John Cusack: Obama Is “Worse Than Bush” On Civil Liberties, Whistleblowers, Drones

A vocal supporter of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Cusack is also part of the board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

MINNEAPOLIS --- As part of the publicity tour for his new film “Love & Mercy,” actor John Cusack spoke out against Barack Obama’s record on civil liberties and human rights. While Obama was a Hollywood darling during his first campaign, Cusack is one of several celebrities to criticize the president in recent days. In an interview with the

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Google Joins Civil Liberties Groups To Oppose Expansion Of FBI Spy Powers

‘Government is seeking a troubling expansion of its power to surreptitiously hack into computers.’

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

A Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.  (AP/Google) Internet giant Google and the American Civil Liberties Union are among the various groups who have objected to a rule change by the U.S.

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‘Accountability, Not Surveillance’: Group Raises Flags Over Police Body Cameras

NYCLU are among the stakeholders called to testify before Presidential Task Force on policing reform.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley

A body camera is displayed at a news conference at the Sheriff's Headquarters in the Monterey Park section of Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Dozens of sheriff's deputies at selected stations in Los Angeles County are testing body cameras during a six-month pilot program. Police body cameras must be used as a tool for more police

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American Ranking Plummets In Global Index Of ‘Personal Freedoms’

The nation’s handling of civil liberties, freedom of choice, tolerance of ethnic minorities, and tolerance of immigrants sends it from 9th to 21st place worldwide

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley

In an age of expanding national security powers, increasing surveillance state, and rolled-back civil liberties protections, Americans' perception of their own personal freedoms is plummeting, according to the annual ranking by the Legatum Institute in London. In Washington D.C. this week to promote their findings, researchers with the Legatum

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VIDEO: Attack On Canadian Parliament Fuels “Anti-Terror” Laws, Ignoring Ties To Mental Illness, Drug Abuse

As Canada mourns the death of a soldier gunned down while standing guard at the National War Monument in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing new antiterrorism legislation that would expand surveillance and intelligence sharing with foreign governments.

Democracy Now
By Democracy Now
John Kerry, John Baird

Reports: n the days since the shooting, the gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, has been identified as a convert to Islam with a history of drug abuse, criminal activity and mental illness. The incident came two days after another violent attack on Canadian troops in Quebec. Martin Couture-Rouleau, also identified as a "radicalized" Muslim convert,

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Greenwald: Harper Government Exploiting Recent Attacks To Expand Powers

Prime Minister, says journalist, is exploiting recent violence in Canada to ‘further dismantle civil liberties and core principles of western justice’.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Glen Greenwald

The Canadian government is exploiting last week’s attacks against soldiers in the country to push sweeping national security bills into law and give the state ever-more invasive surveillance powers, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald said in Ottawa over the weekend. Terrorism is "the most inflammatory, but also the most meaningless word in

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