Tragedy and Hope with Meria & Richard Grove.In the midst of a cyber-society – drones, Argo, surveillance everywhere, where are the thinkers as we descend the slippery slope of tyranny? Related articles Meria Heller – David Icke – 03/03/13 Meria Heller Show – Art Oliver – 02/24/13 Meria Heller Show …
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Capital controls, increased and burdensome regulation, censorship, surveillance, a tendency towards power centralization, consolidation of crony- corporate interests and, ultimately, police militarization or – The Police State. This is what you get when you allow governments to print money that they lend you and bestow upon you in the form …
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Digital watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published several thousand pages of new drone license records on Wednesday confirming innumerable theorists’ fears: that drones “regularly fly” in “national airspace all around the country.” The records, which were obtained by way of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the …
In a radio interview, Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East …
New diagnostic tests for common foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli may hinder the ability of public health officials to detect multistate outbreaks. The problem is an inability to trace contamination to its source. In 2009 Alicia Cronquist, an epidemiologist with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment noticed that several …
The many ways government has increased surveillance of American citizens Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of the anti-war feminist organization Codepink and a co-founder of the international human rights organization Global Exchange. For the past 20 years she has been an advocate for social justice. In 2005 she was …
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Diabetes prevalence rates jumped dramatically across the nation between 1995 and 2010, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported in Friday’s edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual phone survey of adults 18 and older, the investigators found that …
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians live in …
In many states, November 6 was a good day for blue and identity politics, but said nothing about big national issues of war vs. peace; Wall Street vs. Main Street; Constitutional rights vs. restrictions; Democracy vs. Oligarchy. It said nothing because nothing was said about these issues by either candidate …
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a drone armed with an arsenal of video surveillance technology! Today the ACLU filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records related to the federal government’s domestic use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) – better known as drones – as well as plans …
The release of new Department of Justice documents obtained by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability. Though there is a long history of legal (and not so legal) surveillance by federal and local authorities, …
The decision by the European Court of Human Rights last week to refuse to block the extradition of the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four others to the United States on terrorism charges removes one of the last external checks on our emerging gulag state. Masri and the four others, …
“Big Brother is becoming America’s new normal.” So says author David Rosen. This show is an examination of just how seriously the new surveillance state has undermined our traditional rights of privacy. The government is working hand in glove with private interests and the new domestic spying on virtually everything …
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Only a month after swearing in, President Obama was given the first “Economic Intelligence Briefing” by his sunny CIA director, Leon Panetta. The goal was to prepare policymakers for the blowback from an electorate reeling from unemployment and looming bank failures. The director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, told a …
Military and intelligence domestic surveillance on the American public David Rosen is a journalist, author and business development consultant who has specialized in investigating American history and government policy, the media and technology. His articles appear AlterNet, CounterPunch, Huffington Post, The Brooklyn Rail andCounterpoint in India. He is also the author of the …
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