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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy LAST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created an encrypted channel to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden would disclose […]
BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing
BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing The BBC loves to boast about how “objective” and “neutral” it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect one of the U.K. government’s closest allies, Saudi Arabia, […]
US Rejects Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into Hospital in Tank, Destroying Evidence
US Rejects Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into Hospital in Tank, Destroying Evidence After changing its story many times, the US now admits that it intentionally threw bombs, for more than an hour, at the now famous Doctors Without Borders hospital, proving accurate the assessment of DWB staffer Meinie Nicolai, who said the US attack was “a premeditated massacre.” […]
Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an “Accident”?
Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an “Accident”? In Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group’s international president, Dr. Joanne Liu (pictured above, center), specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war […]
U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan Was No Accident – “It Was the Target”
U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan Was No Accident – “It Was the Target” In particular, MSF (Doctors Without Borders) quickly publicized numerous facts that cast serious doubt on the original U.S. claim that the strike on the hospital was just an accident. To begin with, the organization had repeatedly advised […]
The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification
The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification When news first broke of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, terrible mistake, its official statement suggested: an airstrike it carried […]
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars” “We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence” “Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans.” — National Security Adviser […]
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 […]
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at Its Worst–and Filled With Falsehoods
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at Its Worst–and Filled With Falsehoods Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, […]
One Small Step For NSA Reform, One Giant Leap for Congress
One Small Step For NSA Reform, One Giant Leap for Congress Exactly two years after journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras traveled to Hong Kong to meet an NSA whistleblower named Edward Snowden, Congress has finally brought itself to reform one surveillance program out of the multitude he revealed — a program so blatantly out of line […]
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer Even in the security-über alles climate that followed 9/11, the Patriot Act was recognized as an extreme and radical expansion of government surveillance powers. That’s why “sunset provisions” were attached to several of its key provisions: meaning they would expire automatically unless […]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Proclaims – It’s Not Enough to Follow the Law, You Must Love Big Brother
UK Prime Minister David Cameron Proclaims – It’s Not Enough to Follow the Law, You Must Love Big Brother It’s not just those domestic extremists and crazy “conspiracy theory” kooks who took serious issue with UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent overtly fascist language when it comes to freedom of expression in Great Britain. For example, […]
Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide.
June 6, 2015
Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide. In the neocon journal Commentary, Max Boot today complains that the New York Times published an op-ed by Edward Snowden. Boot’s objection rests on his accusation that the NSA whistleblower is actually a “traitor.” In objecting, Boot made these claims: Oddly enough nowhere in his article — which is datelined Moscow — does […]
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