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Published on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 by The Guardian/UK 'Sending a Message': What the US and UK Are Attempting To Do State-loyal journalists seem to believe in a duty to politely submit to bullying tactics from political officials by Glenn Greenwald The remains of the hard disc and Macbook that held information leaked by Edward Snowden to the Guardian and was destroyed at the behest of the UK government. (Photograph: Roger Tooth) Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger on Monday night disclosed the remarkable news that UK authorities, several weeks ago, threatened the Guardian UK with prior restraint if they did not destroy all of their materials provided by Edward Snowden, and then sent agents to the basement of the paper's offices to oversee the physical destruction of hard drives. The Guardian has more details on that episode today, and MSNBC's Chris Hayes interviewed the Guardi

Published on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 by Common Dreams Bradley Manning Is Guilty of “Aiding the Enemy”—If the Enemy Is Democracy by Norman Solomon Pfc. Bradley Manning (Portrait by Robert Shetterly) Of all the charges against Bradley Manning, the most pernicious—and revealing—is “aiding the enemy.” A blogger at  The New Yorker , Amy Davidson, raised a pair of big questions that now loom over the courtroom at Fort Meade and over the entire country: *  “Would it aid the enemy, for example, to expose war crimes committed by American forces or lies told by the American government?” *  “In that case, who is aiding the enemy—the whistleblower or the perpetrators themselves?” When the deceptive operation of the warfare state can’t stand the light of day, truth-tellers are a constant hazard. And culpability must stay turned on its head. That’s why accountability was upside-down when the U.S. Army prosecutor laid ou

Monday, Aug 29, 2011 10:30 ET The decade's biggest scam  By Glenn Greenwald Salon.com The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret" to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles.  All of that -- which is independent of the exponentially greater sums spent on foreign wars, occupations, bombings, and the vast array of weaponry and private contractors to support it all -- is in response to this mammoth, existential, the-single-greatest-challenge-of-our-generation threat: "The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically

Put este na klasi siha, na ti bai hu fa'yi'us Si Obama. I Manrepublicans, hinasson-niniha na gaige Si Obama gof chagogo' gi i banda Akague', lao ai adai, ti nahong iyo-na "inakague pulitikat" para Guahu. Esta noskuantos biaha desde mahula' gui', na nina'desganao yu' . Otro fino'-ta, achokka' sina hao i mas "liberal" na taotao annai malalagu hao para ofisinan pulitikat, gigon humalom hao mumas conservative. Ti sina masuhayi este. Ginnen i sistema. Gigon na manakikihon hao "power" lumaconservative. Despensa, sa' ti bei fangge post pa'go. Manegga' yu' Cricket gi i internet pa'go. Tres na matches manachagigigu. Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan, West Indies vs. England yan South Africa vs. Australia. Ai adai, esta kalang bulachu yu' nu este na binila'! *************************************** Published on Saturday, February 28, 2009 by Salon.com Obama's Efforts to Block a Judicial Ruling on