Whistleblowers: are they heroes or traitors?
By Brent Daggett Contributing writer for End the Lie I pledge allegiance to my country to sacrifice civil liberties to a possible police state, and to the powers that be, for which it controls, one nation under tyranny and censorship, with blind obedience to all. Obviously, that is not the original version of the Pledge [...]
Bill introduced to declassify opinions of secret court behind ordering all U.S. phone records from Verizon
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie A bipartisan group of senators has proposed a bill that would declassify the opinions of the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the same body that ordered Verizon to hand over all U.S. phone records for a three month period. Yet there are major problems, as you [...]
March Against Monsanto organizer to face charges for using amplified sound at a park
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie In an apparent case of an organizer of a major protest being targeted by police, Kristen “Kryssi” Jones, an organizer of the Ann Arbor, Michigan March Against Monsanto, was arrested for using amplified sound in a public park on May 25, 2013. Jones maintains that she did [...]
Department of Justice: drone strikes on American citizens are legal because Obama and Holder said so
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie In a court filing this week, Justice Department lawyers claimed that the Obama administration’s drone strikes that have admittedly killed four American citizens are constitutional in part simply because Eric Holder and Barack Obama said so. While this might seem absurd to the point that it seems [...]
Monsanto sued by Kansas wheat farmer over release of unapproved GMO wheat in Oregon
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie A wheat farmer in Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto alleging that the infamous agricultural giant is guilty of gross negligence for not containing the unapproved genetically modified wheat which was recently discovered in Oregon. The farmer, Ernest Barnes, said that Monsanto’s GMO wheat has put [...]
Supreme Court approves warrantless DNA sampling, likens it to fingerprinting and photographing
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Law enforcement can now force suspects arrested for serious crimes to give samples of their DNA without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday. This is surely going to be a controversial decision, as their ruling siding with Monsanto over patents on “self-replicating technology” in [...]
152 new allegations of sexual abuse leveled against BBC in Jimmy Savile scandal
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The scandal surrounding allegations of sexual abuse at the BBC continues to get more insane as a whopping 152 new allegations of sexual abuse and harassment have been leveled by 81 current and former BBC employees. So far, not all that much has happened in response to [...]
Report: House Judiciary Committee investigating whether Eric Holder lied under oath
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie According to a report, the House Judiciary Committee is now investigating the possibility that Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath when he testified on May 15 about the Department of Justice’s surveillance of reporters. According to an unnamed aide closet to the matter who spoke to [...]
Eric Holder confirms U.S. drones have killed four Americans abroad without charge or trial
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie For the first time, the Obama administration has formally and publicly acknowledged that the United States has killed four American citizens without charge or trial in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Last year Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech saying that secret executive branch reviews [...]
