CIA Torture Report Brands Post-9/11 Program As Brutal and Ineffective

Report released by Senate after four-year, $40 million investigation concludes the CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in the years after 9/11.

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The Fourth Branch: The Rise to Power of the National Security State

The 17 major intelligence outfits in the U.S. have been growing, some at prodigious rates, as they outsource their operations to private contractors in staggering numbers.

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Prosecuting Wall Street: It's Time to Bring the Banks Before a California Jury

Sixteen of the world’s largest banks have been caught colluding to rig global interest rates – so why are we doing business with a corrupt global banking cartel, and isn't it time someone prosecuted them?

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Exposed: Are Senator Feinstein and Her Cronies Looting the U.S. Post Office?

Good criminals don’t leave calling cards at the crime scene: they cover their tracks. A bit like California Senator Dianne Feinstein, her real estate tycoon husband Richard Blum, and the corrupt management of the U.S. Postal Service.

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CIA Called Out for Spying on Senate During Bush-Era Torture Investigation

Senator Dianne Feinstein openly accused the CIA of spying on congressional staffers as they investigated illegal detention and interrogation programs under George W. Bush.

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1st Amendment On Trial As Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Is Challenged in Boston

The five animal rights activists represented in the lawsuit say their right to free speech is being chilled by the law.

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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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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons

Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.

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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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Spain Reports NSA Tracked 60 Million Phone Calls In a Month

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reproduced a graphic illustrating that the NSA spied on tens of millions of phone calls in the country late last year, widening the net of European nations and leaders under heavy U.S. surveillance.

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