Michael Arria
Why is the Waning War on Drugs So Focused on Fake Weed?
A couple months ago Pat Roberston, the infamous televangelist generally making headlines for blaming catastrophic events on gays and abortions, confused the general public by blurting out something entirely sensible: “I've never used marijuana and I...
The Idiocy of Demonizing Bradley Manning: An Interview with Civil Rights Lawyer Chase Madar
Bradley Manning has now spent close to 700 days in jail without trial. Chase Madar’s _The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History_ is "being published this month":http://www.orbooks.com...
Obama's an Environmental Failure: An Interview with Journalist Joshua Frank
Shortly after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling ring exploded, killing 11 men and ultimately dumping 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope was quick to rush to the defense of the President. “President Obama is...
The Truth about America's Highway Killers: An Interview with Author Ginger Strand
In the special Bicentennial Issue of Life, the nation’s interstate system was described as, “The most grandiose and indelible signature that Americans have ever scratched across the face of their land.” This statement remains truer than the magazine’s...
Why Thomas Friedman is Always Wrong: An Interview With Journalist Belen Fernandez
It has been over thirty years since readers of the New York Times were first subjected to the vacuous prose of Thomas Friedman. Back then he was simply a reporter covering the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, not yet the full-formed apologist for Empire...
Pepper Spray Is a Brutal Weapon of War, Wielded By Dunce Cops or Whoever
This past Wednesday a University of California "investigatory report":http://documents.latimes.com/uc-davis-pepper-spray-incident-task-report/ concluded some very predictable things: the November 18th incident on the UC-Davis campus, in which a number...
The White House Wants to Imprison the CIA Agent Who Blew the Whistle on Torture
He has been charged with five criminal counts of espionage by a White House with a growing track record of going after whistleblowers: whereas other presidents before Obama have cited the Espionage Act in prosecutions no more than three times, this...
America's Old Pal the Merchant of Death Gets 25 Years
Viktor Bout, an arms smuggler so infamous that he is frequently referred to as “The Merchant of Death,” "has been sentenced":http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/apr/06/viktor-bout-sentenced-25-years-video to 25 years in prison by a Manhattan...
"Because You Might Be a Terrorist," the Feds Need You To Strip
Last week I posted about David House, a man who got his "laptop, camera, and USB cable snatched by Homeland Security":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/4/2/a-laptop-is-not-a-suitcase-the-government-s-case-against-david-house-is-crumbling--2 for no...
A Laptop is Not a Suitcase: The Government's Case Against David House is Crumbling
The Bradley Manning Support Network is a grassroots organization created in order to raise support, and assist in paying legal fees, for the Army solider accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. It points out on "its website":http://www...
Can Occupy Strike Out Beyond the Barricades?
h5. See "Motherboard's new documentary about Occupy and hacktivism, "Free the Network," "here"::http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network A couple of weeks ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement re-upped and returned to...