Data Mining Our Liberties By Aziz Huq, The Nation After enduring weeks of blistering criticism for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s inartful elisions about the National Security Agency (NSA) spying activities, the Bush Administration has successfully forced on Congress a law that largely authorizes open-ended surveillance of Americans’ overseas phone calls and e-mails. How did they…
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. At no time in our country’s history has the abuse of power by the executive branch been more flagrant and more dangerous to democracy. In just the past month, the Bush administration has ordered employees to ignore congressional subpoenas, asserted broad new parameters for executive privilege and issued an executive order…
By David Swanson, Afterdowningstreet.org If you support the ongoing occupation of Iraq, I’m sure you have your reasons and that they’re based in hard scientific calculations. But please indulge me for a moment and help me do this little math problem: All the benefits we’ve gotten out of invading and occupying Iraq (whatever they may…
by John F. Miglio, opednews.com hy he chose to break from tradition and use his archery skills for killing. The Zen master looks at them impassively and says, “It wasn’t necessary until today.” Americans who have enabled large corporations and corrupt politicians to turn America into a fascist state should take heed of the Zen…
