July 2013
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‘It’s appropriate EU countries should have attempted to catch Snowden’
What Edward Snowden revealed concerns intelligence sharing between the European Union and America, the American and European intelligence agencies work “hand in glove,” John Laughland, from the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, told RT. Continue reading
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GCHQ sells your information to big corporations
Journalist Steve Boggan had gate-crashed ‘Secret Work in an Open Society’, an invite only gathering organized by MI5’s then Director General Stephen Lander. Britain’s domestic security service, he found, was quietly offering to sell secrets to companies such as Rolls-Royce, BP, Ernst & Young, arms firm BAe Systems and to a bank since proven to… Continue reading
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‘Infiltrated from all sides’: Bug found in London’s Ecuadorian embassy
A hidden microphone has been discovered in the Ecuadorian ambassador’s office in London, said Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino. He denounced the find as yet more evidence of the loss of ethics at an international level in government relations. Continue reading
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Qatar: US Proxy in America’s Terror War in Syria By Phil Greaves
A recent report in the New York Times (NYT) claims, through trusted “sources”, that Qatar began weapons shipments to opposition militants in Syria at the same time they “increased” support for Al Qaeda linked militants fighting Colonel Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Continue reading
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Venezuela ready to help Snowden, but final decision with people – Maduro to RT
Caracas is ready to help NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but will “leave the decision to the people” when considering his request for asylum, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has told RT in an exclusive interview. Continue reading
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Roland Dumas to SANA: West was preparing attack on Syria before crisis started
In an exclusive interview given to SANA’s correspondent in Paris, Dumas said that while he was in Britain before the crisis began in Syria, he was invited to a party where two people an Englishman and a Frenchman, asked him if he would like to participate in preparations for an attack on Syria to topple… Continue reading
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The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
During 1963-64, the Israeli government secretly acquired 80-100 tons of Argentine uranium oxide (“yellowcake”) for its nuclear weapons program, according to U.S. and British archival documents published today for the first time jointly by the National Security Archive, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Continue reading
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Schieffer Hopes the Government Will Explain Its Secret Spying Program to Him By Peter Hart
This weekend CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer (6/30/13) did a segment on the latest revelations about NSA surveillance. And who better to interview than… well, the former head of the NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 2 July 2013
2 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Edward Snowden makes expanded asylum requests Politico WASHINGTON — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, believed to be in legal limbo in the Moscow airport, is expanding his requests for asylum to another 19 countries, including China, according to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy … http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/wikileaks-edward-snowden-asylum-requests-93644.html?hp=l3_b2 Continue reading
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Treason and the Supreme War Crime Committed by The British Government By Dr. David Halpin
Firstly we start with the definition of a supreme war crime as defined at Nurnberg. That is to engage or conspire to engage in aggressive war, ‘from which all other crimes flow’. Continue reading
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Video: Is Whistle-blowing a Form of Free Speech?
Michael Ratner: Recognized by countries all over the world, whistle-blowing is a form of political opinion that is protected by the Refugee Convention Continue reading
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Snowden’s Cry for Help Is a Cry for America By Pam Martens
In July 2002, less than a year after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, Nancy Chang, then Senior Litigation Attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, published a prophetic and comprehensive book about the legislation titled: Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-terrorism Measures Threaten our Civil Liberties. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Ahmad Jamal – ‘Poinciana’
2 July 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Ahmad Jamal is one of my favourite artists and this rendition of the song that made him famous (and was the first album I bought of Jamal) justly celebrates his life. Recorded in 2005 with drummer Idris Muhammad and James Cammack on bass. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 1 July 2013: Whitewashing apartheid with Israel’s dirty water
1 July 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: Israeli settlers torch Palestinian fields in Burin7/1/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers started several fires in Burin village south of Nablus on Sunday evening, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank, said residents of Bracha and Yitzhar settlements torched Continue reading
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US-EU fallout: Eavesdropping on the free trade
“Snowden did ask to stay in Russia. However, when he found out Russia’s position on the matter and the associated conditions he decided not to stay in Russia,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Snowden is still held up in a Moscow airport and has issued asylum bids to 15 countries, the spokesman added. Continue reading
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Ecuador ‘helped Snowden by mistake,’ asylum in doubt
Correa told The Guardian that Quito will not be involved in financing or organizing Snowden’s travel from Moscow, specifying that the fugitive leaker would have to reach Ecuadorian soil before the government considers protecting him from American law enforcement. Continue reading
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Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic “wheeling and dealing” over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my… Continue reading
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Obama in South Africa: Political and Media Disconnect By Michael Shaw
If anything, we need to understand these protest images in S. Africa more in terms of current and similar photos from Brazil and Turkey. The public, in other words, is more sensitive these days to when they’re being patronized. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 