Rep. Betty McCollum (D - MN) has suffered another setback in her efforts to end military waste, as her bill to ban military subsidies for NASCAR and professional wrestling was defeated in a vote of 134-290. Last year, McCollum noted that $26.5 million in funding from...
The NSA's PRISM scheme is already surveilling the entire American public to an enormous level, culling massive amounts of data from the PRISM Nine companies that have been complicit in that policy. So it's no surprise that the International Cyber Security Conference...
President Obama is expected to make an announcement this week on whether his administration will begin arming the Syrian rebels in their suddenly uncertain effort to topple the autocratic regime of Bashar Assad. All signs point to a lifting of the White House...
Sign the petition With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute/prosecute him as a leaker, it's easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes...
It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country. But it was -- easy, that is. In fact, some...
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,...
Today Edward Snowden, a former computer analyst for the CIA recently employed at the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, voluntarily revealed his identity as the source of The Guardian and The Washington Post's massive scoops about the NSA's PRISM program, as well...
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...
Suddenly members of the media (thanks to some heroic, anonymous leakers) are doing what we wish they did every day -- they're enthusiastically skewering the state, and reporting in outraged detail all that the government has done to violate the sacred rights of the...
