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European Court to Decide Whether U.K. Mass Surveillance Revealed By Snowden Violates Human Rights
Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News/Getty Images EUROPEAN COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER U.K. MASS SURVEILLANCE REVEALED BY SNOWDEN VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS BRITISH SPY AGENCIES are under scrutiny in a landmark court case challenging the legality of top-secret mass surveillance programs revealed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. A panel of 10 judges at the European Court […]
Saudi Arabia’ Government Purge–And How Washington Corruption Enabled It
Photo: Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images SAUDI ARABIA’S GOVERNMENT PURGE — AND HOW WASHINGTON CORRUPTION ENABLED IT THE MASS ARREST of high-ranking Saudi businessmen, media figures and royal family members Saturday has shaken the global business community. Among 10 other princes and 38 others, the roundup netted Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s […]
Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False
Photo: Joe Raedle/AP Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such and Facebook and Twitter […]
Disaster Capitalists Take Big Step Toward Privatizing Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid
Photo: Xavier Garcia/Bloomberg News/Getty Images DISASTER CAPITALISTS TAKE BIG STEP TOWARD PRIVATIZING PUERTO RICO’S ELECTRIC GRID THE BOARD THAT oversees Puerto Rico’s finances has taken its most conspicuous step toward privatizing the island’s power grid, a long sought-after prize that has been put on a plate by Hurricane Maria. The federally appointed control board announced […]
NSA Concealed Records on JFK Assassination for Decades
NSA CONCEALED RECORDS ON JFK ASSASSINATION FOR DECADES THERE IS SOMETHING perverse about the fact that President Donald Trump, the exuberant and all-too-successful spinner of conspiracy theories, and deeply ignorant of American history besides, will oversee the release of the remaining classified files related to the assassination of his presidential predecessor, John F. Kennedy. In […]
NSA Document Says Saudi Prince Directly Ordered Coordinated Attack by Syrian Rebels on Damascus
NSA DOCUMENT SAYS SAUDI PRINCE DIRECTLY ORDERED COORDINATED ATTACK BY SYRIAN REBELS ON DAMASCUS A LOOSELY KNIT collection of Syrian rebel fighters set up positions on March 18, 2013, and fired several barrages of rockets at targets in the heart of Damascus, Bashar al-Assad’s capital. The attack was a brazen show of force by rebels […]
Puerto Rico is on Track for Historic Debt Forgiveness–Unless Wall Street Gets Its Way
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images PUERTO RICO IS ON TRACK FOR HISTORIC DEBT FORGIVENESS — UNLESS WALL STREET GETS ITS WAY FOR BONDHOLDERS SITTING on Puerto Rican debt, Hurricane Maria may have come just when they needed it, just as a yearslong battle over the fate of the island’s financial future was beginning to turn against […]
Are You Ready to Die?
Are You Ready to Die? Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media. […]
Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA — three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]
Puerto Rico Debt Holders Respond to Catastrophic Hurricane by Offering Puerto Rico More Debt
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images PUERTO RICAN DEBT HOLDERS RESPOND TO CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE BY OFFERING PUERTO RICO MORE DEBT PUERTO RICO, FACING absolute devastation after Hurricane Maria barreled through last week, desperately needs immediate funding to restore critical infrastructure, particularly its hobbled electric grid. The entire island — home to over 3.5 million American citizens, roughly […]
North Korea is the Most Predictable Regime on Earth. The Real Threat is the Erratic U.S. Government.
Photo: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images NORTH KOREA IS THE MOST PREDICTABLE REGIME ON EARTH. THE REAL THREAT IS THE ERRATIC U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE NUCLEAR SHOUTING between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un often seems like a maddening version of whack-a-crazy-mole, in which an unhinged comment by one of them is hastily followed by […]
Government By Goldman
GOVERNMENT BY GOLDMAN Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted From the Trump Administration STEVE BANNON was in the room the day Donald Trump first fell for Gary Cohn. So were Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s pick for secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin. It was the end of November, three weeks after […]
How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia
Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images HOW THE NSA BUILT A SECRET SURVEILLANCE NETWORK FOR ETHIOPIA “A WARM FRIENDSHIP connects the Ethiopian and American people,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced earlier this year. “We remain committed to working with Ethiopia to foster liberty, democracy, economic growth, protection of human rights, and the rule […]
Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify
MAKE MARK ZUCKERBERG TESTIFY LAST WEEK, after what must have been a series of extremely grim meetings in Menlo Park, Facebook admitted publicly that part of its revenue includes what appears to be politically motivated fraud undertaken by a shady Russian company. The social network, perhaps motivated by a Washington Post scoop on the matter, released a […]
