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 [...]
WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JOHN KERRY. The new U.S. Secretary of State commits the unpardonable sin of comparing the suffering visited on innocent people at the Boston Marathon with the 2010 Israeli raid and killing of numerous passengers on a “flotilla” of vessels bound with humanitarian aid to breach the Israeli blockage of Gaza. Israeli [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! WHILE YOU WERE UNWRAPPING GIFTS, CONGRESS GAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO WARRANTLESS EMAIL SNOOPING. Federal agencies will be allowed to continue spying on the private emails of Americans after the Senate mysteriously dropped a key amendment to legislation that had been advertised as a way to protect the rights and privacy of [...]
DON’T WORRY. THOSE PESKY AGGRIEVED WALMART EMPLOYEES WON’T HAMPER YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING SPREE… ` The mega-retailer faces its largest labor protest to date as union groups and frustrated current employees vow to organize a nationwide walkout at Walmart stores on the day after Thanksgiving. So-called “Black Friday” is the most important day of [...]
THE “REAL” PETRAEUS SCANDAL, PART I: WHAT ABOUT THE DRONES? With the press all atwitter over the female liaisons of now ex-CIA director and retired four star General David Petraeus, Robin Wright argues in The Atlantic that the “real” scandal is how virtually no one in the same media class bothered to question Petraeus’ [...]
AFRICANS IN ISRAEL POSE “A CONCRETE THREAT TO THE JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER OF ISRAEL.” (Electronic Intifada) This 2010 statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu epitomizes the current spate of violence against African refugees (mostly from Sudan and Eritrea) in Israel. The verbal violence of right wing voices, including some of those who serve [...]
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