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June 23, 2013

Follow the Money: The Secret Heart of the Secret State By Chris Floyd

In a series of powerful, insightful essays, Silber has, among other things, laid bare the dangers of the oddly circumscribed ‘gatekeeper’ approach of the journalistic guardians (at, ironically, the Guardian) of Snowden’s secrets, particularly their slow drip-feed of carefully self-censored tidbits from the famous Powerpoint presentation that Snowden secreted from the bowels of the United… Continue reading

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June 23, 2013

The Stunning Hypocrisy of the U.S. Government

At a press conference to discuss the accusations, an N.S.A. spokesman surprised observers by announcing the spying charges against Mr. Snowden with a totally straight face. “These charges send a clear message,” the spokesman said. “In the United States, you can’t spy on people.” Continue reading

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June 22, 2013

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications

The sheer scale of the agency’s ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. This is all being carried out without any form of public acknowledgement or debate. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

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June 21, 2013

British government moves to censor media coverage of spying operations By Robert Stevens

D-Notices are official requests to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects on the grounds of “national security”. They are issued by the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, which operates between government departments dealing with intelligence and national security, and the media. Continue reading

Media, National Security State, UK

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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

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June 19, 2013

The National Security Industrial Complex and NSA Spying: The Revolving Doors Between State Agencies and Private Contractors By Pratap Chatterjee

When Edward Snowden, an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton – a military contractor based in McLean, Virginia – blew the whistle on the extent of U.S. global electronic surveillance, he unexpectedly shone a light on the world of contractors that consume some 70 percent of the $52 billion U.S. intelligence budget. Continue reading

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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

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June 19, 2013

Video: Edward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers “Only Builds Better Whistleblowers”

18 June 2013 — The Real News Network Larry Wilkerson: Snowden’s expertise allowed him to understand the threat of the NSA’s surveillance programs on civil liberties – government power exercised in secret will be abused (inc. transcript) Continue reading

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June 18, 2013

Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks By Nafeez Ahmed

Since the 2008 economic crash, security agencies have increasingly spied on political activists, especially environmental groups, on behalf of corporate interests. This activity is linked to the last decade of US defence planning, which has been increasingly concerned by the risk of civil unrest at home triggered by catastrophic events linked to climate change, energy… Continue reading

Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment

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June 18, 2013

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 June 2013: US House officially commits to Israel’s security

17 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterHamas Official Demands Hezbollah To Withdraw Fighters From SyriaIMEMC – [Monday June 14 2013] The Hamas movement called on the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party to withdraw its fighters from Syria [supporting President Bashar Assad], and to focus on the struggle against Israel. … Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

New reports detail vast scale of NSA “mega data collection” By Thomas Gaist

New reports indicate that the NSA engages in warrantless wiretapping of the audio content of telephone communications of Americans, and records and archives virtually all internet usage, everywhere. Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

NSA Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some

The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls…Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed… Continue reading

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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

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June 15, 2013

The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America By Prof. James Petras

In the United States, despite widespread mass media coverage and the opposition of civil liberties organizations, there has not been any mass protest. Congressional leaders from both the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as top judges, approved of the unprecedented domestic spy program. Continue reading

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June 14, 2013

The National Security Agency: A Global Superpower By Wayne Madsen

Recent revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting massive meta-data vacuuming of the phone calls and Internet transactions of tens of millions of Americans and, perhaps, billions of people around the world, with little or no effective oversight by President Obama, the U.S. Congress, or the federal court system means that the intelligence… Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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June 13, 2013

NSA memos expose Obama administration's lies about wiretapping By Eric London

Plans to carry out the abrogation of basic democratic rights were well underway at least ten months before the “global war on terror” was launched in the aftermath of the still unexplained events of September 11th, 2001. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

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June 13, 2013

Top National Security Experts: Spying Program Doesn’t Make Us Safer, and Spying Leaks Don’t Harm America

America’s top national security experts say that the NSA’s mass surveillance program doesn’t make us safer … and that whistleblowers revealing the nature and extent of the program don’t harm America. Continue reading

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