June 12, 2013

June 12, 2013

Wikileaks Newslinks 12 June 2013

12 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks chief says he is in touch with ‘hero’ Snowden Times of India LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday called whistleblower Edward Snowden “a hero” and said he has been in indirect contact with the ex-Central Intelligence Agency employee who exposed a vast surveillance programme by the National … http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/WikiLeaks-chief-says-he-is-in-touch-with-hero-Snowden/articleshow/20548223.cms Continue reading

Spies-R-Us

assange, FORT, WikiLeaks
June 12, 2013

Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 June 2013

12 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning trial to be recreated in comic-book form The Guardian The comic, The United States vs PFC Bradley Manning: A Graphic Account from Inside the Courtroom, will include drawings of events that illustrate the matters under discussion in the courtroom – for example, the war in Afghanistan – Continue reading

Liberties

Afghanistan, bradley manning, FORT, secrecy, WikiLeaks
June 12, 2013

Black Agenda Report for June 12, 2013 Clyburn Detached From Reality or Justice, Snowden Litmus Test, Haiti, Detroit

12 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Rep. Clyburn: Putting Obama First – Civil Liberties, Peace, Justice, and Reality Last A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black Congressman James Clyburn’s “gut” tells him that whistleblower Edward Snowden is conspiring with others to “embarrass” President Obama. Continue reading

Black Agenda Report

BA, Civil Liberties, Ford, Haiti, National Security State, radio, Whistleblowers
June 12, 2013

The Origins of Prism?

Got this from Crypthome, the US Navy sponsored encryption system. Dated 2004, it purports to be the description of PRISM, its structure and its functions. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

data mining, database state, Narus, PDF, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, terrorism, Verint
June 12, 2013

President Obama’s Insecure National Security State By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

President Obama’s defense of the very surveillance policies he campaigned against in 2008 “fails the laugh test on a number of levels” – including the legal presumption of innocence. “Where is the basis of ‘probable cause’ to proactively search the records of millions of Americans who have never engaged in any illegal activity let alone… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

data mining, database state, FBI, Narus, NSA, Obama, prism, radio, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, terrorist, Verint
June 12, 2013

Pre-emptive Policing By Craig Murray

I am deeply concerned about pre-emptive policing, or arresting people who might be going to do something wrong. I frankly don’t believe the BBC’s claim that intelligence indicated that anti-G8 protestors in Soho had weapons, or at any rate I do not believe it was honest intelligence. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

BBC, Bilderberg, Craig Murray, G8, intelligence, London, police, radical
June 12, 2013

Lack of Intelligence By Craig Murray

I am astonished that still none of our pusillanimous media has published the simple fact that NSA and GCHQ share ALL intelligence reports with each other. Every member of the House of Commons who has ever been in the most junior ministerial position knows this Continue reading

National Security Archive, UK

Craig Murray, data mining, database state, GCHQ, intelligence, Narus, NSA, prism, secrecy, snowden, spying, surveillance, United States, Verint
June 12, 2013

GCHQ- The UK Government Communications Headquarters By Steve Jones

GCHQ is the United Kingdom’s (and the European Union’s) premiere electronic eavesdropping facility. The jargon used to define this activity is known as signals and communications intelligence, that is, the collection, sifting, decryption, analysis and linguistic deciphering of international electronic communications. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

GCHQ, Global Research, Government, intelligence, NSA, police, SOURCES, spying, surveillance, United Kingdom, USA
June 12, 2013

NSA Deception Operation? Questions Surround Leaked PRISM Document’s Authenticity By Steve Kinney

Was Edward Snowden spotted before he decided to leak documents, and set up by the NSA? Substantial evidence supports the possibility that he was. Numerous questions cast doubt on the authenticity of the Power Point slide show describing PRISM, but the UK Guardian has not seen fit to release it to the public. Perhaps Glenn… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

censorship, data mining, database state, Global Research, Internet, Narus, NSA, prism, rights, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint
June 12, 2013

Anglo-American Militarism: Don’t Worry About Surveillence, In Britain, Everything’s Okay By Colin Todhunter

In the name of ‘humanitarian intervention’, a ‘war on terror’, fighting for ‘democratic freedoms’ or whatever the script happens to be this week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague can be relied on to sell US-British militarism to a public fed up with constant wars and (increasingly less) ignorant of their underlying reasons. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

data mining, database state, Foreign Secretary, Global Research, intervention, militarism, Narus, parliament, prism, spying, surveillance, UN, Verint, war on terror
June 12, 2013

