By Alex Christoforou | The Duran | December 12, 2016 Remember when the Obama administration spied on German media as well as the German government, and specifically Angela Merkel. The Duran remembers. In 2015 CNN‘s Jake Tapper reported… An investigation by the German parliament is raising questions on whether the Obama administration not only spied on journalists in […]
The West’s “liberal democracies” are undergoing a shift toward repression with new initiatives to spy on citizens and punish whistleblowers who expose government abuses, observes ex-British intelligence officer Annie Machon. By Annie Machon Forgive my “infamously fluent French” but the…Read more →
Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 By Renee Parsons | CounterPunch | November 22, 2016 If there is one hopeful sign in the Presidency of Donald Trump, it is his pledge to ‘drain the swamp’ as it relates to those special insider interests who run the show and those outsider interests who own […]
‘Bad day for democracy’ RT | November 16, 2016 Germany’s highest court has rejected the opposition parties’ bid to make the government reveal to a parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the US NSA spy agency in Germany, the spy targets they had jointly worked on. The head of the Left Party in the NSA […]
By Mike Masnik | Tech Dirt | November 11, 2016 The Lawfare blog, run by the Brookings Institution, has long reliably been a good source to go to for reading what defenders of mass surveillance and the surveillance state are thinking — in a non-hysterical way. While I disagree with much of what’s posted on […]
By Finian Cunningham | SPUTNIK | November 6, 2016 There are disturbing signs that a digital 9/11 terror attack is being readied for election day in the US to ensure that Donald Trump does not win. Such an attack – involving widespread internet and power outage – would have nothing to do with Russia or any other […]
Exclusive: Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” takes you inside the vast electronic expanse of U.S. intelligence gathering via the personal story of Edward Snowden’s decision to expose these secrets to the world, writes Lisa Pease. By Lisa Pease If you think you already know the…Read more →
(ANTIMEDIA) The United States government formally charged whistleblower Edward Snowden in June of 2013 after he leaked information about the NSA’s PRISM Surveillance program, proving American citizens were — and still are — being spied on by their own gov
(ANTIMEDIA) The Intercept recently began releasing batches of top secret internal newsletters from the most important division of the NSA, the Signals Intelligence Directorate, or SIGINT. This is basically the spy division. The internal newsletter, SIDtoday, was never meant to be read by anyone outside of the agency, but it trickled out with the Snowden leak and has been waiting for proper publication. The Intercept will release nine years worth of articles in batches.
Press TV – August 8, 2016 US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would put in danger the United States’ security, warn 50 top Republican national security officials. The officials issued their warning Monday in a letter which was signed by aides and Cabinet members of past GOP administrations including George W. Bush’s and Richard Nixon’s. […]
