The company is trying to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order, which prevents Internet service providers from blocking, throttling or otherwise discriminating against online content. (more…)
September 2013
Thu 19 Sep 2013
Wed 18 Sep 2013
Fisa court: no telecoms company has ever challenged phone records orders
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No telecommunications company has ever challenged the secretiveForeign Intelligence Surveillance court’s orders for bulk phone recordsunder the Patriot Act, the court revealed on Tuesday. (more…)
Mon 16 Sep 2013
Use of Terrorism Act to be debated after David Miranda detainment
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An emergency motion condemning the “over-broad” use of the Terrorism Act of 2000, which was used to detain David Miranda at Heathrow airport last month, is to be debated at the Liberal Democrat conference on Wednesday (more…)
Sat 14 Sep 2013
THE WAR ON TERROR – MAKING US ALL THE ENEMY
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With Steve Downs, Esq. of Project SALAM
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 7:00 pm, ArtRage Gallery 505 Hawley Ave. free and open to the public (more…)
Sat 14 Sep 2013
Fisa judge: Snowden’s NSA disclosures triggered important spying debate
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The court that oversees US surveillance has ordered the government to review for declassification a set of secret rulings about the National Security Agency’s bulk trawls of Americans’ phone records, acknowledging that disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden had triggered an important public debate. (more…)
Sat 14 Sep 2013
WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium
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Denis Halliday
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium (more…)
Wed 11 Sep 2013
The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende’s Last Speech
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Forty years ago today, Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected government in Chile was overthrown by a US-backed military coup. (more…)
Wed 11 Sep 2013
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel
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Glennn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill Guardian U.K.
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data withIsrael without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. (more…)