National Security State

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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June 9, 2013

So Just Exactly What Is NSA’s Prism, More Than Reprehensibly Evil? By Rick Falkvinge

Adding it all together, it would appear that the social tech companies did not, repeat not, supply bulk data about their users at the US Government’s will – but that the situation for you as an end user remains just as if they had. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

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June 8, 2013

Google & Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for U.S. to Spy on Users By Pratap Chatterjee

Google and Facebook have discussed – and possibly built – special portals for the U.S. government to snoop on user data, according to revelations sparked by an investigative series of articles by Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian. Continue reading

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June 8, 2013

Video: Obama Defends “Big Brother” Powers

Larry Wilkerson: The NSA’s illegal gathering of almost all means of communication sacrifices privacy without improving national security Continue reading

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June 8, 2013

Video: Top NSA Official: Government Tapping CONTENT, Not Just Metadata … Using Bogus “Secret Interpretation” of Patriot Act

We reported in 2008 that foreign companies have had key roles scooping up Americans’ communications for the NSA. The newest information regarding the NSA domestic spying scandal raises an important question: If America’s tech giants didn’t ‘participate knowingly’ in the dragnet of electronic communication, how does the NSA get all of their data? Continue reading

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