The UK government is charging Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda with "terrorism" and "espionage" for trying to carry documents leaked by Edward Snowden through a London airport in August. Reuters: "Intelligence indicates that Miranda is likely to be involved in...
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt on the latest news reported by the Washington Post that the NSA has been going behind the back of Google and Yahoo and infiltrating their data centers around the world. The first few questions...
A common angle from the mainstream U.S. media is that NSA leaker Edward Snowden will regret his asylum in Russia (rather than life in prison in the U.S.). A quote from ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern was used in support of that theme, but he has asked the New York Times...
Ron Paul explains how Americans stopped Obama from attacking Syria. Thanks to the Mises Institute for this video.
Imagine being beaten to a pulp by a mafia hit-man. Your nose is broken and dribbling blood, your left eye is swollen shut, you may have broken ribs. Somehow, you manage to stand up. Just then, the hit-man produces an invoice for his services to the tune of $574. The...
President Obama's October 9th decision to suspend millions of dollars in U.S. military aid to Egypt came after two years of intense public pressure following Mubarak's ouster. In all likelihood, however, it is probably a temporary scheme to avoid further public...
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander made their umpteenth appearance in front of Congress yesterday to do damage control in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's leaks. As always, they insisted NSA surveillance programs are...
POLITICO gives us a good news bad news report (at least from my perspective) on Lindsey Graham. The article cites two new polls that show support for Graham in his home state of South Carolina is dropping overall. That's the good news. The bad news is that his...
It's been really hard for Iran hawks these days. With a reformist Iranian president initiating unprecedented diplomacy with the U.S. and offering major concessions on its nuclear program, the best they've been able to come up with is that it's all a sham. Rouhani is...
Glenn Greenwald went on CNN last night to respond to Dick Cheney's accusation of Edward Snowden as a traitor and to yesterday's testimony from Clapper and Keith Alexander on NSA spying.
