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Ron Paul: ‘Thankful’ for Edward Snowden - Breanna Edwards - POLITICO.com

America's Outsourced Spy Force, by the Numbers - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

Egypt warns Ethiopia over Nile dam - Africa - Al Jazeera English "We are not calling for war, but we will not allow, at all, threats against our water security," Morsi said before adding, "all options are open."

The Palestinian struggle is a black struggle One of the pillars of  my trip to Gaza  with the  Palestine Literature Festival  turned out to be an ongoing discussion regarding the essential blackness of the Palestinian struggle and the need to form greater ties with our “natural allies” from  Africa  and South America in particular.

NSA Taps In To User Data of Facebook, Google and Others, Secret Files Reveal It boasts of what it calls "strong growth" in its use of the PRISM program to obtain communications. The document highlights the number of obtained communications increased in 2012 by 248% for Skype – leading the notes to remark there was "exponential growth in Skype reporting; looks like the word is getting out about our capability against Skype". There was also a 131% increase in requests for Facebook data, and 63% for Google.

NATO Data: Assad Winning the War for Syrians’ Hearts and Minds The data, relayed to NATO over the last month, asserted that 70 percent of Syrians support the Assad regime. Another 20 percent were deemed neutral and the remaining 10 percent expressed support for the rebels.

Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes A legal duty to report war crimes Manning is charged with crimes for sending hundreds of thousands of classified files, documents and videos, including the "Collateral Murder" video, the "Iraq War Logs," the "Afghan War Logs" and State Department cables to Wikileaks. Many of the things he transmitted contain evidence of war crimes.  The "Collateral Murder" video depicts a US Apache attack helicopter killing 12 civilians and wounding two children on the ground in Baghdad in 2007. The helicopter then fired on and killed the people trying to rescue the wounded. Finally, a US tank drove over one of the bodies, cutting the man in half. These acts constitute three separate war crimes.