How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press

For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Bellingcat Spies Feature Photo

AMSTERDAM -- Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good”

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The Spooks Spooking Themselves

As the role of a well-connected group of British and US intelligence agents begins to emerge, new suspicions are growing about what hand they may have had in weaving the Russiagate story.

Daniel Lazare
بواسطة Daniel Lazare
Spy Espionage

With the news that a Cambridge academic-cum-spy named Stefan Halper infiltrated the Trump campaign, the role of the intelligence agencies in shaping the great Russiagate saga is, at last, coming into focus. It’s looking more and more massive.  The intelligence agencies initiated reports that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia, they nurtured

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Canada Engaged in Widespread Surveillance of Its Indigenous Communities

Indigenous nations have emerged as vocal defenders of land and water, but state surveillance of these groups is disproportionate, and speaks of the broad criminalisation of Indigenous peoples.

Lex Gill
بواسطة Lex Gill
trans mountain pipeline

Researchers and journalists have begun to reveal the extent to which Indigenous activists and organisations in Canada are subject to surveillance by police, military, national security intelligence agencies and other government bodies. While security agencies have long looked beyond ‘traditional’ national security threats and set their sights on

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PEW Data On Public Perception Of Intelligence Agencies Is Biased And False

March 15, 2015 (FCN) – The PEW Research Center has just released a compilation of statistics that creates a general portrait of US citizens as mostly not concerned by US Intelligence Agencies spying daily on millions of people around the world in a post-Edward Snowden America.  Edward Snowden is the former NSA Contractor-turned-whistleblower that released […]

C.K. Golden
بواسطة C.K. Golden
FBI agents enter Trenton City Hall, Thursday, July 19, 2012, in Trenton, N.J.

March 15, 2015 (FCN) – The PEW Research Center has just released a compilation of statistics that creates a general portrait of US citizens as mostly not concerned by US Intelligence Agencies spying daily on millions of people around the world in a post-Edward Snowden America.  Edward Snowden is the former NSA Contractor-turned-whistleblower that

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