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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
July 7, 2022
“Since the dawn of capitalism, the capitalist class has had to keep an eye on the working class in order to keep them in check. This surveillance has been around for a long time but the story of the modern surveillance state begins about a century ago.”
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Apr 11, 2020
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 6, 2022
Chris Hedges talks to William Binney, intelligence analyst and NSA whistleblower, about the Washington Post revelations over the CIA and West German intelligence (BND) setting up a Swiss company, Crypto AG, to sell encrypted machines to more than 120 governments worldwide. From 1970 to 2018, the CIA intercepted foreign government communications. Among the countries buying the machines were France, Iran, the Vatican, and Venezuela.
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“Your communications, as they happen largely today, don’t actually take place between you and the person that you are talking to. They happen between you and Facebook, who then provides a copy of it to the person you are talking to, or you and Gmail, who then gives a copy of it to the person that you are talking to and every time these transactions occur through these service providers, they keep a record of it.”
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“It is through this sort of unholy connection of technology and sort of an unusual interpretation of contract law that these institutions have been able to transform this greatest virtue of humanity—which is this desire to interact and to connect and to cooperate and to share—to transform all of that into a weakness.
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Apr 1, 2019
Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss mass surveillance and the Intelligence Industrial Complex.
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John Pilger – Rally to Free Julian Assange
Rally held 3 March 2019 in Martin Place, Sydney, organised by the SEP-AU.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Oct 6, 2018
Author, Virginia Eubanks, explains to Chris Hedges how the goals of Victorian-era poorhouses have evolved with 21st Century high-tech to exert control and surveillance of needy, poor and homeless people. Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor.
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Updated: June 7, 2018
by Lo
Editor, Dandelion Salad
June 6, 2018
Like many of the larger independent websites on the Left, Dandelion Salad’s blog posts have been removed from Google searches and Google Alerts.
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by Greg Maybury
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Perth, Western Australia
Pox Amerikana, May 25, 2018
May 28, 2018
We have blind men, one-eyed men, squint-eyed men, men with long sight, short sight, clear sight, dim sight, [and] weak sight. All that is a faithful enough image of our understanding; but we are barely acquainted with [men of] false sight. — Voltaire, The Philosophical Dictionary, Knopf, NY, 1924
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Updated: April 18, 2018
RT on Apr 8, 2018
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is recruiting staff to compile a database, aimed at monitoring journalists around the world.
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by William Bowles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Investigating Imperialism
London, England
February 3, 2018
Have you noticed that it’s no longer PC Dixon of Dock Green who mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens as he goes about his beat in your neighbourhood? Instead, it’s a Kevlar-armoured, video-monitored, taser-equipped, drone-surveilled, spit-masked supplied soldier, straight out of Star Wars, who now staggers along under the weight of an industrialized capitalism, visibly physically disconnected from the citizens they monitor by their bullet-proof uniforms, that more resemble a rack of tools in your local hardware store than the Bobby on the beat.
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Dandelion Salad
Previously posted Aug. 7, 2015 (good discussion in the comment section)
Updated: Sept. 12, 2021
Note: Videos were removed by The Real News Network; current videos are from theAnalysis-news.
with Thomas Drake
Part 1
TheRealNews on Aug 2, 2015
On Reality Asserts Itself, former NSA senior executive Mr. Drake and host Paul Jay talk about the “dark state” and how 9/11 opens up disturbing questions about power, who we are, who’s in charge and the secret subversion of the U.S. constitution.
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Originally posted February 7, 2008
Warning
These videos may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
Emmanuel Goldstein on Sep 26, 2013
BBC Television’s live production of George Orwell’s “1984”. Produced in 1954. Creative Commons license: Public Domain.
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TheRealNews on Dec 31, 2016
Obama’s Recently-Signed National Defense Authorization Act Includes A ‘Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act’. The Intercept’s Alex Emmons Explains.
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Democracy Now! on Oct 28, 2016
http://democracynow.org – New details are emerging about how AT&T has been spying on Americans for profit with a secret plan called Project Hemisphere.
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