Links to Start Your Week 11/17/13

Surveillance/War on Terror Mother Jones published what I think is an excellent article on this year’s revelations about the NSA’s spying practices. Basically, they make the point that even with this absurd amount of data collection, which has ostensibly been mostly to enhance U.S. national security and foreign policy making, those continue to be areas…

Links to Start Your Week 9/22/13

The Nation has created an interactive database to help track the civilian victims of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense currently has no coordinated effort to track civilian deaths in our armed conflicts, meaning that lessons learned from encounters that endanger civilians are not institutionalized for the whole military to learn from…