Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI
Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
Read more...Category Archives: Surveillance state
Corporate Censorship of Independent Sites Has Begun
The corporate war on progressive outlets has started.
Read more...Former Employee Sues Google, Claims It Maintained an Internal Spy Network That Encouraged Workers to Snitch on Each Other
Google looks to have been too clever by half in how far it has gone in trying to silence employees.
Read more...The Real Baltimore – Police Accountability in the Age of Trump
How should Baltimore address police reform if Jeff Sessions is confirmed as AG and if the DoJ tacks toward open hostility on this issue?
Read more...Developer of B.S. Detector Apologizes for Including Naked Capitalism in “Fake News” Tool, Yet Fails to Take Responsibility for Non-Transparent Process and McCarthyite Nature of Project
The developer of B.S. Detector apologized for including Naked Capitalism. Unfortunately, his note is revealing, and not in a good way.
Read more...Site Behind Washington Post’s McCarthyite Blacklist Appears To Be Linked to Ukrainian Fascists and CIA Spies
Anonymous McCarthyite online blacklist of hundreds of American websites appears to be linked to Ukrainian fascists and CIA spies.
Read more...The Obamamometer’s Toxic Legacy: National Security
Obama’s national security legacy: Guantanamo’s still open and this former con law prof asserts– wrongly– that he can’t pardon Snowden now.
Read more...France Plans to Implement Universal Biometric IDs
France seeks to implement a variant of a biometric ID database that was nixed by its courts. Will this succeed and set a dangerous precedent?
Read more...Will Trump Be Rolled by the Republican Establishment?
If Trump is serious about policies like rebuilding infrastructure and reducing foreign conflicts, can he prevail over his party’s establishment?
Read more...Creating a National Security State ‘Democracy,’ Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed
The stealthy rise of America’s new fourth estate.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Snowden
A review of Oliver Stone’s movie on Edward Snowden.
Read more...A Hard Look at the War Criminals, Um, Hawks Who Say “Never Trump”
The hawks who are throwing bricks at Trump forgot that they are living in glass houses.
Read more...NSA Whistleblower: Not So Fast On Claims Russia Behind DNC Email Hack
Why you should be skeptical of the party line that the DNC was victimized by Russians.
Read more...Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’
Military-style policing gets another boost, this with targeting immigrants as the pretext.
Read more...American Police State: Secret Service Controlling Journalist Access to Conventions by Arbitrary, Secretive, No Appeal Screening Process
Welcome to a press gag Secret Service style.
Read more...