Washington Post: Biometric hand scans and reinforced concrete: The history of the FISA court
The Baffler: Surveillance Valley: Why are companies like Google in bed with cops and spies?
Reason: Rand Paul single-handedly tries to stop massive spending plan
New Jersey Herald: America has become a Surveillance State
Alphr: Gagging orders: The internet surveillance nobody can talk about
TomDispatch: Drug wars, missing money, and a phantom $500 million
The Atlas: The world’s top 15 “defense” spenders Ed: Of course it’s the United States, which spends far more than every other nation combined. Do check out the graph.
Al Jazeera: US airstrikes kill over 100 Syrian soldiers in retaliation for ‘attack’ that left no US causalties
StatNews: Commonly-used PTSD drug fails rigorous trial. No better than a placebo, according to the study.
