Government

Source: Liberty Crier What is the story behind all these federal agencies that keep attempting to purchase small arms and ammo? We’ve told you about these issues before… with DHS making huge purchase orders for […]

by emptywheel One of the examples I often raise to show how our government likely uses SIGINT to advantage specific businesses is the way the government helps Monsanto budge into markets uninterested in its products. […]

Lewis Wickes Hine “Shorpy Higginbotham, 14, greaser on the tipple at Bessie Mine” 1910A pretty simple and straight continuation from yesterday’s Inequality Leads to War and Crisis , if only to hammer into everyone’s head […]

By Mark Danner If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word. —Dick Cheney, 2013 From the March 6, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books 1. In early 2007, […]

DHS buying “zombie-max” rounds – With Charlie McGrath

By George Leef The Federal Reserve System recently turned 100, but it has presided over a century of folly, argues Professor Richard Timberlake in his magisterial 2013 book Constitutional Money (Cambridge University Press).  Timberlake, professor […]

By Alex Kane Pentagon want to launch a drone strike on another American citizen overseas on evidence that is secret.  The Associated Press’ Kimberly Dozier reports that the Obama administration is divided over killing the […]

By Nicolas Niarchos The NSA campus in Fort Meade, Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)  The first time Adis Medunjanin tried to call Robert C. Gottlieb in mid-2009, Gottlieb was out of the office. Medunjanin was agitated. […]

Source: Voltaire Network According to the London-based Reuters news agency, the U.S. Congress in a secret vote approved funding for military assistance to “Syrian rebels” until the end of the fiscal year, ending September 30, […]

By Robert Scheer AP/Matt York Barack Obama’s speech Friday on surveillance was his worst performance, not as a matter of theatrical skill, though he clearly did not embrace his lines, but in its stark betrayal […]