Einleitung Deutschlands Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) informiert den deutschen Kanzler über Politik- und politische Entscheidungen bezüglich Außenpolitik und nationaler Sicherheit. Deutschlands unglückliche Erfahrung mit dem Nationalsozialismus der Nazis und Kommunismus von Ostdeutschland waren Grund für die Annahme strenger Datenschutzgesetze, weswegen der BND unter mehr Restriktionen arbeiten muss, als zahlreiche andere Geheimdienste. Ursprünge Der 1956 gegründete BND war...
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RIP Fred Hampton, Black Panther Assassinated by the FBI
[This piece was first published in Counterpunch, Dec. 4, 2019. I’m republishing it for Black History Month 2021] Fifty one years ago, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a pre-dawn raid on the apartment where they were sleeping. In the decades since, a revealing body...
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With NSA Training, UAE Spies Monitored Rights Activists and Michelle Obama
From a New York Times story and additional reporting by Al Jazeera: Known as Project Raven, hackers employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools to help the UAE engage in surveillance of other governments, armed groups, and human rights activists critical of the monarchy. Interviews by Reuters news agency in 2019 with former Raven operatives, along with a...
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China’s Top Spy is a Working Class Hero
SpyTalk on China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS in Chinese) Since its founding in 1983, the MSS has had a preeminent role in China’s vast machinery of domestic repression. But Chen appears set to turn its foreign spying arm into an increasingly effective presence in America and elsewhere during the 2020s, says Nicholas Eftimades, one...
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Can U.S. Spy Agencies Stop White Power Violence?
In the aftermath of the failed Jan. 6 coup, people are calling for the creation of a domestic intelligence agency. Jeff Stein at SpyTalk surveys leading US officials from a variety of agencies for theirreaction. I think the nays have it. The US doesn’t need new laws or new organizations to combat white nationalists. It...