War in Context

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• How Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian have offended the Washington media establishment
• Chip Ward: Rewilding the West
• What do global protests signify?
• In WikiLeaks probe, feds used a secret search warrant to get volunteer’s Gmail

How Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian have offended the Washington media establishment Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT David Sirota writes: Two weeks into the hullaballoo surrounding whistleblower Edward Snowden and Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, one thing is clear: they did not just reveal potentially serious crimes perpetrated by the government — including possible perjury, unlawful spying and unconstitutional surveillance. They also laid bare in historic fashion the powerful double standards that now [...]

Chip Ward: Rewilding the West Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:55 AM PDT Here’s a nifty trick that’s been on my mind lately. In case you hadn’t noticed, the weather news this season has been pretty grim. Tornados so large and destructive that they would have given Dorothy pause, 500-year European floods, massive rainstorms rolling across the land, record heat in California and Alaska, late snowfalls that boggle [...]

What do global protests signify? Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:50 AM PDT Christopher Dickey writes: Not long before he went to the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month and put a pistol to his head and killed himself, the French historian Dominique Venner was contemplating the contagion of revolt that occasionally sweeps around the globe like a pandemic. “How are revolutions born?” he asked. [...]

In WikiLeaks probe, feds used a secret search warrant to get volunteer’s Gmail Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:45 AM PDT Wired: The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week. The search warrant was issued under seal on October 14, 2011 by the Alexandria, Virginia federal judge overseeing the [...]