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About That Super Secret German Government Intelligence Report Documenting AfD Extremism 2025-05-15 18:50 Hot Air The entire super secret, 1100+ page report has been leaked to numerous media sources in Germany. I can now report the bombshell findings of months of exhaustive investigative research, snooping, and spying by the finest agents available in the German …
Eugene Jarecki on Bringing Julian Assange to Cannes With the Explosive WikiLeaks Documentary ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ 2025-05-15 18:08 Variety Coming to Cannes was never the plan. Eugene Jarecki originally intended to premiere “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” his documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, at Sundance this year. And it seemed like perfect timing. Assange’s deal last June …
Guarding Democracy in the Digital Age: Why Privacy is Power 2025-05-15 13:44 Modern Ghana In every democracy, the vote is sacred. But in the 21st century, the data trail may be even more powerful than the ballot box. As we celebrate our democratic freedoms—of speech, movement, and association—we must confront a critical question: Can a …
Ex-Elite UK Troops Recount War Crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan 2025-05-14 15:28 Consortium News Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed. British soldier guiding a helicopter to land in Iraq, …
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down In (Super)Power 2025-05-14 05:33 Marco Eagle - Florida There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! In (Super)Power Constructor: Erik Agard Editor: Amanda Rafkin What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle HOTS (45A: Spicy-pepper-based condiment) HOTS is a spread – some …
Eye-scanning orbs that help tell humans from AI land in Atlanta 2025-05-13 14:54 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia Opening its doors Tuesday is one of six U.S. flagship locations of World, an identity and financial network built by Tools for Humanity, a startup cofounded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The orbs, slightly larger than the size of a motorcycle helmet, are the …
Lessons from May 8, 1945 2025-05-13 13:26 The Times of Israel The Second World War claimed over 60 million lives. Reverence for the victims and recognition for those who helped end this war require the survivors and younger generations to learn from this. “Never again” is the appropriate motto for this learning …
'Lots of Psychotic Murderers': Ex-Elite UK Troops Break Silence on Iraq, Afghanistan War Crimes 2025-05-12 23:37 Common Dreams Dozens of former United Kingdom Special Forces troops or those who served with them have broken their silence to describe alleged war crimes they witnessed—including the execution of children—during the U.S.-led wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. BBC's …
Warrantless Spying Report Signals Expansion of Domestic Surveillance 2025-05-12 14:09 The American Prospect - Washington D.C. Earlier this month, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a report on the most well-known aspect of the United States’ mass surveillance apparatus: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The report, which …
Sam Altman’s eye-scanning orbs have arrived, sparking curiosity and fear 2025-05-12 10:07 Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this month, a mysterious store selling a vision of the future opened its doors in downtown San Francisco’s Union Square district. A cryptic message appeared on the storefront window: “World is the real human network. Anonymous proof …
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The Chris Hedges Report: The West as Israel’s Police 2025-05-10 10:03 Consortium Independent News Richard Medhurst — his journalism tools now confiscated and under “terrorism” investigation for his reporting on Palestine and Lebanon — discusses his experiences in the U.K. and Austria. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost This interview is also available on …
Some incidents where stronger countries fabricated pretexts to attack other states 2025-05-10 03:14 The News International LAHORE: The poorly-staged April 22, 2025 Pahalgam incident, a false flag operation by the Indian government to blame Pakistan and justify yet another war with its nuclear neighbour since 1948, is not the first fake or scripted incident in history that …
Golden Gloves to introduce Best Podcast category 2025-05-09 21:57 Boing Boing Golden Globe winner Joe Rogan. It doesn't sound right, but it could soon be very real. Beginning with 2026's 83rd Golden Globes awards ceremony will open up a brand-new Best Podcast category. Per Deadline: Details are few about the criteria for the …
Teatro Dallas taps newcomer Alyssa Carrasco to direct coming of age story ‘El Otro’ 2025-05-09 14:26 KERA - Texas Alyssa Carrasco starred in two of the most compelling local productions of the past couple of years, Is Edward Snowden Single? at Second Thought Theatre and Cloud Tectonics at Teatro Dallas. Now she’s making her professional directing debut. A 2021 …
The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg: ‘The market understands what a quality story is’ 2025-05-09 12:11 Press Gazette Editor of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg has said of his blockbuster “Signalgate” scoop that journalism is “a simple business”, arguing audiences “know what a quality story is” and will pay to read it. Speaking at the Sir Harry Summit in London on Wednesday …
A short glimpse into two senior thesis projects of the ’24-’25 year 2025-05-08 14:16 The Saint Anselm Crier - New Hampshire As the 2024-2025 school year comes to a close, senior students finish up their Capstone projects, with some majors requiring a thesis project to finalize their major. Some of these majors include Politics, Communications, and Psychology, with topics and …
