Yahoo helped in unconstitutional US Gov. mass Surveillance of Americans’ Email

In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users' incoming emails, in real time. There's still much that we don't know at this point, but if the report is accurate, it represents a new-and dangerous-expansion of the government's mass surveillance techniques.

Trump Spent ’93 White House Correspondents Dinner Ogling Attendees 23 minutes ago

As an invited guest to the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 1993, Donald Trump spent the entire evening ogling - and making lewd comments about - women at the event, at one point moving a fellow guest stuck seated next to him nearly to tears. In an editorial by Graydon Carter published online Tuesday, the Vanity Fair editor-in-chief explains Trump had been invited as a "novelty guest" to the function, meant to make a splash in tabloids on Vanity Fair's behalf.

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Calls Trump ‘a F*cking Nightmare’, Urges Voting For Hillary Clinton

The lead singer and front man for Arcade Fire went off on a bit of a political tangent when asked how the music of Haiti and New Orleans influences the band, describing a recent trip to New Orleans when David Duke was trying to keep confederate war monuments up, before mentioning just what he thinks of Donald Trump and the threat he represents. Edwin "Win" Butler III is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for Canadian band Arcade Fire, known for their symphonic pop-dance-rock-noise arrangements, surrealist music arena performances and a savvy approach to the music industry.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton Goes To Church And Calls For Racial Justice

Perhaps it's time we took a break from all the Miss Universe fat-shaming, tax-dodging Foundation-closing, rage-tweeting, compulsive lying and now losing in the polls Trump Campaign and join Hillary Clinton and young Zianna Oliphant at the Little Rock AME Zion Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. "It's been a hard year, hasn't it?" Clinton asked, as people in the congregation responded, "Yes."

What’s Driving the Passion Behind JASTA?

'The failure to bring the perpetrators of September 11th into a real courtroom for the past fifteen years,' writes Paradis, 'has meant that the victims' families and the country as a whole have been denied this opportunity for a battle-tested truth, and as a result, denied the opportunity for closure.' In all the debate over the Justice Against Sponsored Terrorism Act , the hardest argument to ignore has been from the victims of the September 11th attack.

Ex-CIA Detainees Describe ‘Terrifying’ Unreported Torture Techniques

In a new Human Rights Watch report released Monday, two former CIA detainees described previously unreported torture techniques used in secret U.S. prisons overseas, shedding new light on the program the government fought for years to keep hidden. Ridha al-Najjar, 51, and Lotfi al-Arabi El Gherissi, 52, both Tunisian men recently repatriated after being in CIA custody for 13 years without charge, independently described being threatened with a makeshift electric chair, deprived of sleep, subject to multiple forms of water torture, chained by their wrists to the ceilings of their cells for extended periods of time, and severely beaten.

Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic Campaign – Last-Minute Expenditures

Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.

low road

The best kind of temperament is the kind that gnaws, gnaws, gnaws at your guts until you have to get up at 3AM and start writing attack-tweets against a woman you first humiliated when she was an 18-year-old girl. First, there's a literal she's-no-angel post, of the kind Republicans inevitably seem to create as justification for anything up to and including shooting someone.

‘The Nation’ Launches Two New Columns Confronting Challenges Within and Outside Our Borders

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Scorecard: Tracking Climate Change Questions In Presidential, Senate, And Governors’ Debates

With 2016 on track to become the third consecutive hottest year on record , debate moderators should be asking candidates about how they plan to address climate change -- something that rarely happened during the presidential primary debates and didn't happen in the first general election presidential debate. This election season, Media Matters is running a real-time scorecard to track how often panelists or debate moderators ask candidates in the presidential election and tightly-contested Senate and Governors' races about climate change.

Trump Is Trying To Divert The Media From His Disastrous Debate, And CNN Just Admitted It’s Working

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has tried to divert media attention from his poor debate performance, claiming that he "eased up" on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and suggesting that he would use personal indiscretions of former President Bill Clinton to attack her in the future. By attempting to change the media conversation, Trump seeks to deflect attention from not only his performance, but also from issues raised during the debate such as his taxes, his birtherism, and his attacks on a former Miss Universe.

9/27/2016

I don't know about you but she looked pretty energized to me. On the other hand, by the end of the debate he was slumping and hanging on to the podium like he'd been hit with an animal tranquilizer dart: I'm just saying.

The Social Construction of Value, Price and Wages

Within post-industrial post-modern bourgeois-state-capitalism, value is no longer based on labor and/or on labor theories of value such as Marx's theory. In fact, all post-industrial post-modern societies to various degrees have shed their modern labor theories of value and surplus-value; i.e., theories where labor-time and cost of production are the basis of price and value determinations.