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Showing posts with label national security state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national security state. Show all posts
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Sputnik — Judge Demands US Intelligence Agencies Reveal Details on Occupy Protest Spying

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9/11 > Patriot Act > national security state > Department of Homeland Security > surveillance state > police state. ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Ryan Gallagher — The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance

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Big Brother watch. Going way beyond George Orwell's 1984 by transforming the Internet into a  panopticon .  The Intercept The Little...
Monday, October 17, 2016

Nadezda Azhgikhina — The Kremlin’s War on Liberalism

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This is really laughable in light of the US reaction to terrorism post 9/11, The Patriot Act effectively suspended constitutional libertie...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Reuters — Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence

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Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to scan all of its users emails for specific information at the behest of US inte...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Chris Floyd — “Close Your Hearts to Pity”: a Security State Critic Embraces Total War

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War to end all war. What could go wrong with that? Counterpunch “Close Your Hearts to Pity”: a Security State Critic Embraces Total War Ch...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Marcelo Ridenti — Dilma Rousseff impeachment: Brazil threatens to descend into a disguised police state

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Capitalism has always been supported by an alliance between the ownership class and the security services. This is unnoticed when things a...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Joseph Fronczak — Allen Dulles and the Cold War Within the National Security State

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After the CIA first set up detention centers at black sites overseas, the agent overseeing the program bluntly explained the logic of holdi...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Sputnik — US State Apparatus Using Crises Across Globe to Keep World on a Tight Rein

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The US' totalitarian national-security state apparatus created during the Cold War in order to counter the Soviet Union is now doing wh...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Glenn Greenwald — Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low

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Because national security. The Intercept Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low Glenn Greenwald ...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Tomgram — Engelhardt, Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country?

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This is not only a symptomatic piece. It is being reposted around the net on left, right and center blogs. It seems to have touched a vita...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Dara Lind — Why police officers often resort to lethal force as their first response

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Why you are in mortal peril if a police officer thinks he is in mortal peril. As the fear factor rises, it doesn't take much. VOX W...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

digby — When fascism came to America ... it was wearing a black robe

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“I think privacy is actually overvalued,” Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, said during a confere...
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Friday, December 5, 2014

Zaid Jilani — The Truth About Who Is Really Responsible for Our Current Police and Prison State

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The shameful complicity of Democratic leaders in creating our out-of-control, militarized police forces. Remember when Democrats were acc...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Jordan Michael Smith — Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.

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The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon. More on the deep state. Glennon’s critiq...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Ray McGovern — The Mystery of Ray McGovern’s Arrest

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On Oct. 30, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern was arrested for trying to attend a public speech by retired Gen. David Petraeus. McGovern had hope...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Don Quijones — The Deadly Threat of Non-Lethal Weapons

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…non-lethal weapons represent a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business for military contractors. According to the report Non-Lethal Wea...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Fascism, American-Style

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It can't happen here? “Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of eme...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Murtaza Hussain — The U.S. Government Is Suddenly Way, Way More Interested In Tracking Snail Mail

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Just so you feel more safe and secure with your government on watch. We gotta protect our freedoms they hate, you know. A report publis...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Gareth Porter — The Real Tonkin Gulf Deception Wasn't by Lyndon Johnson [It was McNamara]

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For most of the last five decades, it has been assumed that the Tonkin Gulf incident was a deception by Lyndon Johnson to justify war in Vi...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Tom Engelhardt — The Fourth Branch — The Rise to Power of the National Security State

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As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. ...