An amendment headed for a vote Friday “would put in place the largest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act,” one privacy advocate warned.
Read More »The CIA Wants More Power To Spy on Americans
Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment – which protects the individual right to privacy – only regulates …
Read More »The rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability
KEY POINTS The wealthy are building “passport portfolios” — collections of second, and even third or fourth, citizenships — in case they need to flee their home country. Recent high-profile examples of second citizenships include billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who added a citizenship in New Zealand, and former Google …
Read More »US elections: Biden and Trump are two sides of the same murderous coin
‘Genocide Joe’ and ‘Don the Con’ are the morally depraved choices for a sham democracy run for billionaires that slaughters countless innocent people globally. I cannot vote for either
Read More »NEW REPORT REVEALS DIRTY SECRET OF ARMY PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Contrary to Hollywood depictions, Army psyops are an understaffed and ineffective mess.
Read More »Who Must Go? Permanent Government vs. the People. “Electoral Politics” and “The Deep State”
President Kennedy was furious at the CIA for having misled him. Waiting several months before he compelled CIA Director Allen Dulles to resign, Kennedy told him, “Under a parliamentary system of government it is I who would be leaving. But under our system it is you who must go.” Thus John F. Kennedy defended …
Read More »Lawyers Sue Germany in Bid to Block Arms Exports to Israel
“There is reason to believe that these weapons are being used to commit grave violations of international law, such as the crime of genocide and war crimes.” The Berlin-based Lawyers’ Collective on Friday sued the German government in an effort to stop weapons transfers to Israel, whose government and military …
Read More »Washington Abandons All Norms To Arm Israel
Despite the U.S. not vetoing a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the month of Ramadan, the Biden administration continues to prove itself as a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Washington has previously used its veto powers to block …
Read More »On NATO’s 75th Anniversary, Ten Reasons for Questioning Its Continuation
On 4 April NATO completes 75 years. This is an appropriate time for questioning, particularly from the perspective of the peace movement, its role, relevance and continuation. A military alliance can only be justified if it protects against any big threat. Such a threat is difficult to point out after …
Read More »When Climate Change is a National Security Issue
“The combined impacts of climate insecurities and resource scarcity in fragile states exacerbate poverty and social instability, drive population displacement and unveil governance gaps and grievances that can be exploited by state and non-state actors.” That’s a quote from the Report on New Security Challenges, released on March 13, by the International Security Advisory …
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