1. Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind these claims.
2. Body of Secrets
   Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence gathering agency in the world. James Banford in his sequel to "The Puzzle Palace" draws on newly released government documents and interviews with past and present personel to give a detailed picture of the agency. Tracing its origins from the Truman admisnistration and using examples from modern day incidents (Gary Powers, the Pueblo, the Israeli attack on a U.S. surveillance ship and many more) he provides us with an overview of the murky and dangerous world of intelligence operations.
   
3. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
   Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
4. Connexions
   Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1984
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1984
   
6. CorpWatch Announces Version 2.0 of the CrocTail Corporate Subsidiaries Database and Open API
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   CorpWatch announces the release of a second version of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API. CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their many foreign an
7. The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2020
   Ray McGovern once again effectively demolishes (as he has several times over the past three years) the flimsy props holding up Russiagate, especially the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (ICA) prepared in January 2017 by "handpicked analysts" from the FBI, CIA and NSA (not 17 intelligence agencies, as first claimed by National Intelligence Director James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan).
8. The Fog of Intelligence
   Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
9. The Global Intelligence Files
   Resource Type: Database
   Published: 2012
   On 27 February, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations and government agencies.
10. 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.
11. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
    You are the Target!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
12. The Mackenzie Institute
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
13. nerve agent case for 'action' on Russia
    Official claim that 'Novichok' points solely to Russia discredited
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The case against Russia using the nerve agent Novichok is undermined by earlier reports by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which previously declared that they have no evidence for the existence of a Russian Novichok programme.
14. Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.'
15. 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.
16. Reflections on the Corporate Security State
    "He's nuts. Like out there."
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Wikileaks began releasing millions of emails from anonymous hacks of the intelligence firm Stratfor, a global intelligence provider. Stratfor staff are very interested in organizations such as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
17. Shadow Government
    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    
18. Spying by the Numbers
    Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
19. Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.

Experts on Security & Intelligence in the Sources Directory

1. Wikileaks