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Edward Snowden Q and A: "The US Government Destroyed Any Possibility of a Fair Trial at Home"

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 17 (News Report) - The 29-year-old former NSA contractor and source of the Guardian's NSA files coverage will – with the help of Glenn Greenwald – take your questions today on why he revealed the NSA's top-secret surveillance of US citizens, the international storm that has ensued, and the uncertain future he now faces.

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Does the Government Understand the 4th Amendment?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By David Sirota - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - Let's for a moment set aside all those questions about the strong probability of criminal lawbreaking that were so powerfully raised first by the Guardian's NSA series, then by the Washington Post, by Bloomberg News and then by the Associated Press. Let's instead get to the heart of the huge constitutional principle at hand - the matter of probable cause.

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Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients. And if it tries, multinational corporations will be able to sue the U.S. government for the loss of anticipated future profits. More frightening? Negotiations for both agreements are taking place behind closed doors

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Senator Warren Presses White House to Release Pacific Trade Text

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - By Mark Drajem - Jun. 14 (News) - President Barack Obama’s administration should release documents the U.S. and 10 other Pacific-region nations are using as they negotiate a new trade agreement, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said. In a letter to Michael Froman, Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, the Massachusetts lawmaker said releasing details of what is being considered by the parties would give citizens a chance to evaluate the deal before negotiations are completed

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Patents on Human Genes

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - Jun. 13 (News) - Supreme Court Strikes Down Patents on Human Genes

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The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence

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

Mother Jones - By Erik Kain - Jun. 11 (Comment) - It was one of the most brutal video games imaginable—players used cars to murder people in broad daylight. Parents were outraged, and behavioral experts warned of real-world carnage. "In this game a player takes the first step to creating violence," a psychologist from the National Safety Council told the New York Times . "And I shudder to think what will come next if this is encouraged. It'll be pretty gory."

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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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Same-Sex Couple Seeks Immigration Relief From High Court

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

All Things Considered - Jun. 10 (Comment) - The Supreme Court may soon decide if the federal government will recognize same-sex marriage, a decision with profound implications for unions between American citizens and their foreign-born spouses. The family of one Washington, D.C.-area couple is "watching for that decision big time."

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Glenn Greenwald On 'This Week': 'You Should' Expect More Revelations From Me

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rebecca Shapiro - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Greenwald broke the bombshell story about the NSA collecting phone data from millions of Verizon customers. Additional stories on major government surveillance programs followed, including news about the NSA program called Prism that allows officials to collect material from some of the country's largest Internet companies (including AOL, HuffPost's parent company). On Sunday, Greenwald published another story about an NSA datamining tool used for global surveillance called Boundless Informant. "Should we be expecting more revelations from you?" Stephanopoulos asked Greenwald. "You should," he said.

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Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court

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

New York Times - By By RANDALL R. RADER, COLLEEN V. CHIEN, DAVID HRICIK - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - FROM an early age we are taught the importance of fighting fairly. But as the vast number of frivolous patent lawsuits have shown, too many people are rewarded for doing just the opposite. The onslaught of litigation brought by “patent trolls” — who typi

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Important Facts About the Trial of Bradley Manning

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

AlterNet - By Alex Kane - Jun. 03 (News Report) - Manning was a source for WikiLeaks, which some have argued functions as a news organization. Regardless of whether WikiLeaks is a legitimate media outlet, the whistleblowing website did fuel major media outlets’ coverage for months and months. And the Manning trial has important implications for how the press does its job.

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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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How Did Major Hedge Fund Earn 30% Returns for 20 Years Straight? Lots of Cheating

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Les Leopold - May. 25 (Special Report) - How is it possible to make such profitable investments again and again and again? The U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, believes he has the answer: SAC is cheating ... again and again and again. In fact, Bharara suggests that hedge funds that engage in insider trading may be rotten to the core:

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The Latest Cannabis Discoveries That the Federal Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Paul Armentano - May. 25 (Special Report) - Despite issuing a highly publicized memorandum in 2009 stating, "Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration," it remains clear that federal lawmakers and the White House continue to willfully ignore science in regards to the cannabis plant and the federal policies which condemn it to the same prohibitive legal status as heroin.

