251 results found for "boston bombing"

Dead Men Tell No Tales

By 04/15/2015

The prosecution’s message is clear: bring on the execution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev! In the latest development, it turns to a hotshot death penalty advocate to use against Tsarnaev’s hotshot death penalty opponent counsel. But why is the federal government, normally reticent about the death penalty, so eager to see it utilized in the Boston Bombing case?

A Trillion Ways to Build a New Military-Industrial Complex

By 10/11/2014

If you’d invested a trillion dollars in something, you’d definitely want a positive return. Yet the latest iteration of the military industrial complex, exemplified by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, seems only to have produced more war, more terrorism, more surveillance and more presidential protection blunders. You can blame it on 9/11, but the blueprints were already there.

Imperial Ironies, FBI Infiltrators & Middle Class Blues‏: Apr. 30, 2015

By 04/30/2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Irony of Ironies: Afghan Watchdog Who Identified Vast Waste Told to Slash Staff by Klaus Marre The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) recently found that half of all the money poured into reconstruction efforts has been wasted, misappropriated, or is missing. The embassy in Kabul responded with bold moves […]

Civil Liberties, Human Goldfish & The Late, Great B.B. King‏: May 15, 2015

By 05/15/2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Civil Unrest and the Violation of Civil Liberties by Guillermo Jimenez While covering the Baltimore riots, journalist Shawn Carrie was shot in the head by a police pepperball and held without being charged. These, however, are just two of the very many violations of civil liberties taking place in the […]