Tag: intelligence agencies

Witness K: Gangster Capitalism Meets Kafka

Australia remains…one of the most secretive and, it should be said, punitive democracies when it comes to dealing with its public servants and whistleblowing.

Safe Space for Spying: What remains unsaid by the Signals Directorate

In government, neither side of politics has ordered an inquiry into the Iraq War, and the most obvious question is not asked in the NSC’s safe spaces: do Australia’s expeditionary military campaigns raise or lower the threat to domestic security? If you fear the answer, better not ask the question.

Minding the Gap, by Felicity Ruby

‘Peace Pilgrims’ face seven years’ jail for protesting Pine Gap’s global surveillance capabilities

The Age of Hyper-cynicism

Simon Cooper

A Wilderness of Mirrors

Guy Rundle

Will Democracy Come to the USA?

Simon Cooper: Political dissent, so-called un-Americanism and the erosion of civil liberties in the US