Nach den Meldungen über den jüngsten Giftgaseinsatz in Syrien läuft ein zweiter Anlauf. Zwar ist noch nicht einmal geklärt, wer vielleicht Giftgas eingesetzt hat, aber in den Regierungszentralen (insbesondere auch in jener in Paris) weiß man schon, dass „wir“ eingreifen müssen.

(02.09.) Das Bundesinnenministerium hat vor wenigen Wochen von der britischen Gamma Group einen Trojaner erworben, der möglicherweise als Staatstrojaner zum Einsatz kommen soll. Laut einem internen Dokument hatte das Bundeskriminalamt bereits den Staatstrojaner Finfisher/Finspy von Gamma gekauft. Die Bundesregierung hatte schon im Dezember 2010 eingeräumt, dass das BKA eine Testversion von Finspy besitzt. Die gleiche Software wurde unter anderem vom Mubarak-Regime in Ägypten genutzt.

We already wrote about the latest reports coming out of the Snowden leaks, concerning how the NSA and GCHQ have effectively backdoored their way into breaking various encryption schemes by writing the standards themselves and recruiting internal spies within companies to covertly inject backdoors. The reporting on these documents was done jointly by The Guardian, the NY Times and Pro Publica. However, the NY Times coverage has one interesting tidbit

The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it‘s in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe

The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it

Guide reveals that NSA ‚obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships‘

Document shows how ‚signals intelligence‘, or Sigint, ‚actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products‘ designs‘

Guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines its goals – and reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely-used online protocols such as HTTPS

• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records
• $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
• Security experts say programs ‚undermine the fabric of the internet‘

by Pepe Escobar

The Obama Doctrine has bombed not only the current G20 but in fact any possibility of a diplomatic solution for the Syrian tragedy. For starters, Obama obviously never read Sun Tzu. Naïve is an understatement; he telegraphed his move to the ‘enemy’, as in, “Hang in there; my bombs are coming, maybe now, maybe next week.” He said the whole thing would be “limited,” a “slap on the wrist.”

Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.

The surprising admission came in response to congressional pressure on the administration to explain how yet another military operation would be paid for during a period of prolonged budgetary sequestration.

by Dennis J. Kucinich

The questions the Obama administration needs to answer before Congress can even consider voting on Syria:

Statt ihm komme Obamas Sicherheitsberaterin Susan Rice.

And although the weather is forecast to be clear this week in St. Petersburg, the mood inside the Konstantin Palace will likely be as cold as a Russian winter.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem will travel to Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

An assassination attempt can go a long way to justify a bigger wave of state-sponsored terror against all those opposed to the bloody, traitorous coup.

„The bombing allegedly targeting the minister of interior today is regrettable and the alliance strongly condemns it,“ Darrag said in a statement on behalf of the Islamist „Anti-Coup Alliance“, led by the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Mursi.

U.S. President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from world leaders not to launch military strikes in Syria on Thursday at a summit on the global economy that was eclipsed by the conflict.