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The Paris Attacks Are Being Used to Justify Agendas They Have Nothing to Do With
The Paris Attacks Are Being Used to Justify Agendas They Have Nothing to Do With Georgie Pauwels / CC BY 2.0 The aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks has “devolved into a dark and dishonest debate” in which governments consider banning encryption and barring Syrian refugees from entering their countries—even though the attackers were neither Syrian nor […]
After Paris, there will be no stopping the surveillance state now
After Paris, there will be no stopping the surveillance state now Public surveillance increasing at an ‘accelerating rate,’ researchers say, with Europe leading the way CCTV footage of three British girls catching a flight to Turkey in February to join ISIS dominated the news media for days and likely contributed to the public thirst for […]
“France Is At War”: Hollande Unleashes 2nd Day Of ISIS Strikes, Mobilizes 115,000, Moves To Change Constitution
“France Is At War”: Hollande Unleashes 2nd Day Of ISIS Strikes, Mobilizes 115,000, Moves To Change Constitution France, still reeling from the carnage that unfolded in the streets of Paris last Friday, conducted dozens upon dozens of police raids on Tuesday, after more than 160 similar operations carried out on Monday led to the discovery […]
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy LAST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created an encrypted channel to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden would disclose […]
Obama’s Double-Standard on Leaks
Obama’s Double-Standard on Leaks Though President Obama touts America as a nation of laws and evenhanded justice, there is a blatant double-standard regarding how people are punished for national security breaches – whistleblowers are harshly punished but the well-connected get a pass, writes John Hanrahan. There he goes again. In recently proclaiming Hillary Clinton free of […]
Flowing Toward Abundance
Flowing Toward Abundance Over the last year or so, a neighbor has stocked up eight or ten piles of firewood in his yard, probably fifteen or twenty cords. What’s he going to do with it all? The house has a wood stove, but the family mostly uses the furnace, and burns wood only occasionally to […]
Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation
Concealment Strategies Against Social Unrest, Theft, or Confiscation It does little good to spend a lot of time and money in preparing for difficult times if you don’t also plan on securing those supplies against the very threats you are preparing for. Severe social dislocations caused by war, economic problems, or widespread natural disasters are […]
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency,forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA contractor and […]
Harper Is Right: This Election Is about Security Versus Risk
Harper Is Right: This Election Is about Security Versus Risk It’s our nation’s ruthless economic insecurity that Canadians must weigh. Stephen Harper chose the Calgary Stampede (now Rachel Notley country) to launch the theme of the now full-blown election campaign. Harper proclaimed he was confident that “this October Canadians will choose security over risk.” Let’s hope so. […]
Is the next threat too many ‘them’ in a resource-scarce future?
Is the next threat too many ‘them’ in a resource-scarce future? Defence planners are haunted by visions of angry, marginalised black people endangering corporate power when climate change topples their governments Last week, Israel hosted the 15th Annual Herzliya Conference, run by the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), a hawkish think tank specialising in national […]
Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves
Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves The most important self-help step? Get into encryption Another week, another revelation originating from the seemingly unlimited trove of Edward Snowden documents. Last week, the CBC reported that Canada was among several countries whose surveillance agencies actively exploited security vulnerabilities in a popular mobile web browser […]
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State “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? If you look at the police department, their creed […]
Our Social Depression
Our Social Depression This erosion of opportunities to complete life’s stages and core dramas is rarely recognized, much less addressed. The consequences of economic stagnation are not limited to finance: stagnation is causing a social depression. We can best understand this social depression by examining how the natural stages of human life are being disrupted. Each stage has […]
