Snowden movie review: the system’s self-correction
A gripping précis of what Edward Snowden learned at the CIA and NSA, why he went public, and why it matters. Entertaining yet also deeply unsettling.
Glenn Greenwald
Citizenfour documentary review (London Film Festival)
Edward Snowden speaks. Buy a ticket to this film… and use your credit card, so the NSA knows you care about this stuff.
must we resign ourselves to living in a total-surveillance state?
I don’t want to think this is the case, but when even the Constitutional scholar U.S. President is okay with it, I’m not seeing any other options…
a goram shiny Firefly tee (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the weekend: The U.S. is executing its own citizens without even a pretense of due process: what’s next?
Anwar al-Awlaki was Muslim and brown, and he said bad things about the U.S., and hence he was scary and automatically guilty of something so terrible that the otherwise sacred Constitution could be ignored.
note to journalists: when the people in power don’t like your tone, you’re doing something right
Cenk Uygur was a host for an MSNBC news talk show. MSNBC let him go this week because he was not sufficiently deferential to the power structures in Washington.
question of the weekend: Is it okay to celebrate the death of an enemy?
In a way, I’m glad I wasn’t in New York for the news of the death of Osama bin Laden last weekend. The chanting and the flag waving and the celebrating was so distasteful just watching it on TV from across th Atlantic…
journalmalism has its price: young Americans now think torture is okay (but only when Americans do it)
A new study by the Red Cross on American attitudes toward torture is highly revealing, hugely terrifying, and very, very depressing…
question of the day: Is what Wikileaks does journalism?
Sorry if it seems I’m obsessed with Julian Assange and Wikileaks, but I do think this may well be the most important issue of the moment, because what happens as a result of it will impact how our society will discuss everything else: either entirely freely, or fettered by corporate and governmental constraints…
calling bullshit: on Anderson Cooper (and the rest of the corporate media)
On July 1st, Anderson Cooper — on his weeknight CNN program Anderson Cooper 360 — had this to report on new government restrictions on journalists covering the BP oil spill (transcript of pertinent bits after the jump): Cooper is railing against a new rule announced today backed by the force of law and the threat … more…
