Elysium: A Skippable Dose of Dystopian Nonsense
Elysium is a campy, dystopian film by writer/director Neill Blomkamp (District 9), starring Academy Award winners Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Â ...
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IRS Still Targeting Tea Party Groups
The Washington Examiner reported that an IRS agent told congressional investigators that the agency is still discriminating against Tea Party and conservative groups applying for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status, despite...
New York Times: Yes, NSA Is Searching Americans’ E-mail Content
The New York Times reported August 8 that the National Security Agency has been searching through the e-mail messages of the American people on a massive scale, even in...
Former Guantanamo Chief Says Close Guantanamo, End “War on Terror”
Retiring U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy William K. Lietzau dropped a bombshell on the Obama administration in an interview with the London Daily Mail, calling...
Mainstream Media on Benghazi: It Was About Gun-running
The mainstream media in the United States have increasingly come to the conclusion that the Benghazi attacks were related to a secret gun-running operation managed by the U.S. government...
Other Government Agencies Clamor for NSA Surveillance; Some Get It
The New York Times reported August 4 that the NSA intercepts of all Americans' phone records and Internet traffic are being sought by dozens of federal and state law-enforcement agencies for ordinary...
Who Lied? Mike Rogers, the NSA, and XKeyscore
With the revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and reporter Glenn Greenwald, there seem to be only two possibilities regarding House Permanent Intelligence Subcommittee Chairman Mike Rogers: He either...
The NSA IS Reading Your E-mails
The London Guardian's Glenn Greenwald revealed in a July 31 exposé that the NSA has indeed been collecting the full text of every American's e-mails without a warrant under...
Cost of Surveillance: What the IRS Scandal Means for NSA Snooping
Revelations that the IRS has thoroughly politicized its use of taxpayer information has ominous implications for the NSA's attempts to collect a broader spectrum of data on Americans. ...
NDAA Indefinite Detention Without Trial Approved by Appeals Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District struck down an injunction against indefinite detention of U.S. citizens by the president under the National Defense Authorization Act of...
Broad Coalition Sues NSA Over Unconstitutional Surveillance
The NSA's unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping program PRISM has succeeded in uniting much of the political spectrum in a new California-based lawsuit designed to protect civil liberties from the National...
Washington Post: NSA’s Policy Is “Collect It All,” and Says That’s Okay
The Washington Post published a story on how the NSA's mission was to spy on every American, to “collect it all,” and then ran an op-ed the next day...
Egypt’s Socialist Interim Leaders
The new interim leaders of Egypt appointed by the military have followed the pattern of being secular, internationalist, and socialist-leaning. Most of the new leaders have ties with either...
U.S. Funded Anti-Morsi Activists, Terrorist Advocacy With Foreign Aid
U.S. foreign aid dollars have been channeled to U.S.-based radicals advocating terrorism against Egyptian civilians, according to a recent report by Emad Mekay of the U.C.-Berkley Investigative Reporting Program,...
Egyptian Army Massacres Protesters; U.S. Continues Foreign Aid
The Egyptian Army massacred scores of pro-Morsi protesters in front of the Cairo National Guard headquarters July 8, where the former elected president is presumed to be under house...