United States global spying and propaganda
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- Fighting for communication control
- By Herbert I. Schiller, Le Monde diplomatique,
September 1997. Washington has not hesitated since the end
of the second world war to intervene financially,
politically and diplomatically in sectors it considers
strategic for maintaining US dominance. Communication is one
of these sectors, and here the American state is no paper
tiger, but represents the core interests of capital.
- Exposing the Global Surveillance
System
- By Nicky Hager, 26 December 1997. U.S. led global
intelligence system, called Echelon DICTIONARY. Capitalist
spy agencies monitor most of the world's telephone,
e-mail, and TELEX communications.
- Smaller spy satellites may give U.S. stealth
capability over trouble spots
- By Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, Sunday
1 February 1998. A new generation of small intelligence
satellites is expected to give U.S. analysts almost constant
overhead images of specific trouble spots anywhere in the
world.
- Careless mistake reveals subversion of
Windows by NSA
- By Duncan Campbell, Telepolis, 4 September
1999. Special access codes prepared by the US National
Security Agency have been secretly built into every version
of Windows operating system. Also, Lotus, had built an NSA
help information
trapdoor into its Notes system, and
that security functions on other software systems had been
deliberately crippled [publisher's note: Article fails
to mention that open software systems cannot be equiped
with secret trapdoors.]
- Global spy network revealed
- By Andrew Bomford of BBC Radio 4's PM programme, 7
November 1999. Listening in to your phone calls and reading
your emails. The ECHELON global spy system that probes
global communications.
- Project Echelon
- From The Golem, 16 November 1999. Information
garnered from the ACLU website on Project Echelon and
DICTIONARY, created by the NSA.
- The Role of Intelligence Services In a
Globalized World
- Remarks by John C. Gannon, Chairman, National
Intelligence Council, at the Conference Sponsored by
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin Germany 21 May 2001. The
six main driving forces shaping the future. Prolonged,
lower-level conflict will challenge
nation-states. Asymmetric warfare between states and the
populations at large. Threats from low-technology countries
and groups.
- FBI uses hacking technology for
surveillance
- By Robert Lemos, CNET News.com, Thursday 22 November
2001. US law enforcement agencies are reportedly developing
tools to install surveillance systems—based on
technology commonly used by hackers. The FBI working on a
computer trojan to install key-logging programs and other
surveillance software onto a person's computer without
the person's knowledge.