7 June 2013 — RT
The residents of Iowa City, Iowa have moved to ban drones, red-light cameras and license plate readers in what is likely the most thorough action taken by a town yet against modern surveillance technologies.
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High-Level American Intelligence Source: “We Hack Everyone Everywhere”
7 June 2013 — Washington’s Blog
“We Like To Make A Distinction Between Us And The Others. But We Are In Almost Every Country In The World.”
High-Level American Intelligence Source: “We Hack Everyone Everywhere"
7 June 2013 — Washington’s Blog
“We Like To Make A Distinction Between Us And The Others. But We Are In Almost Every Country In The World.”
Video: Inside the U.S. Dirty War in Yemen with Jeremy Scahill, Nasser al-Awlaki, Sheikh Fareed
7 June 2013 — Democracy Now!
From drone strikes to the massacre at al-Majalah, secret U.S. military actions inside Yemen are exposed in “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” the new documentary film by Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley opening today. Scahill’s book by the same name was published in April. We continue our conversation on Yemen with Scahill and two key Yemenis profiled in the film: Nasser al-Awlaki, who lost his son, cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, and 16-year-old grandson to U.S. drone strikes; and Saleh bin Fareed, the Yemeni sheikh and tribal leader who was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the U.S. attack of al-Majalah that killed 45 civilians in 2009 (inc. transcript).
Video: "A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
7 June 2013 — Democracy Now!
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows them to access emails, documents, audio and video chats, photographs, documents and connection logs.
Video: “A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
7 June 2013 — Democracy Now!
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows them to access emails, documents, audio and video chats, photographs, documents and connection logs.
NSA telephone, Internet spying data shared with British Intelligence
7 June 2013 — RT
Data covertly collected by the US National Security Agency (NSA) from American telecom and Internet firms has been shared with its British counterpart, media reports revealed.
NO2ID Newsletter (2nd Series) No. 9 – 6th June 2013
7 June 2013 — NO2ID
Edited by Daryl Worthington
++ NEW THREAT TO MEDICAL PRIVACY by James Baker
Syria’s Fake Sectarian War, Triggered by Washington By Shamus Cooke
7 June 2013 — Global Research
The fate of Syria and the broader Middle East balances on a razor’s edge. The western media is giving dire warnings of an impending sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims, a war that could drown the Middle East in a flood of blood.
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 633: MILITARISM, CHINA IN AFRICA AND SILENCING TRUTHS
7 June 2013 — Pambazuka News
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Wikileaks Newslinks 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info
3 days in, WikiLeaks trial comes into focus
Businessweek
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Three days into Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court-martial for giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, prosecutors have shown the soldier was trained to guard classified information and knew it could easily fall into …
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-06-06/3-days-in-wikileaks-trial-comes-into-focus
Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info
As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
RollingStone.com
Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn’t have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there’s a reporter character named “Sam Miller” played by actor Troy Garity who …
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 June 2013: The Wandering Europeans and ‘The Vanishing Two-State Solution’
6 June 2013 — VTJP
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Palestinian Minister Released After Two Years In Captivity
IMEMC – Israeli released, on Thursday evening, former Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Wasfy Qabha, 50, after holding him under Administrative Detention for two years without charges or trial. …
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Statewatch News Online, 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 6-7 June 2013: Day 1: Justice: Press release
2. EU: NEW DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: European Parliament: Working documents, draft report and amendments
3. UK: ANTI-SURVEILLANCE CAMPAIGNERS TO MARK ORWELL’S ‘1984 ‘PUBLICATION
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