Category Archives: surveillance

The Snowden-Greenwald Affair

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Muller

Update below. While NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has got stuck in the transit area of a Moscow airport for the fourth week, the man who broke his story, Guardian’s blogger Glenn Greenwald, arranges for constant publicity about the material Snowden … Continue reading →

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Plausible Deniability

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Muller

Der Spiegel reporter Marcel Rosenbach has entertained today in German TV presseclub “plausible deniability”, a common strategy when government officials need to lie and deceit when held accountable for their unconstitutional acts by  lawmakers and the public. One outrageous example … Continue reading →

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Die Gedanken sind frei

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Muller

Well, still. With new progressive developments such as Google Glass users may surrender to total surveillance soon, given the disturbing news that Google and the NSA seem to be more or less one and the same. And the NSA is … Continue reading →

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A Real Journalist

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Muller

“A real journalist is one who understands, at a cellular level, and doesn’t shy away from, the adversarial relationship between government and press.” That’s what the New York Times’ Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has suggested yesterday when commenting on almost … Continue reading →

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