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Orwellian or a Blunt Tool?: Conflicting Rulings on NSA Spying Set Up Likely Supreme Court Showdown; Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can “Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make”; Jobless Benefits Cut For 1.3 Million, Despite Highest Long-term Unemployment Since World War II. HeadlinesDecember 30, 2013 Opposition Activists: Over 500 Killed in Syrian Attacks on Aleppo … Continued
Beyond Plan Colombia: Covert CIA Program Reveals Critical U.S. Role in Killings of Rebel Leaders; Did Covert U.S. Program Targeting Rebel Leaders Help Undermine Colombia’s Peace Process? Ex-Rebel Leader Faces Ouster as Bogota Mayor After Longtime Advocacy of Reconciliation; Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor of Eponymous Assault Rifle That Shaped Modern Warfare, Dead at 94. HeadlinesDecember 24, … Continued
Time for Compassion? Aging Political Prisoners Suffer From Illness, Decades in Solitary Confinement; “If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go”: Elderly Prison Population Skyrockets Despite Low Risk to Society. HeadlinesDecember 23, 2013 Report: CIA Helped Kill Rebels in Colombia Through Secret Program South Sudan: U.S. Evacuates Hundreds amid Fears of Civil War Pussy … Continued
Arctic 30 Members Welcome Russian Amnesty, But Refuse to Apologize For Trying to Stop Oil Drilling; Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevron’s Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution; Obama Commutes 8 “Unfair” Crack Cocaine Sentences as the ACLU Calls For More Reforms to Drug Law; Live from Prison: Jason Hernandez Thanks Obama … Continued
Vindication for Snowden? Obama Panel Backs Major Curbs on NSA Surveillance, Phone Record Data Mining; NSA Whistleblower Kirk Wiebe Details Gov’t Retaliation After Helping Expose “Gross Mismanagement; Morsi Charged With Terrorism As Egyptian Military Widens Crackdown on Journalists, Activists. HeadlinesDecember 19, 2013 White House Panel Calls for Reform of NSA Surveillance Greenwald: NSA Seeks … Continued
Geneva Talks “Already Dead” as Syria Faces Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis, Imploding Opposition; Patrick Cockburn: U.S. Turns Blind Eye as Saudis Fund Jihadists in Syrian Conflict; Patrick Cockburn: U.S. Turns Blind Eye as Saudis Fund Jihadists in Syrian Conflict; Debate: Is Academic Group’s Boycott of Israel a Victory or Setback for Justice in Middle East? HeadlinesDecember … Continued
As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance “Almost Orwellian,” Obama Prepares to Leave Spying Program Intact; The Selling of ADHD: Diagnoses, Prescriptions Soar After 20-Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma. HeadlinesDecember 17, 2013 Judge Deals Major Blow to NSA Phone Spying Iraq: More Than 70 Killed in Wave of Attacks Yemeni Parliament Backs Ban on U.S. … Continued
