Freedom on the Web

Obama NSA Speech: Pretty Words, No Real Change

by Peter Van Buren, Firedoglake.com

It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security

by Tom Engelhardt and Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch.com

Fifty States of Fear

by Peter Ludlow, New York Times

Gov’t Used Surveillance of MLK in Bid to Destroy Him, Now They Want Us to Just Trust Them

by Juan Cole, Informed Comment

Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech Now More Prescient Than Ever

by Stephen C. Webster, The Progressive

Let’s Give Pot Smokers a Little Leeway

by Kathleen Parker, Washington Post

Treat Event Tickets as Private Property

by Editorial, Detroit News

War and Empathy

by Mike Marion, Brush Fire Minds

The Tree of Liberty

by Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press

Congress Defers to President on NSA Reform

by Ron Paul, Antiwar.com

A Tipping Point Against Leviathan

by Adam Dick, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity

US Intelligence Workers Want Snowden to Die

by Matthew Feeney, Reason

We Have to Destroy Our Constitution to Save It

by Peter van Buren and Tom Engelhardt, Antiwar.com

America Goes to War

by Ralph Raico, LewRockwell.com

You Can’t Have a War without Soldiers

by Laurence M. Vance, LewRockwell.com

Biographer, Scholar, Friend: Mary Sennholz at 100

by Jeffrey M. Herbener and Shawn Ritenour, Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Economics of the Corn Dog

by Brett Stone, Foundation for Economic Education

Hawks Are Deluded about Iraq

by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute

Newtown: The Moral Panic that Wasn’t

by Gene Healy, Cato Institute

The Racist History of the Minimum Wage

by Jordan Bruneau, Daily Caller

Obama Mocks Catholic Nuns for Resisting Obamacare Contraception Mandate

by Andrew P. Napolitano, Washington Times

We Need Real Protection from the NSA

by Ed Loomis, et. al., USA Today

America’s Secret War in 134 Countries

by Nick Turse, Nation

Secrecy: The Oxygen of the Deep State, the Enemy of Democracy

by Sosaadmin, ACLU

Pentagon and NSA Officials Say They Want Snowden Extrajudically Assassinated

by David Sirota, Pando Daily