Daniel Ellsberg, infamous for releasing the Pentagon Papers that exposed government lies and coverups during the Vietnam War, is now publicly supporting a fellow whistleblower in trouble. Ellsberg wrote a letter of support for “hackivist”...
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13 November 2013
“No matter what.” These three words have caused the President a tremendous political headache over the past couple weeks, and as such his credibility is ostensibly on the chopping block. We needn’t recall the campaign details from 2008 and...
13 November 2013
I felt the music and the fire as the civil rights movement rose from its slumber.
“Repair . . . justice!” went the call and response last week, in the basement of an old Chicago church at the corner of Ashland and Washington...
“Repair . . . justice!” went the call and response last week, in the basement of an old Chicago church at the corner of Ashland and Washington...
09 November 2013
We’ll never know, we’ll never know, we’ll never know. That’s the mocking-bird media refrain this season as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of America’s greatest mystery – the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York Times...
06 November 2013
Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state. As chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she generates an abundance of...
05 November 2013
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Police in Saudi Arabia stopped and fined at least
16 women who intentionally drove cars on Saturday (Oct. 26) after the
monarchy and Islamist clerics refused to support demands to give
drivers' licenses to females....