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To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did
To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did Legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s advice to stop current and future wars is simple: do what Katharine Gun did, writes Norman Solomon. Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don’t want people to hear. “If you have information that bears on deception or illegality […]
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’ There’s no defense like a good offense. For weeks the unfolding story in Washington has been how a cabal of conspirators in the heart of the American federal law enforcement and intelligence apparat colluded to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton and, when that failed, to […]
How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It
Photo: Sander de Wilde/Corbis/Getty Images HOW UK SPIES HACKED A EUROPEAN ALLY AND GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR A MOMENT, it seemed the hackers had slipped up and exposed their identities. It was the summer of 2013, and European investigators were looking into an unprecedented breach of Belgium’s telecommunications infrastructure. They believed they were on […]
European Court to Decide Whether U.K. Mass Surveillance Revealed By Snowden Violates Human Rights
Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News/Getty Images EUROPEAN COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER U.K. MASS SURVEILLANCE REVEALED BY SNOWDEN VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS BRITISH SPY AGENCIES are under scrutiny in a landmark court case challenging the legality of top-secret mass surveillance programs revealed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. A panel of 10 judges at the European Court […]
“False Flags” Are So Common that U.S. Officials Commonly Discuss Them
“False Flags” Are So Common that U.S. Officials Commonly Discuss Them Despite the attempt to marginalize the concept, “false flags” are so common that U.S. officials frequentlyuse that phrase. For example, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell: Former Director for Transnational Threats on the U.S. National Security Council, Roger Cressey: Former […]
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have […]
NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes in Juniper Firewalls
NSA HELPED BRITISH SPIES FIND SECURITY HOLES IN JUNIPER FIREWALLS A TOP-SECRET document dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks, a leading provider of networking and Internet security gear. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers I stepped from the warmth of our source’s London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool, the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy North London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic Alexandra Palace. A fellow journalist and I had just spent three […]
