A new petition at the White House's portal is calling for President Obama to immediately an unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for leaking the truth about the NSA's huge overarching surveillance of everyday Americans. The US hasn't charged Snowden yet, of course,...
The leaks about America's ever growing (and already ridiculously large) surveillance state came with a handy list of nine companies that joined the program. Those companies are, per the NSA's own leaked data, giving the NSA direct access to their servers and,...
In 48 hours of leaks we went from the NSA collecting meta-data on practically every phone call in the United States to the revelation of an overarching Internet surveillance scheme called PRISM, which collects data wholesale from nine major US Internet content...
FISA Court Chief Judge Reggie Walton objects to the characterization of his court as a "rubber stamp" that will approve literally anything. Even though they approved an order to spy on every goddamn phone call in the United States. President Obama objects to the media...
Last night news broke that a FISA court granted the NSA an insanely broad warrant for literally every single call made by Verizon customers over a several month period.Tens of millions of phone calls. It gets worse. Apparently even though FISA judges are essentially...
Everybody the world over knows that drones are the next big thing militarily, so it probably seemed like a safe bet when German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere signed off on investments in the "Euro Hawk" drone. That's just the sort of thing a DM, especially one...
On Friday, Israel attacked Syria. On Sunday, they launched multiple additional attacks, destroying several military targets in the Syrian capital city of Damascus and killing 42 people. Today (Monday), Israel has filed an official complaint to the United Nations after...
The path from Monday to today, which has brought the US to believe Syria's chemical weapons use is unusual. This timeline may help us better get a grip on how (though not why) officials got from A to B. Monday: Chuck Hagel is in Israel speaking with Israeli Defense...
With interest in American celebrity visits to North Korea on the rise in the wake of Dennis Rodman's visit earlier this month, retired professional wrestler Nature Boy Ric Flair has given an interview to an NBC affiliate in North Carolina detailing his own visit in...
In 2008 Wired Magazine did a brief exposé on the Golfinder, a "novelty item" being marketed as an electronic golf ball finder. It turned out the machine was a joke, just an old-fashioned dowsing rod being sold for $49 and later $20. In 2010, the Iraqi government...
