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June 22, 2013

NSA Whistleblower: NSA Illegally Spied On General Petraeus and Other Generals, Supreme Court Justice Alito and All of the Other Supreme Court Justices, the White House Spokesman, and Many Other Top Officials

As we reported yesterday, NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frogs Post (the website of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds) that the NSA spied on and targeted for… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

blackmail, data mining, database state, GCHQ, New York, NSA, Petraeus, Sibel Edmonds, spying, Supreme Court, surveillance, Whistleblower, White House
June 22, 2013

The United States Of Whatever: Ecocide And The Soul Of A Nation By Phil Rockstroh

What are the psychical affects of chronic denial, noxious indifference and compulsive prevarication as related to a matter as all encompassing and crucial as our relationship with the climate of our planet? Continue reading

Capitalism, Climate Change, USA

bribes, Climate, Greanville Post, nature, New York, oceans, United States
June 21, 2013

USA Today, Maddow and Iran Misinformation: Treating nuclear claims as facts

The recent elections in Iran may change some things–but inaccurate media depictions of Iran might not change much at all. Continue reading

Iran, Media, Propaganda

Ahmadinejad, FAIR, Iran, msnbc, New York, nuclear weapons, NYT, Reuters, USA, USA Today
June 19, 2013

The Terror Con, Booz Allen Hamilton and the NSA By Robert Scheer

For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name of the game is threat inflation. And no one has been better at it than the folks at Booz Allen Hamilton, the inventors of the new boondoggle called cyber warfare. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Arab, Booz Allen, data mining, database state, intelligence, James Bamford, James Clapper, mining, Narus, New York, NSA, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint
June 19, 2013

Spinning Surveillance via Discredited NSA Talking Points By Steve Rendall

A system in which a secret program is approved behind closed doors via classified rulings would be better described as “opaque,” though Rose failed to challenge Obama on the point. Continue reading

Media, National Security State

AP, Associated Press, FAIR, FISA, intelligence, New York, NSA, Obama, surveillance
June 19, 2013

No, NSA Spying Did NOT Prevent a Terror Attack on Wall Street

In response to the revelation that the NSA has been illegally spying on all Americans for more than a decade, NSA chief General Keith Alexander claimed that the spying prevented a terrorist attack on Wall Street and the New York subway. There’s only one problem: the claim is completely false. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Al Qaeda, crime, data mining, database state, James Bamford, James Clapper, mining, Narus, New York, NSA, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, terrorist, Verint, Wall Street
June 17, 2013

Video: Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents

Journalist Laura Poitras is being described as the connection between the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the reporters for The Guardian and The Washington Post who published his leaked documents about government surveillance. Poitras shared a byline on two of the key articles about the ongoing NSA revelations, and filmed the Guardian interview in Hong… Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State, Videos

data mining, database state, Democracy Now, GOODMAN, interview, James Bamford, James Clapper, Narus, New York, NSA, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, Video, Washington Post
June 17, 2013

President of International War Crimes Tribunal may have Worked to Shield Israelis from Prosecution By Alison Weir

The Times says that the Israeli-American judge, Theodor Meron, “… has led a push for raising the bar for conviction in such cases, prosecutors say, to the point where a conviction has become nearly impossible.” Continue reading

Palestine

Global Research, ICC, Israel, New York, police, rights, settlements, The Times, UN, war crimes
June 16, 2013

What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America’s Police State

Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout the five years of our existence: that democracy and democratic institutions in the… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Antifascist Calling, data mining, database state, James Clapper, Journal, Narus, New York, NSA, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, Verizon, Washington Post
June 15, 2013

Syria and Chemical Weapons: What Do We Know? By Peter Hart

If you watched ABC World Newslast night (6/13/13), the story of Syria and the use of chemical weapons had shifted pretty dramatically. AnchorDavid Muir declared at the top of the show: “The White House now confirming Syria’s president has in fact used chemical weapons to kill.” Continue reading

Syria

Arms, chemical weapons, CIA, FAIR, intelligence, New York, NYT, sarin, Syria, USA, White House, WMD
June 15, 2013

War On Syria: "Exactly Like Iraq"

15 June 2013 — Moon of Alabama The New York Times and others try to paint a picture of a president Obama who only reluctantly took the decision to escalate the war on Syria by no longer just helping to arm the Syrian insurgency but to deliver its own weapons and to thereby commit the… Continue reading

Syria

Iraq, Jordan, New York, Obama, sarin, Syria, Washington Post
June 14, 2013

Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden BY DAVID SIROTA

Though [opponents] failed to show that Snowden’s disclosures endanger national security, these attacks do tell an important story—not about the whistleblower, but about America. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

crime, liberties, New York, NSA, security, terrorist
June 14, 2013

Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden BY DAVID SIROTA

Though [opponents] failed to show that Snowden’s disclosures endanger national security, these attacks do tell an important story—not about the whistleblower, but about America. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

crime, liberties, New York, NSA, security, terrorist
June 14, 2013

Bradley Manning Newslinks 14 June 2014

14 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning vs Edward Snowden: Comparing America’s whistleblowers globalnews.ca In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden (left) speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. In the image on the right, U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is escorted as he leaves a military court at the end Continue reading

Liberties, USA

bradley manning, New York, security, WikiLeaks
June 14, 2013

Who Killed the Syrian Peace Talks? The Rebels have been Defeated. Is the War Over? By Shamus Cooke

The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to turn an already-tragic disaster into a Yugoslavia-style catastrophe…or worse. Continue reading

Syria

Global Research, New York, Obama, peace, regime change, Shamus Cooke, Syria, talks
June 13, 2013

Freedom Rider: The Snowden Litmus Test By Margaret Kimberley

Don’t look to Democrat Dianne Feinstein for help when it comes to the real issues. This plutocrat typifies the shameless treachery of Obama’s party. Who needs enemies with “friends” like these? Continue reading

National Security State, USA

competition, Congress, database state, Dianne Feinstein, Margaret Kimberley, New York, Obama, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, United States
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 9, 2013

Wikileaks Newslinks 9 June 2013

9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Where ‘We Steal Secrets,’ The Wikileaks Film, Falls Short ReadWrite The film traces the creation of the Wikileaks site, focusing primarily on Assange’s troubled past and conflicted present. It then quickly touches on several of Wikileaks’ greatest hits – the so-called “collateral murder” video from Iraq, the release of … Continue reading

Spies-R-Us

assange, Film, New York, revolution, Steal Secrets, WikiLeaks
June 9, 2013

U.S. Successful With Cyber Defense Protection Racket

Based on such scaremongering the U.S. will now – generously – sell software, hardware and training to Gulf monarchies to protect from Iranian “threats” that likely do not exist at all. Those countries will have to pay hundreds of millions dollars for those “services” to “defend” against “threats” that mysteriously came up from unknown sources… Continue reading

Iran

bank, Iran, Korea, New York, Persian Gulf, speculation
June 8, 2013

Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh

Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading

Liberties, USA

anniversary, anti-war activist, civil disobedience, Hiroshima, Megan Rice, New York, Obama, peace, prison, security

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