Our Score 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…
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Truth & Justice Just Might Have A Chance Next Year
Our Score Assange Gives Evidence In Spanish Case Against Security Contractor By Thomas Scripps December 23, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was brought from Belmarsh Prison yesterday to appear in person at Westminster Magistrates Court and provide video-link witness testimony…
Orwell’s 1984 Revisited
Our Score 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…
Impeach The Government—-Not Just Trump
Our Score 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…
The Age Of Radical Evil
Our Score 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…
How to Survive the Journey Ahead: A Graduation Message for a Terrifying Age
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — “No matter who you are, no matter how strong you are, sooner or later, you’ll face circumstances beyond your control.” — Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones Those coming of age today will face some…
The US military’s vision for state censorship
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of “Sovereignty in the Information Age.” The conference brought…
Surveillance Is Not About Fighting Terrorism
Our Score 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…
The CIA Made Google
Our Score Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet… INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of…
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
Our Score Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its…
Comey and Mueller: Russiagate’s Mythical Heroes
Our Score Mainstream commentators display amnesia when they describe former FBI Directors Robert Mueller and James Comey as stellar and credible law enforcement figures. Perhaps if they included J. Edgar Hoover, such fulsome praise could be put into proper perspective.…
Convicted CIA Leaker John Kiriakou’s Got Some Opinions About WikiLeaks and Trump
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — John Kiriakou knows a lot about leaking classified information. He went to prison for it. A former CIA agent who said too much about the Bush-era torture program, he’s also the first CIA leaker…
Yahoo email scan shows U.S. spy push to recast constitutional privacy
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Yahoo Inc’s secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according…
Edward Snowden: Petraeus ‘shared information that was far more highly classified than I ever did’
Our Score 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…
Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling
Our Score Former intelligence contractor and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told the BBC’s Panorama that the UK intelligence centre GCHQ has the power to hack phones without their owners’ knowledge. In an interview with the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ which aired in Britain…
Britain Accused Of Attacking Press Freedom – Again
Our Score By Graham vanbergen – The U.K. prides itself on its past commitment to free expression and press freedom, but as we found out last year the targeted surveillance of journalists and calls by Britain’s prime minister, then David…
CIA claims ability to predict ‘societal instability’ just days away
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan © Gary Cameron / Reuters “Three to five days” is all the time the CIA needs to predict the “development of social unrest” in many cases, the agency’s…
Yahoo Admits It Secretly Hacked All User Accounts For US Intelligence
Our Score Just days after admitting that some 500 millions of its email accounts were hacked (allegedly Russians, of course), the Yahoo confessional continues as Reuters reports, somewhat stunningly that, Yahoo secretly built software to search all of its customers’…
The Playpen Story: Rule 41 and Global Hacking Warrants
Our Score The warrant the FBI used in the Playpen investigation—which resulted in the delivery of malware to over a thousand computers, located around the world—violated Rule 41, an important rule of federal criminal procedure. Although Rule 41 may seem…
Why a US presidential pardon for Edward Snowden is not such a crazy idea after all
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film ‘Snowden’ hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a presidential pardon for the whistleblower who revealed the NSA’s mass surveillance program in…