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Vulgus vult decipi
Last October, Glenn Greenwald announced that he was going to stop writing for the Guardian newspaper; this, after spending the summer reporting the Snowden revelations. To quote Greenwald: “As many of you know, I’m leaving the Guardian in order to … Continue reading
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Tagged Boiling Frogs Post, Edward Snowden, First Look Media, GCHQ, Glenn Greenwald, Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras, National Security Agency, NSA, Pierre Omidyar, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), Stasi, The European Court of Human Rights, the Guardian, The Intercept
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Syria
Yesterday, UK politicians voted against military intervention in the Syria conflict, although it was a close call: 272 votes for military action, 285 against. It’s the first time in modern history that MPs have voted against a Prime Minister’s call … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Amash amendment, David Cameron, David Miranda, GCHQ, Glenn Greenwald, Justin Amash, National Security Agency, NSA, police state America, police state Britain, Syria conflict, Syrian chemical weapons attack, Syrian civil war, the Guardian, UK propaganda, US propaganda
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Top notch stuff, Rusbridger
The Guardian Editor, Alan Rusbridger, published a quite extraordinary piece last night. Below the line in the reader comments section I called the article ‘a quite substantial piece of history’. Another commentator described what I’d said as hyperbole, so let … Continue reading
Rule, Britannia
Yesterday, David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen, was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport while transiting from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Miranda is the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who’s breaking the Edward Snowden stories. It seems certain … Continue reading
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Tagged 38degrees.org, Anti-Social Crime and Policing Bill, civil liberties in the UK, civil liberties in the USA, D-Notice, David Miranda, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, Glenn Greenwald, HR 347 anti protest bill, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, NSA, police state America, police state Britain, PSPO, Public Spaces Protection Order, The Terrorism Act
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Sheep, Blind Mice and Ostriches
The Guardian ran a piece today about the Lavabit secure e-mail service, which has just been shut down by its owner, Ladar Levison, who said that he wouldn’t be “complicit in crimes against the American people” (here); ie, he wouldn’t … Continue reading
A state within a state and the Fourth Estate
Today, Greenwald and the Guardian went for the jugular of the New York Times (here) and Washington Post (here), showing that they have openly lied about the Edward Snowden affair and accusing them of being mouthpieces of the US Government. … Continue reading
We’re all Winston Smiths now
Over this last week, what with various Orwell quotes in newspaper comment sections, I must have read 1984 from cover to cover. On the otherhand, many readers seem to think that the American National Security Agency (NSA) scandal only involves … Continue reading
A long, dark night of the soul
I have the greatest respect for Glenn Greenwald, but the story he broke this week was not really news (here). It’s been widely known for a long time now that just about all electronic communication is recorded by the US … Continue reading