visits UAE
On the Death of Helen Thomas
Egypt’s Old Guard Takes the Reins After Overthrow of Mohamed Morsi
Caving to White House Pressure Livni Squeals, Kerry Deals and the EU Picks Up the Tab
Tony Blair’s Malawi Adventure

Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in State Terror
US: Assassination of Citizens, Uncounted “Collateral Damage” and a Law Suit
Stop Doing the Vicious Work of the Ruling Class
Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System
Onward Back to Feudalism
American Middle-class Prosperity is Pure Fantasy
War Against Iran, Iraq AND Syria?

Why the black-out on Syria?
Peruvian government approves labor counter-reform
Turkish police crack down on internal opposition
Demand grows for Spanish prime minister to resign
FISA court renews NSA spying program
A call to action: Oppose the Detroit bankruptcy!
US expands global drone warfare
Snowden and Latin America Expose Washington’s Impotence in a Changing World
Gen. Hayden’s Glass House
Gitmo Prisoner Force-Feeding Violates Medical Ethics
If we are Going to Retreat, Must we Grovel so Shamefully as we Leave?
EU Bows to US Pressure, Blacklists Military Wing of Hezbollah
Trayvon and White Madness
Chris Hedges: “America is a Tinderbox”
Noam Chomsky: The Corporatization of the University
Why Is the United States So Sick?
Mind Rape and the Christian Right
11-Year-Old Yemeni Girl Nada Al-Ahdal Flees Home to Avoid Forced Marriage: I’d Rather Kill Myself
Russia and the Beast
Riots hit Trappes, France after police arrest family of veiled Muslim woman
Australian spy base “critical” to Obama’s drone assassinations
Australian Labor government announces shutting of borders to refugees
Organizers of Trayvon Martin rallies promote Democratic Party
Prosecutors attack Bradley Manning for being “anti-patriotic”
Detroit bankruptcy sets stage for national assault on public-sector pensions
Obama, race and class
NATO: Assad Prevailing in Syria
The Road to Nowhere – Kerry Mideast Journey
Egyptian Coup Should Trigger Broad Re-examination of U.S. Militarization of Middle East
Journalist James Risen Ordered to Testify in CIA Leaker Trial
Bradley Manning ‘Aiding the Enemy’ Charge is a Threat to Journalism
This Is Your Future: Ordering a Pizza In 2015, NSA Style
The World is Aghast over Trayvon Martin. The US Needs to Look at Itself
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