Remember Niger? Valerie Plame? All that Yellowcake uranium ore is now under the control of a platoon commander, NPR has the story. Schools spying on your kids at home? Welcome to the logical progression of the post 9/11 national security state in a story by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing. The ghosts of Cheney and Bush have livened up the party at the CPAC convention, Salon’s Mike Madden has a guide to the festivities. Those stories and more in today’s picks.
- Paranoia boils over in Texas
- Military courts are overrated
- A guide to the CPAC straw poll
- The U.S. Military’s German Fetish
- Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is Real
- Military Junta Seizes Power After Coup In Niger
- CPAC 2010 Day One: The Return Of Bush-Cheney
- Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word
- First Corporation Running for Congress Offers Franchise Opportunity
- School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
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