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Tunisia: no longer a surveillance state?
Tunisia’s new constitution has brought back hope for democracy in January, as the principles that had originally driven the Arab Spring – transparency, political accountability, secular values, gender equality and privacy – finally appear triumphant. Although privacy is now guaranteed under article 23 of the new constitution, an “NSA-like” agency – the Technical Agency for Telecommunications (ATT) – was also created back in November. Fears remain that Tunisia may not...
Paraguay: Washington’s War against Growing Marxist Insurgency
Most likely, very few Americans are aware of the small, land-locked South American nation of Paraguay. A politically volatile country displaying immense levels of economic inequality, Paraguay has recently been wracked by a wave of mysterious violence. Experts say an obscure Marxist rebel group called the Paraguayan People’s Army (known in Spanish by the acronym E.P.P.) is responsible for the escalating attacks…
NSA: The True Power Of One Of The Worlds Largest Intelligence Agencies
February 27, 2012, Wikileaks began publishing the Global Intelligence Files (GIFiles). These files consist of over five million emails from the “Global Intelligence” company named Stratfor, headquartered in Texas. April 22, 2011, Brian Genchur sent an email to Stratfor’s analysts detailing future expansion plans of the NSA. According to the email, the installations slated for upgrade/expansion are Buckley AFB, Fort Gordon, Fort Meade, Camp Williams, and UK RAF Menwith...
NSA Signals Intelligence – industrial and diplomatic espionage
In a recent keynote speech at the annual Blackhat Security conference aiming to address concerns over recently revealed NSA surveillance programs, NSA director General Alexander assured his audience that the NSA’s main mission is protect the US and save lives. “What we’re doing is for foreign intelligence purposes,” he said, and that included counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and cyber attacks.
Snowden revelations: EU launches inquiry on surveillance
The European Parliament has commissioned an inquiry on surveillance by both the United States and European countries. Led by the Civil Liberties Committee, the inquiry will begin on September 5th. German MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, a member of the committee, has already made a noteworthy move by suggesting the name of Edward Snowden, as one of the experts to testify. “Obviously this is only the beginning of the process,”...
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