Defending Human Rights in a Digital Age
This is an (abbreviated) version of my contribution to a panel discussion about human rights in a digital age, hosted last December by Professor Marianne Franklin and Goldsmiths University in London:...
View ArticleA Good American — Bill Binney
I have for a number of years now been involved with a global group of whistleblowers from the intelligence, diplomatic and military world, who gather together every year as the Sam Adams Associates to...
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Head of MI5 goes public
For the first time a serving head of a major intelligence service in the UK, Andrew Parker the Director General of the UK domestic Security Service, has given an interview to a national newspaper....
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Webstock, New Zealand, 2016
Now, I speak all over the world at conferences and universities about a whole variety of interconnected issues, but I do want to highlight this conference from earlier this year and give a shout out...
View ArticleWhat price whistleblowers?
First published on Consortium News. Forgive my “infamously fluent French”, but the phrase “pour encourager les autres” seems to have lost its famously ironic quality. Rather than making an example of...
View ArticleGerman spy agency penetrated by ISIS
My recent interview about the German domestic spy agency, the BfV — the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, ironically — being allegedly infiltrated by ISIS. ISIS Agent in German Spy Agency...
View ArticleThe NSA “Brain Drain”
The former head of the NSA, Keith Alexander, is reported to have said that the agency is facing a “brain drain” of its best staff, predominantly the younger ones. Here is my perspective on this: The...
View ArticleCopyright used as proxy censorship of RT on Facebook
Here is an interview I did on RT yesterday about the censorship of the channel’s Facebook page ahead of the presidential inauguration today. That censorship has since been lifted. In solidarity I...
View ArticleCIA and MI5 hacking our “Internet of Things”
Yet again Wikileaks has come good by exposing just how much we are being spied upon in this brave new digital world — the Vault 7 release has provided the proof for what many of us already...
View ArticleCrosstalk debate on Russiagate
A recent debate about “Russiagate” on RT’s Crosstalk show, with CIA whistleblower, John Kiriakou, and former US diplomat, James Jatras, along with host Peter Lavelle. Debunking some of the wilder...
View ArticleThe Sam Adams Associates — the Weirdest Club in the World
Since 2002 a unique award ceremony has taken place annually in either the USA or Europe: the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. This year it occurred in Washington DC on 22 September and...
View ArticleGood Technology Collective
Recently I was invited to be on the global council of a new tech policy intitiative called the Good Technology Collective, based in Berlin. ~ Founded by a group of technology enthusiasts led by 1aim...
View ArticleHave British Spies been hacking the EU?
First published by Consortium News. Just after midnight on 16 August I was called by LBC in London for a comment on a breaking story on the front page of The Daily Telegraph about British spies hacking...
View ArticleUK sets up yet another costly spy agency
This article was first published on RT Op Ed a month ago. The UK Ministry of Defence announced on 21 September the establishment of yet another British spy agency, an amalgam of military and security...
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