Captive Audience: How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send An Email
[Justice] Captive Audience: How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send An Email by Victoria Law Posted September 18, 2018 Inside prisons, e-messaging companies are quietly building a money-making machine virtually unhindered by competition—a monopoly that...Explaining Secret Surveillance
[Justice] Explaining Secret Surveillance by Jake Laperruque Posted September 15, 2018 Last week the government released a redacted copy of the application for a warrant to surveil Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide who was monitored pursuant to the Foreign...I traced missile casings in Syria back to their original sellers
[Justice] I traced missile casings in Syria back to their original sellers by Robert Fisk Posted September 14, 2018 Readers, a small detective story. Note down this number: MFG BGM-71E-1B. And this number: STOCK NO 1410-01-300-0254. And this code: DAA A01 C-0292. I...Looking Back on the Prosecution Failures after the 2008 Wall Street Crash
[Economic] Looking Back on the Prosecution Failures after the 2008 Wall Street Crash By James A. Kidney Posted September 12, 2018 As the nation approaches the 10th anniversary of the demise of Lehman Brothers, which is popularly pegged as the beginning of the Great...More and More of What We Do Depends on Government Permission
[Social] More and More of What We Do Depends on Government Permission by J.D. Tuccille Posted September 10, 2018 Do you have permit for that? If you want to keep that permit, you’d better do as you’re told. Increasingly, that’s the theme of modern...Quotable Sayings
Why do we have a perfectly secure system in place for using a credit/debt card to buy a $2 slushy at 7-11, but somehow secure and trustworthy voting remains a mysteriously-unachievable outcome for a nation as advanced as the US?
Chris Martenson