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5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules

It stops Verizon’s zombie cookie in its tracks, but allows AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy.

ProPublica
بواسطة ProPublica
A man looks at his cell phone as he walks on the street.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission proposed new privacy rules for Internet providers. The proposal was immediately praised by privacy advocates as “a major step forward” and lambasted by AT&T as an effort to place a “thumb on the scale in favor of Internet companies.” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler stopped by our offices to explain

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Daniel Ellsberg: US Will Repeat Old Mistakes And It’s ‘Not Going To Eliminate ISIS’

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg compared President Bush’s claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident that ignited the Vietnam War.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara indicates on a map where U.S. Navy aircraft made strikes at North Vietnamese PT boats and their shore bases in retaliation for the two attacks on American craft in the Gulf of Tonkin at a Pentagon news briefing, Aug. 5, 1964, Washington, D.C. The account came within hours of an announcement by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson of the decision to hit back hard in reply to the attacks. (AP Photo)

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand

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NSA Data Will Soon Be Used By Domestic Law Enforcement

Perhaps you’re beginning to see a pattern. Everything our government uses against foreign enemies, eventually makes its way back home. Every war is an opportunity to try out new technologies, before turning around and using them against American citizens. It just goes to show, that war really is the health of the state.

Joshua Krause |The Daily Sheeple
بواسطة Joshua Krause |The Daily Sheeple
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If you’re reading this, then I’m willing to bet that you’ve been called many different names throughout your life. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say they were names like kook, paranoid, conspiracy theorist, alarmist, insane, or gullible. And after this week, you can go by a new name: Vindicated. I’m of course talking about recent

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Edward Snowden: ‘We Must Seize The Means Of Communication’ To Protect Basic Freedoms

Renowned NSA whistleblower calls for ‘radical’ popular action to take control of information technologies.

Nafeez Ahmed
بواسطة Nafeez Ahmed
Edward Snowden addressing an audience live in Berlin via video link on Saturday evening.

A gathering of journalists, hackers and whistleblowers in Berlin this weekend heard former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Edward Snowden, issue a call for citizens to find ways to take direct control over the information technologies we use everyday. The Logan Symposium, organized by the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) based

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Trump Used Foreign Student Labor He Pledges To Ban

Trump said it would be unfair to expect companies such as his to forgo participation in the J-1 program.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
In this Thursday, March 10, 2016, photo is the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pledged to scrap a work visa program that brings 300,000 student workers each year to the U.S. Among the businesses that would be forced to stop hiring foreign labor: Trump's own. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

WASHINGTON — If elected president, Donald Trump has pledged to scrap a work visa program that brings 300,000 student workers each year to the U.S. Among the businesses that would be forced to stop hiring foreign labor: Trump's own. The visa, known as the J-1, purports to offer a "cultural exchange" and give American businesses access to guest

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The Pentagon’s Secret Foreign Aid Budget

The U.S. sends billions to foreign militaries each year. What do we have to show for it?

Politco
بواسطة Politco
President Barack Obama hosts meeting of his National Security Council (NSC) at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Last month, the Obama administration released its 2017 budget proposal, including thousands of pages on the nearly $600 billion request for the Pentagon. That money is earmarked for a wide array of projects—$1.8 billion in procurement of equipment for the Special Operations Command, for instance, and $1.2 billion for the chemical and biological

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