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...
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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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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...
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South Korea’s Moon Seeks to Mediate between Trump and Kim
The breakdown of the U.S. North Korea nuclear talks was a setback for South Korean president Moon Jae-in who has to battle with both hawks at home and Democrats in Washington who don’t know or care about his agenda of ending the Korean War and denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. From KBS WORLD Radio Moon instructed...