The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Act Out! [73] - Battling Big Brother & The Man; The Surveillance State & Protester’s Rights
This week, as the DNC rages on, we're talking state surveillance – digging deep into the past and present with surveillance expert, Chip Gibbons from Defending Dissent.
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A Century of Mass Government Surveillance Is Enough – It’s Time for New Limits
As a nation we're uncomfortable with the morality of the degree – not the kind – of intelligence collection that occurs as a result of secret government-business partnerships.
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Ben Franklin Was Right About the NSA
No other nation we know of so thoroughly sifts through the world’s communications, bugs 35 key leaders, targets individuals for assassination by CIA drones or U.S. special forces and stores every word its citizens ever sent.
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Spying on "Terrorists Abroad," Suppressing Dissent at Home: When We Become the Hunted
If you're wondering why the ongoing revelations about the development and use of a massive public and private surveillance complex should be of concern to you, read this interview.
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Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?
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America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington nears, let's not forget the history of agency overreach and abuse of power that occurred when the FBI doggedly pursued Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What Edward Snowden Taught Us About American Freedom
Americans fully recognize the threat the U.S. security state poses to American liberty, with a poll last week showing 55% consider Edward Snowden a whistleblower, not a traitor. But who, now, will protect this hero?
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America's Defining Choice: A Free or An Authoritian Future
Today's whistleblowers are fighting the same scourge that the Founders and every genuine patriot has fought against, only today, the authoritarianism that we're confronting isn't a foreign enemy, but one from within.