Obama’s Willing Executioners of the Fourth Amendment
by Norman Solomon
on July 25, 2013
It’s now painfully clear that the president has put out a contract on the Fourth Amendment. And at the Capitol, the hierarchies of both parties are stuffing it into the trunks of their limousines, so each provision can be neatly fitted with cement shoes and delivered to the bottom of the Potomac.
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Dear Members of Congress:
by Coalition Letter
on July 24, 2013
Across the nation, Head Start programs have ended their school years early, canceled summer programs, cut staff pay and benefits, and have begun to announce reductions in the number of children who will be served in the fall.
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Bradley Manning Wins Peace Prize
by David Swanson
on July 19, 2013
Here's some good news!
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Letter to a Wound
by Vijay Prashad
on July 12, 2013
For Edward Snowden
by VIJAY PRASHAD
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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough -- We Need the Power to Stop It
by Norman Solomon
on July 11, 2013
For more than a month, outrage has been profuse in response to news about NSA surveillance and other evidence that all three branches of the U.S. government are turning Uncle Sam into Big Brother.
Now what?
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Edward Snowden Poster
by David Swanson
on June 26, 2013
The Pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a Rage, Striving to Run the World
by Norman Solomon
on June 24, 2013
Rarely has any American provoked such fury in Washington’s high places. So far, Edward Snowden has outsmarted the smartest guys in the echo chamber -- and he has proceeded with the kind of moral clarity that U.S. officials seem to find unfathomable.
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David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Snowden Had Just Followed Orders
by Norman Solomon
on June 17, 2013
Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, “have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security bureaucracy.”
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Clarity from Edward Snowden and Murky Response from Progressive Leaders in Congress
by Norman Solomon
on June 13, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner calls Edward Snowden a “traitor.” The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, labels his brave whistleblowing “an act of treason.” What about the leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus?
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Over 30,000 Sign Thank-You Note to Edward Snowden
by David Swanson
on June 11, 2013
Already over 30,000 people have signed a thank-you note to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden at SupportEdwardSnowden.org -- a website set up by RootsAction.org.
The note reads: "We thank Edward Snowden for his principled and courageous actions as a whistleblower, informing the public about vast surveillance by the National Security Agency that undermines our civil liberties."
A few of the thousands of comments added read as follows:
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