The US as Superintendent of Global Capitalism: A Response by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin

We very much appreciate these generous, perceptive and comradely comments on our book and we hope our response will contribute to continued discussions and further research. Continue reading

Books, Capitalism

Canada, capital, Financial Times, Globalization, Leo Panitch, Review, Sam Gindin, the state, York University
June 12, 2013

Books: The Importance of State Theory By Bob Jessop

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s long-awaited The Making of Global Capitalism, said to be ten years or more in the making, is ‘about globalisation and the state’. More precisely, Panitch and Gindin use its 450 pages to provide an important, informative, and well-written account of the predisposing factors, emergence, expansion and transformations, of global capitalism,… Continue reading

Books, Capitalism

capital, Economy, finance, financialisation, market, Sam Gindin, the state
June 12, 2013

Worst cuts in wages for UK workers in ‘deepest recession since WWII’, IFS shows

Between 2010 and 2011, 70 per cent of employees who stayed in the same job fronted real wage cuts, while a third of those workers faced nominal wage freezes or cuts (12 per cent experienced freezes and 21 per cent experienced cuts). Continue reading

Capitalism, UK

austerity, benefits, cuts, food, market, recession, RT, unemployed, unemployment, WWII
June 12, 2013

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 June 2013: State of Denial: Occupation? What Occupation?

11 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Injured In HebronIMEMC – [Tuesday June 11 2013] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian man was shot by Israeli army fire, when Israeli soldiers attacks a funeral procession of a child in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel

Egypt, Israel, PA, police, security, UN, West Bank
June 12, 2013

ICH 11 June 2013: What 'Can't Happen Here' Just Did

11 June 2013 — Information Clearing House US Officials Start Talks on Arming Syria’s Rebels By BRADLEY KLAPPER Moved by the Syrian regime’s rapid advance, officials say the administration could approve lethal aid for the rebels in the coming days. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35238.htm Continue reading

Information Clearing House

Afghanistan, Government, ICH, Iraq, NSA, Syria, Video
June 12, 2013

‘Made in Gaza’: Breaking the siege By Eric Walberg

The latest plan to try to break the illegal siege of Gaza, according to organizer Michael Coleman at Sunday’s press conference in the port of Gaza, is to refurbish their very second-hand fishing boat, fill it with Gazan products (date products, embroidery, craft items and more) and sail to another Mediterranean port, like any normal… Continue reading

Palestine

blockade, Chomsky, Eric Walberg, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian
June 12, 2013

Video: Assange to NSA whistleblower Snowden: ‘We are winning, but I hope you have a plan’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has voiced strong support for fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden, but urged him to escape Hong Kong immediately to avoid being “prosecuted for years”. Continue reading

National Security State, Spies-R-Us, Videos

assange, database state, diplomatic cables, Julian Assange, NSA, prism, RT, snowden, surveillance, Video, WikiLeaks
June 12, 2013

Video: Assange to NSA whistleblower Snowden: ‘We are winning, but I hope you have a plan’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has voiced strong support for fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden, but urged him to escape Hong Kong immediately to avoid being “prosecuted for years”. Continue reading

National Security State, Spies-R-Us, Videos

assange, database state, diplomatic cables, Julian Assange, NSA, prism, RT, snowden, surveillance, Video, WikiLeaks
June 12, 2013

Luxembourg trial into 1980s terror bombings reveals involvement of German police, intelligence agents By Dietmar Henning

A trial is taking place in Luxembourg dealing with a series of terror bombings committed in the 1980s. Although the bombings implicate NATO troops and its top secret Stay Behind operation in terrorist activities, the trial has been largely ignored by the German and international media. Continue reading

Europe, National Security State

agents provocateurs, Germany, gladio, intelligence, Italy, NATO, police, security, terrorist, WSWS
June 12, 2013

The Dirty Little Secret About Mass Surveillance: It Doesn’t Keep Us Safe

NSA Spying Doesn’t Work to Prevent Terrorism Continue reading

National Security State

data mining, database state, FBI, intelligence, interview, Journal, Narus, NSA, prism, security, spying, surveillance, terrorist, Verint, Wall Street

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