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Arms sales have “very high risk” of corruption?
The Congressional Research Service estimated last year that global arms exports had swelled to $85 billion. And several prominent criminal investigations have added to the pressure for change....
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UK appears complicit in US surveillance scheme
The British government has yet to confirm or deny reports that it had been given information from an American surveillance program called Prism, which is said to have collected Internet data on...
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Assange hails Snowden as hero
Wkileaks founder Julian Assange calls Edward Snowden a “hero” who has exposed “one of the most serious events of the decade – the creeping formulation of a mass surveillance state.”...
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The NYT split: ed board gets real, columnists not so much
The Times editorial board gets to the point on the Snowden leak while Friedman and Brooks abet the witch hunt. “The question is whether the security goals can be achieved by less-intrusive or sweeping...
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Tech companies claim impotence vs NSA
In 2008 Yahoo became part of the National Security Agency’s secret Internet surveillance program, Prism, according to leaked N.S.A. documents, as did seven other Internet companies....
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West continues to kill Afghan women and children
The United Nations reports that a coalition airstrike killed three children in eastern Afghanistan. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/06/14/world/asia/ap-as-afghanistan.html?ref=world The United...
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Hong Kong protesters rally around Snowden
Chanting slogans like “Shame, U.S. government,” demonstrators marched from a downtown park to the United States Consulate nearby to urge that Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency...
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Snowden used encryption to first contact harrassed filmmaker
Laura Poitras, who won a MacArthur “genius” grant last year and was nominated for an Oscar for “My Country,” is already living and working outside the country after six years of being questioned at the...
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EU agrees on drone surveillance program
Three European aerospace companies called on Europe to launch its own independent drone programme to equip armies across the continent. “European sovereignty and independence in the management of...
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Immigration bill contains DHS national id system
Driver’s license photographs and biographic information of most Americans would be accessible through an expanded Department of Homeland Security nationwide computer network called E-Verify if the...
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US and UK eavesdrop with impunity
American and British intelligence agencies had eavesdropped on world leaders at conferences in London in 2009. The latest disclosures, in a new set of classified documents disclosed by Edward J....
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Cheney gives Snowden highest honor
It was “the highest honor you can give an American” to be called a traitor by Mr. Cheney, whom he denounced as “a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the...
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FBI will likely continue killing with impunity
After contradictory stories emerged about an F.B.I. agent’s killing last month of a Chechen man in Orlando, Fla., who was being questioned over ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, the bureau...
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Force-feeding Guatanamo inmates considered torture
“The UN and numerous other authoritative bodies have quite explicitly stated that the force-feeding that goes on in Guantanamo is torture. Forcing someone to accept treatment which they’re competent to...
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FBI admits using drones over US
The FBI has used drones for surveillance in limited cases over US soil. The director, Robert Mueller, said the FBI was in the “initial stages” of developing drone policies. He said the agency had “very...
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NSA and Tech companies are one entity
Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook and the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of more than one billion users from outside attacks, left the social media...
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Pentagon looks to aid foreign troops that violate human rights
The Pentagon is increasingly training and equipping local security services to combat militants in their countries. A 16-year-old law that bars American aid to foreign security forces that violate...
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Divide and conquer working to cull Syrian populace
Syria’s widening civil war has killed more than 100,000 people in the 27-month-old conflict, with pro-government forces taking far more casualties than rebels seeking the overthrow of President Bashar...
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War on Terror paves way for neo-imperalism in Africa
The United States and Niger will bring together in that West African nation police officers, customs inspectors and other authorities from a half-dozen countries in the region to hone their collective...
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National identification law included in immigration bill
The sweeping immigration measure advancing rapidly in the Senate goes far beyond much-debated border security measures and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants with a crucial requirement...
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