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Omaha Sun Times “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” so Pablo Picasso once famously proclaimed. Though we expect the pompous Cubist was being his usual haughty self when he [...]

The Intercept The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, [...]

IFLScience A small, flowering plant called Arabidopsis thaliana can hear the vibrations that caterpillars trigger when they chew on its leaves. According to a new study, the plants can hear [...]

The Liberty Beat The Supreme Court has ruled that lawsuits by victims’ families and survivors of the September 11 attacks can move forward, however relatives of Osama bin Laden and Saudi [...]

Ben Swann Thanks to the tireless effort of watchdog organization the Broward Bulldog and its Freedom of Information Act suit against the government, more information is being released about the [...]

DW A former NSA technical chief has told Germany’s parliament that the US agency has become a “totalitarian” mass collector of data. German public broadcasters say the NSA [...]

Activist Post New research shows that our brain displays a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind-expanding drug trip. Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic [...]

The Liberty Beat According to a report by the Telegraph, Facebook conducted a secret massive psychology experiment on its users to find out how they respond to positive and negative messages, [...]

Activist Post Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool to monitor the accessibility of Web pages around the world that can be installed by adding a single line of code to a web page. The [...]

Antiwar.com Reflecting its virtually uncontested control over a broad swath of land in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has announced the formation of a new nation, [...]