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President Trump wants to ensure his pro-corporation, anti-environmentalist, climate change-denying legacy before President-elect Biden is inaugurated and is making moves to allow mining of natural resources on federally-protected lands, the New York Times‘ Eric Lipton reports.

In his last days in office, Trump is moving forward on projects in numerous states that would grant energy firms access to lands that were previously off limits.

One project in Arizona would transfer federally-protected forest land to build a gigantic copper mine. Local Apache tribes considered the land chosen for the project as sacred,...

Wikileaks' Manning Curiously Missing from Greenwald's Doc About the United States Government's Attacks on Whistleblowers In 2006, after getting stonewalled in his effort to expose critical flaws in the Deepwater program (designed to modernize the Coast Guard fleet), former Lockheed Martin project manager Michael DeKort made his case in a YouTube video. Only then did the issue get noticed, leading to improvements in Coast Guard safety. Pictured above: Thomas Drake, one of the whistleblowers featured in the documentary. It also led to DeKort spending years defending himself from those trying to discredit him. Indeed, this is where Greenwald’s film cashes in on what little indignation it generates. A lone civilian is seemingly no match against deep-pocketed forces that will do anything to protect their interests, even if -- especially if -- the whistleblower’s claims are accurate. Towards the end of the film, Thomas Drake, the former Nsa senior executive...

Greenwald's latest doc exposes war against those who bring to light the U.S. government's dirty deeds If you want a good example of how the lofty intensions of a new president inevitably give way to the bitter realities of an intractably crooked and selfish world, here’s an old quote in regard to whistleblowing from the web site of the U.S.'s current commander-in-chief: Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process. Pictured above: a stifled Lady Justice. Some of that statement is true. Mostly the prepositions. The rest, as director Robert Greenwald tells us in his latest documentary, War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State, has been forgotten as...