Cutting Off the NSA's Juice

For the NSA’s top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice to keep Big Brother nourished is essential — and any interference with that flow is unthinkable.

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Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous

The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon – owned by Jeff Bezos, who is also the new owner of the Post – is under contract to keep them due to its new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.

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CIA, Amazon, Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: An Executive Editor Responds

The CIA’s multi-year contract with Amazon is a small fraction of company revenues that have been estimated at roughly $75 b in 2013.

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Under Global Shadow of Big Brother, Journalism Must Light Up the Political Sky

In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. What governments want is fake journalism, deferring to official storylines and respectful of authority even when it is illegitimate.

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Big Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties

As chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the California senator generates an abundance of fog, weasel words, anti-whistleblower slander and bogus notions of reform — while methodically stabbing civil liberties in the back.

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Even Google Is Doing Evil with ALEC

Quietly, Google has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, the shadowy corporate alliance that pushes odious laws through state legislatures: cutting taxes for mega-corporations and the wealthy, privatizing schools and killing clean energy.

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In Swing Vote on Syria, A Dozen Liberal Senators Are the Decisive Block

Some Democratic senators who’ve cultivated progressive reputations nationwide haven’t hesitated to dive into Obama’s war tank. Will others do the same?

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Memo from Oslo: If Peace Is Prized, a Nobel for Bradley Manning

Opening heart and mind to moral responsibility, Bradley Manning lifted a shroud and illuminated terrible actions of America's warfare state.

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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It

At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

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What the Progressive Caucus Said - and Failed to Say - About Edward Snowden and the NSA

Leaders and members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress say things that appeal to their constituencies back home — without throwing down the gauntlet and battling an administration that has made clear its contempt for essential civil liberties.

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