Nov 8, 2012 | WAR: By Design
A History of Blame and Deflection In September 2012, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that corruption in his government had reached a level “not ever before seen in Afghanistan.” He claimed that under the Soviet...
Nov 6, 2012 | Government Agenda, Secret Societies
Controversial techniques included waterboarding A Spokane psychologist who helped develop controversial interrogation methods, which some human rights groups say amount to torture, became the new spiritual leader of a Mormon congregation on the South Hill this week....
Nov 4, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Nov 4, 2012 | Government Agenda, Video
Strange deliveries to Deep Underground Military Bases, Large Pallets of Ammunition, Strange Troop Deployments, Border Activity,...
Nov 1, 2012 | Government Agenda
TSA Expansion Beyond Airports: Tracking Daily Travel Patterns The Transportation Security Administration has never been able to provide a clear legal justification for its physically invasive patdown procedures conducted without probable cause. When pressed on the...
Nov 1, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Pre-Trial Hearings Expose Government Secrecy Over Torture In late October 2012, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants in the 9/11 terror case appeared for a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay. Army Colonel James L. Pohl presided over the military commission...
Oct 31, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism
Whether you view Barrett Brown as a folk hero or a reckless provocateur, most observers agreed on one thing in late 2012: the statements that led to his arrest and federal indictment were profoundly unwise. His detractors felt vindication, while his supporters rallied...
Oct 31, 2012 | WAR: By Design
The September 11, 2012 attack on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens, became one of the most contentious national security controversies of the Obama era. Beyond the initial debate over what triggered...
Oct 30, 2012 | Events & Assassinations
Danish Spy Claims CIA Funded a Marriage Plot to Locate al-Awlaki A former Danish intelligence operative alleged that the CIA paid him $250,000 to arrange a marriage for Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born al-Qaeda leader based in Yemen. According to the operative, the...
Oct 29, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism
Khan Removed From Flight and Questioned About Drone Strike Stance Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain and leader of the Pakistan Movement for Justice party (PTI), was removed from an international flight traveling from Canada to New York in October 2012....
Oct 29, 2012 | Government Agenda
In the 2012 election cycle, Wired magazine partnered with MapLight, a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit dedicated to tracking money in politics, to create a free embeddable widget that displayed the top 10 donors to any member of the House, Senate, or presidential...
Oct 28, 2012 | Abuses of Power
A British Iraq war veteran was made redundant just 72 hours before he would have qualified for a full Army pension, exposing what critics described as a pattern of cost-cutting at the expense of long-serving military personnel. Three Days Short After Nearly 18 Years...
Oct 24, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, News
The Hidden Cost of Double-Tap Drone Strikes A landmark joint study by Stanford and New York University researchers found that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan were killing approximately 49 civilians for every known militant targeted. The nine-month investigation, based...
Oct 24, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
http://youtu.be/MMirTxSlhBA Greenwald is that increasingly rare commodity in the US, a true journalist. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things, but he is definitely correct here in debunking the hogwash about “humanitarian” wars. Nobody goes to...
Oct 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power
About 300 people have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated in the U.S. thanks to DNA evidence. But overlooked in those stories are the accounts of jurors who unwittingly played a role in the injustice. One of those stories is playing out in Washington, D.C., where...
Oct 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, WAR: By Design
Romney Endorsed Obama’s Drone Strategy During the 2012 Foreign Policy Debate During the October 2012 foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney essentially gave his stamp of approval to President Obama’s use of unmanned aerial strikes. Regardless of which...
Oct 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Events & Assassinations
What Is the Disposition Matrix? In October 2012, reporting revealed that the Obama administration had spent two years secretly building what officials called the “disposition matrix” — a next-generation database designed to institutionalize and expand the...
Oct 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism, News
In a case that drew national attention to the tension between government secrecy and accountability, former CIA officer John Kiriakou accepted a plea deal and received a 30-month prison sentence for disclosing classified information related to the agency’s...
Oct 13, 2012 | Activism, Video, WAR: By Design
Ex-Marine who threw back his medals, Jon Michael Turner, speaks the raw hard truth about merciless & indiscriminate killing PROMOTED by Staff Sgts and other Top Military Brass during modern war and middle eastern conflict....
Oct 13, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) stands as one of the most important transparency mechanisms in American democracy, granting citizens the ability to request and obtain records about government operations. While the law includes limited exemptions allowing...
Oct 13, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, Video
http://youtu.be/gTrbVf6SrCc The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to...
Oct 12, 2012 | Black Technology, WAR: By Design
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) new director, Dr. Arati Prabhakar, will share her vision Oct. 22 at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2012 Naval Science and Technology Partnership Conference and ASNE Expo. Prabhakar, who took the helm...
Oct 12, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, Video
There have been numerous videos that show a missile hitting WTC 2. The UFO or whatever it is is also seen in many of them. UPDATE: Flight 175, according to pilotsfor911 truth, was a Boeing 767-222. The length was 159 ft. 2″. The object in this video was much shorter...
Oct 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions. Since October 1, students at...
Oct 10, 2012 | Activism, Government Agenda
The publication of journalist Kurt Eichenwald’s investigative work has shed additional light on how the National Security Agency constructed its warrantless surveillance apparatus, confirming that senior legal advisors within the Bush White House recognized the...
