Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
NSA Targets Tor Administrators and People Searching for Privacy Tools
July 3rd, 2014More: NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious Via: ndr.de: The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany – in Berlin and Nuremberg – are under surveillance by the NSA. Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person […]
U.S. Military Has Secretly Operated in Somalia Since Around 2007
July 3rd, 2014Via: Reuters: U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said. The comments are the first detailed public acknowledgement of a U.S. military presence in Somalia dating back since […]
Facebook’s Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
June 28th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: Facebook’s News Feed—the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone—is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state. We now know that’s exactly […]
Obama Asks Congress for $500 Million for Rebels
June 26th, 2014The ink is hardly dry on this one: Militants in Iraq Take Over Four Cities, Make Off with Arms Cache and Nearly Half a Billion Dollars. So they are backing the good terrorists and the bad terrorists. The amount needed for the good terrorists is interesting, wouldn’t you say? The bad terrorists make off with […]
The Rise of Militarized NGOs
June 25th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: Who invaded Crimea? Civil society. Who has occupied government offices and police headquarters in eastern Ukraine, bringing massive instability to that region? Civil society. Who is fighting the governments of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Nouri al-Malaki in Iraq? Civil society. And who are thecolectivos confronting Venezuelan students who protest against the […]
And Now… “Americans Have Joined Militant Group ISIS”
June 25th, 2014*wink* Via: CBS: The Sunni militant group in Iraq is a force roughly 3,000 strong and includes some Americans, a senior intelligence official told CBS News on Tuesday. The majority of fighters in the group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, are of Iraqi and Syrian origin. In all, up to 10,000 are fighting […]
New Leaks Show Germany’s Collusion with NSA
June 22nd, 2014Via: Deutsche Welle: This week German news magazine Der Spiegel published the largest single set of files leaked by whistleblower and former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The roughly 50 documents show the depth of the German intelligence agencies’ collusion with the NSA. They suggest that the German Intelligence Agency (BND), the country’s […]
“Got Fiber?” Countries Outside of Five Eyes Network Working with NSA
June 19th, 2014Via: First Look: Huge volumes of private emails, phone calls, and internet chats are being intercepted by the National Security Agency with the secret cooperation of more foreign governments than previously known, according to newly disclosed documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden. The classified files, revealed today by the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information in a reporting […]
U.S. Special Forces Deploying to Iraq
June 19th, 2014Arm al-Qaeda. Train al-Qaeda. Fight al-Qaeda. Arm ISIS. Train ISIS. Fight ISIS. Bonus points for multiple countries (Syria and Iraq) descending into chaos and potentially touching off a regional conflict. Via: Bloomberg: President Barack Obama said he’s sending as many as 300 U.S. military advisers to assist the Iraqi army battle an insurgency and is […]
The Fall of Iraq – What You Aren’t Being Told
June 18th, 2014Via: Storm Clouds Gathering: Research Credit: Pookie
