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Antifascist Calling Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout the five years of […]
By Dana Milbank Where have all the liberals gone? President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration’s collection of Americans’ phone records and Internet activities. Hundreds of people marched to […]
By Justin Raimondo On a visit to Washington a couple of months ago, I was surprised to discover Politico has a dead-tree edition: there it was at the local Starbucks alongside the Washington Post and the New York Times, right next to the double-chocolate scones. As assorted government […]
Sign the White House petition. Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs.
Riding the Tiger Note: This article was contributed by guest author James C. Quinn, a Canadian citizen residing in Seoul, Korea. The views herein do not necessarily reflect the views of RidingTheTiger or its authors. The case of Edward Snowden has recently become international news. Snowden, a 30-year old […]
correntewire.com MsExPat I live in Hong Kong. And when the news broke that Snowden had decided to take refuge in my city, I was puzzled at first. But then, as I read and listened to pundit after pundit in the US declare that Hong Kong was a crazy […]
washingtonpost.com Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, […]
aclu.org Allie Bohm Montana just made history. It recently enacted the first state law in the nation (sponsored by Rep. Daniel Zolnikov (R-Billings)) requiring law enforcement to obtain a probable-cause warrant before tracking an individual based on his or her cell phone location information, social networking check-ins, or […]
techdirt.com Mike Masnick There’s been plenty of commentary concerning the latest NSA leak concerning its FISA court-approved “rules” for when it can keep data, and when it needs to delete it. As many of you pointed out in the comments to that piece — and many others are […]
ABC News In a new documentary, former investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230, are breaking their silence to claim that the explosion that brought down the plane in 1996 was likely no accident, and that the final report on the […]
CNN A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers “solid proof that there was an external detonation,” its co-producer said Wednesday. “Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data […]
Keith Preston explains how concerns about the surveillance state are creating opportunities for new political realignments.
Keith discusses the process of revolutionary build up that must occur in the decades ahead for the System to be effectively challenged by mid-century..
By Justin Raimondo The widely noted poll showing Democrats are now the biggest cheerleaders for the Surveillance State has conservatives delightedly calling out the left for “hypocrisy,” noting with glee the leftie pundits who denounced George W. Bush’s administration for trampling on our civil liberties and are now […]
By Glenn Greenwald James Clapper, on Saturday decried the release of the information and said media reports about it have been inaccurate Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
The Telegraph The self-appointed opponents of bigotry can be as ugly as the racist groups they oppose. Police detain a UAF protester outside the Houses of Parliament last weekend. Photo: CARL COURT/AFP
Alternet Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders have acted on their beliefs in ways that threaten authorities. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/grynold June 14, 2013 |
Read it for yourself.
By Timothy Stanley May 14, 2008 From the vantage point of the early 21st century the American left seems like a hopeless, hapless, very probably lost cause.
By Paul Bonneau It’s not unusual to see here on Strike The Root articles defending or promoting anarchy, particularly the anarcho-capitalist variety. Yay, team! Anarcho-capitalism is a good answer–for anarcho-capitalists. Not so good for, say, communitarians, though; nor for liberals, conservatives, or even anarcho-other-than-capitalists. It’s an answer, not […]
By Siryako Akda Nationalism, as it was originally envisioned by Enlightenment thinkers, was conceived of as a system composed of individuals bound together in a social contract with one another. However, this ideal was never fully achieved in the real world. Both in the West as well as […]
By Michael Scheuer More than a decade ago, Osama bin Laden appeared in a brief video to speak about several issues. One of them was to advise the Islamic world that they should expect the U.S. military to be defeated by Islam, the Taleban, and its allies in […]
By Daniel Ellsberg In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of […]
By John Whitehead There is a deep and abiding sense of unease permeating American society. From the IRS targeting politically conservative groups to the Department of Justice targeting journalists for surveillance, from the revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) is tracking the telephone calls of most Americans […]
By Jeffrey St. Clair Is there a Left in America today? There is, of course, a Left ideology, a Left of the mind, a Left of theory and critique. But is there a Left movement? Does the Left exist as an oppositional political, cultural or economic force? Is […]
The Guardian The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows • Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again’ Link to video: […]
ATS News of the Week Commentary with Keith Preston.
Topics include:
-The participants in the current Bilderberg gathering.
-The shooting in Santa Monica.
-The parole hearing of former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten.
