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Judith Coburn: Can We be Forgotten Anymore?
• August 26, 2018
• 500 Words • 6 Comments • Reply
If I had to pick a single moment when I grasped that we were on a new surveillance planet, it would have been the release of the stunning revelations of Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor now in exile in Vladimir Putin’s Russia (and if there isn’t irony in that, please tell me... Read More
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Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying
A TomDispatch Interview With Laura Poitras
and • October 19, 2014
• 3,500 Words • 6 Comments • Reply
Here’s a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! stat from our new age of national security. How many Americans have security clearances? The answer: 5.1 million, a figure that reflects the explosive growth of the national security state in the post-9/11 era. Imagine the kind of system needed just to vet that many people for access... Read More
Glenn Greenwald: How I Met Edward Snowden
• May 13, 2014
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Make no mistake: it’s been the year of Edward Snowden. Not since Daniel Ellsberg leaked thePentagon Papers during the Vietnam War has a trove of documents revealing the inner workings and thinking of the U.S. government so changed the conversation. In Ellsberg’s case, that conversation was transformed only in the United States. Snowden has changed... Read More
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The Snowden Saga Begins
“I Have Been to the Darkest Corners of Government, and What They Fear Is Light”
• May 13, 2014
• 3,300 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
[This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Security State, and appears at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of Metropolitan Books.] On December 1, 2012, I received my first communication from Edward Snowden, although I had... Read More
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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