Gitmo Costs $2.7 Million Annually Per Inmate

President Barack Obama continues to call for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but it’s not just supposed human rights violating inching him along. Keeping the detention center open will cost the government $5.2 billion by the end of next year

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Obama Wins Back Right to Indefinitely Detain American Citizens

The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the NDAA

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Software Spies on Activists Throughout the World

FinSpy surveillance software, marketed worldwide to law enforcement agencies as a way to monitor criminals, is widely used by repressive governments to spy on human rights groups and dissidents

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You’re More Likely to be Killed by Your Doctor Than a Gun

You are 64 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by someone else wielding a gun. That’s because 19,766 of the total 31,940 gun deaths in the USA (in the year 2011) were suicides. So the actual number of deaths from other people shooting you is only 12,174

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WikiLeaks Case: Prosecutors Can Demand Twitter Account Info…

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that prosecutors can demand Twitter account information of certain users in their criminal probe into the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks

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Killed by the Government

Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was ‘killed by the government,’ his father told mourners Tuesday during his son’s funeral in suburban Chicago

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A New Year’s Revolution!

What the American people should do at this point in their country’s history is simple: We vote them all out

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Bradley Manning Has Been Shamefully Exploited

Keep an American soldier locked up naked in a cage and driven half mad while deprived of all basic rights, and you will be instantly condemned as a barbaric terrorist

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Armed Militias Seize Detroit Gas Stations

Detroit police are investigating whether a group of AK-47 wielding robbers who hit two gas stations Wednesday morning are responsible for several similar crimes that have recently occurred across the city

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Standing Up For Truth and Justice Was Once Noble and American…

David Coombs, the civilian lawyer representing Bradley Manning at his court martial for supplying WikiLeaks with a trove of US state secrets, has described the soldier’s treatment in solitary confinement at Quantico marine base as criminal and a blot on the nation’s history

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