-The death of a young Antifa in France.
-Obama’s culpability in the growth of the surveillance state.
-A discussion of Jeffrey St. Clair’s article on the decline of the American Left.
-Scott Locklin’s article on why Americans are too fat and lazy for a revolution.
-The need for an American Hezbollah.
forbes.com Andy Greenberg Icelandic legislator and Icelandic Modern Media Initiative co-founder Birgitta Jonsdottir When WikiLeaks burst onto the international stage in 2010, the small Nordic nation of Iceland offered it a safe haven. Now American whistleblower Edward Snowden may be seeking that country’s protection, and at least one […]
From my Inferno. Last week saw not one but two gynocentric moral panics, with the forces of femiternalism once more waging their holy war, or shehad, against the tentacles of the todgerarchy .
Keith calls for a revolutionary reorganization of law along libertarian lines. Topics include:
-The non-aggression principle as the basis for libertarian law
-Conflicting interpretations of the NAP among anti-state radicals.
-How legal institutions in a stateless society might be organized.
-Much needed reforms within the realm of criminal law.
Dr. Sean Gabb Emma West has finally been worn down. Eighteen months after she was charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment and racially aggravated assault , she has agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress with the original charges being […]
Inquisitr.Com A few rural communities in North Colorado want to secede and become their own state. According to the Coloradan, a group of county commissioners are pursuing a plan to secede from Colorado over concerns that their voices are being ignored by the state. Sean Conway, a commissioner […]
By Scott Locklin According to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey, 29% of US citizens polled say they believe that “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Of the five potential responses to this question—“agree, disagree, neither, unsure, no […]
Political Outcast Surprise is actually the name of a city in Arizona. When you read a news article about an incident there, you keep waiting for some kind of punch line. In Surprise, Arizona, there was a Surprise man who was arrested by Surprise police officers. The surprise […]
By John Whitehead “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.” ~ A senior intelligence official previously involved with the Utah Data Center The recent revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers, with the complete blessing of the […]
By Kirkpatrick Sale Gwen Roolf (cc) I presume to review this book, even though I am a contributor to it, because it is a fine representation of an increasing tendency across this land of resistance to a federal government grown inept, corrupt, overreaching, overlarge, and overintrusive. That tendency may […]
Indian Country Today Media Network An Escambia Academy High School student who wore an eagle feather on her graduation cap was denied her diploma after graduating May 23. According to a contract issued by the school in Atmore, Alabama, 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer, of the Poarch Creek Band of […]
The Atlantic Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg: Friends — and competitors. (Reuters) Governments today face largely the same problems as businesses. The key challenge everywhere is not to downsize per se, but to compete more effectively by delivering the highest value for whatever they charge, in an environment […]
CBS Boston Cody Tubman had a dream prom night, the perfect dress and then the crown to go with it. Cody was voted prom queen of Middleboro High School. “I was all smiles,” Cody says laughing. “We were standing there and they announced I was prom queen. So […]
Independent Institute Today the Court decided Maryland v. King, and held that if the police have probable cause to make an arrest for a “serious offense” they may also as a matter of course use a cotton swab to take the arrestee’s DNA. The Court said that this was a legitimate […]
Raw Story The founder of a New Jersey Nazi group insisted his wearing an accompanying uniform should not impact his chances of regaining custody of his four children, WCAU-TV reported on Monday. “I’m going to tell the judge, I love my children,” “Hitler’s Order” leader Heath Campbell said […]
AlternativeRight.Com A violent advocate for the death of his nation France is once again the scene of impassioned protests as French antifa and members of the far Left cluster up at Saint Michel fountain and the city’s Latin Quarter to condemn the recent killing of Clement Meric, a […]
Tribune Herald While speaking during the Texas legislative session, representative Tom Alvin (R) Altruria, dropped something unexpected on the House floor. Upon picking up the item, cameras caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette. He quickly put it back in his pocket as legislators […]
New York Times Rich Addicks for The New York TimesYoung Republicans. There has been no shortage of Republican post-mortems on the 2012 presidential election — and no shortage of apologists who claimed the party need only change its rhetoric (and stop nominating members of the legitimate-rape caucus) to […]
New York Daily News Frank Eltman Monday, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced the arrest of 104 men on charges of soliciting a prostitute at a news conference.
The Guardian Under the terms of the order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data and the time and duration of all calls. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US […]
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