US Gov War on Whistleblowers Intensifying

War on whistle-blowers intensifies By Glenn Greenwald for Salon.com AP Photo/Charles Dharapak In this March 19, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. The Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers — whose disclosures are one of the very few remaining avenues for learning what our …

Journal: With No Successor In Sight, Intelligence Czar Departs

FULL STORY:  Declassified (newsweek.com/blogs) May 28, 2010 By Mark Hosenball On Dennis Blair’s last day in office as director of national intelligence, the Obama administration seems more stymied than ever in its efforts to replace him. Following a torrent of criticism from Capitol Hill—apparently touched off by this Declassified interview with Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the …

Review (DVD): Unthinkable

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen Director: Gregor Jordan And Carrie-Anne Moss (Amazon stinks at listing all authors and actors) 5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing–Riveting–Thought Provoking–Beyond Five Stars May 28, 2010 EDIT of 27 August 2010: The Intelligence Science Board, the top advisory board to the Director of National Intelligence, has just come out …

Journal: Crazy Conspiracy Memes–Theirs & Ours

  Those irrational, misled, conspiratorial Muslims BY GLENN GREENWALD, Salon, 26 May 2010  FULL STORY ONLINE The New York Times this morning has a particularly lush installment of one of the American media’s most favored, reliable, and self-affirming rituals — it’s time to mock and pity Those Crazy, Primitive, Irrational, Propagandized Muslims and their Wild …

Joseph Stiglitz, Bank Secrecy, Corruption, and Financing of Atrocities

Video: Joseph Stiglitz talks about offshore tax evasion (3:18 point of the video Stiglitz mentions an August 2001 veto by the Bush administration on an OECD bank secrecy reduction convention). Prof. Stiglitz is a Nobel Laureate, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and former head of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Clinton. …

Review (Guest): Dishonest Broker–The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel

Book by Nasser Aruri 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Important book on the US role in the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict March 5, 2007 By  Edgar Hopida (San Diego, CA United States) – See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    It seems like its the same negative …