NSA – CALL ME MAGGIE

October 26, 2013

As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media | Glenn Greenwald

is there any doubt at all that the US government repeatedly tried to mislead the world when insisting that this system of suspicionless surveillance was motivated by an attempt to protect Americans from The Terrorists™? Our reporting has revealed spying on… Continue reading

June 29, 2013

111 Years of the US Surveillance State

Harvard historian Murray Levin argued that this mood of fear and near-panic that possessed the popular imagination throughout the early Cold War years was not so much a spontaneous reaction as the result of an orchestrated campaign on the part… Continue reading

June 19, 2013

A Discussion With Cryptome

Fascinating interview over at Gawker… Gawker: Snowden told the Guardian that in leaking these documents he wanted to reveal the “architecture of oppression.” You’re both architects—what does that term mean to you? Young: People take it metaphorically, but we think… Continue reading

December 14, 2012

DOJ & HSBC Settle It: The War on Drugs is a War on Poor People

Thanks to my good colleague & brother Carl Sachs for pointing out this story. More to think about in the war on drugs as a war against the average citizen when banking institutions are allowed to do business with the… Continue reading