Category Archives: Capitalism
‘A Political Ploy’? The Guardian Editors Swallow US Claims On Syrian WMD | Global Research
The Obama administration has since claimed that its ‘red line’ has indeed been crossed – it now has firm evidence that Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons. As a result, the US will begin supplying Syrian insurgents with small arms and ammunition. White House foreign policy adviser Benjamin Rhodes gave dates and locations for […]
How GCHQ stepped up spying on South African foreign ministry | World news | The Guardian
This was about spying on their normal work. The objective of the operation was described as acquiring “retrieved documents, including briefings for South African delegates to G20 and G8 meetings”. It is clear that GCHQ was aiming to find out everything it could about the negotiating position of the government of President Thabo Mbeki, an […]
Shocking New Study: Glyphosate Found in Human Urine Samples From 18 Countries | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information
Over 40 percent of urine samples taken from 18 countries across Europe were found to contain glyphosate. Urine samples were collected from volunteers in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and the UK. A total of 80/182 samples tested were found to […]
Hundreds Rally to Declare “I Stand with Snowden” | Common Dreams
In a massive outpouring of support for the 29-year-old systems administrator behind last week’s National Security Administration surveillance leak, hundreds of civil liberties advocates and concerned citizens are staging a mass demonstration in New York City’s Union Square Monday at noon to declare: “I stand with Edward Snowden.” The demonstration follows revelations Sunday on the […]
Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation
After a leaked FISA court document revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) is vacuuming up private data on millions of innocent Americans by collecting all the phone records of Verizon customers, President Obama responded by saying “let’s have a debate” about the scope of US surveillance powers. At EFF, we couldn’t agree more. It […]
Democrats Outraged That Bush Spied on Them Don’t Mind That Obama’s Doing the Same Thing – Businessweek
The Pew poll measures Americans’ views of the surveillance state and how they’ve changed since the George W. Bush administration. On the broadest level, there doesn’t appear to have been much change. Today, 62 percent of Americans say investigating terrorism is more important than maintaining personal privacy; 34 percent disagree. In January 2006, just after […]
Myriad Genetics Says Supreme Court Upholds CDNA Patent Claims; Stock Up 8%
Myriad Genetics Inc. (MYGN: Quote), a molecular diagnostic company, said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its patent claims on complementary DNA, or cDNA. However, the Court ruled that five of Myriad’s claims covering isolated DNA were not patent eligible. Following the announcement, shares of Myriad gained about 8 percent in afternoon trade on […]
When the Surveillance State Is Used to Investigate and Prosecute Whistleblowers, the Occupy Movement and Environmental Activists
President Obama assured us on Friday that our phone conversations are not being listened to, but that is not a credible reassurance unless the White House comes up with documents that make what is going on transparent in terms of its protocols and process. There is little “an enemy” can learn from the broad strokes […]
Secret court judge attended expenses-paid terrorism seminar | The Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity collected the disclosure records as part of an investigative report that revealed how large corporations and conservative foundations routinely sponsor ideologically driven educational conferences for state and federal judges. It’s unclear which lectures Vinson attended during the “Terrorism, Civil Liberty, & National Security” seminar. FREE’s website only provides a general […]
policymic: Watch Obama Promise to Never Wiretap Americans in This 2007 Speech
[policymic] During his speech, Obama accused the Bush administration of ”putting forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide” and promised that under his leadership there would be ”no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens” and ”no more National Security Letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.” […]
