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Tag Archives: Edward Snowden
Revolting fountain pens
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 6 January 2014 “Our addiction to computer screens and networks is a form of political … Continue reading
Posted in France, Germany, Politics, USA
Tagged Alain Finkielkraut, Edward Snowden, espionage, Herbert Marcuse, Kafka, Le Monde, Leviathan, Luddites, MARCUSE, Philippe Sollers
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Authors attack Big Brother
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 December 2013 A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Hundreds of Writers sign Appeal … Continue reading
Fun and games
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 December 2013 You couldn’t make it up. The slime of state snooping into people’s private … Continue reading
Posted in Police, UK, USA
Tagged Big Brother, Edward Snowden, espionage, George Orwell, Ian McEwan, Leviathan, online gaming, state surveillance
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 November 2013 THE BOOT IS ON THE OTHER FOOT In the 1930s victims of Nazi … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Politics, Russia, UK, USA
Tagged Edward Snowden, espionage, Nazi persecution, O Tempora! O Mores!, Prism, Sarah Harrison, The Times They Are a-Changin'
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The Life of Others
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 23 October 2013 “A state’s appetite for collecting intelligence expands in direct relationship to its technical … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Europe, France, Germany, India, Spain, UK, USA
Tagged Clive Irving, Das Leben von Anderen, Dilma Rousseff, Edward Snowden, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, François Hollande, GCHQ, ICANN, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, NSA, Stasi
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Big Brother is watching you
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 21 October 2013 The big news here today is the revelation in the newspaper Le … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France, UK, USA
Tagged Antigone, Big Brother, Edward Snowden, George Orwell, Lord Palmerston, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Sophocles
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Hunted whistleblower gets gong
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 July 2013 The prestigious Sam Adams Award was accorded yesterday 8 July 2013 to Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Craig Murray, Edward Snowden, Guantánamo Bay, Julian Assange, Karimov, Sam Adams, whistleblower
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