Act Out! [95] - Party Like it’s 1984 with the New Ministry of Truth & How Your Backyard Can Save the Bees

This week on Act Out!, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength—and it's still Russia's fault.

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Flush It! Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Must Be Stopped – Here's How We're Doing It

There are lots of ways to plug into the movement opposing Fast Track legislation and the biggest, most damaging corporate trade agreement in history.

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Mass Surveillance Is Fundamental Threat to Human Rights, Says European Report

Europe’s top rights body says mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law.

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CIA Torture Report Brands Post-9/11 Program As Brutal and Ineffective

Report released by Senate after four-year, $40 million investigation concludes the CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in the years after 9/11.

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Twitter Sues U.S. Government Over Surveillance Disclosure Rules

The social media giant filed suit Tuesday against the Department of Justice and FBI, saying it's been "unconstitutionally restricted by statutes that prohibit and even criminalize" information disclosure.

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The Fourth Branch: The Rise to Power of the National Security State

The 17 major intelligence outfits in the U.S. have been growing, some at prodigious rates, as they outsource their operations to private contractors in staggering numbers.

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Fire These Liars: Heads of CIA and NSA Have Criminally Misled Public

Last week it became clear that the head of the CIA, John Brennan lied when he said: “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn’t do that.

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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Searched Americans' Emails Without Warrants

The NSA and CIA used a loophole to search the emails and other electronic communications of Americans without a warrant.

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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See

A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.

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What To Do About Surveillance and the FISA Court?

If we settle for merely feel-good reforms to FISA and security state overreach, there is a clear and present danger of another big scandal whenever the next Snowden blows the whistle.

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