Archiv vom Juni 2013

[col. writ. 6/9/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 As the revelations of government surveillance seem to grow by the day, so too do the defenders of this policy.
In past years, under the administration of George W. Bush, the Total Information Awareness Program evoked sharp and critical opposition, especially by elites.
The contrast between that period, when the program was contemplated and discussed, and the present, when it is […]

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[col. writ. 6/6/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 New Item:  According to London’s The Guardian, U.S. Intelligence agencies have reviewed telephone records of some 121 million Americans.
 Imagine if such news emerged during the height of the Bush presidency?
 The outcry would’ve been stupendous.
 Newspaper headlines, 10 points high, would blare about how “outrageous!” was such a program.
But that was then; this is now.
Government agencies crawl through phone lines, and […]

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