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Abu Qatada treaty endorsed by King

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 18 (News) - The King of Jordan endorses a treaty with the UK, paving the way for the extradition of radical cleric Abu Qatada.

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Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jon Cohen - Jun. 11 (Poll) - A large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats even if personal privacy is compromised, and most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll . ...

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Climate change – what next after the 2C boundary?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - The modification of the 2C climate target will put an end to the vision of a "science-based" climate policy This Friday, another frustrating round of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ends in Bonn/Germany. It is highly doubtful that the international community will be able to agree on a treaty that would commit all industrialised countries and emerging economies to binding emissions reduction targets by the end of 2015.

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"On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State": NSA Whistleblower Rejects Gov't Defense of Spying

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - As Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warns the recent leaks could “render great damage to our intelligence capabilities,” we speak to William Binney, a former top official at the National Security Agency, and Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who has broken the NSA spying stories. Binney spent almost 40 years at the agency but resigned after Sept. 11 over concerns about growing domestic surveillance. He spent time as director of the NSA's World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group and was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping network. "The government is not trying to protect [secrets about NSA surveillance] from the terrorists," Binney says. "It's trying to protect knowledge of that program from the citizens of the United States."

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Glenn Greenwald on How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a "Massive Surveillance Apparatus"

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - "There is this massive surveillance apparatus being gradually constructed in the United States that already has extremely invasive capabilities to monitor and store the communications and other forms of behavior not just of tens of millions of Americans, but of hundreds of millions, probably billions of people, around the globe," Greenwald says. "It’s one thing to say that we want the U.S. government to have these capabilities. It’s another thing to allow this to be assembled without any public knowledge, without any public debate, and with no real accountability. What ultimately drove [Snowden] forward — and what ultimately is driving our reporting — is the need for a light to be shined on what this incredibly consequential [surveillance] world is all about and the impact it’s having both on our country and our planet."

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Merkel, other European leaders raise concerns on U.S. surveillance

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael Birnbaum - Jun. 10 (News Report) - BERLIN – European leaders, stunned by revelations of an extensive U.S. surveillance program that included their citizens, moved Monday to demand more information from the U.S. government and said they would discuss ways to bolster their already-stringent privacy laws. ...

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Hong Kong hotel says Edward Snowden was there, but checked out Monday

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang - Jun. 10 (News Report) - HONG KONG — Out of all the places Edward Snowden could have chosen to hide, he selected this city with its towering buildings, glittering nightscape and reputation for protecting free speech. But some in Hong Kong aren’t sure what the man who has admitted leaking information about a top-secret U.S. surveillance program is doing here. ...

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Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Corn - Jun. 08 (News Analysis) - In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications , the Justice Department was due to file a court motion Friday in its effort to keep secret an 86-page court opinion that determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying.

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Obama begins summit with Xi as China agrees to cyber framework

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Philip Rucker, Ellen Nakashima - Jun. 08 (News Report) - RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Seeking to cultivate a personal relationship with China’s newly minted leader, President Obama welcomed President Xi Jinping to a desert retreat here late Friday by promising a “new model of cooperation” between the rival nations. ...

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Can Pakistan Make Peace Next Door?

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ahmed Rashid - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - Can the new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, broker a peace deal next door?

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Tom Donilon resigning as national security adviser; Susan Rice to replace him

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson, Colum Lunch - Jun. 05 (News Report) - National security adviser Thomas E. Donilon will resign his post, White House officials said Wednesday, and will be replaced by U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice , a close confidant of President Obama with deep foreign policy experience who is disliked by Republicans but had been widely expected to move into the job.

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Sharif urges end to drone strikes

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 05 (News) - Pakistan's new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif calls for an end to US drone strikes in his first address since being re-elected for a historic third term.

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Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy" Claims & Bid to Scare Whistleblowers

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Michael Ratner - Jun. 04 (News Report) - Manning’s defense lawyer, David Coombs, said Manning wanted to reveal the human cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "He believed [the leaked] information showed how we value human life," Coombs said. "He was troubled by that. He believed that if the American public saw it, they too would be troubled."

