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…)
June 2014
Wed 18 Jun 2014
Tony Blair Bears ‘Total Responsibility’ For Isis, Says Academic Who Advised Him On Iraq
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Fri 13 Jun 2014
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown
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Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements (more…)
Wed 11 Jun 2014
New York settles with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators
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City agrees to pay $583,000 to group of Occupy demonstrators who alleged they were wrongfully arrested in January 2012 (more…)
Wed 11 Jun 2014
House GOP Leader Defeated by Anti-NSA Challenger
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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…)
Tue 10 Jun 2014
David Cay Johnston on the Perils of Our Growing Inequality
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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…)
Mon 9 Jun 2014
The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
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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…)
Fri 6 Jun 2014
Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), takes a retrospective at the last year of Snowden Leaks. (more…)
Fri 6 Jun 2014
A Message From Edward Snowden, One Year Later
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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…)