We have the first candidate for Operation Counterweight 2014...
A full transcript of the Guardian's live online Q&A session with NSA leaker Edward Snowden is provided below. The contents of the session were transcribed as is, without any edits or corrections to content, only formatting edits. You can also download it via PDF. (Note: We cannot...
Whether you think he's a hero, a traitor, or something in between, he's taking your questions today live at 11am EST. Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions The Guardian issued this mysterious James Bond-ish caveat...
As protests in Turkey near their third week, two major union federations have called a work strike to oppose the eviction of protestors and demand an end to police violence. The Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) and Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DISK) will organize...
Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Jury Selection Day Six live, all day, along with a separate end-of-day wrap-up post. To catch up on the lastest events in State of Florida v. Zimmerman, click here and take a look at our re-cap of last...
If Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and others in the Republican Party want to reward adults who broke the immigration laws with citizenship, they should have the guts to announce it as such. And then go on an overseas apology tour to apologize to the millions if...
This one is weird. A follow up to Oil field trash never had it so good …, with another photo from Kevin from the Alabama part of Pennsylvania: I took this photo on the main drag In Wellsboro, PA. The dude had a mannequin riding with him and his...
Mideast Media Sampler - 06/16/2013...
Tomorrow begins the second week of jury selection in Florida v. Zimmerman, and we here at Legal Insurrection will once again be following the process on an all-day, live coverage basis. We'll host a live stream of the courtroom and a rolling Twitter feed of...
Via Sky News: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rallied thousands of his supporters in Istanbul, just hours after a crackdown on anti-government protesters in Taksim Square. The rally came as riot police continued to fire tear gas and jets of water at pockets of demonstrators...
James O'Keefe's book, Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy, should really come with the following warning for summer readers: CAUTION: Compelling book causes intense concentration; sunburn is possible. As I recover from being toasted by the California sun, I wanted to share the...
Last week, the Guardian and Washington Post published several slides from a leaked Powerpoint presentation in its stories about the NSA’s domestic surveillance policies and its PRISM program. Separate from phone carriers, nine internet companies were named in the story as participants in the PRISM...
Go ahead, complain about the weather. There's nothing you can do about it. https://twitter.com/sasha_cresswell/status/346054323475714048 https://twitter.com/realmyiq2xu/status/346055854455390209...
Looks like we're heading for a good old fashioned Sunni-Shia showdown in Syria. From The Times of Israel (article links here and here): ...
as in fracking country. Good thing it's being kept out of New York State's Southern Tier, or there might be a booming economy and jobs for the young people. From Kevin: I have friends that live in Horseheads who get all apoplectic over the Marcellus Shale drilling down here...
If you have been following Andrew Branca's excellent coverage of the jury selection in the George Zimmerman case, you know that many of the prospective jurors were aware of race being injected into the case by the media and others. Those initial media and activist narratives...
We are covering Turkish police renew assault on Gezi Park protesters. This video stands out (warning, graphic): https://twitter.com/vassdan/status/345991520224149506 I wonder if it will be compared to this video: Probably not, as the whole world is not watching Gezi Park....
