I Doubt the NSA Knows What Data It Has, Where It Came from, Who Has Accessed...
I'm going to make a guess here.
View ArticleBolivian President Not Free to Move Around the World Without Permission from...
Well, this was a big, big, big mistake.
View ArticleIf the Security of Our Country Rests on Secrets, We've Got a Problem
I was just reading this provocative diary entry and musing ...If the security of our country rests on secrets, we've got a problem.A big one.
View ArticleDetroit Emergency Manager Approves Go-Ahead on New $450 Million Sports Arena
More evidence that the effort to bankrupt Detroit is ideologically, rather than fiscally driven:New $444 Million Hockey Arena Is Still a Go in Detroit.
View ArticlePennsylvania's Marriage Equality Limbo: Just ... Wow
Sumpin' odd is going on in Pennsylvania.
View ArticleShould Daily Kos Start Its Own Free Encrypted E-Mail Service?
Even though Washington thinks that savvy businessmen are located exclusively on Wall St. and run from the manor houses in the Hamptons/St. Tropez/Aspen where their executives live and vacation ...
View ArticlePfc. Manning Statement Re: Gender Identity on Today Show
The Army private who pled guilty to leaking confidential material gave this statement:
View ArticleNASDAQ Trades Halted
The NASDAQ has been down for about 90 minutes following a "technical glitch."
View ArticleWhoa: New York Times Now Has Snowden Docs Carried By Secret Courier into the US
And now the plot really thickens, as the New York Times enters the fray.
View ArticleNYT: Obama Asks Netanyahu, AIPAC to Lobby Congress for Syria Strike
I do not think that this is especially wise.
View ArticleWas the NSA Spying on Congress, Obama Administration?
How many of us really believe that Dianne Feinstein cares whether the NSA was spying on the German Chancellor?
View ArticleBreaking: U.S. Confirms Israel Was Responsible for Today's Strike at Syrian...
CNN doesn't have much yet but there will be more to come.
View ArticleIf You Could Be Pulled Over and Raped Roadside By Cops at Any Time, Would It...
Over the last couple weeks, news outlets have reported several high profile cases where police pulled over motorists, raped them anally and vaginally roadside and then took them to a hospital where...
View ArticleIranian Embassy in Beirut Bombed; At Least 22 Dead
Strife continues -- does it ever let up? -- in the Middle East.
View ArticleU.S. Citizenship Should Be Automatic And Compulsory for All Residents After 5...
The New York Times is offering you -- surprise, surprise -- this suggestion on behalf of the 1%.In the article, they advise the creation of a permanent guestworker underclass in America, because, you...
View ArticlePope Francis Comforts the Poor; NYC Cardinal Dines at Wall St. Event Honoring...
It's hard to imagine a greater contrast between the new Pope in the Vatican and the hard-right, cold-hearted, greedy American church hierarchy than this.
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little Crimea
Armed gunmen have taken over airports in two cities in the Crimea, a historically-Russian region ceded to Ukraine in the 1950s and now part of the independent Ukrainian state.
View ArticlePutin Just Doesn't Understand the Neoliberal Consensus
He doesn't understand the way the world works now!
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