June 2014


Huffington Post

There is “absolutely” a link between the invasion of Iraq and the rise of terror groupIsis, for which Tony Blair bears “total responsibility”, says a leading academic who advised the then prime minister in the run-up to the war. (more…)

Guardian U.K.

Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements (more…)

 

Guardian U.K.

City agrees to pay $583,000 to group of Occupy demonstrators who alleged they were wrongfully arrested in January 2012 (more…)

Brat started out with $50,000 of his own money to launch what many viewed as a quixotic campaign against a well-funded and well-entrenched opponent. At the starting bell, Cantor had over a million and a half in his campaign war chest. (more…)

Johnston stress that inequality is primarily a result of political and economic arrangements, including anti-trust policy and how much investment society and parents make in their children’s health and education. (more…)

Henry A. Giroux: What we have seen in the United States and a number of other countries since the 1970s is the emergence of a savage form of free market fundamentalism, often called neoliberalism, in which there is not only a deep distrust of public values, public goods and public institutions but the embrace of a market ideology that accelerates the power of the financial elite and big business while gutting those formative cultures and institutions necessary for a democracy to survive.  (more…)

Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), takes a retrospective at the last year of Snowden Leaks. (more…)

ACLU

Technology has been a liberating force in our lives. It allows us to create and share the experiences that make us human, effortlessly. But in secret, our very own government — one bound by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights — has reverse-engineered something beautiful into a tool of mass surveillance and oppression. (more…)

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