Snowden

This week on the New World Next Week: the Intercept shutters the Snowden archive; American journalist asks to be taken off Trump's kill list; and Gropey Joe Biden has a Ukraine problem, too.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-04-04%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: the Intercept shutters the Snowden archive; American journalist asks to be taken off Trump's kill list; and Gropey Joe Biden has a Ukraine problem, too.

Prefatory Note: The post below in the slightly modified text of an interview by the Tunisian journalist Awatef Ben Ali on behalf of the Qatar newspaper, Al Sharq, August 26, 2018.)
 
 
 
Q 1: From the perspective of international law, is the blockade on the State of Qatar and the 13 demands of the countries of the blockade legal and respecting international sovereignty?
 

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Right on schedule, the corporate media is in a tizzy over President Donald Trump’s failure to acknowledge the death of Senator John McCain, who passed away over the weekend after a battle with brain cancer. As CBS “reported”: “While the White House originally lowered the flag late Saturday evening, White House reporters, including CBS News’ Mark Knoller, […]

Source : The Intercept, Micah Lee, 22-12-2017
Illustration : The Intercept

Source : Der Spiegel, Martin Knobbe & Jörg Schindler, 12-08-2017
« Il y a encore de l’espoir même pour moi. »
Dans une interview, le lanceur d’alerte Edward Snowden parle de sa vie en Russie, de la puissance des structures de renseignement et comment il compte continuer à se battre contre tous les aspects de la surveillance par les gouvernements
Interview menée par Martin Knobbe et Jörg Schindler

TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary of Edward Snowden’s being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. This happened after his release of an enormous trove of information showing clandestine and illegal practices being carried out by the US intelligence agencies to gather information on just about anyone in the world, for any – or no – reason at all.

After 6 six years of arbitrary detention in the basement of the Ecuadorian Embassy in Belgravia, London, the world’s longest slow-motion chase may be reaching its climatic conclusion.

Source : The Intercept, Deconstructed, 25-05-2018
Photo : Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times/Redux

Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
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