Glenn Greewald writes, about the new Freedom of the Press Foundation, at The Guardian (emphasis added throughout post): Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them. Greenwald is a member of the Board of Directors of the new organization, who signed the announcement about the group, [...]
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Wake Up America: Issa Dumps Docs, Endangers U.S. Allies in Libya, as CIA Confirms Rice
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U.S. government and placed their lives in danger when he released reams of State Department communications Friday, according to Obama administration officials. – Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy THIS IS an example of what happens when you have circus performers [...]
News Desk: Bambuser Streams Live from Syria and the World
THE LITTLE start-up that’s broadcasting the Syrian unraveling is getting big time press today. “Foreign correspondents” gets redefined in the new-media era. Syria’s civil war has made Friday afternoons a busy time at Bambuser, a tiny Swedish IT startup in an old bicycle factory which streams live video from the latest uprisings. The Muslim day [...]
Report: Former “Dangerous” Gitmo Detainee Responsible for Benghazi Terrorist Attack [Video Update]
LAST NIGHT FNC’s Ed Henry reported via Twitter that the man who is thought to have led the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack was Sufyan Ben Qumu, a former Gitmo detainee. A State Department profile of Sufyan Ben Qumu, aka Sofiane Ibrahim Gammu, is below. It describes the terrorist as “a dangerous man with no qualms [...]
Reward Offered for Text of Obama’s Pacific Free Trade Agreement
At this point, it’s not really possible to discuss the merits of the TPP since the governments are keeping the proposed text a secret from the public. Only the negotiators themselves and a select group of corporate partners have access to the actual document. The top executives at General Electric, Goldman Sachs, and Pfizer probably [...]
News Desk: Julian Assange Granted Asylum in Ecuador, Britain Threatens Arrest
BREAKING NEWS reports that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted asylum in Ecuador, but the British government has no intention of allowing him to travel there. From the New York Times: The minister said his government had taken the decision after the authorities in Britain and the United States had refused to give guarantees [...]
News Desk: Egypt Moves on Sinai Extremists After Security Force Killings
Deploying its air force for the first time in nearly 40 years, the Egyptian military launched an air offensive in the unruly Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, three days after Islamists killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in an attack that threatened both the Egyptian-Israeli border and the political standing of Egypt’s new president. [McClatchyDC] THE ARAB SPRING [...]
Torture in Syria Documented by Human Rights Watch
Former detainees and defectors have identified the locations, agencies responsible, torture methods used, and, in many cases, the commanders in charge of 27 detention facilities run by Syrian intelligence agencies, Human Rights Watch said in a multimedia report released today. The systematic patterns of ill-treatment and torture that Human Rights Watch documented clearly point to [...]
Secy. Clinton Taking Heat for Hypocrisy on Internet Freedom
Yesterday, Secy. Clinton gave a speech on Internet freedom at the Hague. Glenn Greenwald eviscerates Clinton, as well as the Obama administration today, with the criticism well earned. The subject is important, because there’s quite a flurry of activity right now surrounding SOPA, with all you need to know at TechDirt. In the Senate, both [...]
Does Bradley Manning Deserve a Fair Trial?
It’s hard to know what possesses Pres. Obama at moments like this, but for a commander in chief to weigh in on a soldier being held indefinitely and before his hearing is the height of unconscionable if you ask me. To remind everyone, Mr. Manning has not yet been convicted of any crime. You can [...]
Japan: Fourth Reactor ‘Spewing’ Radiation
(CBS/AP) SOMA, Japan – A Japanese spokesman says a fourth reactor at a quake-damaged nuclear plant is on fire following an earlier explosion, and radiation is now spewing from it. The radiation level is now elevated to a point that may damage health, the spokesman said. – New explosion leads to spewing radiation The third [...]
OBAMA CENSORS STATE – PJ CROWLEY OUT
P.J. Crowley, spokesperson for the State Dept., has been shit-canned by the White House after honestly stating that PFC Bradley Manning’s treatment “is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” Oh ri-ight, Crowley resigned. Got it? From CNN: P.J. Crowley is abruptly stepping down as State Department spokesman under pressure from the White House, according to senior [...]
Sect. Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom
**UPDATED** … In an awkward bit of timing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to deliver a major speech on Internet freedom in Washington on Tuesday just hours after Justice Department lawyers are scheduled to be in federal court a few miles away in the first public courtroom showdown over the probe into WikiLeaks and [...]
Realpolitik Versus Egyptian Idealism
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman warned Tuesday that “we can’t put up with” continued protests in Tahrir for a long time, saying the crisis must be ended as soon as possible in a sharply worded sign of increasing regime impatience with 16 days of mass demonstrations. — AP Realpolitik has prevailed so far, but Egyptians [...]
EGYPT: Omar Suleiman Named Egyptian V.P.
**UPDATED** Omar Suleiman, intelligence chief who was also a negotiator between the Israelis and Palestinians, has been named Egyptian VP. Mr. Mubarak has never appointed a vice president since he came into power in 1981. Will it be simply a transitional move when Mubarak steps down? We’ll have to wait and see. This is the [...]
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