MetaData. It's something of a bad word since Snowden revealed the US NSA was illegally recording it. But the word just means "data about data". For a phone call, a spy agency might log such things as the caller and callee's phone numbers, their cell tower connection (or building location for a …

South of the border, Glenn Greenwald has been doing a pretty good job of showing how mainstream US journalists not only no longer expose law- and constitution-breaking by upper-echelon politicians, but actively support, encourage, condone and support it in their writings. And, about that country's …

News continues to filter out of the US mainstream media. Bits of news, that is. But mostly bafflegab lead by the Pentagon and the Administration. If you think there's a grain of truth in US news coverage, you should read what the NY Times has to say. And here's Citizen Greenwald's reaction to it …