Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 69 December 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 69, December 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 74,210 other activists. That’s 1,702 more than last month!View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/december TABLE OF CONTENTS Build us up! Free software is a cornerstone of …

Marcus Aurelius: Government is Pissing Off Its Young Veterans – a Key Demographic for the 2016 Revolution

It’s all about I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y. Younger military veterans are angered by budget cuts to their pension benefits By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, December 30 After 25 years of service, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lt. Col. Stephen Preston retired from the Army and began collecting a pension of nearly $55,000 a year. The money made it possible …

Yale The Politic: The Intelligence Gathering Conundrum + Toxic Secrecy RECAP

SHORT URL This Post: http://tinyurl.com/Steele4Yale The Politic Introducing The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Politics The Intelligence Gathering Conundrum As distrust of the U.S. abounds, reliable intelligence is more difficult to procure. By Zachary Mohriing “Snowden and Manning fucked us. Who would want to work with us?” asked one former CIA officer.  Edward Snowden and Bradley …

4th Media: We Don’t Make This Stuff Up! — Occupy as a Form of Rising Anarchism

The New Politics of the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Rising Anarchism A number of occurrences have taken place of the past 13 years since the rise of the new millennium; we have seen and are seeing the rise of popular movements all over the world and a resistance to the forces of imperialism, capitalism, …