Unequal access to secret information shows us who is doing real journalism

Chris Hayes nails it on MSNBC. The U.S. government and its many cronies in the mass media love to disburse secret information when it bolsters the position of the government. They take the opposite position when information embarrasses the U.S. government.

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Love his conclusion: The conduct of the vast and growing surveillance web is "on all of us what the government does in our name."

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Glenn Greenwald reflects on Edward Snowden’s revelations

At Huffpo, Glenn Greenwald comments over Skype to the Socialism Conference in Chicago. This is a detailed statement, in which Greenwald revealed that the NSA has the ability to store one billion phone calls each day.

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United States attempts to blackmail Ecuador over Edward Snowden

From Democracy Now:

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: "All of a sudden, trade tariffs became an instrument of blackmail: behave or leave the free trade movement. In the face of threats, insolence and arrogance of certain U.S. sectors, which have pressured to remove the preferential tariffs because of the Snowden case, Ecuador tells the world: We unilaterally and irrevocably denounce the preferential tariffs. Our dignity has no price." Correa’s government followed up with a dig at the Obama administration by offering to donate millions of dollars for human rights training in the United States on matters of "privacy, torture and other actions that are denigrating to humanity.

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Lee Camp unleashes ridicule toward big banks who censor chalk protester

Lee Camp says things that I think, but I also filter them. More and more, I'm feeling that being civil to the forces crushing democracy is not getting us anywhere. Therefore, Camp's bursts of ridicule toward the rich and abusive are feeling cathartic. This episode takes a look at more abuses by big banks, especially a huge penalty levied toward a man who wrote his bank protests in chalk.

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