June 2013

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
June 11, 2013

Government Spying on Americans … and then Giving Info to Giant Corporations

You’ve heard that the government spies on all Americans. But you might not know that the government shares some of that information with big corporations. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

bank, corporations, data mining, database state, gas, Government, intelligence, Narus, NSA, PR, prism, security, spying, surveillance, Verint, Wall Street
June 11, 2013

Media silent on the state killing of Boston bombing witness By Tom Carter

The extraordinary silence of the American media on the state killing of Ibragim Todashev, a key witness in relation to the recent Boston bombings, calls the official account of the bombings even further into question. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

boston bombing, FBI, intelligence, New York, the state, todashev, Tsarnaev, Washington Post, WSWS
June 11, 2013

Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe By Christoph Dreier

Last weekend, approximately 200 European trade unions, political NGOs (non-governmental organizations), charity groups, and feminist, environmentalist and pseudo-left groupings organized a so-called Alter-Summit in Athens. The meeting endorsed the institutions of the European Union (EU), with which union bureaucracies have worked closely in negotiating and approving austerity policies since the outbreak of the European debt… Continue reading

Capitalism, Europe, Greece

austerity, banks, class, debt, EU, Greece, SYRIZA, WSWS
June 11, 2013

Bradley Manning Newslinks 11 June 2013

11 June 2013 — williambowles.info Could Bradley Manning help Edward Snowden win political asylum? Washington Post (blog) Right, A November photo shows Bradley E. Manning being escorted from a hearing at Fort Meade, Md. (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras/Guardian via Reuters; Mark Wilson/Getty Images). Edward Snowden, the now-famous leaker of top-secret NSA programs, … http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/10/could-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum/ Continue reading

Liberties

Asylum, FORT, history, MANNING, snowden, WikiLeaks
June 11, 2013

Meet the contractors analyzing your private data By Tim Shorrock

Amid the torrent of stories about the shocking new revelations about the National Security Agency, few have bothered to ask a central question. Who’s actually doing the work of analyzing all the data, metadata and personal information pouring into the agency from Verizon and nine key Internet service providers for its ever-expanding surveillance of American… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Blackwater, Booz Allen, data mining, database state, intelligence, Internet, mining, Narus, NSA, prism, SAIC, security, spying, surveillance, Verint
June 10, 2013

TONIGHT: Watch Amy Goodman Discuss NSA Leaks on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes at 8:40pm ET

10 June 2013 TONIGHT: Watch Amy Goodman Discuss NSA Leaks on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes at 8:40pm ET Continue reading

National Security State, Videos

Amy Goodman, NSA, snowden, spying, surveillance
June 10, 2013

Rewriting History – Iraq and the BBC Glove Puppets By Matt Carr

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a shallow and essentially reverential piece of telehistory. Within ten minutes I was ready to scream with frustration at the tv set, which is really a very futile activity. Continue reading

Iraq, Media, UK

BBC, Cheney, children, Information Clearing House, Iraq, journalists, Paul, WMD, women
June 10, 2013

ICH 10 June 2013: Exposed: Obama’s Turnkey Tyranny

10 June 2013 — Information Clearing House From The Trojan Horse To The Golden Calf-The Power Of Deceit By William A. Cook We may weep for the innocents slaughtered in the fulfillment of the Zionist dream that took America to war against Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and Syria, and the ultimate goal of Israel, Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35229.htm Continue reading

Information Clearing House

ICH, Iraq, Libya, NSA, Obama, Pakistan, Syria, Video

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