Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125

[Dawie Coetzee]

The problem here is, of course, not that industrial secrets are being stolen, 
but that industrial secrets are being kept in the first place. -D




>
> From: Keith Addison 
>To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org 
>Sent: Saturday, 8 February 2014, 0:52
>Subject: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125
> 
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>William Blum writes:
>
>... "So what do we have here? The NSA being used to steal industrial 
>secrets; nothing to do with fighting terrorism. And the NSA stealing 
>money and otherwise sabotaging unnamed financial systems, which may 
>also represent gaining industrial advantage for the United States.
>
>"Long-time readers of this report may have come to the realization 
>that I'm not an ecstatic admirer of US foreign policy. But this stuff 
>shocks even me. It's the gross pettiness of "The World's Only 
>Superpower".
>A careful search of the extensive Lexis-Nexis database failed to turn 
>up a single American mainstream media source, print or broadcast, 
>that mentioned this revelation. I found it only on those websites 
>which carried my report, plus three other sites: Techdirt, Lawfare, 
>and Crikey (First Digital Media)." ...
>
>The EU has been complaining about the US using its spy network to 
>steal industrial secrets for a long time.
>
>The NSA and Britain's GCHQ started construction of the Echelon global 
>wide area network surveillance system in 1981, soon joined by 
>Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Europe was excluded. 
>Europe started complaining about industrial eavesdropping in the 80s.
>
>British journalist Duncan Campbell has covered this story from the start:
>
>Somebody's listening
>Duncan Campbell
>New Statesman August 1988
>http://praxis.leedsmet.ac.uk/praxis/documents/echelon_enc.doc?
>
>Interception Capabilities 2000 (report written for the EU)
>Duncan Campbell
>http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm
>pdf:
>http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2001-Paper1.pdf
>
>Up to now:
>
>Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin'
>Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out
>DUNCAN CAMPBELL , CAHAL MILMO , KIM SENGUPTA , NIGEL MORRIS , TONY PATTERSON
>Tuesday 05 November 2013
>
>
>UPDATE: Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation 
>over 'secret Berlin listening post'
>
>
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[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125

[Keith Addison]

William Blum writes:

... "So what do we have here? The NSA being used to steal industrial 
secrets; nothing to do with fighting terrorism. And the NSA stealing 
money and otherwise sabotaging unnamed financial systems, which may 
also represent gaining industrial advantage for the United States.


"Long-time readers of this report may have come to the realization 
that I'm not an ecstatic admirer of US foreign policy. But this stuff 
shocks even me. It's the gross pettiness of "The World's Only 
Superpower".
A careful search of the extensive Lexis-Nexis database failed to turn 
up a single American mainstream media source, print or broadcast, 
that mentioned this revelation. I found it only on those websites 
which carried my report, plus three other sites: Techdirt, Lawfare, 
and Crikey (First Digital Media)." ...


The EU has been complaining about the US using its spy network to 
steal industrial secrets for a long time.


The NSA and Britain's GCHQ started construction of the Echelon global 
wide area network surveillance system in 1981, soon joined by 
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Europe was excluded. 
Europe started complaining about industrial eavesdropping in the 80s.


British journalist Duncan Campbell has covered this story from the start:

Somebody's listening
Duncan Campbell
New Statesman August 1988
http://praxis.leedsmet.ac.uk/praxis/documents/echelon_enc.doc?

Interception Capabilities 2000 (report written for the EU)
Duncan Campbell
http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm
pdf:
http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2001-Paper1.pdf

Up to now:

Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin'
Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out
DUNCAN CAMPBELL , CAHAL MILMO , KIM SENGUPTA , NIGEL MORRIS , TONY PATTERSON
Tuesday 05 November 2013


UPDATE: Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation 
over 'secret Berlin listening post'



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http://williamblum.org/aer/read/125

The Anti-Empire Report #125

By William Blum - Published February 4th, 2014

"Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for 
'objectivity'. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are 
themselves dismissed as ideological." - Michael Parenti


An exchange in January with Paul Farhi, Washington Post columnist, 
about coverage of US foreign policy:


Dear Mr. Farhi,

Now that you've done a study of al-Jazeera's political bias in 
supporting Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, is it perhaps now time for a study 
of the US mass media's bias on US foreign policy? And if you doubt 
the extent and depth of this bias, consider this:


There are more than 1,400 daily newspapers in the United States. Can 
you name a single paper, or a single TV network, that was 
unequivocally opposed to the American wars carried out against Libya, 
Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, and Vietnam? Or even 
opposed to any two of these wars? How about one? In 1968, six years 
into the Vietnam war, the Boston Globe surveyed the editorial 
positions of 39 leading US papers concerning the war and found that 
"none advocated a pull-out".


Now, can you name an American daily newspaper or TV network that more 
or less gives any support to any US government ODE (Officially 
Designated Enemy)? Like Hugo Chávez of Venezuela or his successor, 
Nicolás Maduro; Fidel or Raúl Castro of Cuba; Bashar al-Assad of 
Syria; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran; Rafael Correa of Ecuador; or Evo 
Morales of Bolivia? I mean that presents the ODE's point of view in a 
reasonably fair manner most of the time? Or any ODE of the recent 
past like Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Moammar Gaddafi of Libya, 
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, or Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti?


Who in the mainstream media supports Hamas of Gaza? Or Hezbollah of 
Lebanon? Who in the mainstream media is outspokenly critical of 
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians? And keeps his or her job?


Who in the mainstream media treats Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning 
as the heroes they are?


And this same mainstream media tell us that Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, 
et al. do not have a real opposition media.


The ideology of the American mainstream media is the belief that they 
don't have any ideology; that they are instead what they call 
"objective". I submit that there is something more important in 
journalism than objectivity. It is capturing the essence, or the 
truth, if you will, with the proper context and history. This can, as 
well, serve as "enlightenment".


It's been said that the political spectrum concerning US foreign 
policy in the America mainstream media "runs the gamut from