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Obama’s Covert Trade Deal

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Lori Wallach, Ben Beachy - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - THE Obama administration has often stated its commitment to open government. So why is it keeping such tight wraps on the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the most significant international commercial agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995?

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Manning’s ‘Secrets’ v. Over-classification

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Jun. 03 (Comment) - I thought of Pvt. Bradley Manning when I recently received a response to one of my Freedom of Information Act requests to Ronald Reagan’s presidential library. I was seeking documents about President Reagan’s secret strategy of aiding Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in its war with Iran.

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Chinese hackers get key weapon designs

Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Olivier Knox - May. 28 (News Report) - Chinese hackers have compromised the designs of some of America’s most sensitive and advanced weapons systems—including vital parts of the nation’s missile defenses, fighter aircraft and warships—the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

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Iran's new president unlikely to reverse tightening sanctions

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 27 (News Analysis) - Last week, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution that would tighten economic sanctions on Iran even further by focusing on oil exports.

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The Caucus: Wind Down the War on Terrorism? Republicans Say No

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By SHERYL STOLBERG - May. 27 (Opinion) - The Caucus: Wind Down the War on Terrorism? Republicans Say No

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How Corporations Are Subverting Attempts to Rein in Their Power

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Thomas Mc Donagh - May. 26 (News Report) - citizens have fought for and won an important policy victory only to find that victory undermined by corporations using the growing web of international investment rules and arbitration courts

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Stuck in a Job at the End of the World

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By John LaForge - May. 22 (Special Report) - Very little sympathy is felt for Air Force personnel assigned to fire nuclear missiles that could end all life on the planet. But their grim, boring and existentially absurd job has eroded staff morale so much that their collapsing competence has added to the world’s risk

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Allan Nairn: After Ríos Montt Verdict, Time for U.S. to Account for Its Role in Guatemalan Genocide

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 15 (News Analysis) - Following last week’s guilty verdict in Guatemala's historic genocide trial, reporter Allan Nairn says the United States should follow Guatemala's lead and indict the Reagan administration officials who supported the genocide under General Efraín Ríos Montt. "All of [these crimes] were crimes not just of General Ríos Montt, but also of the U.S. government," Nairn says. Former President Ronald Reagan once called Ríos Montt "a man of great personal integrity." After the verdict, Judge Yasmin Barrios ordered the attorney general to launch an immediate investigation of "all others" connected to the crimes.

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Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Corn - May. 15 (Opinion) - Dick Cheney has never been short on chutzpah. Jumping aboard the GOP scandal-mongering machine, the former vice president appeared on Fox News (where else?) and declared to Sean Hannity (who else?) that President Barack Obama and his aides "lied" about the attack in Benghazi last September that left four Americans dead. "I think it's one of the worst incidents frankly that I can recall in my career," Cheney huffed—as if 9/11 had never happened. The former veep went the full Monty and echoed (discredited) right-wing charges that the Obama administration refused to deploy military forces to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans when they were assaulted in Benghazi.

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Large Corporations Seek U.S.–European 'Free Trade Agreement' to Further Global Dominance

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Andrew Gavin Marshall - May. 13 (Special Report) - A corporate world order is emerging, and like any parasite, it is slowly killing off its host. Unfortunately, the "host" happens to be the planet, and all life upon and within it. So, while the extinction of the species will be the end result of passively accepting a corporate-driven world, on the other hand, it’s very profitable for those corporations and their shareholders.

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Ríos Montt Guilty of Genocide: Are Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, U.S. Officials Next?

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 13 (News Report) - In a historic verdict, former U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Ríos Montt was convicted of overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region after seizing power in 1982. The ruling marks the first time a former head of state had been found guilty of genocide in his own country. The judge in the case has instructed prosecutors to launch an immediate investigation of "all others" connected to the crimes

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Obama, Cameron Promote Trade Deal Granting Corporations Political Power

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:44:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Zach Carter - May. 13 (News) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement between the U.S. and European Union, amid growing domestic unrest with the Obama administration's plans to include new political powers for corporations in the deal.

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