Monthly Archives: June 2013

  By Andrew Gavin Marshall, AndrewGavinMarshall.com. The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In Part 1, which appeared last week, I provided … Continue reading →

Painting by Anthony Freda Painting by William Banzai There Are NO Proper Channels a Whistleblower Can Use Polls show that Americans know the government is spying on all of us for improper purposes … but that many Americans are unsure … Continue reading →

72% of Likely U.S. Voters Know the NSA Has Monitored the Private Communications of Congress, Military Leaders and Judges The government keeps on lying about how it’s spying on Americans without authorization from a court. It keeps lying about the … Continue reading →

Government Hypocrisy Is the Core Problem Congress has exempted itself from the prohibition against trading on inside information … the law that got Martha Stewart and many other people thrown in jail. There are many other ways in which the … Continue reading →

Source of 2005 New York Times Spying Expose Says Spy Agency Targeting Highest-Level American Leaders As we reported yesterday, NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the … Continue reading →

The Government Actually DID Spy On the Bad Guys Before 9/11 … and the Boston Bombing Preface: The Bush and Obama administrations both claimed that spying on Americans was justified by 9/11. Specifically, they said that they could have caught … Continue reading →

Whistleblower Says Spy Agency Targeting Top American Leaders NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – tells Peter B. Collins: … Continue reading →

Attack on the Press The CEO of the Associated Press said yesterday that the government is dramatically interfering with the newsgathering ability of the press: What I learned from our journalists should alarm everyone in this room and I think … Continue reading →

Chomsky: “Obama Is Running The Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists” Leading liberal Noam Chomsky  said yesterday: The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, it’s doing it all over the world.  Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation … Continue reading →

Preface: Americans now know that the government is spying. But they still have no idea how many of their communications and activities are being surveilled … or what might be done with that information. Yes, the Government Is Spying On … Continue reading →

NSA Grasps at Straws In response to the revelation that the NSA has been illegally spying on all Americans for more than a decade, NSA chief General Keith Alexander claimed that the spying prevented a terrorist attack on Wall Street … Continue reading →

Americans, Britons, French, Turks Oppose War Against Syria A new Pew poll shows that 70% of Americans oppose arming the Syrian “rebels”. As the Washington Post notes: Opposition in the Pew poll is actually higher than ever before in the … Continue reading →

Top Cop Debunks Claim that Revealing the Program Harms Security New York is the largest American city. New York’s Police Commissioner  – Ray Kelly – blasted the secret NSA spying program today. The New York Post reports: I don’t think … Continue reading →

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NSA Building Big Brother “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence Program NSA spying whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statements have been verified.    Reporter Glenn Greenwald has promised numerous additional disclosures from Snowden. What other revelations are coming? We reported in 2008: A new article by … Continue reading →

Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some The government is attacking whistleblower Edward Snowden by claiming that he was lying about the scope of the NSA’s spying on Americans. However, CNET reports today: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in … Continue reading →

  While it’s obvious to everyone that the government is spying on virtually all of the digital communications of Americans – phone, email, Internet, credit card, etc. – the government is pretending that it only spies on foreigners and collecting … Continue reading →

Bipartisan Skepticism of America’s War In Syria Left-leaning Huffington Post calls the Syria war a “quagmire”: Right-leaning Drudge Report shows a picture of an Al Qaeda soldier with weapons: The American public is extremely hesitant to intervene directly in Syria’s … Continue reading →

The People Pushing the Claims Have No Credibility We documented yesterday that top national security experts say that the government’s spying programs don’t make us safer … and that spying leaks don’t harm America. In reality, top experts have said … Continue reading →

NSA Leaks Help – Rather than Hurt – the United States America’s top national security experts say that the NSA’s mass surveillance program doesn’t make us safer … and that whistleblowers revealing the nature and extent of the program don’t … Continue reading →

Terrorists Already Knew about the Programs … The Only People Who Were Kept In the Dark Were the American People We noted yesterday that government officials aren’t trying to keep the spying programs secret to protect national security, but only … Continue reading →

Why Should You Care If the Government Spies On Your Metadata? The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the … Continue reading →

NSA Spying Doesn’t Work to Prevent Terrorism William Binney knows as much about spying as anyone alive. Binney – a 32-year National Security Agency veteran – is the former head of the NSA’s global digital data gathering program, and a … Continue reading →

ACLU, Larry Klayman and Perhaps Rand Paul Sue to Stop Spying On Americans The ACLU has sued the government over its widespread “dragnet”.  As the New York Times reports: The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against … Continue reading →

While Some Try to Use Bradley Manning’s Sexuality Against Him, Eric Snowden Is Apparently a Lady’s Man Given that the powers-that-be are trying to smear whistleblower Bradley Manning as having a “confused sexual identity“, it should be noted that spying … Continue reading →

By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org (formerly AfterDowningStreet.org) Many loyal Republicans opposed impeaching George W. Bush.  So did most liberal and progressive activist groups, … Continue reading →

By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org (formerly AfterDowningStreet.org) Experts Say U.S. Executive Secret War Harming U.S. National Security collected by Fred Branfman Admiral Dennis … Continue reading →

Embarrassment By People In Government Who Have Been Caught Breaking the Law – Not National Security – Is the Reason Politicians and Intelligence Agencies Are Going After Whistleblower The former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering … Continue reading →

Are Emergency Plans Meant Only for Nuclear War the Real Justification for Spying? To understand the scope and extent of government spying on all Americans – and the reasons for such spying – you have to understand what has happened … Continue reading →

Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You If Someone In Government Happens to Take a Dislike to You … Last Chance to Stop “Turnkey Tyranny” Top NSA whistleblower William Binney – the former head of the National Security Agency’s global … Continue reading →

Government Tapping CONTENT, Not Just Metadata … Using Bogus “Secret Interpretation” of Patriot Act We reported in 2008 that foreign companies have had key roles scooping up Americans’ communications for the NSA: At least two foreign companies play key roles … Continue reading →

Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11 In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spread than you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers … Continue reading →

Obama Asks Military to Draw Up Plans for Offensive Overseas Cyber-Strikes Glenn Greenwald – who broke the phone and internet spying stories this week – has a new exposé … this time on offensive cyber-warfare: Barack Obama has ordered his senior … Continue reading →

Obama Indistinguishable from Bush Presidential candidate Obama said in 2007: [The Bush] administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the … Continue reading →

Our Own Government Is Spying On Everything We Do Online The Washington Post and Guardian report today that the NSA is tapping directly into the central servers of 9 leading U.S. Internet companies – including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, … Continue reading →

Yes, Government Spooks May Be Listening The Obama administration has been caught spying on the Verizon phone calls of tens of millions of Americans. The spying effort specifically targeted Americans living on U.S. soil. And as NBC News reports: NBC … Continue reading →

Peaceful Protesters Run Over and Killed by Tanks, Blinded and Brutalized What’s causing the widespread rioting and violence in Turkey … with army tanks running over and killing protesters, protesters losing eyes or otherwise being blinded, the widespread use of … Continue reading →