America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America

What makes the Pentagon's Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps, a child-soldier recruiting program, so striking is the way it is carried out in plain sight in hundreds and hundreds of private, military, and public high schools across the U.S.

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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We'd Ground Our Fleet

But after a dozen or more deaths at a Yemeni wedding, don't expect anything to change.

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Boston PD's New Assault Rifles Raise Serious Questions About Paramilitarized Police

“Do we want police officers who are sent out into our streets to be trained as if — and equipped as if — the people they encounter on their patrols are enemy hostile targets, as if in a war?”

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Anonymous Issues Warning of Shutdown to Federal Reserve Page on #D23

"We are not fooled. We know that there is nothing federal and that there are no reserves. The masses are waking, and we are rising. We have learned of all the atrocities that lie within central banking."

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U.S. Officials Will No Longer Provide Information on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

A spokesman for the U.S. military announced that the authorities will no longer provide public information on how many prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are participating in hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention.

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Exposed: Illegal Weaponry, Torture Equipment, Proliferate U.K.-Sponsored Arms Fair

Activists and investigative researchers have revealed that arms dealers were selling weapons and equipment banned under international law. Those in violation were ejected, but no legal action was taken.

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Courage Is Contageous: Renowned Whistleblowers Address the Post-Snowden World

The unprecedented persecution of truth-tellers, initiated by the Bush administration and severely accelerated by Obama, has been mostly ignored while record numbers are charged with serious felonies for letting their fellow citizens know what's going on.

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Report: Massive Data-Sharing Among U.S. Law Agencies Is Wasteful, "Organized Chaos"

A report released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school found inconsistent rules, inadequate oversight, wastefulness and insufficient regard for civil liberties nationwide among the FBI, DHS and local police departments.

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Ukraine Protests: Outrage as Police Attack Kiev Barricades

Unexpected scenes only a few hours after President Viktor Yanukovych pledged restraint to E.U. foreign policy chief.

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World's Leading Authors Condemn State Spying and Demand "Digital Bill of Rights"

Accusing the U.S., Britain and other states of systematically abusing their powers by conducting mass surveillance, Don DeLillo, Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and J.M. Coetzee are among the renowned writers petitioning the U.N. for new civil rights protections.

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