The Electronic Frontier Foundation has acquired formerly classified court orders from the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) which detail how the court violates the privacy of innocent Americans caught in the crossfire of federal surveillance.
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As Nation Debates Gun Control, US Military Wants $716 Billion for Next Year
As Americans debate domestic gun control following the mass shooting at a Florida high school last week, funding for military arms has evaded public scrutiny. The United States Department of Defense recently released its summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) with little fanfare.
Read More »The Privatization Of U.S. Foreign Policy
The unethical blurring of private interests and public business is a hallmark of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Read More »US making billions in arms sales to Europeans
The United States is making billions of dollars in American arms sales to European nations by raising the specter of Russian aggression, according to a report.
Read More »Making America Great Through Exploitation, Servitude and Abuse
The public denunciation by thousands of women and a few men that they had been victims of sexual abuse by their economic bosses raises fundamental issues about the social relations of American capitalism.
Read More »The Most Important US Air Force Base You’ve Never Heard Of. The Ramstein Air Base in Germany
The overseas hub for America’s “war on terror” is the massive Ramstein Air Base in southwest Germany. Nearly ignored by US media, Ramstein serves crucial functions for drone warfare and much more. It’s the most important Air Force base abroad, operating as a kind of grand central station for airborne …
Read More »The Demolition of U.S. Global Power. The Accelerated Collapse of American Global Hegemony
Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East
Read More »“US Foreign Policy Is the Greatest Crime Since WWII,” Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark
This week, the present US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, during his trip to five Latin American nations, made headlines world wide when he made the following barely veiled threatening statement, “In the history of Venezuela and South American countries, it is often times that the military is the agent of change when things …
Read More »Israel Preps for Syrian war with Golan’s Oil and Water in its Sights
While news of Saturday’s dangerous escalation involving Syria’s downing of an Israeli fighter jet is fizzling out, Israeli plan’s for a broader war to secure water and oil reserves in the resource-rich Golan Heights are just getting underway.
Read More »EU Foreign Policy Chief Lauds European Military Integration
Britain’s impending exit from the European Union has accelerated calls for the continent to militarily unify, with consequences that may lessen American influence over Europe.
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