NY Times: Nelson Mandela spent 28 years in prison thanks to CIA collaboration with the apartheid government. #OBAMAinSA

Dutch artists celebrated George Orwell’s 110th birthday yesterday by placing party hats on surveillance cameras.

RT @spitzenprodukte: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Then they co-opt you, then they rewrite your struggle.

For Congress, avoiding potential short term pain trumps potential long term gain. milopublicaffairs.com/node/409

World Health Organization: 38% of women murdered worldwide killed by a husband, boyfriend, intimate partner. (BBC)

“News is something which somebody wants suppressed: all the rest is advertising.” [source]

Investing in #schools creates more than twice as many jobs as military spending: therealnews.com