Joint National Security Council meeting, May 25, 2011. (Photo: The Prime Minister's Office / Flickr) This article, the first of two parts, is adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky on Feb. 28 sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. By Noam Chomsky, Truthout.org | Op-Ed 03 March 2014 A leading principle of international relations More
"The consistent theme is that members of Congress are finding themselves at an ever-increasing disadvantage when it comes to even finding out what intelligence agencies are doing — not to mention reining them in." By Dan Froomkin The Intercept 5 Mar 2014 Top intelligence officials testifying before the Senate intelligence committee in Jan. 2014. (AP File More
The GCHQ program saved one image every five minutes from the users' feeds. (photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images) By Spencer Ackerman and James Ball, Guardian UK 27 February 14 Reader Supported News Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone Yahoo: 'A whole new More
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF JOURNALISM The Sparrow Project FEB 24, 2014 [DALLAS, TX] The curious case of Barrett Brown —a freelance journalist and satirist, turned political prisoner— has captivated thousands in the lead-up to what many are calling a “show trial” slated to take place in Dallas, TX, later this year. In an open letter published this morning (and More
For Immediate Release: Documents for raids on anti-war activists unsealed Reveal McCarthyite attack on free speech, right to organize FFI: Jess Sundin 612-272-2209 www.stopfbi.net Link to unsealed documents: http://www.stopfbi.net/sites/default/files/Search%20Warrant%20Files%20Part%20I%20r.pdf On Feb. 26, the application and affidavit used to obtain the search warrants for the 2010 raids on homes and offices of anti-war and international solidarity More
Editor's Note: Far-reaching implications included terrorist charges for Republican National Convention activists in Minnesota, including the RNC 8. More details have come to light showing how the U.S. military infiltrated and spied on a community of antiwar activists in the state of Washington. Democracy Now! first broke this story in 2009 when it was revealed More
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept 24 Feb More
500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners. Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abuses Matthew Taylor and Nick Hopkins The Guardian Monday 9 December 2013 Clockwise from top left, eight of the people who have signed the petition: Hanif Kureishi, Björk, Arundhati Roy, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Tom Stoppard, and Martin Amis More than 500 of the More
500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners. Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abuses Matthew Taylor and Nick Hopkins The Guardian Monday 9 December 2013 Clockwise from top left, eight of the people who have signed the petition: Hanif Kureishi, Björk, Arundhati Roy, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Tom Stoppard, and Martin Amis More than 500 of the More
"The documents call into question the Obama administration’s repeated insistence that U.S. citizens are not being caught up in the sweeping surveillance dragnet being cast by the NSA. " By Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher The Intercept 18 Feb 2014 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British More
We live in what the German political scientist Ernst Fraenkel called “the dual state.” Totalitarian states are always dual states. In the dual state civil liberties are abolished in the name of national security By Chris Hedges truthdig.com Posted on Feb 16, 2014 President Barack Obama announces James Clapper, left, as director of national intelligence during a ceremony in the More
Surveillance, in any land where it is ubiquitous and inescapable, generates distrust and divisions among its citizens, curbs their readiness to speak freely to each other, and diminishes their willingness to even dare to think freely. -Ariel Dorfman By Henry A Giroux, Truthout.org | Op-Ed Monday, 10 February 2014 09:15 (Image: Jared Rodriguez More
