The band YACHT has gone back to the glory days of Dylan and the like by writing a protest song. The song is about the NSA illegal spying the USA, which should bother pretty much anyone who cares about privacy. Until now, there was no good news to mention about
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Politics and its Discontents: On Bad Days And Defiance
Yesterday was not a good day for me. First, I awoke to read about the government raid on the Guardian office resulting in the destruction of computers containing some of the material leaked by Edward Snowden on illegal state surveillance. Eerily reminiscent of the U.S. Department of Justice raid on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Freedoms? What Freedoms?
For anyone still under the illusion that our rights and freedoms are sacred trusts protected by our democracies, you might want to read this little item, the beginning of what I suspect will be a very long period of payback for Glenn Greenwald’s act of bringing Edward Snowden’s inconvenient truths
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Reaction to Edward Snowden Parallels that of Julian Assange
Whenever we learn something new and impactful about what our governments or other institutions of power are doing, we owe ourselves a public discussion of these new revelations. Perhaps we accept the revelations as acceptable or desirable, or perhaps we find them unacceptable and harmful in which case the public discourse can
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Harper has set up a sophisticated program to read our email and monitor our online activities.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks. I was looking to do some tidying up and editing posts on the left side under News & Opinion from Home and Abroad. These are items from across the internet that I include because of their interest and relevance. This story regarding surveillance caught my eye again and
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Lavabit encrypted email service shuts down rather than become ‘complicit in crimes against the American people’
Lavabit, an encrypted email service with some 350,000 customers is no more. The company has decided to shut down rather than comply with a U.S. government court order that would have implicated Lavabit in spying on its customers. In a courageous move the company has opted to essentially wipe out
Continue readingLeDaro: Who is the bigger imperialist power: U. S or Russia
According Vladimir Putin it is America. “Veteran Kremlin-watcher Fyodor Lukyanov last month commented that letting Snowden into Russia would be like “turning a small headache into a major migraine.’’As Lukyanov puts it: ‘’If Putin cares about nothing else, he cares about how the Third World thinks about Russia. And the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Oh, How The U.S. Right Must Hate Him
If you’re not sure why, watch this short Noam Chomsky video, in which he shares his thoughts on Edward Snowden and American hypocrisy: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The ‘irony’ of Edward Snowden seeking asylum in Latin America
Experts on Latin America issue open letter to the media, highlighting the ‘irony’ of Edward Snowden’s request for asylum in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The post The ‘irony’ of Edward Snowden seeking asylum in Latin America appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Edward Snowden Allowed Into Russia Weeks After Outing Himself as the NSA Leaker
The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission leave the Moscow airport where he has been stranded for over a month. Snowden applied for… Read More
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statement to human rights groups
by: Obert Madondo | Twitter: @Obiemad: WikiLeaks has posted NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statement to human rights groups, issued earlier today at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Here’s the full text: Hello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Whistleblowers Blast NSA Programs, Award Snowden
by: Institute for Public Accuracy | Press Release: WASHINGTON, July 8, 2013 – Edward Snowden has been named recipient of this year’s “award for truth telling” given by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. The following are members of the group or past recipients of the award. The group’s statement is
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Edward Snowden interview part 2: Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua offer asylum
A second part of Glenn Greenwald‘s interview with Edward Snowden was released this week. The interview took place on 6 June 2013 in a Hong Kong hotel room. Journalist Laura Poitras was responsible for the filming. In the course of this newly released transcript, Snowden touches on his motivations… why
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Snowden manhunt and the targeting of Morales’ plane: Latin American leaders back Bolivia
Bolivia says Washington put pressure on European allies to deny overflight approval to a plane transporting Bolivian president Evo Morales. The interception of the flight plan of the Bolivian head of state on unfounded suspicions that NSA truth-teller, Edward Snowden, might be onboard amounts to air piracy. It raises questions
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: You Are Being Watched Says Edward Snowden-Video
Here is the latest with Amy Goodman-Democracy Now!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bolivian President Evo Morales Plane Diverted Under US Pressure
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are experiencing a time where bizarre is the new norm. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales flight home from a Russian visit was detained, stalled, diverted. Some say he was kidnapped at the direction and pressure from the United States government. This international event was lamely justified by saying that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: They ‘Will Lie, Trick, and Deceive’: Jailed CIA Whistleblower’s Warns Edward Snowden
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It is becoming hard to keep track of all the ‘Whistleblowers’ and the tunes that they are whistling. It is clear that many countries spy, snoop and infiltrate. It has been going on for centuries but accelerated during World War 2 and the Cold War that
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Greenwald via Skype at Socialism 2013: ‘world will be shocked’ by upcoming NSA exposé
At the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago, Glenn Greenwald received deserved accolades from introductory speakers Sherry Wolf and Jeremy Scahill. Greenwald spoke via Skype about the courage and integrity of Edward Snowden and the importance of his NSA surveillance revelations. He had this to say about the attacks on Snowden:
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Obama’s Security Appartus Exposed-Now He’s Determined To Severely Punish and Dissuade Future Whistle Blowers
More shoes to drop It seems that Edward Snowden’s whistle blowing will continue with more shocking revelations coming very soon. Guardian Reporter Glen Grenwald told Fox News that the story will be published by the Guardian tomorrow. Here is the interview with Guardian Investigative Journalist Glen Greenwald-Video.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Is A Free Press Important?
Watch this video of an interview with Glenn Greenwald for part of the answer: H/t Popular Resistance Recommend this Post
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