New York City goes Stasi. Will the US? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:07 am

This is not a new story, but new information has significantly changed its interpretation. I wish it were an exaggeration to say that New York City has gone to a level of surveillance that compares w...

Twin Cities Media Scooped Again: Sovereign Citizens Edition 26 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am

I was just thinking the other day that if I had depended solely on the local mainstream media (what Sally Jo Sorensen over at Bluestem Prairie calls the “rocking chair media”) for my news of my own st...

Costs Of Solar Versus Costs Of Wars For Oil And Bank Bailouts 25 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am

Putting it in perspective. Click through to read. It’s well worth it.

Is the U.K. Independent on the reservation? 23 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm

(crossposted with minor revisions at DK) It’s an odd question, to be sure, but one in response to a very odd event. The Independent is a newspaper that I have traditionally regarded as off the reserv...

Friday Cat Blogging 23 Aug 2013 | 01:05 pm

US ally Pervez Musharraf charged with murder of Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto 22 Aug 2013 | 11:27 am

Syed Fazl-e-Haider: Pakistan’s former president and military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has been charged with the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in a gun and suicid...

US was in on the intimidation of Miranda and The Guardian 22 Aug 2013 | 10:43 am

Mark Hosenball, Reuters: One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government’s detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a message to recipients of ...

When they come for your guns, they’ll have the make, model, and address from the NRA 21 Aug 2013 | 11:13 am

Via Atrios, Buzzfeed’s Steve Friess: WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association has rallied gun-owners — and raised tens of millions of dollars — campaigning against the threat of a national databas...

NSA wiretapping kills Groklaw 21 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am

gjohnsit has a writeup here. I read it here, from Charles Arthur of the Guardian: The award-winning legal analysis site Groklaw is shutting because its founder says that “there is no way” to continu...

Spy for us or go to jail 20 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm

The next escalation in the US government’s determination to make itself odious to all mankind appears to have arrived as an order to Lavabit to spy on its customers or go to jail (Mike Masnick, Techdi...