Cyber Warfare, Surveillance & US Government’s Dick Pic Collection

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According to CIA Director John Brennan, the War on Terror is now being waged online. In a recent speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan warned about the threat of cyber terrorism and said the government needs to secure the internet. Recent high profile hacks reinforce how important the safety of our personal data online is. Yet the government is … Read More

Panopticon Fatigue – Life, Sex and Death under the East German Stasi

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[This article originally appears in issue #14 of White Fungus magazine, reprinted with publisher’s permission. Subscribe to White Fungus here] For five decades, the Stasi managed to painstakingly craft what was at the time the world’s most sophisticated surveillance state. The secret police of the German Democratic Republic’s Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (shorthand: Stasi) induced an era of fear among the East … Read More

How Non-Violent Activists Can Land on the Drone King’s Kill List

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Since 2008, the year of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Defense has funded a multimillion dollar university research program to probe the complex dynamics of mass social and political movements, anticipate global trends, and ultimately augment the intelligence community’s preparations for civil unrest and insurgencies both abroad and at home. Part of … Read More

Abby Martin on The Joe Rogan Experience & Larry King’s Politicking

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Joe Rogan defines new media. He’s a comedian, MMA fighter and former Fear Factor host who also pioneered The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), a wildly popular podcast featuring an eclectic variety of fascinating and unfiltered guests. Because he runs the project, there are absolutely no constraints, censorship nor shady corporate sponsorship. I was honored to join Joe recently for an … Read More

Terms and Conditions May Apply: Dangers of Corporate Surveillance

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Robbie Martin talks to Cullen Hoback, privacy advocate and creator of Terms and Conditions May Apply, a must-watch documentary about digital privacy rights, corporate/government spying collusion and the data mining economy of corporate surveillance. Terms and Conditions May Apply premiered a few months before the world learned Edward Snowden’s name. Following the leaks, Cullen’s thesis was emboldened, so he added … Read More