by TD Daniell | October 28, 2016 | Current News
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Common Dreams It has been 140 years since Alexander Graham Bell uttered the first words through his experimental telephone, to his lab assistant: “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.” His invention transformed human communication, and...
by TD Daniell | May 3, 2016 | Current News
Edward Snowden The Intercept “I’ve been waiting 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be...
by TD Daniell | June 4, 2015 | Current News
Norman Solomon ExposeFacts.org The morning after final passage of the USA Freedom Act, while some foes of mass surveillance were celebrating, Thomas Drake sounded decidedly glum. The new law, he told me, is “a new spy program.” It restarts some of the worst aspects of...
by PPJC Admin2 | March 24, 2015 | PPJC Picks
By Jon Queally Common Dreams [Ed. Note: On Tuesday, 3/24/15, PPJC is sponsoring a live online discussion with Stanford Professor of Middle East History Joel Beinin. The topic is “Consequences of the Israeli Elections.” Register for the eForum today.] The...
by PPJC Admin2 | August 1, 2014 | PPJC Picks
By Trevor Timm The Guardian As reports emerged Thursday that an internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general found that the CIA “improperly” spied on US Senate staffers when researching the CIA’s dark history of torture, it was hard to...
