The Anti-Globalization Movement and the World Social Forum. Is “Another World” Possible? | Global Research

What’s at Stake When the Government Seizes Phone Records

When Governments Go Bad – NYTimes.com – David Brooks

Emptywheel: Dzhokhar’s Sharpie Manifesto

[on Boston PD refusing to give up their cell phones to the FBI at the boat scene] there’s something funny about the story. Why would cell phone pictures of the manifesto matter if the FBI had properly documented photos taken immediately after the arrest when the chain of custody was intact? I mean, I could see worrying about tainting the jury pool, but the leaked content of the interrogations already said all this stuff anyway ... [and then this from the comments] "It’s like they’re testing public credulity: scenery-chewing ham actor[s]; victims stomping around with their clothes blown off like a Sid Ceasar skit; stories changing with laugh-out-loud contradictions. They're making it cornier and cornier, but the media is just too gullible for them. They should reveal that Osama bin Laden is alive, and he did it, and let him escape on a jetpack with his evil laughter enchoing triple-tracked over Faneuil Hall"

America is Losing its Covert Syria War: US Sponsored Al Nusra Rebels Defeated by Syrian Armed Forces | Global Research

Glenn Greenwald: Justice Department’s pursuit of AP’s phone records is both extreme and dangerous

What makes the DOJ's actions so stunning here is its breadth. It's the opposite of a narrowly tailored and limited scope. It's a massive, sweeping, boundless invasion which enables the US government to learn the identity of every person whom multiple AP journalists and editors have called for a two-month period. Some of the AP journalists involved in the Yemen/CIA story and whose phone records were presumably obtained - including Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - are among the nation's best and most serious investigative journalists; those two won the Pulitzer Prize last year for their superb work exposing the NYPD's surveillance program aimed at American Muslim communities. For the DOJ to obtain all of their phone records and those of their editors for a period of two months is just staggering

Truthdig – Murder Is Our National Sport – Chris Hedges

Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror

Democracy Now: Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant? [Um.. Yes]

Former Nixon aide Roger Stone claims he has evidence LBJ arranged JFK assassination in new book

Esteemed Republican strategist and lobbyist Roger Stone writes in his upcoming book that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Stone also writes that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, years before he shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963. Stone, who worked for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and later served in the Nixon administration, writes that Johnson, a congressman at the time, instructed Richard Nixon, also a congressman at the time, to hire Ruby onto the House of Representatives payroll in 1947

Building the Narco-State

Kristen Gwynnne: Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes

Strange, isn’t it, that hunches and vague tips about potential marijuana growing (in a state that recently legalized the drug!) is motivation enough to send a SWAT team busting down a door? Compare that to recent reports that police in Cleveland, Ohio ignored years of tips and calls about strange things going on in the home of the three Cleveland men suspected of holding captive, brutally raping and beating three women for nearly a decade. Before the big break on Monday, neighbors say they knew something was up and claim that they repeatedly called the cops. The police did not appear concerned; they certainly lacked the enthusiasm many law enforcement officers display when going after drug crimes (and non-crimes)

Kevin Gosztola: The United States Is Fighting How Many Wars?

With neoconservatives and neoliberals amplifying calls for US military intervention in Syria, it is worthwhile to take a moment and consider all the places in the world, where the US currently has forces engaged in daily operations .. By mid-2010, the Obama administration had increased the presence of Special Operations forces from sixty countries to seventy-five countries. SOCOM had about 4,000 people deployed around the world in countries besides Iraq and Afghanistan [including] Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Yemen, Pakistan (including in Baluchistan) and the Philippines. These teams also at times deployed in Turkey, Belgium, France and Spain. JSOC was also supporting US Drug Enforcement Agency operations in Colombia and Mexico

Guantánamo Bay: Enough to make you gag | The Economist

Q&A: The FBI’s role in ‘manufacturing’ terrorism – World – CBC News

Steven W. Thrasher: Haaay to the Chief – The Military-Industrial Complex Conquers the Homos

Imagine, for a minute, that you are the Military-Industrial Complex. You’d be very happy that a bunch of homosexuals at SF Pride named as the 2009 Grand Marshal Lt. Dan Choi, who broke the law repeatedly while trying to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. In honoring Lt. Choi, the homosexuals at SF Pride were furthering the status quo in militarizing a larger percentage of the American population. Now imagine how happy you’d be that the very same homosexuals denounced their own choice of Private Manning as Grand Marshal because—wait for it—he broke the law! (Alas, he did so to ends that made people question, not expand, the concept of American militarization.) Then marvel as the same fairies go to the parade and pass out flyers from Pride corporate sponsors like AT&T and Verizon, who cooperated with illegal eavesdropping

NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era | Global Research

WashingtonsBlog: Multiple Polls – Americans Are More Afraid of the GOVERNMENT than TERRORISTS

A Fox News survey polling a random national sample of 619 registered voters the day after the [Boston] bombing found[] for the first time since a similar question was asked in May 2001, more Americans answered “no” to the question, “Would you be willing to give up some of your personal freedom in order to reduce the threat of terrorism?” .. This is not entirely surprising. As we noted in February: For years, “conservative” pollsters have said that Americans are furious at the government. Rasmussen noted in 2010 that only a small minority of the American people think that the government has the consent of the governed, and that the sentiment was “pre-revolutionary”; Gallup noted in 2011 that a higher percentage of Americans liked King George during the colonial days than currently like Congress .. The Washington Post reported in 2011 that Congress was less popular than communism, BP during the Gulf oil spill or Nixon during Watergate; Public Policy Polling added last month that Congress is also less popular than cockroaches, lice, root canals, colonoscopies, traffic jams, used car salesman and Genghis Khan

Fabricated Intelligence and the WMD Pretext: Obama Heads Closer Closer to War on Syria | Global Research

Political Opportunism. The Boston Marathon Tragedy Used as a Pretext To Extend the “Global War on Terrorism” | Global Research

May Day Is Around the Corner, and the FBI Wants Us to Know They’re Watching

In the past 24 hours, FBI agents in Seattle and Olympia have reportedly been showing up at people's houses, favorite jogging locations (a park), schools (Seattle University), workplaces, and at least one nonprofit (which serves street-involved youth), asking: "Do you want to talk about May Day?" .. The Seattle agents, according to people who were present for the conversations in the past 48 hours, are primarily two guys in a gold SUV wearing jeans, button-up shirts, and vests (perhaps polar fleece) .. in one case yesterday, the agents reportedly turned up at a public park to intercept two joggers. The joggers said "no, thanks" and went home. About 20 minutes later, the agents reportedly showed up at their house

BOSTON TRUTH: The “Chechen Connection”, Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings | Global Research

FOCUS | Our Failed Security-State

When It Comes to Killing in the Name of Religion and Nationhood, Christians Hold the Modern Record

Sibel Edmonds on RT Discussing FBI Contact with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev