The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web.(more…)
September 2014
Sun 28 Sep 2014
World Wide Web inventor: ‘I want a web where I’m not spied on, where there’s no censorship’
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Sun 28 Sep 2014
With Hollywood set to release a movie about the Contra-cocaine scandal and the destruction of journalist Gary Webb, an internal CIA report has surfaced showing how the spy agency manipulated the mainstream media’s coverage to disparage Webb and contain the scandal (more…)
Sun 28 Sep 2014
Return of the messenger: How Jeremy Renner’s new film Kill The Messenger will vindicate Sacramento investigative journalist Gary Webb
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Nearly two decades after the reporter exposed a connection between the CIA and crack cocaine in America, Hollywood chimes in with a major movie (more…)
Sun 28 Sep 2014
FBI Director Equates Protecting Personal Privacy with Lawlessness
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FBI Director James Comey has responded to recent moves by tech giants Apple and Google to offer better encryption services on their handheld devices by suggesting that giving people the ability to protect their private communications from state law enforcement agencies is akin to lawlessness. (more…)
Sun 28 Sep 2014
Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes (more…)
Sun 28 Sep 2014
Cradle to grave: Student debt now bankrupting seniors
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As if aging in America isn’t hard enough these days, a new government report has uncovered that seniors are facing yet another barrier to a secure retirement: their student debt. Once thought to be a young person’s issue, new data released by the Government Accountability Office shows that older Americans are also finding themselves buried under the weight of their student loans. (more…)
Sat 27 Sep 2014
Illegal, but fit to serve: Pentagon to recruit undocumented immigrants
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The Pentagon is to start recruiting undocumented immigrants who came into the US as minors and possess valuable skills like speaking Persian and Chinese. The program offering the opportunity is capped at 1,500 recruits per year.(more…)
Sat 27 Sep 2014
MANAGING A NIGHTMARE: HOW THE CIA WATCHED OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF GARY WEBB
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Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism. (more…)