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Child Porn Ring Busted: Guess US Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need Data Retention...

Department of Justice (photo: DOJ ) On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced 72 people from all over the world had been charged for their participating in a major online child pornography...

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The Brewing Debate Over Domestic Drones

(photo: Truthout.org) Privacy rights and civil liberties advocates know that businesses and politicians have put America on a path toward the acceptance and normalization of drone use in domestic...

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Google: Government Surveillance Spikes Worldwide—Especially in United States

Screen shot of Google transparency report showing increase in requests for content censorship by US authorities The increasingly omniscient and omnipresent corporation that is Google has released its...

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Leaking Classified Information to Resurrect ‘Cybersecurity Bill’ That Will...

A classified intelligence assessment shows the United States is “the target of a massive, sustained cyber-espionage campaign that is threatening the country’s economic competitiveness,” according to...

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Bipartisan Bill Introduced in Congress Would Prohibit Warrantless Drone...

Screen shot from PBS’s Nova episode, “Rise of the Drones” Legislation sponsored by two members of the House of Representatives has been introduced to regulate how the government uses drones. The...

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The US Effort to ‘Help’ Yemen Meet Its ‘Aspirations’

Screen shot of counterterrorism chief John Brennan at Council on Foreign Relations event on Yemen Citizens of any country who hear a high-ranking US official discuss plans to help their country “meet...

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Chavez Re-Election Shows How Media Does Not Like It When Washington Consensus...

(Flickr Photo by chavezcandanga) Hugo Chavez was elected to a fourth term on October 7. The victory immediately set off a flurry of United States media reports noting alleged inequities in Venezuelan...

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State Threats to International Election Observers Symptom of American...

OSCE election observation mission during US 2010 election (Flickr Photo by oscepa) Multiple states, including Arizona, Iowa and Ohio, plan to make certain international election observers from the...

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Bill Moyers: The Challenge of Journalism Is to Survive in the Pressure Cooker...

By Bill Moyers This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. The following remarks were made by Bill Moyers at the presentation of the Helen Bernstein Book Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The...

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‘Dark Cloud’ of ALEC Converges at Annual Corporate-Political Lovefest

Protesters carried signs and chanted “ALEC, go home” during an afternoon demonstration outside the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel on Wednesday. (Photo: Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) This week, San...

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