Jul 24 2013
AlJazeera: US Congress to vote on NSA spying powers
US congressmen have forced a vote that could cut funding for the National Security Authority (NSA) and limit the scope of its vast surveillance activities.
The vote, which could come as early as Wednesday in the House of Representatives, will be the first held on limiting NSA spying since Edward Snowden leaked documents detailing the agency’s extensive secret surveillance programme known as Prism.
Republican congressman Justin Amash tabled an amendment to a wider defence bill, which “ends …
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Uprising’s Friday guest expert Robert Jensen, a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of many books, his latest being, Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog, analyzes today’s news headlines: 
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