Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism

Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?

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Manning Verdict Risks Freedom of the Press If the People Do Not Act

For a whistleblower who exposed war crimes and unethical government behavior to face a lengthy prison term while the people exposed are not even investigated shows how confused the United States has become.

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Manning Conviction Under Espionage Act Is Blatant Threat to Civil Liberties

Tuesday's verdict convicting Bradley Manning on 20 counts represents the first time under the Obama administration that any leaker of official secrets has been convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act.

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Watching Fascism On the Rise, From Greece to America

Golden Dawn’s prominence is proof that Greece is on the slide to becoming the next Nazi Germany — and that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Americans should also be wary of our government’s slide toward fascism.

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What Edward Snowden Taught Us About American Freedom

Americans fully recognize the threat the U.S. security state poses to American liberty, with a poll last week showing 55% consider Edward Snowden a whistleblower, not a traitor. But who, now, will protect this hero?

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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It

At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

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The Insider Threat Program: Obama's Crackdown on Leaks That "Aid the Enemy"

Even before Edward Snowden exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a new and unprecedented government-wide crackdown on security threats.

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Fighting the Surveillance State: An Interview with Iceland's Birgitta Jonsdottir

Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden represent just the tip of the iceberg of a popular resistance that is challenging the U.S. government’s excesses in surveillance, says the Icelandic MP.

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Whistleblowing 2.0: From the Pentagon Papers to Bradley Manning to PRISM

From Edward Snowden’s bombshell revelations about the extent of state snooping, to the ongoing court martial of Private Bradley Manning, 2013 has become the year of the whistleblower.

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NSA Leaks Show Us What New Fascism Looks Like

The power of truth-tellers like Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate academy and the corporate media.

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