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Spying on Americans through Cellphone Carriers
Monday, 16 July 2012, 5:17 pm | Tom Burghardt
What most Americans are blissfully unaware of is the fact that they carry in their pockets what have been described as near-perfect spy devices: their cellphones. When Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in 2008, a privacy-killing law that ... More >>
Orwell 2011: Towards a Pervasive "Surveillance America"
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 1:40 pm | Tom Burghardt
Not since AT&T whistleblower Marc Klein's 2006 revelations that U.S. telecommunications giants were secretly collaborating with the government to spy on Americans, has a story driven home the point that we are confronted by a daunting set of invisible ... More >>
Airport Security: Welcome to Scannergate
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 2:04 pm | Tom Burghardt
Call them what you will: bottom feeders, corporate con-men, flim-flam artists, peddlers of crisis, you name it. You can't help but marvel how enterprising security firms have the uncanny ability to sniff-out new opportunities wherever they can find, or ... More >>
Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 10:31 am | Tom Burghardt
New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up. More >>
The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 10:23 pm | Tom Burghardt
Global Research Feature Article www.GlobalResearch.ca Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System by Tom Burghardt Global Research , October 27, 2009 Antifascist Calling... - 2009-10-24 More >>
"Emergency Control" of the Internet
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 2:43 pm | Tom Burghardt
You have to hand it to congressional Democrats. Mendacious grifters whose national security agenda is virtually indistinguishable from Bushist Republicans, when it comes to rearranging proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic, the party of "change" ... More >>
Cyber Warfare: Building Tools for Mass Destruction
Friday, 29 May 2009, 2:20 pm | Tom Burghardt
A quintessential hallmark of an authoritarian regime, particularly one that operates within highly-militarized, though nominally democratic states such as ours, is the maintenance of a system of internal control; a seamless panopticon where dissent ... More >>
Tom Burghardt: America's New Asian Quagmire
Monday, 9 February 2009, 11:21 am | Tom Burghardt
With the situation on the ground rapidly deteriorating, U.S. imperialism's South Asian adventure is going off the rails. More >>
Microwave Weapons to be used for "Crowd Control"
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 2:26 pm | Tom Burghardt
Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology's "Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors," with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave "non-lethal" weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army. More >>
