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January 2013
Sat 26 Jan 2013
Total Surveillance : NYPD places full body scanners on the streets of New York
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Fri 25 Jan 2013
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou given more than two years in prison
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The former CIA officer John Kiriakou was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison, by a federal judge who rejected arguments that he was acting as a whistleblower when he leaked a covert officer’s name to a reporter. (more…)
Tue 22 Jan 2013
“All of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a Martin Luther King, Jr. generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don’t use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry” (5 min. video).
Tue 22 Jan 2013
Nearly a third of the nation’s working families earn salaries so low that they struggle to pay for their necessities, according to a new report. (more…)
Sun 20 Jan 2013
World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
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“The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said. (more…)
Sun 20 Jan 2013
While I’m not a lawyer, I do write for this legal blog by the invitation of its creator Jonathan Turley. I first arrived on the scene here many years ago because since the age of ten I have had been interested in the nature of the broad spectrum of civil rights issues faced by this country. (more…)
Sun 20 Jan 2013
Aaron Swartz’s FOIA Requests Shed Light on His Struggle
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Jason Leopold Truthout
Two months before his death, the high-profile Internet activist filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Mint and asked for copies of its 2005 survey results which claimed, “147 million adults continued to collect the 50 State Quarters … the most successful coin program in the nation’s history.” (more…)
Sat 19 Jan 2013
This week, I was proud to join the board and help launch the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a new organization which plans on crowd-funding for a variety of independent journalism outlets whose prime mission is to seek transparency and accountability in government. (more…)