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Here’s one way to land on the NSA’s watch list

Bulatlat Contributors July 11, 2014 Bush administration, NSA, Tor

If you downloaded the privacy software Tor in 2011, you may have been flagged to be spied on. By JULIA ANGWIN and MIKE TIGAS ProPublica Last week, German journalists revealed that the National Security Agency has a program to collect information about people who use privacy-protecting services, including popular anonymizing software called Tor. But it’s…

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Bush Govt Experimented on Detainees for Torture Techniques and Legal Cover

Bulatlat Contributors June 10, 2010 Bush administration, Human Rights, torture, waterboarding

Illegal Activity Violates Nuremberg Code and Could Open Door to Prosecution By PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Cambridge, MA– In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals’ involvement in the CIA’s “enhanced” interrogation program (EIP), Physicians For Human Rights has uncovered evidence that indicates the Bush administration conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and…

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Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle

Bulatlat Contributors September 5, 2009 Bush administration, Truthout, United States

By HENRY A. GIROUX Truthout | Perspective Posted by Bulatlat.com Under the Bush administration, a seeping, sometimes galloping, authoritarianism began to reach into every vestige of the culture, giving free rein to those anti-democratic forces in which religious, market, military and political fundamentalism thrived, casting an ominous shadow over the fate of United States democracy.…

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