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Domestic-surveillance tech built into Predator craft

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show. Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/03/domestic-surveillance-tech-built-into-predator-craft/#pGqaBDhIhUKlO7yk.99 http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/03/domestic-surveillance-tech-built-into-predator-craft/?cat_orig=us

Startup Sovereigns

Statehood ain’t what it used to be. The competition for authority within and between states is as intense as ever in history. And it’s due not just to the current wave of democratic experimentation occurring across Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, but also the rising power of corporations, NGOs, religious groups, terrorists, and [...]

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Don’t be alarmed “It’s Only a Drill” We’re Only Practicing…To Shoot people

Some members of the U.S. military were busy in Miami Thursday night as they conducted exercises in Downtown Miami. CBS4 captured video of Black Hawk helicopters flying over the city as part of a joint military training exercise. Thursday night’s training took place near the Stephen P. Clark Center in Miami and a nearby Metrorail [...]

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Trevor Paglen: I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World (2007)

They’re on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier’s unit does. But what if that’s Top Secret? In a work that combines ingenious journalism and bizarrely encoded art, author/photographer/investigator Trevor Paglen uncovers 75 never-before-seen-in-public military patches that reveal a bizarre secret world of the American military. Paglen investigates classified weapons projects [...]

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Court rules peace activists can sue the U.S. military for infiltration

Cross Posted from the National Lawyers Guild In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a Guild lawyer’s challenge to military spying on peace activists can proceed. The ruling marks the first time a court has affirmed people’s ability to sue the military for violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights. “This [...]

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Violence and the American Mind

Absolutist Mindset, Dangerously Flawed Faith

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“The Trials of Bradley Manning.” By Amy Goodman

Award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman records a podcast in conjunction with her weekly column, which you can read here: http://bit.ly/QBC5S December 13, 2012 Read this week’s column by Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan: Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his [...]

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Law Interpretation Shows ‘Tweeters’ Could Become Legitimate Military Targets

One unique aspect of the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas was the unprecedented use of social media by both sides. This new development highlighted important moral questions: what constitutes the battlefield, and what are the legitimate targets in that battlefield? Australian army Land Warfare Studies Centre (LWCS) analyst Chloe Diggins opened up Pandora’s box [...]

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The Beginning of the End for Mindless America Support for Israel?

A Route to Sanity?

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WikiLeaks suspect treated like ‘zoo animal’: lawyer

In his final plea to have charges dropped against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, a defense lawyer Tuesday compared his harsh detention conditions to those of a “zoo animal.” Manning’s solitary confinement — under 24-hour watch, forced to sleep naked in a tiny cell for all but 20 minutes a day — was “a clear violation” [...]

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Hacking the Human Brain: The Next Domain of Warfare

It’s been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a “fifth domain” for warfare, along with land, space, air and sea. But there’s a sixth and arguably more important warfighting domain emerging: the human brain. This new battlespace is not just about influencing hearts and minds with people seeking information. It’s about involuntarily [...]

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Cutting through the Controversy about Indefinite Detention and the NDAA

On Tuesday, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a yearly military spending bill. Last year, the bill affirmed the U.S.’s authority to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely and without charges. The provision had generated plenty of controversy, particularly about whether U.S. citizens could be detained indefinitely. This year, the Senate bill says [...]

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The Hidden Costs of Nuclear Power

Pay Now and Pay Later

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#GhostShell hackers release 1.6 million NASA, FBI, ESA accounts

Hacktivist crew signs off for Christmas The hacking collecting GhostShell has announced it has finished operations for the year, but has signed off with a dump of around 1.6 million [...]

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Gazan Farmers at Work in Kuzaa

A Small, Important Victory

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Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One

The Grievances of Ben Franklin

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The PSY scandal: singing about killing people v. constantly doing it

Americans would benefit from less outrage at anti-US sentiment and more energy toward understanding why it’s so widespread Which of these two stories is causing more controversy and outrage in the US? New York Daily News, Friday: “Fiercely anti-American lyrics from Korean rapper Psy have been unearthed just two weeks before the star is scheduled [...]

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