The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Laura Poitras
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Occupy the Cinema: "Snowden"
At the heart of Oliver Stone's new film is the evolution of inner turmoil and disillusion with the U.S. government that Edward Snowden felt in his work.
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Susan Sarandon and Slavoj Žižek Lead Celebrity Call for Greater Whistleblower Protections
The public can finally see for themselves the war crimes, corruption, mass surveillance and abuses of power of the U.S. government and other governments around the world.
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Exposing The United States of Secrets
How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
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Guardian and Washington Post Win Pulitzer Prize for NSA Revelations
The newspapers were awarded the highest accolade in U.S. journalism for their groundbreaking articles on the NSA’s surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden.
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Four Journalists Who Broke NSA Story Receive George Polk Awards
Four journalists who broke Edward Snowden's NSA revelations are among the recipients of the prestigious award.
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Glenn Greenwald, Fellow Snowden Reporters Expected To Win Top Journalism Award
Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill and Barton Gellman are up for the George Polk award.
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Hedges: Jeremy Hammond and the Revolutionaries In Our Midst
Hammond appears for sentencing Friday in Manhattan and could face 10 years in prison for hacking the security firm Stratfor and exposing its infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of nonviolent protesters for corporations and the security state.
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Hedges: Last Chance to Stop the National Defense Authorization Act
We have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
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"Total Abuse of Power": How David Miranda Was Detained and Interrogated Under the Terrorism Act
David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the NSA, has accused Britain of a "total abuse of power" for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act.