Exclusive: How Media Bias Enables Presidential Power Grab Across Party Lines 2025-05-08 11:36 Uprise RI - Rhode Island When Donald Trump left office in January 2021, critics cataloged his administration’s many controversial actions: family separations at the border, attacks on the free press, political purges, and unyielding support for Israeli military operations. His …
15 Cold War-Themed Films From 1950 to 1970 2025-05-07 22:38 The Good Men Project - California The Cold War provided a mirror for the West, allowing filmmakers to confront the destructive impulses, corrosive values, and dangerous delusions of power, masculinity, and control that shaped Western governments and militaries during the era. Whether comic …
This Republican Lawmaker Just Introduce a Bill That Will Have the Deep State Fuming 2025-05-07 20:48 Townhall Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has introduced a bill that would repeal the controversial Patriot Act, which granted sweeping surveillance powers to federal agencies. In a post on X, Luna announced the bill, called the “American Privacy Restoration Act,” as …
Suzie Dawson and the campaign to debank dissidents 2025-05-07 19:42 The Daily Blog Dissident Kiwi Tech Disrupter and solo mum from Birkdale – Susie Dawson, has been debanked by KiwiBank and has exposed a conflict of interest deep inside the Banking Ombudsman that demands scrutiny.Suzie Dawson, is fighting KiwiBank from de-banking her …
Wait, Partiful’s Founders Worked at Palantir? 2025-05-07 13:12 New York Mag Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images For those too young for Facebook Events, too unhinged for Paperless Post, and too self-serious for email or text, there’s Partiful: the app that blows up your phone with reminders about the imminent …
What is Tornado Cash, and why did it get into trouble? 2025-05-07 10:00 Coin Telegraph What is Tornado Cash? Tornado Cash is a decentralized, non-custodial crypto mixer designed to enhance transaction privacy on public blockchains. It uses smart contracts and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to conceal the onchain link between the sender and …
Armstrong Wiliams: Real ID another nail in coffin of privacy. 2025-05-06 20:24 The Joplin Globe - Missouri The right to privacy — the right to be let alone — is the most cherished right among civilized peoples. It was the right that gave birth to the American Revolution in opposition to British writs of assistance authoring petty officials to rummage through …
Canada’s digital future at risk: is achieving digital sovereignty the key to protecting its future? 2025-05-06 13:57 The Economic Times In an era where digital infrastructure underpins national security, economic stability, and cultural identity, Canada faces a critical juncture. Historically, Canada's reliance on US-based tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google has provided …
Trump AG's latest vow is straight from dictator's playbook — and it's a threat to us all 2025-05-05 18:57 Raw Story In the dark corners of America’s halls of power, something sinister is unfolding. Attorney General Pam Bondi has launched an assault on one of the most sacred pillars of our democracy: the freedom of the press. And make no mistake, this isn’t just another …
Solana Patches Bug That Could Have Allowed Attackers to Mint and Swipe Tokens 2025-05-05 18:48 Decrypt In brief Solana engineers patched a bug that affected Token-22 confidential tokens. If exploited, an attacker could have minted unlimited quantities of tokens and withdrawn them from accounts. The bug was patched quietly ahead of public disclosure, …
GT investigates: China's open innovation offers new options for global submarine cable construction 2025-05-05 17:55 Global Times Editor's Note: Undersea cables carry over 95 percent of the global cross-border data traffic and are a core component of the modern global communication network. The global cable systems constructed by China connect major markets around the world, …
The Illusion Of Choice: Capitalism, Socialism, And The Suppression Of Religion In The Modern Era 2025-05-03 23:06 Kashmir Reader From US surveillance to China’s re-education camps—how both systems marginalise Islam while claiming to liberate In the contemporary global landscape, we are often presented with a binary choice: capitalism or socialism. These ideologies dominate political …
Why U.S. accusations against Chinese satellites may backfire 2025-05-03 12:30 CGTN A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France, dubbed the Space Variable Objects Monitor, lifts off from a space base in Xichang, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 22, 2024. /CFP A Long March 2-C rocket …
USA – CIA Announces Elimination of 1,200 Jobs – Is the NSA Next? 2025-05-03 10:15 Tunisie Numerique Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Amid a climate of budgetary austerity imposed by the Trump administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is preparing to cut 1,200 jobs, according to revelations by The Washington Post. This gradual reduction in …
Trump's top spy chief blasted as Raw Story exposes 'crazy' cash grab 2025-05-01 19:49 Raw Story WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is open for business — on social media at least. Gabbard has been DNI since February, yet a Raw Story review of her social media presence reveals her personal X account …
National security advisor Mike Waltz and his team to leave jobs as early as today: report 2025-05-01 15:41 Raw Story Mark Halperin reported Thursday morning that the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, is about to leave his job along with his deputy, Alex Wong, and others on the national security team. Posting on X, Halperin, who founded the interactive media platform …
