The expansive post-9/11 notion of “homeland security” – manifested most concretely in the creation of the Department of Homeland...
September 8, 2021September 8, 2021
Suspicionless Surveillance: Suppressing Communities of Color and Political Dissent After 9/11
September 1, 2021September 1, 2021
The Afghan Intelligence Agency Was Raided: Who Got the Files?
The people who seized the files at the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Communications may not have even...
July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
Israeli Spyware Used to Surveil Activists World Wide
Military-grade spyware leased by the Israeli firm NSO Group to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted...
March 1, 2021March 1, 2021
MSE: Agência de Controle Social
MSS in Simplified Chinese | MSS in English Há poucas agências de inteligência com uma agenda mais ambiciosa do que...
February 21, 2021February 21, 2021
The Five Eyes: The Global Spy Network You Never Heard Of
[Inside the Five Eyes: a Five Part Series: Part 1 [below] | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4...
February 8, 2021February 8, 2021
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...
February 3, 2021February 3, 2021
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...
January 2, 2021January 2, 2021
‘Eyes in the Sky’: The Scary Realities of Wide Area Surveillance
“Someday most major developed cities in the world will live under the unblinking gaze of some form of wide-area surveillance,”...
December 30, 2020December 30, 2020
Inside The Five Eyes: ‘Like a Moon Base’
[Inside the Five Eyes series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3 is below] The technological assets that the Five...
December 15, 2020March 4, 2021
The Five Eyes See ‘Every Corner of the Globe’
[Inside the Five Eyes series: Part 1 | Part 2 is below] The power of the Five Eyes is enhanced...
November 12, 2020November 13, 2020
12 Steps to Controlling the U.S. Surveillance State
(Image Credit; Just Security) A team of writers at the Just Security blog, have a 12-step program for reining in...
September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
CIA Contractor Who Targeted Assange Also Spied on Other U.S. Journalists
At the The Grayzone Max Blumenthal calls attention to a well-documented story, based on the investigation of a Spanish court...
