[PDF file]: […] pushing his Playing to the Edge. He expected that he was going to have to spend a lot of his time defending ‘Bush-era tactics that included electronic surveillance, metadata collection, renditions, detentions, interrogations, and targeted killings’, trying to convince his audience that after 9/11 ‘we had to play to the legal and ethical edge’. […]
[PDF file]: […] protests of the 1960s and resolved ‘never again’. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist ‘fusion centres’ of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is ‘all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are […]
[PDF file]: […] while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides are horrifying in their implications. One such example is the extensive surveillance MI5 imposed on the undeniably brilliant polymath Jacob Bronowski. It is alleged that Bronowski had to eventually emigrate to the U.S. to find any decent work […]
[PDF file]: […] the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940 8 (London: Constable, 1998). 8 and Kent were in contact from February 1940 and Wolkoff – who had been under surveillance by the security services since 1935 – was, on one occasion, seen passing papers to the Italian military attaché, Francesco Marigliano, at a London restaurant. These […]
[PDF file]: […] large hay stack.6 On the other hand, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital campaign organisation reported in 2021: Almost one year after EFF called on Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring to encrypt footage end-to-end, it appears they are starting to make this necessary change. This call was a response to a number of […]
[…] the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940 8 (London: Constable, 1998). 8 and Kent were in contact from February 1940 and Wolkoff – who had been under surveillance by the security services since 1935 – was, on one occasion, seen passing papers to the Italian military attaché, Francesco Marigliano, at a London restaurant. These […]
[PDF file]: […] Jimmy Carr, among others. But also present was the Minister for Defence Procurement, Maria Eagle, who spoke to the gathering, celebrating ‘the British-Israeli alliance’ and the RAF surveillance flights that were assisting IDF operations in Gaza.10 Obviously, this was not intended to leak out, but it did, further undermining the Starmer government’s credibility. Which […]
[PDF file]: […] background to Leading Aircraftsman Bill Walker’s experience can be found at . His son’s transcription of the memoir is in the PDF file at or . 26 surveillance from the German observation hut near Bill’s billet. He reckoned that the co-pilot (who died in the crash) might have spent twenty minutes when the engines […]
[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. […]
[…] American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.43 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the […]
