By Tortilla con Sal Audio commentary : Australia, Echelon, Edward Snowden >> Listen >> Australian writer and broadcaster Warwick Fry is visiting Central America. He talks here about the history of Australian collaboration with the US government global surveillance programmes and current concerns in the light of the revelations by Edward Snowden. Related: Snowden Leaks…
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ECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
By Tom Burghardt People are shocked by the scope of secret state spying on their private communications, especially in light of documentary evidence leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. While the public is rightly angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting…
ECHELON: Exposing the NSA’s Global Spy Network
It is surprising to witness the excessive media frenzy surrounding the recent “leaks” from whistleblower, Edward Snowden. The fact that an extensive and advanced global surveillance network has been in place for decades seems to have eluded both the public and media alike. I thought it would be helpful to republish an article by Patrick…
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Every word of every message intercepted at each station gets automatically searched- whether or not a specific telephone number or e-mail address is on the list. Nicky Hager Excerpt from: THE SECRET POWER BY NICKY HAGER In the late 1980′s, in a decision it probably regrets, the U.S. prompted New Zealand to join a new…
Covid-19 and the Resurgence of the Christian Democrats: A Dark Tale of Germany’s Most Powerful Party
“Political barometer” of the current legislation period (2017-2021) in Germany. Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Part 1: Old Nazi Networks and Cold War Crooks While voter support for Germany’s most powerful party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),[1] had been crumbling in the course of the current legislation period (2017-2021), with the onset of the coronavirus crisis,…
USA: Responsibility for Brutal and Lethal Scientific “Experiments”
Carlos Aznarez Eugenics protest, circa 1971. (Southern Conference Educational Fund via UCLA) This August 9, the world remembers with pain the International Day of the United States’ Crimes against Humanity. The list of crimes of all kinds committed by the various governments of the United States exceeds all estimates. Especially when it comes to explaining…
Renouncing White Privilege: A Left Critique of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”
David Barber Whatever may have been her intentions, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility is only of very limited value in helping us understand racism and actually conceals and defends our American white supremacist system of capitalism. Even a casual look at White Fragility demonstrates this. DiAngelo’s final chapter, “Where Do We Go From Here,” – her…
Coronavirus Sweeps the White House
Misión Verdad With more than 1 million confirmed cases and more than 80,000 deaths from Covid-19, the United States has now become the main global focus of the pandemic, far exceeding all European countries affected by the virus. The erratic management of the health emergency, together with an initial arrogant underestimation of the scope of…
A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies
Alexander Aviña The U.S. Coast Guard offloads seized cocaine in Miami Beach, 2014 (Photo by Sabrina Laberdesque/Wikimedia) Recent narco-terrorism charges against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro form part of a longer history of U.S. empire using drugs to advance geopolitical goals. On March 26, U.S. attorney general William Barr announced new “narco-terorrism” charges against president Nicolás…
Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Imperial Fascism, Not Covid-19
Lauren Smith What could possibly be a better way to usher in a racist New World Order, that’s hell-bent on population control, than an invisible enemy that gets nearly everyone to gladly jail themselves, fear physical contact with their family, friends, and neighbors, and that disproportionately kills the impoverished and African Americans? What could possibly…
Meet the Candidates Taking on Bolivia’s US-Backed Right Wing Government
Oliver Vargas Bolivia’s presidential elections are scheduled to take place on May 3, 2020. The elections will be organized by the ‘transitional’ government of Jeanine Anez who seized power in a U.S.-backed military coup on November 10, 2019. The coup forced out the democratically elected leftist-indigenous government of Evo Morales, who presided over an economic…
The Preemptive Counterrevolution and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil
Ricardo Antunes Finally, the scum of bourgeois society forms the holy phalanx of order and the hero Crapulinski installs himself in the Tuileries as the “saviour of society.” —Karl Marx1 Military Dictatorship and Neoliberalism: The Double Face of Barbarism In 1964, after a period of intense capitalist development that significantly expanded the process of industrialization,…
