May 2013


Chris Hedges  Truthdig

A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears outside the red-brick building on Hans Crescent Street that houses the Ecuadorean Embassy. Assange, the world’s best-known political refugee, has been in the embassy since he was offered sanctuary there last June. (more…)

Melvin Haywood, pictured above, spent eight years in solitary confinement at Tamms supermax until the Prisoner Review Board granted him parole from prison.  (more…)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposed her first piece of stand-alone legislation Wednesday, the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act. The bill is aimed at giving students who take out federally subsidized loans the same interest rate the big banks get when they borrow from the government. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Guardian U.K.

The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. (more…)

As the Gallup poll shows, of all religious groups surveyed–including nonbelievers–Muslims are the least likely to say it’s OK to kill civilians (more…)

A secret federal court last year did not deny a single request to search or electronically spy on people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” according to a Justice Department report this week. (more…)

Guardian U.K.

It is time for members of Congress who truly care about rule of law, oversight and the financial security of this country to speak up. (more…)

Truthout

An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. (more…)

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