In June 2013, NSA network administrator Edward Snowden gave Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian internal documentation of a surveillance system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts in the search for suspected terrorists. Now, a senior Capitol Hill Republican staffer says NSA has discontinued the program and the Trump administration might not ask...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sanctuary, Safety, and Anti-Semitism
Two weeks ago, Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted about the Israel lobby in a way that some construed as anti-Semitic. In reference to the powerful American-Israeli Political Action Committee, she tweeted, “It’s all about the Benjamins.” It was flippant in a way that critics could exploit, whether in good or bad faith. Omar apologized with a...
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Under CIA Eyes: Venezuela As Seen by Langley
In Counterpunch, activist author TJ Coles looks at what declassified CIA archives tell us about how the U.S. policymakers have understood–and misunderstood–Venezuelan reality. The records are publicly available at the CIA online database known as CREST. They illuminate the historical background of the story that the news media too often slight. Since the 1940s, the...
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New Pictures of Iran Green Movement Leaders Go Viral
A new photo of an Iranian opposition figures – Mir Hossein Musavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard — who have been held under house arrest for the past eight years has emerged on social media in the country–and immediately went viral. Musavi and reformist cleric Mehdi Karrubi emerged as opposition leader during Iran’s disputed 2009...
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Advises a Koch-Funded University Center
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawaii and 2020 presidential candidate, is an unconventional politician. While she is identified with the political left, her meetings with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Indian Prime Minister Modi, a brutal dictator and a Hindu nationalist respectively have drawn criticism. Now Sludge, the investigative site, reports that Gabbard is one...