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When Whistleblowers Tell the Truth They’re Traitors. When Government Lies It’s Policitcs.
When Whistleblowers Tell the Truth They’re Traitors. When Government Lies It’s Policitcs. (ANTIMEDIA) Immediately after Wikileaks released thousands of documents revealing the extent of CIA surveillance and hacking practices, the government was calling for an investigation — not into why the CIA has amassed so much power, but rather, into who exposed their invasive policies. We’re revolutionizing the […]
Upcoming British Legislation Could Jail Journos for 14 Years
Upcoming British Legislation Could Jail Journos for 14 Years Business Arrow Policy Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies … Proposals in the UK for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists as spies have been developed in haste by legal advisors, The Register has learned. The proposed law update […]
The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden
The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden CREDIT: AP PHOTO/PATRICK SEMANSKY Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., in 2013. Manning was convicted in military court and sentenced to 35 years for […]
Global Angst over US Secrecy Fetish
Global Angst over US Secrecy Fetish With the reach of U.S. surveillance now global – and with the U.S. military deployed all over the world – anger at President Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers who disclose the U.S. government’s abuses and crimes has gone international, as this Norwegian opinion piece by Victor Wallis shows. The more extreme the crimes of state, […]
NSA Leaker Thomas Drake Praises Report Showing U.S.’ Failure Toward Whistleblowers
NSA Leaker Thomas Drake Praises Report Showing U.S.’ Failure Toward Whistleblowers Former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was originally charged with leaking classified information. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP) Whistleblower Thomas Drake, who in 2010 became the first American charged with espionage in almost 40 years and who was a predecessor of Edward Snowden, applauds […]
Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS
Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it’s just the tactical playbook that’s automatically used. So it’s of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden’s […]
Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling
Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling 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 last night, Edward Snowden spoke in detail about the spying […]
Obama prosecuted whistleblowers for working with media, not with foreign govts – Assange to RT
Obama prosecuted whistleblowers for working with media, not with foreign govts – Assange to RT © / RT “Academic censorship” in journalism and foreign relations is one of the US’ greatest sins according to whistleblower Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange spoke to RT about the “US Empire” and mechanisms it uses to expand […]
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial The Council of Europe, the self-proclaimed “democratic conscience of Greater Europe,” urged the United States on Tuesday to allow NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to return home and make the case that his actions had positive effects. The call for Snowden to be […]
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!”
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!” Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden on Monday marveled at the puny nature of the surveillance reforms put in place two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed a vast expansion of intrusive U.S. government surveillance at home and abroad. […]
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources Two years ago, the first story based on the Snowden archive was published in the Guardian, revealing a program of domestic mass surveillance which, at least in its original form, ended this week. To commemorate that anniversary, Edward Snowden himself reflected in a New York Times Op-Edon the “power of an informed public” […]
America’s Most Wanted Secret – Wikileaks is Raising $100K Reward for Leaked Drafts of the TPP
America’s Most Wanted Secret – Wikileaks is Raising $100K Reward for Leaked Drafts of the TPP The only real information we have about the shady corporate giveaway known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), is via three chapters released by Wikileaks. Now, the whistleblower organization is raising $100,000 as a reward for additional leaked draft […]
TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Network Under Investigation by Federal Regulators
TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Network Under Investigation by Federal Regulators A month after revealing that TransCanada is under a compliance review for the Keystone 1 Pipeline, the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration(PHMSA) disclosed it is also investigating the operations of Keystone XL‘s southern route, renamed the Gulf Coast Pipeline when the project was split in half. The results of these investigations could play […]
Alberta Health Board Fires Doctor Who Raised Cancer Alarms
Alberta Health Board Fires Doctor Who Raised Cancer Alarms ‘I am stunned,’ says Dr. John O’Connor, a veteran presence in First Nations community An Alberta health board has fired Dr. John O’Connor, the physician who came to national prominence after raising questions about rare cancers in the tarsands region. The Nunee Health Board Society send […]
