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Forewarned Is Forearmed 27 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
I posted this in yesterday's Commentariat: Laura Poitras,et al., in Der Spiegel: "President Obama promised that NSA surveillance activities were aimed exclusively at preventing terrorist attacks. But...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 27, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 06:55 am
** Karen DeYoung & Anne Gearan of the Washington Post: "President Obama is weighing a military strike against Syria that would be of limited scope and duration, designed to serve as punishment for Syr...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 26, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
Paul Krugman on the fall of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the travails of Microsoft & dynastic history. "Even though Microsoft did not, in fact, end up taking over the world, those antitrust concerns w...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 25, 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
John Lewis, speech at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The text of the speech: ... Danny Glover reads John Lewis's prepared speech for the March on Washington, 1963. The March leaders persua...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 24, 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 04:45 am
The President's Weekly Address: This is probably controversial to say, but, what the heck, I’m in my second term, so I can say it. Law schools would probably be wise to think about being two years in...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 23, 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 05:19 am
** Juan Cole: "Greg Palast at Vice exposes the way that Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and others in the Treasury Department conspired with JP Morgan and other pirate investment banks not only to destroy...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 22, 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
** Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post: "The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a ...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 21, 2013 21 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
** Steve Freiss, in BuzzFeed: " The National Rifle Association has rallied gun-owners — and raised tens of millions of dollars — campaigning against the threat of a national database of firearms or th...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 20, 2013 20 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
Billy Kember & Karla Adam of the Washington Post: "U.S. officials on Monday distanced themselves from the decision of British authorities to detain the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journa...
The Commentariat -- Aug. 19, 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
Guardian: "The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday...
