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NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality
NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality The New York Times today has a truly bizarre article regarding the U.S. and cluster bombs. The advocacy group Cluster Munition Coalition just issued its annual report finding that cluster bombs had been used in five countries this year: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan. This is what The […]
Civil Rights Group Backed by Telecom Industry Seeks to Block Net Neutrality, Instantly Contradicts Itself
Civil Rights Group Backed by Telecom Industry Seeks to Block Net Neutrality, Instantly Contradicts Itself The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, an organization thatsays its purpose is to advance “equal opportunity and civil rights” in the media, has faced criticism in the past that the organization acts as little more than a corporate front group. Two positions taken recently by […]
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency,forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA contractor and […]
Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates […]
The Teflon Toxin: How Dupont Slipped Past the EPA
The Teflon Toxin: How Dupont Slipped Past the EPA IKE ROMINE GREW UP in Blennerhasset, West Virginia, not far from DuPont’s Parkersburg plant. Throughout his childhood and young adulthood, Romine was probably exposed through his drinking water to C8, a slippery, soap-like chemical used to make Teflon pans and Stainmaster carpet and hundreds of other products. […]
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, the policy failure whose tenure at the Federal Reserve helped create the conditions for the largest financial crisis in nearly a century, was inexplicably given a major newspaper platform on Monday to opine about regulation, which he ideologically abhors. So it […]
Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests
Acoustic Cannon Sales to Police Surge After Black Lives Matter Protests During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government agencies and the U.S. Navy, but also from American law enforcement. LRAD […]
The Teflon Toxin: Dupont and the Chemistry of Deception
The Teflon Toxin: Dupont and the Chemistry of Deception KEN WAMSLEY SOMETIMES DREAMS that he’s playing softball again. He’ll be at center field, just like when he played slow pitch back in his teens, or pounding the ball over the fence as the crowd goes wild. Other times, he’s somehow inexplicably back at work in the lab. […]
Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that “we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.” We know this because Politico and the Washington Post […]
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers I stepped from the warmth of our source’s London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool, the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy North London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic Alexandra Palace. A fellow journalist and I had just spent three […]
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Explains Why Apple Should Continue To Fight the Government on Encryption
EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Explains Why Apple Should Continue To Fight the Government on Encryption As the Obama administration campaign to stop the commercialization of strong encryption heats up, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is firing back on behalf of the companies like Apple and Google that are finding themselves under attack. “Technologists and companies working to protect […]
German Journalists Investigated For Treason After Publishing Surveillance Leaks
German Journalists Investigated For Treason After Publishing Surveillance Leaks Two journalists at the prominent German news website Netzpolitik are under investigation for treason after publishing details about the planned expansion of the German Secret Service’s Internet surveillance program. On Wednesday, the organization received a letter from the Federal Attorney General of Germany confirming ongoing investigations against reporters Markus Beckedahl, […]
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally-syndicated radio show The Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter […]
Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage
Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage Civil libertarians are worried about an increasingly common form of domestic surveillance that has nothing to do with listening to your phone calls or reading your emails; it has to do with looking through your garbage. Municipalities across the United States are implementing intrusive methods of monitoring the stuff […]