Not so risky after all: bilateral consequences of compromised intelligence operations 2025-04-30 23:12 The Strategist It’s a staple of screenwriters and novelists, stock news footage and a spectre haunting ambassadors’ dreams: a spy unmasked; riots outside embassies, flags and effigies alight; newspaper headlines blaring outrage; and the chilling words persona non grata. …
Tracking Trump’s Campaign Promises 2025-04-30 19:57 AllSides President Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the 2024 campaign trail. Which have been kept, and which are unfulfilled? As Trump reaches his 100th day in office, AllSides is tracking the latest updates on his campaign promises and ensuing legislation. …
‘Severance’: What the hit show can teach us about cybersecurity and human risk 2025-04-30 11:39 Interaksyon What if your work self didn’t know about your personal life, and your home self had no idea what you did for a living? In Apple TV’s Severance, that’s exactly the deal: a surgical procedure splits the memories of employees into “innies” (who only exist at …
“I’d like to be part of blowing the whistle”: Roger Waters’ Is This The Life We Really Want? 2025-04-30 06:27 Classic Rock In 2017, as he continued trying to distance himself from his Pink Floyd past, Roger Waters was focusing once again on the state of the world. He told Prog about exploring the matter on that year’s release Is This The Life We Really Want? – his first solo …
How to Build a Private Linux Workstation 2025-04-29 18:35 Linux Security Let’s be real—online privacy isn’t optional anymore. Attacks are up, tracking is baked into everything, and if you're not locking things down, you're exposed. If you care about your data, it’s on you to take the reins and actually secure it. Linux …
The right to privacy under siege | STAFF COMMENTARY 2025-04-29 17:42 Baltimore Sun - Maryland The right to privacy — the right to be let alone — is the most cherished right among civilized peoples. It was the right that gave birth to the American Revolution in opposition to the British Writs of Assistance authorizing petty officials to rummage …
Pakistanâs defense minister admits West invented jihad, exposing decades of U.S.-backed terror export 2025-04-29 13:11 Natural News Pakistan’s defense minister admits West invented jihad, exposing decades of U.S.-backed terror export Islamabad official reveals how Cold War meddling radicalized a nation — while India retaliates against Pakistan’s latest terrorist attack: Pakistan’s …
Glenn Greenwald’s “No Place To Hide” sheds light on the NSA’s global spy network 2025-04-29 13:11 Natural News The U.S. government adopted extreme executive power theories, prompting Glenn Greenwald — a civil rights attorney — to start a blog in 2005, which later positioned him as a key journalist in exposing NSA surveillance. Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor, …
Trump credited with rising military recruitment but growth started before his reelection 2025-04-28 15:49 Crossroads Today - Texas U.S. military recruitment made a comeback after a downturn caused primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic, low unemployment and stiff competition from the private sector. Posts circulating widely on social media give President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary …
The National Security Shake-Up: Trump’s Loyalty Purge 2025-04-27 20:05 The Good Men Project - California In a wide-ranging interview, Irina Tsukerman, Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Observer, outlines a systematic reshuffling within the National Security Council during Trump’s second term. Unlike his first term, the dismissals are deliberate, driven by …
American Panopticon 2025-04-27 13:27 The Atlantic If you have tips about DOGE and its data collection, you can contact Ian and Charlie on Signal at @ibogost.47 and @cwarzel.92. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal …
World Insights: From weal to woe, EU discards blind faith in Washington 2025-04-27 06:12 Xinhua News Agency BRUSSELS, April 27 (Xinhua) -- In a striking and unprecedented response, the EU's executive has recently issued an updated guidance urging America-bound senior officials to take serious precautions against cyber-espionage, reported the Financial Times …
Can US political turbulence ruin the world’s most powerful intelligence alliance? 2025-04-26 00:25 Ukrainian Week In May 2017, just one day after sacking then-FBI Director James Comey—who had been leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election—President Donald Trump welcomed two men into the Oval Office who, under any normal …
What Fiction Can Predict, and What It Can’t 2025-04-25 11:56 The Atlantic It happened to an electrical engineer from New Hampshire, a medical researcher at Harvard University, and an aging auntie from Seattle—all of them permanent residents. They were each returning home to the United States from an ordinary trip abroad when …
Glenn Greenwald: Americans' Liberties Are in Danger 2025-04-25 01:21 Reason Magazine Why was a man who was legally protected from deportation sitting in one of the world's most notorious prisons in El Salvador? This week on Just Asking Questions, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald returns to discuss a case that cuts to …
Time to re-read The Masses, the 1910s literary magazine crushed by government censorship. 2025-04-25 01:20 Literary Hub This political moment in America has been chilling for free speech and dissent, but like so many things about America, this government and vigilante repression isn’t new. Before Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi speaking out against war …
Intelligence is being gathered in this town 80 years on from WWII 2025-04-24 23:16 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) In the 1940s, Geraldton was a small coastal town of just 5,000 people. But with fears of a Japanese invasion during World War II, the population swelled dramatically, as 40,000 troops were stationed there for the defence of key infrastructure such as the …