Feb 25, 2015 | Leaks, News
AMERICAN AND BRITISH Leaked: NSA Spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents...
Feb 25, 2015 | 2020 Relevant, Abuses of Power, News
For years, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side operated as something civil liberties attorneys would come to describe as the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. Known as Homan Square, the facility housed special police units that, according to...
Feb 16, 2015 | Black Technology, News
There is often times a trade-off between security and convenience. With Home Hacks the more easily you can access your personal data, the easier someone else can too, making anything that you put online a potential target for hackers. A growing source of concern for...
Feb 13, 2015 | 2020 Relevant, Government Agenda, News
Federal Judge Dismissed Challenge to NSA Surveillance on Secrecy Grounds In February 2015, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled in favor of the National Security Agency in the landmark case Jewel v. NSA, dismissing a challenge to the government’s mass...
Feb 1, 2015 | Events & Assassinations, News
BREAKING: INFORMANT? Paris Terror Suspect on US Watch List Met With French President Sarkozy in 2009 21st Century Wire says… Charlie Hebdo As the dust settles from this week’s terror extravaganza in France, more loose ends are turning up (or being tied up), with this...
Jan 31, 2015 | News, WAR: By Design
Israeli Strikes on UN Forces: A Pattern of Lethal Attacks On January 28, 2015, Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, taking the life of 36-year-old Spanish peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria served with the United Nations...
Jan 31, 2015 | Government Agenda, News
Understanding the Limited Hangout: A Framework for Intelligence Analysis In the vocabulary of intelligence tradecraft, few concepts are as important — or as poorly understood by the general public — as the limited hangout. The term describes an operation in which an...
Dec 13, 2014 | Abuses of Power, News
Two Senate Reports on Torture: Why the Armed Services Committee Findings Matter More In December 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its long-anticipated report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. The document generated enormous media...
Dec 11, 2014 | Activism, News
Pirate Bay Cofounder Peter Sunde Welcomes the Site’s Demise In December 2014, when Swedish authorities raided The Pirate Bay’s servers for the second time in the site’s history, one of its original founders offered a reaction that surprised many....
Dec 11, 2014 | Government Agenda, Leaks, News
Unmasking the Pseudonyms in the Senate Torture Report The 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogation practices used an extensive system of pseudonyms and code names to obscure the identities of personnel, detention facilities, and contractors...
Nov 13, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Anonymous, News
Statement of Purpose I have been observing the hacker and hacktivist communities, at times very closely, for many years. The exact definition of “hacker” and “hacktivist” varies from author to author, so I shall make my interpretation of these words very clear. Let us...
Nov 3, 2014 | Government Agenda, News
The Encryption Debate: FBI Claims vs. Whistleblower Promises In October 2014, FBI Director James Comey delivered a carefully crafted address at the Brookings Institution, warning that robust encryption technologies were causing American intelligence agencies to...
Oct 24, 2014 | Black Technology, News
Voice biometrics technology, which converts the unique characteristics of a person’s speech into a digital fingerprint, has quietly expanded into a mass identification system used by both corporations and governments worldwide. An estimated 65 million...
Oct 20, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Government Agenda, News, Video
Project Coast: South Africa’s Secret Biological Weapons Program During the apartheid era of the early 1980s, South African military scientist Dr. Wouter Basson launched one of the most disturbing bioweapons initiatives ever documented. Known as Project Coast,...
Oct 18, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Activism, News
Across the United States, organized groups of citizens have taken to filming police officers on duty as a form of community accountability. Operating under names like CopWatch, Cop Block, and the Peaceful Streets Project, these decentralized organizations use police...
Oct 18, 2014 | Activism, News
Few websites have demonstrated the resilience of distributed infrastructure quite like The Pirate Bay. Despite facing legal action across multiple countries, hardware seizures, domain takedowns, and the imprisonment of its founders, the torrent tracking platform has...
Oct 13, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, News
Every October, the United States observes Columbus Day with a federal holiday, parades, and school lessons celebrating Christopher Columbus as a visionary explorer who discovered the New World. Yet the historical record, drawn from primary sources including...
Oct 3, 2014 | News
First Ebola Case Diagnosed on US Soil On September 30, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed within the United States during the West African epidemic that had already claimed more than 3,000 lives across the...
Oct 3, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, News, WAR: By Design
How Western Governments Used Graphic Videos to Build Support for Military Action In the fall of 2014, a wave of alleged execution videos attributed to the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as IS or ISIL) dominated global headlines. These recordings, depicting masked...
Sep 28, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Abuses of Power, News
FBI Rapid DNA Initiative Targets Local Police Departments In 2014, the FBI announced plans to dramatically accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for its expanding biometric identification database. The initiative sought to enlist local police departments across...
Sep 27, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, News, WAR: By Design
How Western-Backed Regime Change in Libya Set the Stage The militant organization known as the Islamic State, previously called Al-Qaeda in Iraq and later rebranded under its current name, represents one of the most brutal armed groups in modern history. Its members...
Sep 23, 2014 | Black Technology, News
Unit 8200 Veterans Break Their Silence In September 2014, forty-three former members of Israel’s highly classified military intelligence division known as Unit 8200 took the extraordinary step of publicly refusing further service. In a jointly signed letter sent...
Sep 21, 2014 | Extra-Dimensional, News
Mexican Officials Release Controversial Mayan Artifacts In a move that generated significant attention within the UFO research community, Mexican government officials reportedly released a collection of Mayan artifacts dating back at least 1,300 years. The objects,...
Aug 15, 2014 | Globalist Corporations, News
In less than 15 years, the United States’ airline industry has shrunk from ten airlines in the sky to just the big four that are left today. (Photo via Shutterstock) There’s a stunning lack of choice for American consumers today, and nowhere is that more...
Jul 19, 2014 | Activism, News
The Tor anonymity network has long been promoted as one of the most effective tools for protecting online privacy. After the Snowden revelations exposed the breadth of NSA surveillance, calls for widespread adoption of Tor and similar technologies intensified. But a...
