Former Qwest CEO says refusal to comply with NSA spying landed him in jailFormer Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, who spent over four years in prison for insider trading, now says his conviction was based on his company’s refusal to cooperate with NSA requests to spy on its customers.
The 10 Stealth Economic Trends That Rule the World TodayWhat’s going on in the world today? It’s hard to keep up. Some facts are familiar to anyone who reads the news. Unemployment is high. Growth is slow. Shale gas is a big deal. But beyond the caps-lock headlines, subtler, but no less significant, shifts are changing the U.S.
CIA ‘running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked’Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to .
Bank of America accused of racketeering in lawsuitA lawsuit in federal court in Colorado accuses Charlotte-based Bank of America of racketeering, in what amounts to more fallout for the bank stemming from a federal mortgage-modification program. The suit, filed Wednesday, claims violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as RICO.
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American mediaSeymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.
The copyright cartel’s plot to indoctrinate California kindergartensIn kindergarten, we teach children to share. By second grade – if people who bring you songs and pixie dust have their way – we’ll amend that in a major way.
Video: Robert Reich on ‘Inequality for All’BILL MOYERS: This week on Moyers & Company… ROBERT REICH: How do you constrain capitalism from doing stupid things that are not in the public interest? You have a democracy that is sufficiently well-functioning. That laws and rules limit what can be done.
WalMart sex-discrimination case has been a game changerWhen the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes in June 2011, no one needed a Richter scale to know it was a Big One.
US govt prevented drone strike victims from meeting with Congress, lawyer claimsAFP Photo / John Moore The lawyer representing a family that survived of an alleged CIA drone strike in Pakistan has accused the US government of intentionally obstructing what would have been the first meeting between surviving drone strike victims and American lawmakers.
Evidence NSA ‘illegally’ monitored anti-Vietnam dissidents, including journalists and two senatorsDecades before Edward Snowden’s leaks the National Security Agency secretly monitored the communication of prominent Americans who were opposed to the Vietnam War, including at least two sitting US senators. The six-year spying program known as Minaret, which lasted from 1967 to 1973, was disclosed in the 1970s but the identity of those who the government kept tabs on has been under wraps until now.
Sen. Ron Wyden: NSA ‘repeatedly deceived the American people’The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday held a hearing, ostensibly to investigate various issues raised about the NSA’s activities. What the hearing primarily achieved instead was to underscore what a farce the notion of Congressional oversight over the NSA is.
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Where Business Elite Succeed and Fail With MeditationAlmost every day, there is news of another corporate executive coming out and saying, “I meditate. It has changed my life and improved my business. I am telling my employees, telling everyone in order to do my best work, I meditate.”
FBI threatened associates of Todashev, slayed friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect – CAIRIbragim Todashev The FBI has harassed, threatened and even denied Fifth Amendment rights to friends of an Orlando man agents killed in May who was close to alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Wednesday.
Activist Post“A fool with a tool is still a fool. A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.”-Michael Fullan, international school reform authority, on the powerful “tool” that is Common Core. As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State , there are several methods for controlling a population.
Bank of America Headed to Trial for FraudBank of America may soon be the first major bank sued by the federal government for their part in the financial crisis. The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against the financial giant last year, and jury selection began on Tuesday.
Brazilian president: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian citizens and economic espionage targeted on the country’s strategic industries.