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The Daily Beast

You may be loving your new Internet-connected television and its convenient voice-command feature—but did you know it’s recording everything you say and sending it to a third party? (more…)

Guardian U.K.

The Guantánamo Bay war court is now costing US taxpayers over $7,600 per minute, according to new Pentagon figures. (more…)

KH: see also, Guantanamo Diary

RT

CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou (more…)

Guardian U.K.

The charitable foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family has received as much as $81m from wealthy international donors who were clients of HSBC’s controversial Swiss bank. (more…)

Guardian U.K.

Newly declassified documents from the FBI reveal how the US federal agency under J Edgar Hoover monitored the activities of dozens of prominent African American writers for decades, devoting thousands of pages to detailing their activities and critiquing their work. (more…)

CRIME OF COMPASSION: In response to the brutal US and UK-sponsored sanctions against Iraq Dr. Rafil Dhafir founded the charity Help the Needy, and for 13 years he worked tirelessly to raise money to send food and medicine to starving Iraqi civilians. As a result of this charity, on February 26, 2003, just one week after the arrest of Professor Sami Al-Arian, Dhafir was subject to a high-profile arrest. As in Al-Arian’s case, then-Attorney General announced that, “funders of terrorism have been arrested,” (more…)

Guardian U.K.

College students are being urged to scrap plans for beer bongs on sunny beaches, in favour of a serious-minded spring break in Ferguson, the Missouri town that was roiled by protests and unrest following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old. (more…)

Felicity Arbuthnot ICH

“It’s a hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it.”
— Madeleine Albright, then US Ambassador to the UN, on the “embargo related” deaths of half a million Iraqi children, May 12, 1996 (more…)