Selected Articles: Surveillance, Humanitarian Interventionism, and Media Disinformation in American Politics.
Hearings in Secret: Congress, FISA and Warrantless Surveillance
By Binoy Kampmark, January 29 2016
It should seem axiomatic to Congressional credibility that the people’s representatives should have hearings about the Republic’s affairs in the open.
While Flint Was Being Poisoned, State Workers “Quietly” Provided Water Coolers
By Common Dreams, January 29 2016
Following release of new document and emails, Gov. Snyder told he must ‘explain to the people of Flint why his administration trucked water into a state building while allowing residents to drink unsafe water’
OAS to Send Special Mission to Haiti Amid Political Crisis
By Ezili Dantò, January 29 2016
OAS you’re not welcome in Haiti, Haiti does not need another OAS electoral coup detat like 2010. Haiti stands as one with this one message to the new OAS mission that has invited itself to Haiti.
Media Disinformation and the US Heroin Epidemic
By Dr. Meryl Nass, January 29 2016
On October 30, 2015 the NY Times published an in-depth article on the heroin epidemic, focused on New Hampshire, which saw the greatest increase in deaths from drug overdoses (74%) in the US between 2013 and 2014.
Donald Trump Wins Fox News Debate Without Showing Up
By Stephen Lendman, January 29 2016
Trump looks unstoppable, the likely Republican presidential nominee, way outdistancing other aspirants in polls consistently.
Pentagon Prepares Another War in Libya
By Bill Van Auken, January 29 2016
A little less than five years after launching a war against Libya on the “humanitarian” pretext of preventing a supposedly imminent massacre, the United States and its European allies are preparing a new military assault against the oil-rich North African country under the bloodstained banner of the “war on terrorism”.
