Business King Address That Stirred World Led to FBI Surveillance
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” inspired the world. It also galvanized the Federal Bureau of Investigation into undertaking one of its biggest surveillance operations in history. Initially approved in October 1963…
Business German Government Warns Not to Use Windows 8- Links NSA to Your Computer
Why do you think Windows 8 came out so suddenly, after Windows 7? Was it because they wanted to appeal to people using touch screens, or to benefit the NSA and other miners for data…
Business World-wide detox: Japan to run Internet ‘fasting’ camps for addicted teens
Over half a million middle- and high-school students in Japan are feared to be strongly addicted to the Internet, prompting authorities to try a revolutionary solution to help teens who cannot voluntarily unplug from the…
Business UK Police ‘Charged’ With Misusing Anti-Terrorism Procedures at Border Crossings
Scotland Yard came under fire for abusing harsh anti-terror laws at border crossings, British media report. It now faces charges over its refusal to hand over the results of inquiries into the misuse of these…
Business NZ police affidavits show use of PRISM for surveillance
Police affidavits related to the raid on Kim Dotcom’s Mega mansion appear to show that New Zealand police and spy agencies are able to tap directly into United States surveillance systems such as PRISM to…
Business New Zealand PM walks out of press conference amid spy bill grilling
Tensions are high in New Zealand over a new bill that would allow the country’s GCSB agency to conduct warrantless NSA-style spying on citizens. Prime Minister John Key, who was grilled on the bill at…
Business “Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell
Pennsylvania’s right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds — and the sickening details will shock you Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia. There, the…
Business NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen
With each recent revelation about the NSA’s spying programs government officials have tried to reassure the American people that all three branches of government—the Executive branch, the Judiciary branch, and the Congress—knowingly approved these programs…
Business The FBI and the Myth of the Fingerprint
Few law enforcement institutions have been so thoroughly discredited as the FBI’s forensic lab. In 1997 the Bureau’s inspector general of the time issued a devastating report, stigmatizing one instance after another of mishandled and…
Business Empire State of Mind
“half of y’all won’t make it” –Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” In the face of creeping disfranchisement, unbridled corporate power, growing poverty, an expanding police state, 2.3 million people in cages, vigilantes…
Business Live forever! Can science deliver immortality?
In labs around the world, researchers are trying to reverse aging. Does the latest research suggest breakthroughs? In 1912, the year he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his breakthroughs into sutures…
Business 8/6/13 Philip Giraldi
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the US embassy closures in the Middle East due to some vague Al Qaeda terrorism threat; allegations that the White House is threatening the families of CIA officers to…
Business How to Avoid the Data Vacuum: Use Swiftcoin
Recent developments demonstrate that powerful corporations and governments intend to record all users’ activity online and store it in a vast data base, to be used against them at any time in the future. Every…
Civil Liberties Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism
NSA apologists say spying is only used for menaces like “weapons of mass destruction” and “terror.” But those terms have been radically redefined. One of the assurances I keep hearing about the U.S. government’s spying…
Business The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping
The newest NSA leaks reveal that governments are probing “the Internet’s backbone.” How does that work? In the early 1970’s, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off…
Business Pharma group accused of using cash and sex to generate $1.5bn in sales
Drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) faces allegations of funneling $489 million (3 billion yuan) through travel agencies to pay kickbacks to doctors, hospitals, and government officials to prescribe GSK drugs to patients. Sales in China, the…
Business Obama Pal and Israeli Citizen Mayor Rahm Cries Poverty, Closes Fifty Black Chicago Schools to Save US$ 500 000 000
The F-35 began as the Joint Strike Fighter program – an effort to create an exportable 5th Generation fighter with three variants and nine partner countries. The partners contributed to development of the requirements, design…
Business Why Disinformation Works — Paul Craig Roberts
Have you ever wondered how the government’s misinformation gains traction? What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone whether on the right…
Business Chasing Islamic ‘terrorists’ in Paraguay
In November 2012, a subcommittee of the US House Committee on Homeland Security produced a report titled “A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border“, an updated version of…
Editor's Desk Russian Pacific Fleet Warships Enter Mediterranean For First Time In Decades, To Park In Cyprus
Earlier we reported that the US has now officially landed a Marine force in Israel as well as an assault ship, in a visit that the US Navy promptly assured “is not associated with, nor…