Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential “Terrorists”
States such as Oklahoma and North Dakota lead the way in repressing protest over pipeline and fracking activities.
Read more...Category Archives: Surveillance state
Gaius Publius: Crossing the U.S. Border with Electronic Devices
Ideas for how to protect yourself against border searches.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Explosive WikiLeaks Release Exposes Massive, Aggressive CIA Cyber Spying, Hacking Capability
A look at some implications of the Wikileaks Vault 7 release of CIA documents.
Read more...Empire in Decay as Trump Spying Allegations Fly
Astonishingly, Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, is willing to say that the CIA may have arranged for spying on Trump.
Read more...Vanity Fair Acts as Democratic Party Enforcer Against Greenwald, NC, Others; Train Wreck Ensues
James Wolcott had a hissy fit in Vanity Fair last week against parties he deems not sufficiently fixated on toppling Trump, including NC.
Read more...Cambridge Analytica: BINGO!
Our Marina Bart was alone in debunking the supposedly miraculously propaganda powers of Cambridge Analytica, which the Guardian just trashed.
Read more...John Helmer: Parsing the Dossier on Trump’s Alleged Russian Bedroom Antics
A close reading of the “golden showers” dossier, including sources, methods, and reported payments for information.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly and Persistently Track You
How police are using military technology to spy on you even better.
Read more...Marcy Wheeler: On “Fake News”
If “fake news” is a problem, then it’s a condemnation of the marketplace of ideas largely created by the US.
Read more...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...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.
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