FOCUS | Inoculating Our Children Against Fear and Hatred

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What’s at Stake When the Government Seizes Phone Records

Can America Come to Terms with Boston Bombing Suspect’s Stated Motives?

Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country — Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

Saving Our Economy With Public Banking

FOCUS | The IRS and the Real Scandal | Robert Reich

FOCUS | Everything Is Rigged, Continued: Oil Companies Raided

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"

Senator Warren Wants Banks to Admit Guilt

What’s at Stake When the Department of Justice Seizes AP Phone Records | Politics News | Rolling Stone

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

The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange

New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting injures 19 – World – CBC News

We Can’t Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy

Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo | Global Research

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

WATCH Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get ‘Same Deal’ On Interest Rates As Big Banks

Building the Narco-State

Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks | Global Research

Did the Authorities’ Lockdown of Boston Give Us a Taste of the Police State Culture to Come?

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)

Guantánamo Bay: Enough to make you gag | The Economist