The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus By Jonathan Cook April 04, 2020 Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for a moment…
Category: Security
Orwell’s 1984 Revisited
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ revisited: What Oceania and Israel have in common For George Orwell, the appalling picture of the future starkly depicted in ‘1984’ was not some imaginative exercise. ‘Don’t let it happen. It depends on you,’ he warned By…
Impeach The Government—-Not Just Trump
Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades By John W. Whitehead “When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour —…
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves By Chris Hedges November 18, 2019 If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown…
Endless War
America’s Endless Wars: From A West Pointer Fri, 11/08/2019 – 21:45 Authored by US Army Major Danny Sjursen (ret.) Patches, pins, medals, and badges are the visible signs of an exclusive military culture, a silent language by which soldiers and officers…
The Age Of Radical Evil
The Age of Radical Evil By Chris Hedges October 16, 2019 Immanuel Kant coined the term “radical evil.” It was the privileging of one’s own interest over that of others, effectively reducing those around you to objects to be manipulated and…
“Show Me Your Papers!” Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The roundups are getting worse. The checkpoints are getting worse. The harassment is getting worse. The things we were worried would happen are happening. —Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one…
The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Special Report: In the Watergate era, liberals warned about U.S. intelligence agencies manipulating U.S. politics, but now Trump-hatred has blinded many of them to this danger becoming real, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. Russia-gate is…
Surveillance Is Not About Fighting Terrorism
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Intelligence Community Says US Had Better Reauthorize Surveillance… Or Else The editorial board of the Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor, has published a predictably fact-challenged op-ed arguing that congress must reauthorize the…
Why The Documentary Must Not Be Allowed To Die
Submitted by: ButtCracker — I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny. In the commentary, I make reference to a chicken, which my crew and I encountered while on patrol…
Battlefield America Is the New Normal: We’re Not in Mayberry Anymore
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers?”— Arthur Rizer, former police officer America, you’ve been fooled…
America’s Militarized Police
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The horrific execution by police of an Australian woman in her pajamas that took place last week in Minneapolis has again produced a torrent of criticism over killings initiated by law enforcement in situations in which…
Krieger: People Are Devolving Into Degeneracy And Violence – Don’t Join The Club
The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. “Ha,” he said, “I see that none has passed here In a long time.” Later he saw that each weed Was a singular…
Europe May Finally Rethink NATO Costs
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Exclusive: By dunning NATO nations to chip more money into the military alliance, President Trump may inadvertently cause some Europeans to rethink the over-the-top anti-Russian propaganda, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. President Donald Trump’s politically incorrect…
Top NSA Whistleblower: Ransomware Hack Caused by “Swindle of the Taxpayers” by Intelligence Agencies
What should we make of the global ransomware attacks which happened today? We’ve documented that the intelligence services intentionally create digital vulnerabilities, then intentionally leave them open … leaving us exposed and insecure. Washington’s Blog asked the highest level NSA…
The Conservative Case Against Trashing Online Privacy Rules
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Protecting internet privacy should be a bipartisan issue, right? After all, Americans seem united in their dislike of the phone and cable behemoths that dominate internet service in the US. More importantly, the principle of protecting…
Americans’ Right to Protest is in Grave Danger Under Trump, United Nations Warns
The right to protest is fundamental to American democracy. The country was born, after all, out of decades of civil disobedience by people angry about taxation without representation. (In Washington, FWIW, we are still angry.) But according to United Nations…
Airport Security, Tablets and Laptops: The Electronics Ban and Lessons in Futility
Security measures are often exercises in futility. Resembling placebos, they are the reassurance authorities make as acts of intrusive inconvenience. Queues are increased at airports in the vain hope that an elusive gel carrier will be nabbed before the next…
How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Climate) Bomb
Submitted by: ButtCracker — President Donald Trump is poised to eviscerate his predecessor’s legacy on climate change with executive actions as early as this week, even though the world is throwing up increasingly alarming signs of dangerous warning and key…
Edward Snowden: Petraeus ‘shared information that was far more highly classified than I ever did’
Submitted by: ButtCracker Edward Snowden has spent the last three years living under temporary asylum at an undisclosed location in Moscow, where he fled following his decision to leak documents relating to the United States’s surveillance programs. The impact on…