June 2013

June 10, 2013

When the Surveillance State Is Used to Investigate and Prosecute Whistleblowers, the Occupy Movement and Environmental Activists By Mark Karlin

It’s worth noting that a noticeable number of progressives are protesting not the expanded government invasion of privacy under President Obama, but rather those sites, such as BuzzFlash at Truthout, who are harshly critical of Obama for justifying a secret system of massive spying on individuals. Continue reading

National Security State

data mining, database state, democracy, Mark Karlin, NSA, Obama, Occupy Movement, prism, spying, surveillance, the state, United States, Whistleblowers
June 10, 2013

Is This the REAL Reason for the Government Spying On Americans?

To understand the scope, extent and reason that the government spies on all Americans, you have to understand what has happened to our Constitutional form of government since 9/11. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State, USA

Congress, data mining, database state, Government, intelligence, prism, security, spying, surveillance, terrorist, United States, White House
June 10, 2013

RAF drone attacks ‘break rights law’ By Paddy McGuffin

Top lawyers concluded today that British drone attacks on Afghanistan are almost certainly illegal. Continue reading

Afghanistan, UK, War

Afghanistan, civilian deaths, drone, drones, Helmand, Morning Star, strikes
June 10, 2013

Video: "On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State": NSA Whistleblower Rejects Gov’t Defense of Spying

“The government is not trying to protect [secrets about NSA surveillance] from the terrorists,” Binney says. “It’s trying to protect knowledge of that program from the citizens of the United States.” Continue reading

National Security State, Videos

data mining, database state, Democracy Now, intelligence, James Clapper, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, spying, surveillance, United States, Video, Whistleblower
June 10, 2013

President Obama’s Data Harvesting Program: NSA as Pollster, PRISM as MISO By John Stanton

The membership of President Obama’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NTSAC) reflects the close proximity of the President to critical cyber/telecom/ISP leaders who likely get advanced warning of the incoming nukes. Some of the NSTAC members include Verizon Business Group, Raytheon, AT&T, Vonage, Intelsat, Avaya, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

Boiling Frogs, constitution, data mining, database state, Intelsat, NSA, Obama, prism, Raytheon, security, spying, surveillance, Verizon
June 10, 2013

US data mining system technical details murky

The US government’s vast online data collection system revealed this week could tap into companies like Google and Facebook without the knowledge of top executives, experts said. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

AFP, BT, data mining, database state, Google, mining, nature, NSA, prism, rights, security, spying, surveillance
June 10, 2013

Video: Netanyahu Says it's Anti-Semitism to Accuse Israel of War Crimes or Violating Human Rights

Shir Hever: At the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, the Israeli military and political leadership’s attacks on critics reflects Israel’s isolation and the strength of the boycott campaign Continue reading

Palestine, Videos

Anti-Semitism, BDS, conference, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Netanyahu, Palestinian, Video
June 10, 2013

Video: Netanyahu Says it’s Anti-Semitism to Accuse Israel of War Crimes or Violating Human Rights

Shir Hever: At the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, the Israeli military and political leadership’s attacks on critics reflects Israel’s isolation and the strength of the boycott campaign Continue reading

Palestine, Videos

Anti-Semitism, BDS, conference, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Netanyahu, Palestinian, Video
June 10, 2013

The NSA’s Greatest Hits: “We’re the Only Ones Not Spying on the American people” By Burkely Hermann

The hero of the day, 29 year-old Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor, revealed himself in an interview with The Guardian: “after several days of interviews [we are]…revealing his identity at his request…“I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,” he said. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

data mining, database state, Global Research, intelligence, liberties, NSA, police, PR, prism, security, spying, surveillance
June 10, 2013

The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning By Chris Hedges

The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and… Continue reading

Liberties, USA

Chris Hedges, class, Collateral Murder, Iraq, journalists, MANNING, Nuremberg, Press Foundation, United States, Whistleblower, WikiLeaks
June 10, 2013

Wikileaks Newslinks 10 June 2013

10 June 2013 — williambowles.info We Steal Secrets a WikiLeaks Documentary Movie News Guide (blog) We Steal Secrets is a misnomer. The truth is that WikiLeaks, the subject of the documentary, doesn’t steal any secrets. The web site serves as an electronic drop box that users use to publish documents anonymously. The information posted Continue reading

