President Obama and a heap of other politicians are imploring us to view voting as the ultimate expression of our freedom and self-government. The reality is that the vast majority of politicians will do as they damn well please after Election Day. Edward Snowden’s...
Life in Our Scared National Security State
I am thinking about Sister Megan Rice, an 84-year-old nun and two army veterans, Michael Walli, 65, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, all of them sitting behind prison bars for doing far less than the fraudsters and political thugs who took us into Iraq and killed and...
Ron Paul on Blowback in Canada
In the 60’s and 70’s Canada was a haven for young me who were resisting the calamitous Vietnam War. Now Canada’s leaders, having participated with the U.S. in 13 years of interventionist warfare in the Mideast, pronounce themselves shocked at being the victims of...
President Who Had Yemeni Journalist Jailed Criticizes Impunity for Mistreatment of Journalists
Today, November 2, 2014, is the first annual International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.To mark the date, the President just issued this statement.History shows that a free press remains a critical foundation for prosperous, open, and secure...
Genuine, Handcrafted, Man-Made Government
From the beginning, it was to be “Russia’s Vietnam.” First the administration of President Jimmy Carter, then that of President Ronald Reagan was determined to give the Soviet Union a taste of what the U.S. had gone through in its disastrous 14-year...
Time to Address the Jerusalem Issue
The shooting of a prominent Jewish activist who frequented the sacred Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharifon a nearly daily basis by a Palestinian gunmen on October 29, 2014, is another cornerstone signaling a deteriorating state of affairs. Young Israeli Jewish nationalists...
Amazon-CIA $600 Million Deal Facing Scrutiny: ‘What’s the CIA Doing on Amazon’s Cloud?’
From the Institute for Public Accuracy: A billboard challenging Amazon to fully disclose the terms of its $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services for the Central Intelligence Agency has been unveiled at a busy intersection near Amazon’s Seattle...
White House Aims to Replace Website Passwords With Federal Authentication Scheme
The White House has announced today that a long-standing plan to roll out a federal "Internet ID" authentication scheme that would be used to log in to all websites across the Internet will move forward, and the service will launch in six to twelve months. "We simply...
Lawsuit Spotlights US Charities That Fund Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
The following is being released by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy: A federal lawsuit seeks immediate release of a closely held government report about how American branches of Israeli charitable and educational institutes fund secret nuclear weapons...
Marcy Wheeler: Are FBI and NCTC Trying to Pressure Prosecutors to Charge the Second Intercept Source?
Citing “law enforcement and intelligence sources who have been briefed on the case,” Michael Isikoff reports that the government has identified “the second leaker” – a source of information on drone targeting and terrorist watchlisting for The...


