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FOCUS | Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, June 2, 2014The Battle to Retake Our Privacy Can Be Won
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 13, 2014FOCUS | Keith Alexander Unplugged
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, May 10, 2014Obama fails to protect privacy, again – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 8, 2014The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous – And for All of Us
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 9, 2014TomDispatch: Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, The Wild West of Surveillance
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 7, 2014FOCUS | The Snowden Effect, Continued
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 2, 2014Robert Scheer: No Place to Hide: We’re All Suspects in Barack Obama’s America – Robert Scheer – Truthdig
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 26, 2014FOCUS | It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 24, 2014Chris Hedges : What Obama Really Meant Was …
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, January 23, 2014What Obama Didn’t Say in His Speech on NSA Spying
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 22, 2014FOCUS | Today President Obama Asked Everyone to Give Some Civil Liberties Up
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 20, 2014Rep. Mike Rogers: Russia May Be Behind Snowden Leak
Now, and others are joining him. Brainwashing the public to start to think of Snowden as a foreign agent. Now the propaganda begins. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 19, 2014
FOCUS | US ‘Will Not Enter No-Spy Agreement’
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 18, 2014Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s NSA ‘reforms’ are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public
Glenzilla (back at The Guardian for a day) ..The crux of this tactic is that US political leaders pretend to validate and even channel public anger by acknowledging that there are "serious questions that have been raised". They vow changes to fix the system and ensure these problems never happen again. And they then set out, with their actions, to do exactly the opposite: to make the system prettier and more politically palatable with empty, cosmetic "reforms" so as to placate public anger while leaving the system fundamentally unchanged, even more immune than before to serious challenge.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 18, 2014
Your address book belongs to the NSA – Video
The revelations just keep coming... If you use one of the big e-mail providers and maintain an address book - and that's pretty much everybody - the NSA has helped itself to your address book. Here's how they did it. BrasscheckPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 17, 2014