Spies-R-Us

intelligence, NSA, Steal Secrets, U.S. Army, WikiLeaks
June 10, 2013

America: A Deteriorating Nation of Denial & Apathy By Sibel Edmonds

As the unending back-to-back scandals unfold, from the arrest and prosecution of courageous truth-tellers (aka whistleblowers), to the illegal wiretapping of all Americans, torture, indefinite detentions, the groping and handling of travelers, utilizing the IRS as the government’s hit-men and thugs … I am asked to provide statements, interpretations and/ or explanations as to what… Continue reading

USA

Boiling Frogs, Congress, IRS, land, Sibel Edmonds
June 10, 2013

Bradley Manning Newslinks 10 June 2013

10 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Trial: Is Our Future an Orwellian Nightmare Or Information … PolicyMic At its core, the ongoing military trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the admitted conveyer of three-quarters of a million classified U.S. government documents to Wikileaks, is about the evolution of big data into a relentless and almost certainly … Continue reading

Liberties

MANNING, NSA, snowden, Whistleblower, WikiLeaks
June 10, 2013

Top Spying Experts Explain Why You Should Oppose Spying … Even Though You’ve Done Nothing Wrong

Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You If Someone In Government Happens to Take a Dislike to You … Last Chance to Stop “Turnkey Tyranny” Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

CIA, database state, Government, Internet, National Security Agency, NSA, Petraeus, spying, surveillance, William Binney
June 10, 2013

Video: Edward Snowden – NSA Whistle Blower: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’

Edward Snowden was interviewed over several days in Hong Kong by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill. “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all… Continue reading

Spies-R-Us, Videos

China, CIA, crime, database state, edward snowden, intelligence, NSA, Obama, prison, security, spying, surveillance, terrorist, Video, Whistleblower
June 10, 2013

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 June 2013

10 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Kidnapped In JerusalemIMEMC – On Monday at dawn [June 10 2013] Israeli police officers kidnapped one child in the Al-Esawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem. One resident was also kidnapped in Beit Hanina. … Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel

Egypt, Gaza, Hezbollah, Israel, NY, PA, Syria
June 10, 2013

The Omniscient State By Craig Murray

It is not whether the individual had done anything wrong: it is whether the state has done anything wrong. Hague’s plea for the omniscient state is chilling: if you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. So it is alright for the state to eavesdrop all our social interactions, to follow… Continue reading

Liberties

CIA, Craig Murray, facebook, GCHQ, intelligence, MI6, NSA, spying, the state
June 9, 2013

Senator John McCain Meets up with Leaders of Terror Brigade in Syria. The NGO’s that Made it Happen By Phil Greaves

The recent furore surrounding US senator John McCain’s illegal trip inside Syria, and the supposed ‘rebels’ he was seen posing with alongside Supreme Military Council (SMC) Chief Salim Idriss, have shed further light on what appears to be another corrupt ‘NGO’ enterprise. Continue reading

Syria

Foreign Policy, Global Research, McCain, Middle East, NGO, Syria, wordpress, WWII
June 9, 2013

The Chilcot Inquiry. The British Government’s Role in the War on Iraq. Margaret Aldred and the Judicial Coverup By Dr. C. Stephen Frost

There have been five inquiries in the United Kingdom into the Iraq War: the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the Hutton Inquiry, the Butler Inquiry and the Chilcot Inquiry (the Iraq Inquiry). Not a single word of evidence at any of those inquiries has been heard under oath. Sir John… Continue reading

Iraq, UK

Chilcot, David Kelly, Foreign Affairs, Global Research, Government, Iraq, MP, United Kingdom
June 9, 2013

America’s Economic War on the People of Iran: Obama Signs Executive Order Targeting Iran’s Currency and Auto Industry By Timothy Alexander Guzman

The Obama administration’s new sanctions not only targets Iran’s government, it targets the Iranian people. It affects their everyday lives and their basic living essentials that include food and medicine. Targeting Iran’s currency adds pressure to food prices such as chicken, meat and cooking oil that already have increased to more than 60 percent in… Continue reading

Iran

Executive Order, food, Global Research, Iran, Obama, Timothy Alexander Guzman

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