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Danger: GOP House’s “Cybersecurity Bills” are Surveillance Bills in Disguise

By Mark Jaycox | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - The House passed two cybersecurity "information sharing" bills today: the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's Protecting Cyber Networks Act, and the House…

Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that, and…

Snowden will return to US if fair trial guaranteed – NSA whistleblower’s lawyer

RT | - "Edward Snowden would go to the US if he was sure that he would face a fair trial there, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says." RT: "Snowden…

American ‘Exceptionalism’ or just Above the Law? Torture, Drones, Assassination with Impunity

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) - "The sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation’s leader can defy the law…

War on Whistleblowers (ft. Edward Snowden & David Carr)

Brave New Films | - Brave New Films: War on Whistleblowers (ft. Edward Snowden & David Carr) War on Whistleblowers highlights recent cases where American government employees and contractors took to the…

‘I would have come forward sooner’ – Snowden on NSA leak regrets

RT | - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has frequently said that he does not regret blowing the whistle on the agency’s mass surveillance programs. However, he has now stated…

Snowden Reacts as Documentary about his Leaks wins Oscar

By Rainey Reitman | (EFF) - CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won…

Not your Founding Fathers’ America: Permanent War, Permanent Election Campaigns, Guns, Drones and Surveillance

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) I never fail to be amazed -- and that’s undoubtedly my failing. I mean, if you retain a capacity for wonder you can still be awed by…

NSA making everyone vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer Hard Drive

NSA making all vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer

TheLipTV | - "Malware in hard drive firmware is the latest, and most sophisticated spying tool the NSA is suspected of using, with Kaspersky Labs of Russia suggesting that the "Equation Group"…

British Tribunal Finds Gov’t Spy deal with NSA was Illegal

RT | -- "GCHQ spying on British citizens against human rights – UK court" RT: "Human rights systematically abused by UK secret service"

Battling Terrorism Shouldn’t Justify Torture, Spying: U.N. Rights Chief

By Thalif Deen | (IPS) UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 2015 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is the legal guardian of scores of human rights treaties banning torture, unlawful imprisonment, degrading treatment…

Now the DEA is Collecting our Phone Records: RIP 4th Amendment

By Hanni Fakhoury | (EFF) Think mass surveillance is just the wheelhouse of agencies like the NSA? Think again. One of the biggest concerns to come from the revelations about the NSA’s…

America’s Walking Dead: The Perpetual War Machine

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) When it comes to the national security state, our capital has become a thought-free zone. The airlessness of the place, the unwillingness of leading players in the…

After the Paris Attacks: More Surveillance won’t Protect Free Speech

After Charlie Hebdo: More Surveillance won’t Protect Free Speech

By Jillian York | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Following a terrorist attack, it is not uncommon to hear calls from politicians and government officials for increased surveillance. Fear and grief can lead to…

Online Freedom of Speech under Siege even in “Democracies”

By Jillian York | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) In the midst of the global surveillance debate, talk of online censorship has often taken a backseat. Yet, all around the world, the inalienable right…

Is the NSA Responsible for N. Korea’s Hack of Sony Pictures?

By Juan Cole | -- In all the discussions of what is alleged to be North Korea's horrible cyber-vandalism against Sony Pictures, I haven't seen anyone bring up a key issue: The…

The Beltway Beast: How two Tribes in D.C. are Destroying the Middle Class

By Munir Moon The area inside the Beltway consists of Washington, D.C., and surrounding counties, and what I call the Beast includes defense contractors, lobbyists, Wall Street, think tanks, advocacy groups, journalists,…

Can the Police Phone-Track you without a Warrant?

Hanni Fakhoury and Jennifer Lynch (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Once again, a federal court will decide whether police can track your movements over an extended period of time without a search warrant. Federal…

Snowden Docs.: UK Telecom Conspired to Turn over millions of our Emails to British Intelligence

Channel 4 News | --- "An unprecedented grab of personal data: this programme reveals that a communications firm not only handed over its own information to GCHQ, but also allowed access to…

Stealth Drone Proliferation: Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

Press TV: | "Iran has released a video showing the test flight of an Iranian-made version of the captured US RQ-170 spy drone. The stealth drone was designed and made in less…