spying
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 23-29 June 2013
29 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The U.S. Sees the World through a PRISM 29.06.2013 | 00:00 | Boris KAZANTSEV The scandal which broke on June 7 around articles published in the American newspaper The Washington Post and the British paper The Guardian could very well be more damaging to the United States than the… Continue reading
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Britain: Spying network exposed targeting organisations critical of police By Barry Mason and Robert Stevens
The massive extent of a British police spying network, systematically monitoring political protesters, activists and organisations critical of the police, has been revealed this week. Continue reading
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US and British Global Spying – the Poachers Appoint Themselves as Gamekeepers By Finian CUNNINGHAM
The poachers – caught in the act – are now appointing themselves as the gamekeepers. Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden has performed an immense service to international public interest and democratic rights by exposing the «industrial scale» illegal spyingoperations of the American and British governments. Continue reading
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New NSA leaks show email surveillance under Obama
The Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and Internet usage of Americans for more than two years, new documents reveal. Continue reading
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Blowing the whistle: There Are NO Proper Channels a Whistleblower Can Use
Polls show that Americans know the government is spying on all of us for improper purposes … but that many Americans are unsure whether or not the whistleblowers who brought us that information should be prosecuted. Continue reading
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Inventor of World Wide Web accuses West of hypocrisy
The British computer scientist, who invented the Web in 1989, accused the West of “insidious” online spying after whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) dragnet telephone and internet surveillance programs, implicating US and UK in a wave of international criticism. Continue reading
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The US Public Doesn’t Believe the NSA … Knows What’s Really Going On With Mass Spying
72% of Likely U.S. Voters Know the NSA Has Monitored the Private Communications of Congress, Military Leaders and Judges Continue reading
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Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance By Lana Lam
Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government contractor for one reason alone – to obtain evidence of Washington’s cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post can reveal. Continue reading
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Google Handed Over Emails of Wikileaks Volunteers to U.S. Government By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
After receiving secret court orders, Google handed over data from the Gmail accounts of two former Wikileaks volunteers to the U.S. government. The orders, revealed on Friday by the two targets, are a snapshot of the rumored federal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Under Electronic Surveillance of US Special Services By Nil NIKANDROV
The CIA and the NSA (the US National Security Agency) whistleblower Edward Snowden (who temporarily had found refuge in Hong Kong and now [is someplace else]) has demonstrated once more the global reach of US electronic surveillance which, no doubt, is a kind of criminal activity. He looked really deep into what the NSA does… Continue reading
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Is the Government Spying On You Through Your Own Computer’s Webcam Or Microphone?
We documented earlier today that – if you are near your smart phone – the NSA or private parties could remotely activate your microphone and camera and spy on you. Continue reading
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Video: Where is Edward Snowden? Glenn Greenwald on Asylum Request, Espionage Charge; More Leaks to Come
The international mystery surrounding National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has deepened after the former U.S. intelligence contractor failed to board a flight as expected from Moscow to Havana today. Continue reading
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Glenn Greenwald Tells Comcast and DOJ Lackey David Gregory to Shove It By Mark Karlin
If you haven’t heard about the shellacking Glenn Greenwald gave David Gregory on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, June 23, here’s a little background. Continue reading
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NSA Spying: So They Are Listening In, After All By Tom Burghardt
Despite a stream of mendacious twaddle from President Obama, congressional grifters and spook agency mouthpieces like Office of the Director of National Intelligence head James Clapper, FBI Director Robert Mueller and NSA chief General Keith Alexander, it turns out our guardians are listening in to America’s, and most of the world’s, telephone conversations after all. Continue reading
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Washington v. Edward Snowden: The “Russia -China Connection” By Stephen Lendman
Snowden’s targeted for doing the right thing. He exposed US wrongdoing. He did so responsibly, legally, and at great risk. He sacrificed financial security and potential freedom. He deserves praise, not prosecution Continue reading
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US: One Step Removed From Full-Blown Fascism By Rob Urie
The history of recent decades has government spy agencies hiring ‘private’ companies to carry out the activities they are legally prohibited from carrying out. This makes government assertions regarding spying on citizens a game of three-card monte—the testimony of government officials is calculated to be irrelevant to actual activities. Continue reading
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Our man in Quito By Pepe Escobar
It takes a former CIA asset to beat US “intelligence” – more like intel deprivation. The story of Edward Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong is textbook. This correspondent, at dim sum on Sunday, was alerted by a source; “Get ready for something big; he’s leaving soon.” That was about 12:30 pm Hong Kong time. In… Continue reading
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The SINGLE Most Important Step to Protect Yourself from Government Spying
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the leading electronic privacy group – the Electronic Frontier Foundation – say that encryption helps to protect privacy. On the other hand, Tech Dirt points out that the NSA might consider you suspicious if you encrypt information, and so hold onto your data until they can decrypt it. Continue reading
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Democratic rights are at stake in fight to defend Edward Snowden By Barry Grey
There is something profoundly unsettling about seeing a young person fleeing a vindictive government for having exposed a massive political conspiracy against the democratic rights of the American people and the people of the world. Continue reading
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Video: ‘Snowden exposes criminals, criminals are going for him now’
Information that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is exposing can lead to trials against those involved in war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq or in money laundering and that is why “the West is so afraid,” investigative journalist Tony Gosling told RT. Continue reading