- Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Abbott governmen ordered Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes and offices of a lawyer and former intelligence agency whistleblower involved in an international legal challenge to Australia’s spying on the East Timor government during maritime border talks in 2004.
- Authorities urged to drop two bills that threaten media freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders urges the South African government to abandon two proposed media laws, one to create a media tribunal and one to protect information involving #national security."
- Barrett Brown case: 11 of 12 counts dismissed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders greets with relief federal prosecutors' decision to drop nearly all criminal charges against Barrett Brown, a contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair.
- The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
- Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
- Bill to stifle flow of information poised to pass in Japan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by a new state secrets bill before the Japanese parliament, which, if passed, would broaden the government's power to determine which information can be kept secret.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
- The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. This book traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The CIA's Memory Prison
A Perverse Logic
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
- The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- Cold War Canada
The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957
Resource Type: Book
The authors reconstruct the secret and silent purges while tracing the spy scandals, the growth of security screenings and attacks on individuals.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
- Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- Covert Entry
Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
A glimpse into the inner workings of Canada's secret service.
- Data Mining You
How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
- Double Standard
The Secret History of Canadian Immigration
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
- Eavesdropping on the Planet
The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
- Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation Fights National Security Letter Demands on Behalf of Telecom, Internet Company
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Legal Briefings Still Under Seal After Government Demands for Secrecy
- Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
- GovernmentSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Guantanamo North
Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
- The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. It is not a pretty picture.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise.
- I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exile, and describes his life in Moscow.
- If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
Snowden Coverage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
- Information Overload
Driving a Stake Through the National Security State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Here’s an idea. Let’s all start salting all of our conversations and our written communications with a selection of those 300 key words. If every liberty-loving person in America virus were to do this, the NSA would have to employ all 15 million unemployed Americans just to begin to look at all those transcripts!
- Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Intercept
Resource Type: Website
A platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, with a long-term mission is to produce fearless, adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
- Journalists are not informants
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Two Cameroonian journalists face military court charges of failure to report a destabilization plot. Journalists Felix Cyriaque Ebole Bola of the daily Mutations and Rodrigue Tongue of Le Messager, were charged following a 28 October military court
- The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
- The Mackenzie Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Making a Killing
The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
- Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
- The National Security State Cops a Feel
Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
- The National Security State Exposed
Obama v. Snowden
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Snowden disclosed orders demanding that all of the nation’s internet providers allow for secretly conducted, and ongoing government sweep of phone calls, audio and video chats, e-mails, photographs, and other communications used daily by American citizens.
- New Behind-the-Scenes Video: Airship Flight Over the NSA Data Center
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Internet's Own Boy Director Brian Knappenberger Releases Short Doc as Senate Introduces New Reform Bill
- No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Glenn Greenwald recounts his 10-day trip to Honk Kong where he acquired the Snowden Files. Additionally, Greenwald discusses the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power, as well as the media's habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people.
- Notes on the Current Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
- The NSA's Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers
Your Email is Likely Being Monitored
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The American National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting information coming in and out of Google and Yahoo servers over non-public, internal network fibre optic lines. In December, 2012 alone, the program (revealingly called “MUSCULAR”) processed 181,280,466 Google and Yahoo records that included email, searches, videos and photos.
- NSA's Path to Totalitarianism
Ever-Shrinking Democracy in America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The American National Security Agency (NSA) appears as a “rogue” organization, extremism in the putative service of liberty. Or better, call it, stripped of all cosmetics, the unerring mark of a Police State, itself become identical with Fortress America, the National-Security State.
- The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
- Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Obama signs police state legislation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
- Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- On Power and Ideology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
- On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
- Operation Freedom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
A tabloid designed to inform the public about the growing national measures in Canada
- The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy because it put US foreign policy in a very bad light.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
Whistleblowers and national security
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- The Police State is Real
It Has Happened Here
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
- Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, have worked to subvert anti-virus and other security software in order to track users and infiltrate networks, according to documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
- Preparing for a Digital 9/11
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
- Project Ploughshares
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Puzzle Palace
A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
Resource Type: Book
About the Natiional Security Agency
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
- Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Secrecy and Power
Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
- Secret Service
Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of political policing in Canada.
- The Secrets in Israel's Archives
Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state's chief archivist says many of the documents "are not fit for public viewing" and raise doubts about Israel's "adherence to international law," while the government warns that greater transparency will "damage foreign relations."
- Security Certificate Detainee Mahjoub Rallies with Supporters Marking Exactly 12 Years of Detention wit Charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
On June 26th, Mohammad Mahjoub and his supporters will gather to demand his immediate liberation and that of the other two men still held under security certificates.
- Security laws attack Australia's press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) in describing the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill No 1 an outrageous attack on press freedom in Australia.
- Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
- Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
- Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Canadian journalists and researchers have teamed up to create the world's first fully-searchable index of the classified documents revealing NSA surveillance leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
- Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.
- Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
- Spy Wars
Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A survey history of Canad'as "secret" history.
- Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself.
- Statement from George Galloway on being denied entry to Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
For a G7 government to ban a five times elected British parliamentarian from addressing public events or keeping my appointment with some of their flagship television and radio programmes is quite a serious matter.
- The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
- Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
- Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
Constitutional Black Out
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as "exemplars" of how "personal vulternabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- US news media to be monitored to curb leaks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A series of leak leads U.S. officials to take additional measures to stop the public from learning about government secrets.
- War Against the People
Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
- War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Free Press and the National Security State
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
During his election campaigns, Barak Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. history. Cynics can rejoice in the fact that the Obama administration has indicted more people for violating government secrecy than all previous administrations combined. This is the story of four whistleblowers who who traded their careers and life normalcy for slander, danger, legal prosecution and an opportunity to expose the crimes of the US government.
- A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
- The Watchers
The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An exploration of how and why the American government increasingly spies on its own citizens.
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
- Whose "Security" -- and for What?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Editorial about how accepted "security" discourse obscures the real structural and systemic crises today.
- Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, schools, universities and health service providers can no longer opt out of monitoring students and patients for supposed radicalised behaviour.
- You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
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