In his book “Eyes in the Sky,” Arthur Michel Holland argues that “persistent surveillance” of American communities via “wide-area motion imagery” or WAMI, is all but inevitable. The evidence is mounting that he is right. Last month the Guardian reported on the Pentagon is testing surveillance balloons over five Midwestern States. Now an Indian reservation...
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A Parliamentary Fix to End Forever Wars
The Constitution couldn’t be clearer. If the president wants to go to war, he or she must get a declaration of war. But for the last 70 years, the constitution has been bypassed by presidents who want to go to war and by senators and congressmen who don’t want to take responsibility for those wars....
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The Egyptian Spy Who Worked for Mossad
Heba Salim was an Egyptian woman who said she spied in service of peace. Her story is the basis a famous Egyptian movie, Al sood ila al haweyah. (Climbing to the Abyss) I never knew her story until I read it in Egyptian Streets. At a time when Egyptian President Sadat was planning his next...
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Dutch Mole Aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet Cyberattack on Iran
One intelligence service may need another–or two to successfully mount a covert operation. Case in point: the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Its long been known that the United States and Israel collaborated on creating a computer virus known as Stuxnet. The virus caused the Iranian computers controlling centrifuges used to enrich uranium to...
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An Afghan Peace Problem: CIA-Funded Militias
President Trump wants to pull out of Afghanistan. A majority of Congress wants to end the 19 year long war. Peace talks are underway. The women of Afghanistan are bracing for a loss of freedoms possible while under American occupation. An agreement between the United States and the Taliban is in sight. But then there...