Barack Obama versus Ben Franklin
Many of the clever images I spot on Facebook do not list an author. This is one of them, and it really nails the current controversy regarding the NSA: Related posts: Barack Obama: The Surveillance...
View ArticleUnequal access to secret information shows us who is doing real journalism
Chris Hayes nails it on MSNBC. The U.S. government and its many cronies in the mass media love to disburse secret information when it bolsters the position of the government. They take the opposite...
View ArticleOur secret court system
I’m a lawyer and I’d like to study U.S. surveillance court rulings, but I can’t, and you can’t either, because court rulings are secret. Our massively opaque government (all three branches) has truly...
View ArticleTeach the children of America about America’s secret courts
I wonder if American children in civics classes are taught about the secret courts of America? Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now. That might be the most amazing thing about all of this, is that we have...
View ArticleRepresent.US attacks legalized bribery by lobbyists
Represent us has accomplished a lot in a short amount of time, including the launch of the American Anti-Corruption Act with bipartisan support, including Lawrence Lessig and Trevor Potter. 400,000...
View ArticleThe moral burden on the United States
Barack Obama: “For nearly seven decades, the United States has been the anchor of global security. This has meant doing more than forging international agreements; it has meant enforcing them. The...
View ArticleAbout Democrats
Glenn Greenwald highlights a question he was recently asked on Reddit, and his response: Glenn Greenwald: “I was also asked: “Do you see the US Democratic Party as hopelessly corrupt in terms of...
View ArticleEpitaph for the tomb of modern journalism
Glenn Greenwald takes issue with a recent comment by U.K. “journalist” Chris Blackhurst: “Edwared Snowden’s secrets may be dangerous. I would not have published them.” This leaves Greenwald in a state...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren’s war on opacity
I am in Washington DC for the national conference of the National Consumer Law Center. Our special guest today was Senator Elizabeth Warren. In a blistering plain-language talk, delivered to an...
View ArticleWhat we know, thanks to Private Chelsea (Bradley) Manning
At The Nation, Greg Mitchell has compiled a long list of things that we know, thanks to the efforts of Bradley Manning, nka Chelsea Manning. It’s a long and important list for which Manning sacrificed...
View ArticleThe Polar Express: A Skeptical Review
I’d idly heard of the movie “The Polar Express” since it came out in 2004. This year, in a fit of holiday spirit, I queued it up on Netflix and played it through my Roku. I don’t know exactly what I...
View ArticleCommenting without reading: An April Fools experiment by NPR
Flickr – Creative Commons NPR played a clever April Fools trick this year. It posted a link on FB with the following headline: “Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore?.” The trick is that this link was only...
View ArticleMayday: Our government is going down in flames
Are you tired of merely complaining about government corruption? Here’s your chance to do something. I just donated a significant amount of money to the SuperPac Kickstart campaign created by Lawrence...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Fool or Liar?
This, from The Nation: On Saturday, a carefully vetted four-month investigation by the Washington Post based on material made available by Snowden revealed that while Clinton was in the government, the...
View ArticleEarly Racism
They were marched into the classroom, single file, and lined up along the blackboard to face the roomful of white faces. It would be sheerest invention to say I remember everything about that day....
View ArticleMormon Church start to come clean with truth about Joseph Smith’s many wives
It’s a good first step, as presented in the NYT: Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, portrayed in church materials as a loyal...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald: Journalists must not give Hillary Clinton a Free Ride,...
At Truthdig, Amy Goodman interviews Glenn Greenwald, who urges that journalists vigorously investigate Hilary Clinton. That is their job, even though her opponent is a madman. Here you have Hillary...
View ArticleWhy we should distrust big media
Why should we distrust big media? I’m still sorely disappointed that much of big media rooted against Bernie Sanders, contributing to his defeat. But, of course, Big Media simply moves on, often taking...
View ArticleElection of Donald Trump will Expose our Empty Rhetoric
Donald Trump is surrounding himself with people who appear to be obsessed with short term profit taking, disregard for Constitutional principles, the trampling of the environment and military-minded...
View ArticleAbout Blocking Immigration
This image Anti-Media posted on FB sums it up about right: Related posts: Banks and Republicans are blocking short-sales of homes The end of illegal immigration What do walled-off people think about...
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