What was thought to be temporary has remained until today. Snowden warns of a similar process in the context of a real crisis. Surveillance is accepted The virus is dangerous. But the destruction of our rights is fatal because it is permanent, Snowden believes.
Second Anniversary of Edward Snowden's NSA Spying Revelations (tags)
police state
anti-war
Mass Surveillance Destroys Freedom (tags)
NSA
The Shortwave Report 06/06/14 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice of Russia, NHK World Radio Japan, and Spanish National Radio.
VIDEO: James Bramford on NSA Spying and Edward Snowden (tags)
Investigative reporter James Bamford is the author of "The Puzzle Palace," the first book published about the NSA. He later authored two more: "Body of Secrets" and "The Shadow Factory." Mr. Bamford has also written and co-produced a documentary on the NSA...
The Shortwave Report 01/31/14 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and NHK World Radio Japan.
anti-war
NATO's propaganda outlet for progressives - The Guardian's board members (tags)
It is completely disingenuous for anyone to suggest that the Guardian reports on Edward Snowden's revelations are much more than a carefully managed propaganda exercise deployed in the internal power struggle of the US-Anglo elite about how best to manage their declining global power and influence. Likewise, it is absurd to suggest that the Guardian editors are implementing a "publish and be damned" policy, as Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald has suggested, when it is inconceivable that their editorial policy on publishing Edward Snowden's material will not have been closely coordinated on the basis of the Board's relations with colleagues in the British government, in British intelligence and in the US-Anglo corporate sector.
Exonerate Edward Snowden Unconditionally! (tags)
NSA
Newspapers Push for Snowden Pardon (tags)
The New York Times and The Guardian (London) published major editorial statements on New Year's Day, reviewing the evidence that Edward Snowden's whistleblowing on NSA spying has largely been vindicated. They call for the creation of conditions that will allow Snowden to return home with dignity.
Mission Accomplished, Says Snowden (tags)
NSA
NSA Mass Monitoring Cell Phone Calls Globally (tags)
NSA
Britain's War on Press Freedom (tags)
Britain
France
Mass Surveillance Violates EU Law (tags)
spying
NSA
The NSA Isn't Foiling Terrorist Plots (tags)
There's still no credible evidence that the NSA's massive digital surveillance has disrupted any terrorist plots.
Nobel Hypocrisy Repeats (tags)
peace prize
NSA Conspires with Israel Against Americans (tags)
NSA
Inculcating stupidity: Syria and Edward Snowden (tags)
The Edward Snowden affair and the subsequent media campaign in the Guardian and the Washington Post and other NATO psy-warfare media outlets coincide with the shamelessly deceitful media campaign justifying a military assault against the government of Syria and thus too against the Resistance alliance of Syria, Iran and Hizbollah contesting the Occupation of Palestine. Obviously, it is too much to suggest that the Edward Snowden affair was deliberately contrived so as to provide a progressive propaganda alibi to corporate and alternative media advocating yet another imperialist aggression – this time against Syria. For people outside North America and Europe, the internal spat within the West's ruling élites offers little of interest. Very clearly, almost the entire Western corporate and alternative media network operates on the basis of psychological warfare criteria ultimately at the service of the imperialist tendencies of their countries' societies and the aggressive élites that control them. Like that of their corporate counterparts, the role of the West's supposedly alternative or progressive media, and the similarly funded non-governmental sector, is to provide a moral alibi for their countries' imperialist crimes against humanity.
Britain's Middle East Spy Station (tags)
police state
my note to President Putin (tags)
Temper Tantrum Politics (tags)
Russia bashing
Joint Open Letter by 150 human rights, digital rights and media rights NGOs to Obama (tags)
Edward Snowden’s recent disclosures have triggered a necessary and long-delayed public debate about the acceptable boundaries of surveillance in a democratic country, a debate that on 5 June you welcomed having.
Obama Shoots Himself in the Foot (tags)
Obama
New York Times Editors Support Police State Persecution (tags)
NYT
Wikileaks' Statement on Snowden's Successful Russian Asylum Bid (tags)
WikiLeaks commends Russia for accepting Snowden’s request and supporting him
Heightened Russia Bashing (tags)
Russia
Russia Grants Snowden One-Year Asylum (tags)
Snowden
Lon Snowden's letter to President Obama (tags)
Dear Mr. President: You are acutely aware that the history of liberty is a history of civil disobedience to unjust laws or practices. As Edmund Burke sermonized, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Lies, Damn Lies and US Promises (tags)
police state
America: Super-Bully Nation (tags)
America
Information Consumption The Price of Hypocrisy (tags)
"Even the best laws will not lead to a safer internet. We need a sharper picture of the information apocalypse that awaits us in a world where personal data is traded to avert the catastrophy. "
Snowden Wins Whistleblower Award (tags)
Snowden
Snowden and Latin America Expose Washington (tags)
One of America’s genuine heroes, Major General Smedley D Butler revealed in his memoirs the true, abhorrent nature of Washington’s foreign policy. Butler had led countless military operations in Central America and the Caribbean as a US Marines Corp commander in the era of «gunboat diplomacy» during the early 1900s. Years after his retirement, he spoke out candidly and ruefully of his highly decorated military service in a book entitled War is a Racket. Here is how Butler characterized with unsparing words his service for country in 1935, five years before his death:
Snowden
Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee (tags)
Snowden
When you are on top, ‘might makes right’ is ‘rule of law’ (tags)
The U.S. government has consistently refused to extradite former dictators, accused terrorists, torturers and others wanted by other countries. It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to give lectures about international obligations in its blunderbuss efforts to get Edward Snowden.
NSA
Lawlessness Is Official US Policy (tags)
police state
Snowden
Obama Blocks Snowden's Asylum (tags)
Snowden
The Shortwave Report 07/12/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Spanish National Radio.
Stasi's New Incarnation (tags)
police state
Criticizing Venezuela's Maduro Irresponsibly (tags)
Snowden
Venezuela Grants Snowden Asylum (tags)
Snowden
Europe Cravenly Colluding with U.S. in Criminality (tags)
It is hard to know which is the more outrageous: the US government’s forced landing this week of the Bolivian President Evo Morales’ official jet in Europe; or the European authorities’ compliance with the Americans in their act of international piracy.
London's Guardian: Out in Front Exposing Lawless NSA Spying (tags)
police state
The Shortwave Report 07/05/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, , Radio Havana Cuba, The Voice Of Russia, and NHK World Radio Japan.
Obama Threatens Humanity (tags)
police state
How Edward Snowden and Syria Will Change Obama’s Foreign Policy (tags)
When the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal broke, so did the illusion that President Obama was significantly different than his predecessor, Bush Jr. Obama’s meticulously crafted image was specifically created as an alternative to Bush: Obama campaigned as a peace candidate who loved civil liberties and wanted to work with the UN instead of unilaterally launching wars.
Hands Off Snowden Campaign (tags)
Hands Off Snowden Campaign
Snowden: Shooting the Messenger (tags)
police state
The Shortwave Report 06/28/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, , Spanish National Radio, The Voice Of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK World Radio Japan.
Challenging US Lawlessness (tags)
police state
police state
America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large (tags)
police state
Washington v. Edward Snowden Update (tags)
police state
Edward Snowden Charged Under the Espionage Act (tags)
police state
Snowden and the three wise NSA whistleblowers (tags)
Whistleblowing is a risky business. I expect that, as they planned their course of action over the four months, Edward Snowden and his main media minder, Glenn Greenwald, paid very close attention to what happened to three past whistleblowers who crossed the NSA.
Big Brother Writ Large in America (tags)
police state
NSA Chief Lies to Congress (tags)
police state