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Via Jim Lobe, Peter Jenkins reviews Gareth Porter's new book Manufactured Crisis. The subtitle of Gareth Porter’s new book, The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, is well-chosen. Large parts of A Manufactured Crisis are indeed untold till now. They amount to what the author terms an 'alternative narrative.' But don’t be misled by 'alternative.' This is not the work of some crank who imagines conspiracies where none exist. One senses, rather, from the author’s meticulous sourcing and...

Suck it, National Security State! Reuters: A Norwegian politician has nominated former United States National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday, arguing his release of classified documents made the world a safer place. Baard Vegar Solhjell, a former education and environment minister for the Socialist Left party, said Mr Snowden's revelations deepened the public's understanding of the extent to which states spy on their own citizens. "There...

Now at DailyPaulRadio.com: the State of the Union address. After: a panel discussion with Allison Bricker, Ben Swann, Robin Koerner myself and more.

Hey. Wait a minute. Are you certain things are supposed to be this way? ABC: An 83-year-old Catholic nun convicted in a protest and break-in at the primary U.S. storehouse for bomb-grade uranium will find out Tuesday whether she spends what could be the rest of her life in prison. Sister Megan Rice is one of three Catholic peace activists convicted of sabotage last year after they broke into the nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Sentencing for all three is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday...

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Radley Balko, now at the Washington Post, ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS Michael Gerson's evil conservative argument for the Drug War.

America: Mr. Witaschek, a successful financial adviser with no criminal history, is the first known case of a citizen being prosecuted in D.C. for inoperable ammunition. Washington police and prosecutors have spent a year and a half trying to nail him for the possession of so-called unregistered ammunition. A hunter and gun owner, Mr. Witaschek has always kept his firearms at his sister's house in Virginia. If convicted, he faces a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for having a single, inoperable...

That's my girl! This is her first new piece: "Welcome to the American Plutocracy"

The latest from the Snowden documents: The British government can tap into the cables carrying the world’s web traffic at will and spy on what people are doing on some of the world’s most popular social media sites, including YouTube, all without the knowledge or consent of the companies. Documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News detail how British cyber spies demonstrated a pilot program to their U.S. partners in 2012 in which they were able...

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