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Why Obama Can’t Withhold Military Aid from Egypt
U.S. military hardware piloted by the Egyptian Air Force on routine patrol The coverage of the bloodshed in Egypt elides one crucial element regarding the role of the United States in the tragic mess:...
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BREAKING: Leaked recording—Ukrainian Opposition Shoots Its Own
As noted by our very own Russ Baker, a lot of the news coming out of Ukraine seems eerily familiar—and not in a good way. And whatayaknow, the Russian state television channel RT has now published a...
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Government Drops Charges Related to Link-Sharing Against Barrett Brown
Barrett Brown On March 5, federal prosecutors filed a motion to drop 11 of the 17 counts against ‘hacktivist’ journalist Barrett Brown, who has spent the last year-and-a-half in pre-trial detention...
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US Firms Target Legal Dissidents Abroad
A frame from Hacking Team’s website In the era of Edward Snowden, new revelations about government snooping may fall on deaf ears. “Of course the NSA is watching/listening/recording” goes a common...
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Todashev’s Killer: No Wonder His Identity Was Secret
Ibragim Todashev after winning a mixed martial arts fight. Undated. Doubts about the already controversial shooting of Boston Bombing figure Ibragim Todashev in Florida last year are sure to grow with...
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FBI Sat Back While Snitch Directed Cyber-Attacks and Potentially Entrapped...
Hector Xavier Monsegur, alias Sabu The FBI sat back and watched a hacker they’d compromised instigate and commit a host of cyber-crimes in an operation that netted eight more arrests, according to...
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Meet The Big Wallets Pushing Obama Towards A New Cold War
There’s a familiar ring to the U.S. calls to arm Ukraine’s post-coup government. That’s because the same big-money players who stand to benefit from belligerent relations with Russia haven’t forgotten...
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Classic Why: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Iran and the Bomb, Or: How I...
This article originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy in September 2012. As our Nobel laureate President ascended to the podium on September 25 at the United Nations for his last international speech before...
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Outside the Box Video Series: The Century of the Self
This 4-part BBC mini-series aired in 2002, tracing the development of Freudian psychology and its exploitation by advertising to manipulate people into wanting things they don’t need. The documentary...
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Outside the Box Video Series: The Century of the Self
This 4-part BBC mini-series aired in 2002, tracing the development of Freudian psychology and its exploitation by advertising to manipulate people into wanting things they don’t need. The documentary...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks for Jan 12
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View ArticleInside the Chinese Meltdown Rocking Wall Street, Part 2
How do we know what we know about China? Tens of billions of dollars are invested in China’s markets and manufacturing sector based on government-generated statistics whose accuracy is—and should be —...
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View ArticleInside the Chinese Meltdown Rocking Wall Street, Part 3
In 2012, President Xi Jinping declared that fighting corruption, even at the nation’s highest echelons of government, was a national priority.Xi’s high-flown sentiment came after years of widening...
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View ArticleBoston Globe Freaks Over Jeb’s Accidental Deep Politics
Here’s a slightly complex one with a very simple message: The Boston Globe just ran an item implicitly questioning the judgment of a Super PAC supporting Jeb Bush. The basis? The PAC ran an ad...
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Fill Up Your Gas Tank — and Support Repression, Tyrants, Wars, Terrorism and...
No matter how bad a tyrannical regime is, chances are that there is a western government or corporation just waiting to do business with it. That has to stop, says professor and author Leif Wenar in...
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View ArticleBuried Alive: The Living Hell of Solitary Confinement, and a Way Out
Solitary confinement used to be a prison’s black box — a place to send the worst of the worst, or those who were a danger to themselves. Now, the punishment doesn’t necessarily have to fit the crime,...
View ArticleGlobe Stole Lousy Item from NY Times
The other day I wrote about a lousy item in the Boston Globe, in which the reporter did a “gotcha” on Jeb Bush’s Super PAC for running an ad featuring a journalist with “conspiracy theorist” leanings....
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