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June 19, 2013

ICH 19 June 2013: The FUKUS Bully-Boys

19 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Plan B: War By Another Name in Syria By Franklin Lamb There is growing confidence among pro-Zionist neocons in Congress that while Syrian regime-change has failed for several reasons that thwarted the Gulf funded military campaign, Syria can still be brought to heel through an economic campaign dressed to look, Continue reading

Information Clearing House

ICH, Iran, Iraq, Obama, surveillance, Syria, Video
June 19, 2013

Fake WMD “Intelligence” and Orwellian Double-speak : Washington Is Insane By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As far as Washington is concerned, the people are nothing but chaff… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, Global Research, James Bamford, James Clapper, mercenaries, Narus, NATO, Obama, Paul, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Syria, Verint, WMD
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

How Today’s NSA Is Much, Much Worse Than Stasi Or Orwell’s “1984”

There are still people warning us of sleepwalking into a Stasi or “1984” society. They missed the boat by a long shot: we are already far, far past the point of Stasi or “1984”. The apparatus that governments have built to trace, track, and record citizens is the stuff of nightmares. Continue reading

National Security State

Australia, data mining, database state, George Orwell, Germany, Government, James Bamford, James Clapper, monopoly, Narus, NSA, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint
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

Capitalism, National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, CIA, data mining, database state, Global Research, intelligence, James Clapper, Narus, NBC, 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 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

CIA, Crisis, database state, Development, DoD, energy, fracking, NSA, Pentagon, prism, Review, security, surveillance, Twitter
June 18, 2013

NSA whistleblower Snowden issues defiant response to government threats and media lies By Eric London

Whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke publicly yesterday for the first time in a week and issued a defiant response to denunciations of his actions by both corporate-controlled parties in the US. He declared, “All I can say right now is the US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Cheney, data mining, database state, FISA, intelligence, James Bamford, James Clapper, London, Narus, NSA, Obama, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WSWS
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

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

National Security State, USA

AP, data mining, database state, FBI, Internet, James Bamford, James Clapper, Narus, NSA, Obama, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WSWS
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

National Security State, USA

bank, Congress, data mining, database state, finance, Intel, Internet, James Bamford, James Clapper, metadata, Narus, NSA, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, Whistleblower
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

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

National Security State, USA

data mining, database state, empire, Haaretz, James Bamford, James Clapper, James Petras, Narus, Obama, police, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, the state, Verint
June 15, 2013

Video: Pepe Escobar: Obama starts Syria war to deviate from Snowden scandal

CIA whistle blower Edward Snowden has reportedly been stopped from flying to the UK. The man who lifted the lid on America’s secret surveillance activities is being pursued by Washington. For his latest revelation, he told a Hong Kong newspaper that the U.S. repeatedly hacks into Chinese computer networks. For more about the leaks and… Continue reading

Syria, Videos

Asia, CIA, NSA, Obama, Pepe Escobar, red line, snowden, surveillance, Syria, Video, whistle blower
June 14, 2013

Video: James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander’s Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar

Says Bamford of Alexander: “Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come close to his degree of power, the number of people under his command, the expanse of his rule, the length of his reign or the depth of his secrecy.” Continue reading

National Security State, USA, Videos

China, data mining, database state, Democracy Now, GOODMAN, James Bamford, James Clapper, Narus, NSA, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, Video
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

National Security State, Strategic Culture Foundation

Congress, data mining, database state, intelligence, James Clapper, Korea, Narus, NSA, Obama, prism, security, snowden, spying, Strategic Culture, surveillance, Verint, Wayne Madsen
June 14, 2013

Wikileaks Newslinks 14 June 2013

14 June 2013 — williambowles.info ‘WikiLeaks founder Assange did not request asylum in India’ Hindustan Times WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has never requested for asylum in India, government said on Thursday, rebutting his claim that he had written to external affairs ministry through the Indian high commissioner in London. “We have checked our records Continue reading

Spies-R-Us

assange, India, London, Puerto Rican, surveillance, WikiLeaks
June 13, 2013

Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About You Than the Content of Your Phonecalls

The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls. But technology experts say that “metadata” can be more revealing than the content of your actual phone calls. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

CIA, data mining, database state, Government, metadata, mining, Narus, NRA, NSA, Petraeus, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint
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

Congress, data mining, database state, London, Narus, NSA, Obama, police, prism, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WSWS

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