Stephen E. Arnold: Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth

Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth Posted: 03 May 2013 04:41 PM PDT Can emerging technologies aid in filtering out the untrusted and unverified chattering of the masses? Using the recent Boston Marathon bombings as an example where this kind of technology would be useful, the MIT Technology Review article “Preventing Misinformation from Spreading …

Theophillis Goodyear: Bring a Stupid Teen-Ager is Now a Felony

It may be idiocy but it is also fascism — zero tolerance means the state defines all speech as subject to state definition — both a tautalogical redundancy and a clear and present overturning of the Constitutional right to free speech. Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess Authorities are leaning …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 61 April 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 61, April 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 68,579 other activists. That’s 686 more than last month! View this issue online here: http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/free-software-supporter-issue-61-april-2013 Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience …

Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: The Poisonous (Treasonous?) Influence of the Neo-Cons…Why Isn’t the FBI Going After Them?

While there is little that is new in the attached article by Philip Giraldi; it is nevertheless very important and well worth reading.  Giraldi has produced an excellent summary of the truly poisonous influences on US foreign and defense policies, a group more accurately described by the collective modifier neo-conmen. He describes how the influence of this movement’s …

Eagle: Hypersonic Missile and Texas Fertilizer Explosion

This has to be labeled speculative, but the combination makes me nervous.  Testing at home, and extended our extra-judicial drone program to much larger “anywhere anytime” destruction? West Fertilizer Bombing WEAPON iDENTIFiED? Published on Apr 23, 2013 It is quite obvious that what happened in West, TX was some sort of military strike. In this …

Gordon Duff: Documented Words of Zbigniew Brzezinski on US Funding of Muslim Extremism in Afghanistan to LURE the Soviets In…..[Fast Forward to Chechnya]

The CIA’s “Founding” of Al Qaeda Documented The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon Le Nouvel Observateur’s Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski Originally published 15-21 January 1998 Translated by Jean Martineau (Editor’s Note:  The following article and interview have been suppressed by Google, now a “black-ops” contractor.  The background on US …

Anthony Judge: Questions Authorities Refuse to Answer — Questions that Demand Answers

Strategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March/April 2013) and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013) Checklist of questions 1. What questions have not been asked? 2. Is any checklist of questions, …