Category: National Security State

How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers

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Monday, 22 August 2022 — MintPress News

Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter.

A MintPress study of professional databases and employment websites reveals a wide network of War Studies alumni holding many of the most influential jobs in media, constituting a silent army of individuals who influence what the world sees (and does not see) in its social media feeds.
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BBC assault on antiwar academics was apparent product of UK intel plot

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Sunday, 21 August 2022 — The Grayzone

Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations.

On May 31, BBC Radio initiated an embarrassing imbroglio when it broadcast a factually challenged, overtly propagandistic documentary special called Ukraine: The Disinformation War.

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What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common?

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Monday, 22 August 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By John Parker

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They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative about the war in Ukraine. This is why Struggle-La-Lucha.org organized a fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S.

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Statewatch Issue 14/22: Migration policy against transparency; Frontex’s “expanding footprint”; Keep Campsfield closed

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Friday, 19 August 2022 — Statewatch

Statewatch News

19 August (Issue 14/22, also available as a PDF)

Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring:

  • Italy: Migration policy undermining freedom of information
  • The “expanding footprint” of Frontex in non-EU states
  • UK: New campaign to keep Campsfield immigration detention centre closed

We will be taking a break before the next issue due to staff leave, but will be back in your inboxes on 16 September.

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CIA, Pompeo Sued For Allegedly Spying On US Attorneys And Journalists Who Met With Assange

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Monday, 15 August 2022 — The Dissenter

By Kevin Gosztola

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

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A group of journalists and lawyers, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, sued the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo. They allege that the agency under Pompeo spied on them in violation of their privacy rights.

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Independent Journalist Facing 3 Years Prison in Germany For Reporting Truth From Ukraine

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2 July 2022 — News Punch

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German independent journalist Alina Lipp has been defying mainstream media by bravely reporting from Ukraine’s Donbass region. Now the reporter, who has been based in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region for six months, is facing three years in prison in her home country for her “crimes.”

Intelligence Services Interference in British Democracy, with Kit Klarenberg

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Wednesday, 10 August 2022 — MintPress News

The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.
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New report exposes the militarised nature of British policing

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Monday, 8 August, 2022 — NetPol

A police officer and a solider with guns

Campaign Against Arms Trade and Netpol have released a report exposing the militarised nature of British policing.

A Very British Problem: The Evolution of Britain’s Militarised Policing Industrial Complex exposes the increasingly blurry line between the police and the military. It further shows that a war mentality has infiltrated policing – from counter-terrorism to anti-protest policing to border control to the policing of gangs.

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LIVE: Mass Vaccination, Lockdowns and Permanent War, with Denis Rancourt and Dan Cohen

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Friday, 5 August 2022 — MintPress News

LIVE: Mass Vaccination, Lockdowns and Permanent War, with Denis Rancourt and Dan Cohen
104 watching now Started streaming 25 minutes ago MintPress News’ Dan Cohen is joined by scientist Denis Rancourt to discuss his latest research paper on mass COVID-vaccination. They will discuss lockdowns, climate and the permanent war state, and how all of these issues are related.

UK: Lost in the Matrix – how police surveillance is mapping protest movements

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Tuesday, 2 August 2022 — NetPol

How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated activists” – the new label applied to those taking action that challenges state and corporate interests?

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The US is ‘close to getting its hands on Julian Assange. An interview with John Pilger

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Tuesday, 26 July 2022 — John Pilger

In an interview with Oscar Grenfell of the World Socialist Website, John Pilger explains the latest manoeuvres by the US and UK authorities to extradite Julian Assange, journalist and publisher, to the US where he faces 175 years in prison for the crime of journalism.

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National Security Search Engine: Google’s Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents

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Monday, 25 July 2022 — MintPress News

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Google – one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world – is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying employment websites and databases, MintPress has ascertained that the Silicon Valley giant has recently hired dozens of professionals from the Central Intelligence Agency in recent years. Moreover, an inordinate number of these recruits work in highly politically sensitive fields, wielding considerable control over how its products work and what the world sees on its screens and in its search results.

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‘A Possible Coup’ Against the Labour Government?

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Wednesday, 20 July, 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Allegations that MI5 officers and sections of the media sought to bring down Britain’s Labour government in the 1960s and 70s have resurfaced, raising fresh questions about plots that remain hidden behind a wall of official secrecy.

By Richard NORTON-TAYLOR

A file released on Tuesday by the National Archives, titled “Allegations concerning a possible coup in 1968”, reveals how rattled MI5 and the Home Office were many years later about conspiracies that have never been properly investigated.

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How The CIA Made Google

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26 Januar 2015 — MintPress News

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Originally published on Medium.

INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’

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Secrets of the Pandemic

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Friday, 15 July 2022 — Swiss Policy Research

WHO director Tedros Ghebreyesus holding the new book by major WHO sponsor Bill Gates (Twitter)

Little-known aspects of the coronavirus pandemic

Contents

1) Pandemic Response: Failure or Success?;
2) The SARS&MERS “Death Rate”;
3) China & Zero Covid;
4) Coronavirus Origins;
5) Why Face Masks Have Failed;
6) Covid Vaccine Trials;
7) Covid Treatment: Antivirals & More;
8) Asymptomatic Transmission;
9) Long Covid;
10) Children

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