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The
fact that Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA is spying on Americans
should come as no surprise. There have been at least a half dozen
programs under the bush-Cheney Administration that compromised the Bill
of Rights for what was believed to be national security.
One
million mostly young, mostly college educated, mostly first time
demonstrators sent a message in Brazil last night. Govern properly.
Stop the graft!
By Jim Kavanagh
Edward Snowden, Lawrence O'Donnell, and the Failure of Fuzzy Land Thinking Lawrence O'Donnell's failure confirmed how difficult it is going to be for conservative or liberal pundits to dismiss Snowden's actions on the basis of his personality, and it was a scene that ended up discrediting nothing more than the whole media theater of derogation itself.
The
dream and nationalism are proving uncomfortable bedfellows abroad as
well as at home. Beijing sees the US pivot as a not-so-veiled
declaration of the coming of a new Cold War in the Asia-Pacific region,
and a dangerous add-on to the Pentagon's Air-Sea Battle concept, a
militarized approach to China's Pacific ambitions as the (presumed) next
rising power on the planet.
Obama
has turned America into a surveillance state that has far more in
common with Stasi East Germany than with the America of the Kennedy and
Reagan eras. Strange, isn't it, that freedom was gained in East Germany
and lost in America.
Obama would be happier if he were a Republican. So would most Democrats.
By Roger Copple
Why a New Constitution is our Best Hope and Marijuana/Hemp Legalization is our Second This article has 2 parts that are self-explanatory and linked together in the end.
By Nozomi Hayase
The Conscience of Edward Snowden, Courage Is Contagious This article explores Edward Snowden's motives and their relation to other notable whistleblowers in the US. This shows how Obama's war on whistleblowers is not working and that courage of those who act out of conscience is contagious.
The
National Chicken Council, which represents the firms that produce 95
percent of US meat chickens, dismissed the study as reflecting "very low
levels of arsenic," reported the New York Times.
I interview business researcher Clive Boddy, discussing the effects of corporate psychopaths.
By Suzana Megles
Animal Suffering is a "Plague" Too I guess we all have our thoughts on what's wrong with the world. I certainly have mine, and I hope that a lot of people will agree with me in this regard, because it will lead to humane changes. There is power in numbers.
Occupiers
who attempted to save Hayes Valley Farm renamed it Gezi Gardens,
invoking the battle for green space in Istanbul, Turkey. KPFA Radio
spoke to San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos about the push and pull
over public land use, and his efforts to help build community consensus
around an urban farm in another part of the city.
This
month South Africa's departing ambassador to Israel, Ismail Coovadia,
warned that Israel was a "replication of apartheid." The idea that the
world may soon wake up to this comparison deeply unnerves Netanyahu and
the right, all the more so as they risk being identified as the party
refusing to make concessions towards peace.
Nick
discusses the emerging peer to peer economy, it's disruptive effects on
existing systems and economics, and how top down forces are resisting
these bottom up aspects of progress.
Cleveland
county prosecutor Aaron Brockler was fired earlier this week after
creating a fake Facebook account and posting as the fictitious former
girlfriend of an alleged killer in an aggravated murder case he was
prosecuting. Brockler claims that he specifically created the account in
order to cast doubt on the alibi of 29-year-old Damon Dunn, the man
accused of committing murder at a Cleveland car wash during May 2012.
Possibly in romantic relationships with Dunn, two women were ready to
provide an alibi for Dunn that would place him somewhere other than the
car wash where the murder took place.
Americans
are consuming 25% more calories since the 1970's, which is about when
hourly wages stopped rising with hourly productivity. Poverty rates have
been rising since as has the obesity problem. New data link the cost of
nutritional food and U.S. food policy with obesity and the poor.
By Franklin Lamb
Hezbollah's Palestinian problem"""and vice versa Some Palestinians are also said to be carrying guns for the Saida, Lebanon based, Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, the imam of Sidon's Bilal bin Rabah Mosque, while supporting his anti-Hezbollah-Assad regime movement which is trying to unite Sunnis, who make up roughly 85% of the world's Muslim population, to eliminate Shia Muslims.
By Hamma Mirwaisi
An Open Letter to President Obama Inspired by Queen Vashti of the Ancient Kurds This article is written to honor of women who are struggling for freedom and equality worldwide, especially in the Islamic world. Today, large numbers of women are getting murdered in the Kurdistan region of Iraq under the rule of Massoud Barzani.
By Reginald Johnson
Intervention in Syria: Iraq Redux? This article proposes questions that should be asked by Congress and the press as the U.S. begins to send military aid to the Syrian rebels.
A
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy director
warned a group of Maury County residents that unfounded complaints about
water quality could be considered an "act of terrorism. We take water
quality very seriously. Very, very seriously," said Sherwin Smith,
deputy director of TDEC's Division of Water Resources, according to
audio recorded by attendees. "But you need to make sure that when you
make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if
there's no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland
Security an act of terrorism."
The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dropped plans to have outside
experts review its theory that hydraulic fracturing may have played a
role in groundwater pollution in Wyoming, and the agency no longer plans
to write a final report on its research that led to the controversial
finding a year and a half ago. EPA officials insisted they're not
backing away from their draft report on Pavillion. They said they
reserve the right to resume the study and an assessment by independent
experts, known as a peer review, at any point.
The
American Right demeans racial minorities for playing the victim's role,
but today's Tea Party is draped in "victimhood," claiming to be the
target of an African-American president and feeling threatened by the
nation's demographic shift. But racist fears have always had a home on
the Right.
Making
the claim that those who do not work should not eat is a direct result
of a failure to see the real world and its complexities.
By Zin Linn
Burma: Government reaches an 8-point agreement with Karenni rebels Burma's Union Peace-Making Committee and the KNPP have taken part in a settlement promising to move forward with a national ceasefire accord. The Peace-Making Committee and KNPP held negotiations on 19 and 20 June in Loikaw. The talks was convened with Minister Aung Min on the government side and deputy chairman Khun Oo Reh on the KNPP side plus military chief General Bee Htoo. Latest Articles
Tony Blair Finds the Trouble Within Islam
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Edward
J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor whose leak
of agency documents has set off a national debate over the proper limits
of government surveillance, has been charged with violating the
Espionage Act and stealing government property for disclosing classified
information to The Guardian and The Washington Post, the Justice
Department said on Friday. Each of the three charges unsealed on Friday
carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, for a total of 30 years.
But Mr. Snowden is likely to be indicted, and additional counts may well
be added.
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