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Conason Asks Wyden Our Questions: Senator Reveals NSA Email Surveillance Program Recently 'Closed' for 'Operational Reasons'
Earlier this week, Joe Conason, Editor-in-Chief of The National
Memo, tweeted out word that he would be interviewing Sen. Ron Wyden
(D-OR). He was seeking questions for the Senator who has been a member
of the Select Intelligence Committee since 2001, and among the most
outspoken in his attempts to inform the public of the massive,
out-of-control U.S. surveillance state. Wyden offered a detailed s
Thank You. And...
I just wanted to offer a quick update on my most recent
fund-raising efforts here, which I launched on my birthday last week
while mentioning my attempts at trying to find some way through to keep
the work that we do here at The BRAD BLOG (including our radio shows
Green News Report and The BradCast, neither of which anybody actually
pays us to do) going...
First, many of you contributed for the
Turkey-Syria-Kurdish Fronts Heat-Up
Reports that Turkish F-16s will fly reconnaissance flights along the
Syrian frontier highlights rising alarm over border security and
suggests a further internationalization of the civil war in Syria with
implications for it, Turkey, and the regions Kurds.
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Zimbabwe’s Un-Credible Elections
In less than a week, Zimbabwe will go to the polls in the first
presidential and parliamentary elections since the violent 2008 election
and formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU). Analysts
generally agree that this election may be the most important in
determining the country’s path since Zimbabwe’s first election in 1980.
As such, the whole world is watching. Yet while the run up to
You Might Have Missed: CIA in Pakistan, Syria, Special Ops in Trans-Sahara
Kathy Gannon and Sebastian Abbot, Criticism Alters US Drone
Program in Pakistan, ABC News, July 25, 2013.
The CIA has been instructed to be more cautious with its attacks,
limiting them to high-value targets and dropping the practice of
so-called “signature strikes” — hitting larger groups of suspected
militants based purely on their behavior, such as being armed and
meeting with known militants,
Getting to the Root of the Middle East Problem
Defying the skeptics, Secretary of State John Kerry announced
last Friday that Israelis and Palestinians had “established a basis” to
return to peace talks, which have stalled since 2010. Kerry is wisely
keeping a close hold on details so as not to create opportunities for
spoilers in advance of negotiations actually taking place, but the
latest is that preliminary talks, in which the Palestinians
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