Jacob Chamberlain

Anti-GMO Victory: ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Stripped From Senate Bill

Organizers cheer, saying the voices raised against genetically modified foods and giveaways to biotech giants were heard

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain

An amendment dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act," which currently allows large agriculture and biotech corporations to ignore court orders involving the safety of genetically modified seeds, has been stripped from Senate's spending bill that could be voted on as early as Wednesday afternoon. Following an organized campaign against the provision

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Counter-Revolution Continues As Egyptian Court Bans Muslim Brotherhood

‘It’s going to get more revolutionary,’ says Brotherhood supporter.

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain

An Egyptian court officially banned the Muslim Brotherhood from all operations across the country including a freeze on all of the organization's assets and a ban on affiliated groups. "The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities that it participates in and any

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NSA Memo Shows US Gives Israel Access To ‘Raw’ Spy Data

Leaked document ‘contrasts with assurances from the Obama administration’.

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain
Obama Israel

The National Security Agency openly shares unfiltered intelligence files with the Israeli government, according to a classified document leaked to the Guardian newspaper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. As the Guardian reports Wednesday, the NSA memorandum details an "intelligence-sharing agreement" between the two countries and shows that

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Experts: Japan’s Fukushima Risks An Even Worse Nuclear Catastrophe

A risky plan to remove fuel rods from a damaged reactor building could unleash an “unprecedented” level of radiation if things go wrong.

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain

Threatening to trigger a new — and possibly more devastating — nuclear disaster than the original or ongoing one at the Fukishima plant in Japan, a risky plan to remove fuel rods from a damaged reactor building could unleash an "unprecedented" level of radiation, according to experts, if things go wrong. According to reporting by Reuters, the

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Senate Intelligence Committee Has More Authority To Declassify Documents Than It Claimed

A provision allows the committee to push to declassify additional documents — they just never employ it.

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain

Despite claims by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that they are barred from publicly exposing dragnet surveillance practices at the National Security Agency, a closer look at Senate rules shows that the group actually has it in their power to actively push for greater transparency. They have just opted not to use that

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Report: CIA Investigated Noam Chomsky

Chomsky: “Someday it will be realized that systems of power typically try to extend their power in any way they can think of.”

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain
Chomsky

Confirming what many people have suspected, Foreign Policy reports Tuesday that the CIA at one point kept a file on scholar and political activist Noam Chomsky. According to Foreign Policy, the CIA has denied this claim for years. A series of Freedom of Information Act requests to the CIA turned up the same response: "We did not locate any

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Yemeni Journalist Freed After Years In Jail For Exposing Deadly US Strike

Abdulelah Haider Shaye was kept in prison for three years at the request of the Obama administration.

Jacob Chamberlain
بواسطة Jacob Chamberlain

Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist who was kept in prison for three years at the request of the Obama administration after he uncovered a deadly U.S. drone strike in which dozens of innocent Yemeni civilians were killed, was finally released from prison on Tuesday. According to Shaye's lawyer, he will have to remain in Sana'a for 2

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