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Uprising’s guest expert Adele Stan, longtime chronicler of the right wing, and senior Washington correspondent for RHRealityCheck.org, analyzes today’s news headlines:

The CIA is working with the FBI to build a vast database of financial information on Americans in the latest government spying revelations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story today, based on information from unnamed government officials. Apparently the CIA is tracking financial data that helps it piece together financial activity of potential terrorists, using individual social security numbers to track the data. The exposé comes on the heels of the shocking news last week of the CIA buying private customer data from AT&T for $10 million a year. Click here for a Wall Street Journal report about the story.

Speaking of the CIA, which runs the US drone program, Germany has decided not to continue purchasing armed unmanned aerial vehicles from the US. The announcement by the Merkel administration comes in the wake of strongly worded reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on the devastating impact and the illegality of the US practice of extrajudicial assassinations using drones in countries like Pakistan and Yemen. Click here for an RT.com article about the story.

The big international news of the day is China’s announced reforms that notably include relaxing its one-child policy and ending its harsh labor camps. But eclipsed by the social reforms are the planned economic reforms, which according to Reuters, are designed to “boost China’s urban population and allow its transition to a western-style service and consumption-driven economy.” Click here for a Reuters article about the story.