NEARLY A YEAR AFTER THE RELEASE of the summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture , a major human rights group is calling for the immediate prosecution of U.S. government officials responsible for authorizing and carrying out the abuses. In a detailed report titled “ No More…

In just three months, 15,000 people in Wisconsin have already lost food stamps thanks to Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) decision to enforce full work requirements for the program in Milwaukee despite economic conditions dire enough to trigger a federal reprieve. Walker’s administration made the policy…

On Wednesday, 14 people were killed at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California. The gunman apparently was Muslim and was influenced by ISIS. In light of this, and of the Paris bombings, the FBI reports a sharp upturn in threats on mosques and to Muslims in the U.S. In Connecticut,…

This post originally appeared at TomDispatch . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) A top government official with energy industry holdings huddles in secret with oil company executives to work out the details of a potentially lucrative “national energy policy.” Later, that same official steers billions…

Soon after launching a brutal air and ground assault in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began devoting significant resources to a sophisticated public relations blitz in Washington, D.C. The PR campaign is designed to maintain close ties with the U.S. even as the Saudi-led military incursion into…

Saudi Arabia will not execute detainees arrested as children but will likely behead a prominent Shia cleric and a raft of Al-Qaeda-linked prisoners, a local source told Middle East Eye on Tuesday. Fears were raised on Monday night that a group of prisoners were to be imminently executed, when famed…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has used a secretive authority to compel Internet and telecommunications firms to hand over customer data including an individual’s complete web browsing history and records of all online purchases, a court filing released Monday shows. The…

The Federal Reserve agreed Monday to clip its own wings when it comes to doling out emergency loans to struggling financial institutions. The new rules, which followed growing pressure from lawmakers leery of big-bank bailouts, prevent the so-called lender of last resort from a repeat of efforts in…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

Share 39K 39K Shares Claire Bernish November 28, 2015 ( ANTIMEDIA ) Istanbul, Turkey — Just over a week after Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief, Can Dündar, represented the Turkish daily news outlet in receiving a press freedom award, he and another top editor were arrested and jailed on charges of…

EXPAND Compliments of Javier Betancourt. "This Is Meant to Hurt You" Presents Fetishism and Tattooing as Highbrow Art Abel Folgar | December 1, 2015 | 12:05pm A A “Tattoos have always carried an air of rebellion with them. Throughout history, they have been both demonized and romanticized, and that…

Hostages are escorted out by police during the active shooter situation outside a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 27, 2015. Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Another terrorist attack. Another grim tally of the dead and wounded. Another killer full of hate, from a land…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

ES What’s your reaction to the attacks in Paris earlier this month, and what do you think of the current Western strategy of bombing ISIS? NC The current strategy plainly is not working. The ISIS statements, both for this and the Russian airliner, were very explicit: you bomb us and you will suffer.…

The French government has stated that the COP21 climate summit will begin as scheduled at the end of November, but police have barred the huge planned marches and protests. Photograph by Chesnot/Getty Soon after the horrific terror attacks in Paris, last Friday, our phones filled with messages from…

It’s been nearly 400 years since the Wampanoag people encountered the starving, cold pilgrims in Plymouth Bay. With an already thriving agricultural model in fertile Massachusetts, the Indigenous tribe taught the uneducated British settlers how to cultivate their own food, eventually culminating in…

Outside powers have been crashing into the Middle East for more than a century. At first we presumed that people there would not mind, or even that they would welcome us. Ultimately we realized that our interventions were provoking hatred and violent turmoil. We took refuge in another comforting…

The Saudi-led coalition conducted at least 10 air strikes in Yemen on Friday that broke the laws of war and killed civilians, according to Human Rights Watch. In a new report written by the watchdog, an estimated 2,500 Yemeni civilians have died in coalition strikes since March. The UAE and other…

Exclusive: Though faced with a global terrorism crisis, Official Washington can’t get beyond its neocon-led “tough-guy-gal” rhetoric. But another option financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia might help finally shut down the covert supply of money and arms to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, writes…

U.S. DRONE OPERATORS are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing today in New York. The killings, part of the Obama administration’s targeted assassination…

Decent people see tragedy and barbarism when viewing a terrorism attack. American politicians and intelligence officials see something else: opportunity. Bodies were still lying in the streets of Paris when CIA operatives began exploiting the resulting fear and anger to advance long-standing…

FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS , Mohamed Soltan, a 26-year-old citizen of both Egypt and America, endured torture, deprivation, and cruelty while locked in the prisons of Egyptian military dictator Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. In 2013, he was among thousands arrested in a country-wide crackdown on civil society…

Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen Consumer Law & Policy Blog) has a very helpful analysis. Right now, Montana Standard users have to provide their real names to register as commenters, but they can also add a “screen name,” and their comments go up under the screen name. Starting Jan. 1, comments will…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

A woman walks past soldiers at a checkpoint in Gwoza, Nigeria, in April, 2015, shortly after the town was liberated from Boko Haram. Photograph by Lekan Oyekanmi / AP On Monday, I posted a long piece about how we perceive acts of terrorism in the age of social media. Today, prompted by the…

When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched, and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, he thought, “I can’t die today. I’ve got shit to do. I have little kids. Fuck these people.” The single father of three, who was…

The world’s biggest animal “cloning factory” is due to open in China , producing one million calves a year, sniffer dogs and even genetic copies of the family pet. “The mortality rate remains equally high. Many of the animals which are born alive die in the first few weeks, and they die painfully.…

MY LIFE AFTER 44 YEARS IN PRISON Filmmakers Elena Boffetta and Jenna Belhumeur One man's story of reintegration with the modern world. Stepping out into Times Square in New York City, Otis Johnson is struck by the overwhelming number of people. Everyone seems to be walking quickly with blank faces…

Image via Nuno Cru z Tiago Forte Nov 15, 2015 By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs At the end of 2014 I received an email informing me that I had read over a million words in the ‘read it later’ app Pocket over the course of the year. This number by itself isn’t impressive, considering our daily intake of…

A city is a complex but incomplete system ... Manhattan.Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images D oes the massive foreign and national corporate buying of urban buildings and land that took off after the 2008 crisis signal an emergent new phase in major cities? From mid-2013 to mid-2014, corporate…

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iStock It had been more than a decade since “B.T.” had last seen anything. After suffering a traumatic accident as a young woman, doctors diagnosed her with cortical blindness, caused by damage to the visual processing centers in her brain. So she got a seeing eye dog to guide her and grew…

This illustration shows Earth surrounded by theoretical filaments of dark matter called "hairs." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Full image and caption This artist's rendering zooms in on what dark matter "hairs" might look like around Earth. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Full image and caption The root of a…

Russia says it has been bombarding Isis positions in Syria since the end of September EPA Chemical weapons are being used in air strikes against Isis in Raqqa, it has been reported. Activists on the ground in the Isis stronghold in Syria have reported the use of the banned substance white…

Currently about 50 million Americans meet the USDA criteria for food insecurity. About 15 million of them are children. While the official end of the Great Recession is a full five years behind us, there are now nearly 12 million more Americans who lack enough resources to access adequate food than…

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From wanttoknow.info originally posted by scgnews.com ( no longer existing) Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done. The Islamic militant group ISIS [also known as ISIL], formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called “Islamic State”, is the stuff of…