With Democrats in power (for now), powerful funders may be trying to tame or silence progressive peace activists
By Dave Lindorff : Salon.com
Reporting for this article was funded by a grant from the ExposeFacts program of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
During the four years of the Trump administration, resistance and even revolutionary talk were in the air as organizations with names like The Resistance and Our Revolution brought together liberals, Democrats of all stripes and Sandernistas, all opposed to President Donald Trump and to Trumpism in all its manifestations.
Snowden, Surveillance and Whistleblowing: Unlearned Lessons and Unfinished Business
By Patrick G. Eddington – RightsAndDissent.org
It’s been the better part of a decade since NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden first revealed massive U.S. government surveillance of our phone communications. The additional disclosures that followed led to no meaningful public Congressional hearings into Snowden’s revelations; a cynical, totally ineffectual law that didn’t actually stop much, if any, of the mass telephone surveillance; and lots of attacks on the whistleblower himself—not just from his former government employers, but from multiple House and Senate members, as well as some in the press.