Geopolitical – Week of 06.09.13

Long-Dormant Civil Liberties Board to Meet on NSA’s PRISM
Federal Times | 13 June 2013
A long dormant and little known presidentially appointed panel…

Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
Wired | 13 June 2013
Suddenly, it feels like 2000 again…

The Secret War
Wired | 12 June 2013
Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles…

Source: Obama Approves Arming Syrian Rebels
US Today | 14 June 2013
The Obama administration announced Thursday…

It’s On: US “Finds” Chemical Weapon Use Against Syrian Rebels; Military Proposes Arming Rebels, No-Fly Zone
Zero Hedge | 13 June 2013
The “red-line” has been crossed…

Avril Haines, the Right Woman to Clean Up the CIA
Bloomberg | 13 June 2013
President Barack Obama has replaced the No. 2 man at the Central Intelligence Agency…

Iran’s Election May Not Really Be About Picking A President
NPR | 13 June 2013
When Iranians vote Friday for president, it will be an election unlike any other…

Conversations w/Great Minds Lori Wallach – The Trans-Pacific Partnership Threat P1

RT | 16 July 2012
Lori Wallach has been director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division for nearly 20 years…

House Asks IRS About Purported Seizure of Millions of Medical Records
Fox News | 11 June 2013
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter Tuesday to acting IRS Administrator Daniel Werfel…

IRS Staff Changes Continue
The Hill | 10 June 2013
The IRS has placed someone new in a senior position in the agency’s exempt organizations division…

‘I Watch Him Bleed Out:’ Drone Operator Who Helped Kill 1,626 Targets Reveals Trauma of Watching Them Die on a Computer Screen
The Daily Mail | 06 June 2013
A former drone operator who helped kill 1,626 targets says he’s haunted by the carnage he witnessed…

The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning by Chris Hedges
Dandelion Salad | 09 June 2013
The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching…

“We Do Not Live in a Free Country”
Information Clearing House | 20 April 2012
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance…

Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim
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TED | April 2013
There is a corruption at the heart of American politics…

Large US Marine Force Lands in Aqaba to Deploy on Jordanian-Syrian Border
Debka File | 05 June 2013
A large American military force disembarked Tuesday, June 4, at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba…