U.K. intelligence agencies were forced to release a cache of documents on Thursday exposing their illegal surveillance tactics that included spying on privileged communications between human rights lawyers and their clients in security cases. (more…)
November 2014
Monthly Archive
Sat 8 Nov 2014
‘Hugely Sinister’: UK Intel Agencies Spied on Lawyers, Clients in Torture Cases
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Mon 3 Nov 2014
Many Americans still count on the mainstream media to define reality for them, but too often the MSM spins false narratives that protect the powerful and diminish democracy (more…)
Mon 3 Nov 2014
Judge Napolitano on legality of FBI’s fake news story
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Fox News video (5 mins.)
Mon 3 Nov 2014
Ray McGovern describes brutal arrest at Petraeus event (VIDEO)
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Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst-turned-antiwar activist, shared details with RT on Friday about an incident the night before in New York City during which he was arrested for trying to enter a public event. (more…)
Mon 3 Nov 2014
Brazil Builds Internet Cable To Portugal To Avoid NSA Surveillance
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Brazil has already switched its dominant email system from Microsoft Outlook to a state-developed platform called Expresso, and last November required all government agencies to use state-owned companies for their technology services. (more…)
Sat 1 Nov 2014
Citizenfour: Poitras’ doco is about NSA and GCHQ – NOT Snowden
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This is a film that reminds you about the magnitude of the NSA revelations and forces you to confront again the loss of privacy and curtailing of freedom that we’ve come to expect and accept in the modern world. (more…)