FEDS WANT MAJOR EXPANSION OF SECRET WIRETAP POWERS OVER WEB-BASED SERVICES. Facebook, Google, Skype and other brand names behind your favorite internet sites and programs are chafing at proposed new rules from the Obama administration that would force companies to comply with sweeping wiretaps and information requests from the FBI and Justice Department. While companies [...]
BOMB AT BOSTON MARATHON KILLS 3 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 1 CHILD AND THERE IS AN OUTPOURING OF U.S. SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS. A secret C.I.A. counter-terrorist raid in Afghanistan kills 17 people, including 12 children. Sympathy out-pouring?—not so much, at least in the U.S. Not so, however, in Afghanistan itself, where the PM Hamid Karzai [...]
Net neutrality and other efforts to promote internet fairness and prevent a corporate stranglehold on Americans’ access to the web and other telecommunication technology may be at risk thanks to a prospective new head of the agency that oversees the nation’s telecom industry. President Obama’s first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced last week [...]
AFRICAN-AMERICANS: LET THEM EAT SYMBOLS. The just-past inaugural festivities highlight the yawning discrepancy between the rhetoric and reality of the situation of black Americans. Black leaders at every level from the courthouse to the White House seem to think like some modern day Marie Antoinettes. Faced with the reality of African Americans stuck in [...]
“THE ISOLATION, THE EMBARGO, THE INDIFFERENCE, LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, HAVE BEEN INEFFECTIVE…” (Reuters) Latin American leaders delivered a “bruising” message against President Obama and American policies towards Cuba at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Colombia. Far from being feted as a “rock star” when he attended the conference shortly after winning [...]
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