Chomsky and Greenwald discuss Snowden, the NSA, and the United States as a surveillance state
The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
The state targets dissenters not just “bad guys”
āI Have Been to the Darkest Corners of Government, and What They Fear Is Lightā
On Thursday 6 June 2013, our fifth day in Hong Kong, I went to Edward Snowden’s hotel room and he immediately said he had news that was “a bit alarming”
There are few things in life more ironic than being accused by U.S. Generals, including those who participated in the war in Iraq, of being responsible for the loss of lives
Greenwald reacts to winning Pulitzer
Journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill hold a press conference in New York after winning a Polk Award
Western intelligence agencies have plotted ways to covertly use social media for āpropaganda,ā ādeception,ā āmass messaging,ā and āpushing storiesā
Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme fear-mongering to demonize transparency
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