Tag Archives: NSA

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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Jeremy Benthem’s Panopticon

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Muller

We might owe whistle-blowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden (after Daniel Ellsberg) nothing else than the future. We got a final wake-up call. What Snowden has revealed is what all had long feared in nightmares but could not imagine to … Continue reading →

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NSA Targets US Citizens And, Well, Mainly Iranians

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Muller

The Guardian has revealed this week America’s further decline into the Home of Big Brother. Now, the National Security Agency (NSA) has even developed a powerful data mining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and maps by country the enormous … Continue reading →

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