AP
NEW YORK – Even before it showed up in a secret police report, everybody in Bay Ridge knew that Mousa Ahmad’s café was being watched. (more…)
November 2011
Monthly Archive
Mon 14 Nov 2011
Muslims angry over New York police surveillance program find law may not be on their side
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Mon 14 Nov 2011
Scapegoating others no answer to U.S. economic woes
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By Liu Tian
November 14, 2011 – – BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — In a replay of scapegoating China for the economic woes of America’s own making, U.S. President Barack Obama claimed Sunday that Beijing has “still not done enough” to revalue its currency. (more…)
Sun 13 Nov 2011
How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir Guardian U.K.
Before my Twitter case, in which the US Department of Justice has demanded that the social media site hands over personal informationabout my account which it deems necessary to its investigation of WikiLeaks, I didn’t think much about what rights I would be signing off when accepting user agreement in my computer. (more…)
Sun 13 Nov 2011
GOP and TP on Obama’s foreign policy “successes”
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Glenn Greenwald Salon
As I pointed out just yesterday, many Democrats not only passively acquiesce to Obama’s continuation of core Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies, but enthusiastically cheer it as proof that they, too, can be Tough and Strong (more…)
Sun 13 Nov 2011
“Safe, Legal, Ethical and Effective”? It’s Time to Annul Our Report on Psychology, Ethics and National Security
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Many viewers were outraged this past August watching NBC’s “Today Show” interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney. Promoting the release of his new memoir (more…)
Sun 13 Nov 2011
US court verdict ‘huge blow’ to privacy, says fomer WikiLeaks aide
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Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks volunteer Birgitta Jonsdottir has slammed the decision by US courts to open her Twitter account to the US authorities and is taking her case to the Council of Europe. (more…)
Sat 12 Nov 2011
DNA Keeps Spreading Its Magic Dust Over Wrongly-Convicted Prisoners
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Nearly two decades after they were arrested for a crime they didn’t commit, five Chicago-area men are about to be cleared. (more…)
Sat 12 Nov 2011