Over the Labor Day weekend, security guards for a petro pipeline company used attack dogs and pepper spray against Native Americans resisting construction of a … Texas billionaire and GOP donor behind the North Dakota pipeline controversyRead more
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Posted inPolitics / ToMl / USA Empire
Inside the invisible government
The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it … Inside the invisible governmentRead more
Posted inPrivatization / ToMl / USA Empire
Privatized national parks in US
This summer, as you may have heard, is the 100th anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service. Yet even as we celebrate the fact that … Privatized national parks in USRead more
Posted inPolice / Surveillance / Telecom / ToMl / USA Empire
AT&T Requires Police to Hide Hemisphere Phone Spying
AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day, AT&T adds four billion call records to Hemisphere, making it one of … AT&T Requires Police to Hide Hemisphere Phone SpyingRead more
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Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?
I wore the multicolored Aymaran flag of Bolivia to the May Day march in Los Angeles, the same day that Evo Morales, the first indigenous … Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?Read more
Posted inMilitia / ToMl / USA Empire
Armed Militia Collaborating with U.S. Border Patrol
Shane Bauer talking: I, initially, actually, joined a couple of militias in California and was training with them for several months, but my main interest … Armed Militia Collaborating with U.S. Border PatrolRead more
Posted inPolice / Surveillance / Telecom / ToMl / USA Empire
Police Depts. Paid AT&T Millions to Scrutinize Our Texts & Chats
The secret plan is called Project Hemisphere. The Daily Beast reports AT&T is keeping private call records and selling the information to authorities investigating everything … Police Depts. Paid AT&T Millions to Scrutinize Our Texts & ChatsRead more
Posted inJapan / ToMl / USA Empire / Weapons
Orwell (and the President) Come to Hiroshima
How to you hide a trillion dollars or spending $66,000 a minute for thirty years building a new nuclear arsenal? Put another way, how to … Orwell (and the President) Come to HiroshimaRead more
Posted inEconomics / Military / ToMl / USA Empire
Why Is It So Hard to Reduce the Pentagon Budget?
Through good times and bad, regardless of what’s actually happening in the world, one thing is certain: in the long run, the Pentagon budget won’t … Why Is It So Hard to Reduce the Pentagon Budget?Read more