DhafirTrial

Months after the anthrax mailings that terrorized the nation in 2001, and long before he became the prime suspect, Army biologist Bruce Ivins sent his superiors an email offering to help scientists trace the killer. (more…)

Heather Brooke Guardian U.K.

Few citizens of the world will be adequately clued up on US surveillance laws, yet information stored on Facebook, Twitter, Google or any other American companies is subject to them. Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn’t it be unacceptable in the digital age, too? (more…)

Scott Horton Harper’s

On Wednesday, Scott Shane wrote in the New York Times:

Speaking hours after the world learned that a C.I.A. drone strike had killed Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, President Obama could still not say the words “drone” or “C.I.A.” That’s classified. (more…)

Who Do the White Shirt Police Report to at Occupy Wall Street Protests?

Pam Martens Counterpunch

Internship culture has become a source of class division, favoring the privileged, excluding others from opportunities granted to their better-off peers. (more…)

Gareth Porter Truthout

The starting point for a citizens’ campaign for a new national security strategy should be to call attention to the reality that US wars – supposedly against terrorism – have produced clear winners and losers. The winners are the leaders of the military, the Pentagon, the CIA and their private sector and elected political allies. (more…)

Malalia Joya Commondreams

I would like to thank all supporters and anti-war movements around the world who are marking the dark day of occupation of U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan. (more…)

Don’t Let Him Get Away with It

Michael Hudson Counterpunch

The seeds for President Obama’s demagogic press conference on Thursday were planted last summer when he assigned his right-wing Committee of 13 the role of resolving the obvious and inevitable Congressional budget standoff by forging an anti-labor policy that cuts Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, (more…)