The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and [...]

With revelations (yet again) that we are all essentially being watched virtually all the time, we might expect a popular backlash against such a massive and unprecedented intrusion on privacy. Americans may differ on a plethora of political issues, but there’s a common wisdom suggesting broad agreement on core principles such as individual liberty. Alas, [...]

Just as Bradley Manning’s court-martial was getting underway, another brave whistleblower dropped a bombshell into the media: The Obama administration is collecting data on every telephone call we make. Nearly 64 years to the day after George Orwell published his prescient book 1984, we have learned that the “Thought Police” are indeed watching every one [...]

Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security than SEAL Team 6 The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army, will be pulling out all the stops when it calls to the stand a member of Navy SEAL Team 6, the unit that assassinated Osama bin Laden.  The SEAL (in partial disguise, as his identity [...]

Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count The Second Amendment to the Constitution is interpreted by lawmakers and judges in an absolute manner. Every American, we are constantly told– even mentally ill ones like the shooter at Santa Monica College who killed 6 persons on Friday, hunting our children as [...]

La semana pasada, Glenn Greenwald, abogado constitucional, autor y columnista del periódico internacional The Guardian publicó liberaciones de información que detallan dos programas secretos de la agencia de seguridad nacional de EEUU (NSA). Los datos, entregados a Greenwald por Edward Snowden detallan el alcance de dos programas secretos de la NSA (Anonymous también ha liberado [...]

“American exceptionalism” is perhaps the most misunderstood phrase in politics. If, like the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, we define “exceptionalism” as “the condition of being different from the norm”—then it’s certainly true that America is exceptional. But we rarely stop to ask: Should we always want to be exceptional?

Artes y oficios burgueses para usar la “información” como arma opresiva No deben ser pocos los que piensan que hay que espiar a algunos “por el bien de todos”. Sólo así se explica el gasto descomunal que anualmente se hace en materia de cámaras ocultas, organización de cuerpos policiacos o militares especializados en “escuchas” telefónicas y [...]

The reality of and the outward toll inflicted by greenhouse gas engendered Climate Change is clearly evident (to all but the corrupt and devoutly ignorant) e.g. increasingly destructive and deadly tornadoes and hurricanes, destruction of marine life, severe droughts and rapacious wild fires—landscapes of death, scattered debris and shattered lives.

Reagan waged a murderous assault on Central America On Mother’s Day, May 12, The Boston Globe featured a photo of a young woman with her toddler son sleeping in her arms.