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Justice search warrant relied on "probable cause" of criminal conduct by Fox News journalist | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

rcfp.org - By Rob Tricchinelli - May. 23 () - anonymous Justice Department spokesperson: Michael Clemente, Fox News’ executive vice president of news, in a statement Monday. “In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”

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Editor of The Progressive Calls For Eric Holder to Resign Over Spying on Press, Occupy Protesters

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

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 22 (Opinion) - As the Obama administration faces criticism for the Justice Department's spying on journalists and the IRS targeting of right-wing organizations, newly released documents show how the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and local police forces partnered with corporations to spy on Occupy protesters in 2011 and 2012. Detailed in thousands of pages of records from counter terrorism and law enforcement agencies, the spying monitored the activists' online usage and led to infiltration of their meetings. One document shows an undercover officer was dispatched in Arizona to infiltrate activists organizing protests around the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the secretive group that helps corporate America propose and draft legislation for states across the country. We're joined by Matt Rothschild of The Progressive, who tackles the surveillance in his latest article, "Spying on Occupy Activists: How Cops and Homeland Security Help Wall Street."

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The Climate-Change Wars Begin This Summer

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

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - May. 22 (Special Report) - The biggest piece of President Obama’s second-term agenda is his widely expected plan for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new carbon regulations for power plants, a move that could bring the United States in line with the greenhouse-gas-redu

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Rise Up or Die

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

billmoyers.com - By Chris Hedges - May. 21 (Opinion) - What has taken place in these sacrifice zones — in postindustrial cities such as Camden, N.J., and Detroit, in coalfields of southern West Virginia where mining companies blast off mountaintops, in Indian reservations where the demented project of limitless economic expansion and exploitation worked some of its earliest evil, and in produce fields where laborers often endure conditions that replicate slavery — is now happening to much of the rest of the country. These sacrifice zones succumbed first. You and I are next. Corporations write our legislation. They control our systems of information. They manage the political theater of electoral politics and impose our educational curriculum. They have turned the judiciary into one of their wholly owned subsidiaries. They have decimated labor unions and other independent mass organizations, as well as having bought off the Democratic Party, which once defended the rights of workers. With the evisceration of piecemeal and incremental reform — the primary role of liberal, democratic institutions — we are left defenseless against corporate power.

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"Astoundingly Disturbing": Obama Administration Claims Power to Wage Endless War Across the Globe

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 17 (News Analysis) - A Pentagon official predicted Thursday the war against al-Qaeda and its affiliates could last up to 20 more years. The comment came during a Senate hearing revisiting the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, enacted by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. At the hearing, Pentagon officials claimed the AUMF gives the president power to wage endless war anywhere in the world, including in Syria, Yemen and the Congo. "This is the most astounding and most astoundingly disturbing hearing that I've been to since I've been here," said Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine. "You guys have essentially rewritten the Constitution here today." We play excerpts of Thursday's Senate hearing and our recent interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of the new bestseller, "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield."

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Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe

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

Associated Press - By Mark Sherman - May. 13 (Special Report) - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery.

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Anna Jarvis, the Radical Behind Mother's Day

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Steve Brodner - May. 12 (Comment) - This cartoon was originally published in the Los Angeles Times.

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Sen. Chase talks about the importance of fair trade - YouTube

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

YouTube - By Maralyn Chase - May. 08 (Opinion) - video

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NSU trial attracts international attention

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

dw.de - May. 06 (News Report) - The trial of Beate Zschäpe and four men charged with helping the National Socialist Underground (NSU) carry out 10 race-related murders began on May 6 in a Munich court. Investigation glitches in the run-up to the trial and court restrictions on media coverage unleashed a storm of controversy that has tinged the proceedings and fueled embarrassing doubts about the democratic process in Germany.

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A Desperate Situation at Guantánamo: Over 130 Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Dozens Being Force-Fed

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 29 (News Report) - Lawyers for the prisoners say more than 130 men are taking part in the hunger strike, which began in February. One of the hunger strikers is a Yemeni man named Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel. In a letter published in The New York Times, he wrote: "Denying ourselves food and risking death every day is the choice we have made. I just hope that because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is too late."

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