Tag Archives: security state

Should we pursue perjury charges against the intelligence officials who swore to us that our calls and emails were not being monitored?

By Mark | June 16, 2013

As you may recall, last March, months before the recent bombshell allegations of domestic spying were made by 29-year old NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in sworn testimony before a Senate subcommittee, stated that the NSA does not “wittingly” collect any data at all on American citizens. Here’s video of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged big data, blowjobs, domestic spying, eavesdropping, Edward Snowden, impeachment, intelligence, James Clapper, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Alexander, Kevvin A, NSA, perjury, privacy, surveillance, Susan Collins, terrorism | 19 Comments

For-profit prisons… What could possibly go wrong?

By Mark | May 27, 2012

As it’s been a while since we’ve had a post here about the prison industrial complex, I thought that I’d pass along this clip from Charles Blow’s recent piece in the New York Times. “Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baldwin, Charles Blow, Corrections Corporation of America, G4S, GEO Group, Group 4 Falck, honey holes, House Bill 5174, Joe Haveman, John Proos, Louisiana, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Mark Ciavarella, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan House of Representatives, Natalie Holbrook, North Lake Correctional Facility, North Lake Facility for Youth, overincarceration, Pennsylvania, prison, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison reform, prison sentences, prisoner rights, private prisons, privatization, Rick Snyder, the cost of incarceration, unions, Wackenhut Corrections Corp, Wal-Mart, Wilkes-Barre | 18 Comments

Daniel Ellsberg calls on other whistleblowers to come forward, before we’re at war with Iran

By Mark | March 12, 2012

Chris Hedges, who I often quote here, just interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, hastening the end of the Vietnam war, and contributing toward the downfall of Richard Nixon. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed the increasing severity with which our nation has been cracking […]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged Bradley Manning, Chris Hedges, corporatocracy, Daniel Ellsberg, Espionage Act, fear mongers, FISA, foreign affairs, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Iran, Iraq war, lies, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, Pentagon Papers, propaganda, Richard Nixon, Surveillance State, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Tonkin Gulf, torture, totalitarianism, Vietnam War, war crimes, whistle blower | 7 Comments

Chris Hedges calls Black Bloc anarchists a cancer to the Occupy movement

By Mark | February 6, 2012

In hopes of continuing our conversation on the value that Black Bloc anarchists bring to the Occupy movement, I thought that I’d link to this new article on the subject by Chris Hedges. Here’s a clip. The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer […]