Don’t run around acting as though the US is some sort of stalwart opponent of political repression and human rights violations when the exact opposite is so plainly true

As always with Obama, it remains to be seen whether his words will be followed by any real corresponding actions

Aninterview by Roger Cohen with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Barton Gellman

Political officials always want their deceit to be concealed rather than exposed, while jingoistic government loyalists (even when they call themselves “journalists”) want the same thing

Top political officials in other nations have repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance about their nations’ cooperation with the National Security Agency

Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale

American media elites awash in an orgy of feel-good condemnation in particular love to mock Russian media

This morning, I see that some people are quite abuzz about a new Pando article “revealing” that the foundation of Pierre Omidyar…

Clapper admitted that the U.S. Government should have told the American people that the NSA was collecting their communications records

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction