Protests in Turkey expands and spreads, now in their sixth day. Al Jazeera has a great number of specials and views about what it all means. In nature, not like the Arab Spring, it has become instead, a harsh indictment of the elected PM Erdogan and, it seems, an indictment against government encroachment, on the press, by the military and in general. One example of an article on Turkish loss of press freedoms in April of this year at a profile section of Al Jazeera called, Listening Post.
Fantastic Zoom bird's eye view of Myanmar thru the economic lens of a new ATM machine. 18 min audio. In it, however, I found myself disagreeing with the brit they interviewed and his characterization of Burma's 'triple crown' of econ failures. Maybe, I wonder, if that's just what Burma had to do to get where they are. They had to go through all that to end up here.
The Bradley Manning trial started this week. It may end in less than 12 weeks after all... except that he's been in the brig for three years, so far. The media is framing his case as a choice, describing him as either a 'hero or traitor' which conveniently avoids what the GOV wants us to ignore: what is done during war for our security, in our name stays unknown unless leaked. For years, nobody seemed to care, but now you can't go anywhere on the internet without tripping over this reductive version of the story. It does not make me feel confident that the public is being informed or educated. This is why Kevin's great work for so long has been so important.
Verizon hands over millions of cell phone call logs - who and when calls were made, not what the call was about - to the NSA, per their request, in April. Do you really think Verizon is the only phone company they're doing that with?
A placeholder, further exposition on what we are still doing with drones from Richard Engel and Rachel Maddow. NPR did a similar story a month or more ago.
Amazing story of a favorite, multi-medalled medic, back home, who became a serial bankrobber, in order, according to him, to compensate for his ptsd stress. Which was undiagnosed, called bipolar instead. Which made it worse. Now he does his time and has some therapy, too.
Last week there were major marches all over the world, in hundreds of cities against Monsanto. Also, strikes are being held against Wal-Mart in the US. Still, the Exxon spill in Mayflower, AR remains toxic.
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