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A young girl helps hold a U.S. flag as a group marches through downtown heading to the Texas Capitol during an immigration protest, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)
(REPORT) — The database, expected to be operational by September, will collect bulks of information on potential deportees.
Software company Palantir is gearing up to finalize the development of a massive intelligence database pitted to serve as “the engine for Donald Trump’s deportation machine,” according to an investigative report by the Intercept.

The knowledge that Israeli-connected companies and intelligence agents have been involved in detailed and elaborate spying operations in the US is of course nothing new. The phenomenon has been painstakingly documented over the years by numerous journalists and sources. Indeed, the documented cases of Israeli spying on their supposed ally — the self-same American government that is supplying it with $3 billion in grants each year — are nearly too numerous to document.

This week on the New World Next Week: Dems pretend to care about the Logan Act and Repubs pretend to care about government spying as Flynn quits; America’s crumbling infrastructure continues to crumble; and Montana passes a bill to block the feds’ national license plate tracking program.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-02-16%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: Dems pretend to care about the Logan Act and Repubs pretend to care about government spying as Flynn quits; America's crumbling infrastructure continues to crumble; and Montana passes a bill to block the feds' national license plate tracking program.

Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim, left, and Mona Eltahawy, a prominent Egyptian-born U.S. columnist, center, march in downtown Cairo, Egypt to mark International Women’s Day Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
PARIS (REPORT) — American-Egyptian author Mona Eltahawy is one of many activists and human rights advocates targeted in a sweeping cyberespionage campaign blamed on Egypt’s government, The Associated Press has found.

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” — Friedrich Engels

Friday, two progressive Democrats who served in the military and are especially concerned about National Security issues, Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), demanded Trump fire his scandal-plagued National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn.

Jeff Sessions has been approved as Attorney General by the Senate Judiciary Committee and his confirmation is now a foregone conclusion. But he is a proponent of the phony war on drugs, a supporter of mass government surveillance, and has vowed to mandate encryption backdoors for “national security.” Today we talk to Derrick Broze about the latest man to head the Department of Injustice.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2017-02-02%20Derrick%20Broze.mp3"][/audio]Jeff Sessions has been approved as Attorney General by the Senate Judicial Committee and his confirmation is now a foregone conclusion? But he is a proponent of the phoney war on drugs, a supporter of mass government surveillance, and has vowed to mandate encryption backdoors for "national security." Today we talk to Derrick Broze about the latest man to head the Department of Injustice.

In this episode of our EyeOpener Report James Corbett presents the latest revelations about Steve Jobs' security clearance with the Department of Defense, the history and examples of the disturbing government connections, stockholdings, regulations and infiltrations when it comes to technology companies, and how the Department of Defense, the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security, In-Q-Tel and other agencies are quietly opening doors and writing checks for the technology industry's chosen few.