News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima) | Ana Miller and Greg Laden

News from Fukushima Update # 69 Aug. 24, 2013 (ScienceBlogs) -- Over the last several weeks we’ve heard repeated, alarming, and generally worsening, news from Fukushima Diachi, the Japanese nuclear p ...

Obama Pushes for Warrantless Access to Phone Data... Again | Sarah Lazare

White House petitions Supreme Court to declare the practice lawful as public outrage over NSA warrantless spying continues to grow Aug. 20, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- Amid ongoing controversy over NSA w ...

On Leaks and Pseudo-Reality: The US’ Futile Search for ‘World Domination’ | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 17, 2013 Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched "Zero Dark Thirty," a Hollywood account of how U.S. SEAL Tea ...

WATCH: The government we deserve? | Gregory Crawford

Gregory Crawford -- World News Trust July 12, 2013 TEXT BELOW Gregory Crawford -- World News Trust July 12, 2013 The punditry, the blogosphere, the Twittosphere – is that a bubble full of twits? I th ...

Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. | Daniel Ellsberg

July 7, 2013 (Washington Post) -- Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act as well as for theft and cons ...

Obama’s BFF: The Espionage Act | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 29, 2013 “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying o ...

What Is The Government’s Agenda? | Paul Craig Roberts

Image source: Truthalliance.net June 11, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- It has been public information for a decade that the U.S. government secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally spies on its c ...

The Religion of Progress | John Michael Greer

April 10, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- To suggest that faith in progress has become the most widely accepted civil religion of the modern industrial world, as I’ve done in these essays, is to say somet ...

The Illusion of Invincibility | John Michael Greer

March 20, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the wry amusements to be had from writing a blog that routinely contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time is the way that defenders of that same conv ...

The End of the Shale Bubble? | John Michael Greer

Feb. 27, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It’s been a little more than a year since I launched the present series of posts on the end of America’s global empire and the future of democracy in the wake of t ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 22, 2013 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 22, 2013 | Friends Committee on National Legislation Jan. 22 Israeli general elections. Between Jan. 22 and 25 National Security Advisor Tom Donilon meets with Russian Presid ...