War in Context

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• Egypt: Morsi’s final hours in power?
• Edward Snowden’s dwindling asylum options
• The NSA is watching. So are Google and Facebook
• A trail of official lies about NSA spying
• Tom Engelhardt: The OED of the national security state
• America’s totalitarian inclinations
• Video: Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the Egyptian army’s threat to oust Morsi
• Edward Snowden breaks silence to threaten new U.S. leaks

Egypt: Morsi’s final hours in power? Posted: 02 Jul 2013 08:20 AM PDT Reuters reports: President Mohamed Mursi clung to office on Tuesday after rebuffing an army ultimatum to force a resolution to Egypt’s political crisis, and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood sought to mass its supporters to defend him. But the Islamist leader looked increasingly isolated, with ministers resigning, the liberal opposition refusing to talk to him and [...]

Edward Snowden’s dwindling asylum options Posted: 02 Jul 2013 08:15 AM PDT The Guardian lists the response Edward Snowden has received so far in his search for asylum — so far the only positive hint comes from Venezuela. According to a statement from WikiLeaks, the US whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in a total of 21 countries. Snowden, who has been charged under espionage laws [...]

The NSA is watching. So are Google and Facebook Posted: 02 Jul 2013 08:10 AM PDT The Los Angeles Times reports: Not long before headlines exposed National Security Agency programs that secretly collect records of Americans’ phone calls, another surveillance system got far less attention: Nordstrom, the department store chain, acknowledged it was tracking customers without their knowledge in 17 stores. Nordstrom had hired a company to log a unique number [...]

A trail of official lies about NSA spying Posted: 02 Jul 2013 08:05 AM PDT The Washington Post reports: Amid the cascading disclosures about National Security Agency surveillance programs, the top lawyer in the U.S. intelligence community opened his remarks at a rare public appearance last week with a lament about how much of the information being spilled was wrong. “A lie can get halfway around the world before the [...]

Tom Engelhardt: The OED of the national security state Posted: 02 Jul 2013 08:01 AM PDT The dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)By Tom Engelhardt In the months after September 11, 2001, it was regularly said that “everything” had changed.  It’s a claim long forgotten, buried in everyday American life.  Still, if you think about it, in the decade-plus that followed — the years of the PATRIOT Act, “enhanced [...]

America’s totalitarian inclinations Posted: 01 Jul 2013 06:06 PM PDT In Der Spiegel, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark write: Now that Snowden has afforded the world a glimpse of the inner workings of the NSA, it has become clear that Obama is, at best, telling only a small portion of the truth. With evidence indicating that the NSA bugged EU offices and summits [...]

Video: Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the Egyptian army’s threat to oust Morsi Posted: 01 Jul 2013 06:06 PM PDT

Edward Snowden breaks silence to threaten new U.S. leaks Posted: 01 Jul 2013 03:25 PM PDT Reuters reports: Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has broken his silence for the first time since he fled to Moscow eight days ago to say he remains free to make new disclosures about U.S. spying activity. In a letter to Ecuador, Snowden said the United States was illegally persecuting him for revealing its [...]