(2007) Ich habe gerade eines der besten und wichtigsten Bücher fertig gelesen, die ich je gelesen habe. Es ist „The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret War” [Die Brüder John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles und ihr geheimer Krieg] von Stephen Kinzer. Das Buch ist faszinierend und packend. Ich konnte es nicht weglegen. Es holt weit aus, um die Misere zu erklären, in der sich die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika heute befinden.

I was intrigued by the 2015 release of David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. But it also reminded me of a 2014 book I had been wanting to read titled The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer. Since the earlier book covered both important brothers — the younger Allen who was Director of Central Intelligence and the elder John Foster who was Secretary of State — I decided to go with Kinzer.

(2012) Dieses im Jahr 1948 durch den US-Geheimdienst und nordamerikanische Großindustrielle gegründete Komitee hat es in sich. Die im Jahr 1936 gegründete Ford Foundation, die Rockefeller-Stiftung und weitere regierungsnahe US-Unternehmen finanzierten dieses Komitee – Konzerne, die zuvor mit Adolf Hitler große Geschäfte abwickelten.

William Joseph Donovan, ehemaliger Geheimdienstchef des Office of Strategic Services (OSS), fungierte im Status einer Zivilperson als Geschäftsführer. Stellvertretender Geschäftsführer der ACUE wurde der fünf Jahre später ins Amt berufene CIA-Direktor Allen Welsh Dulles, dessen Bruder John Foster Dulles zeitgleich ab 1953 den Posten des Aussenminister der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika begleitete. Der Onkel der beiden Brüder, Robert Lansing, war als US-Aussenminister nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg an der Gestaltung des Versailler Vertrages beteiligt und wurde von John Foster Dulles beraten.

(2013) Ich habe gerade eines der besten und wichtigsten Bücher fertig gelesen, die ich je gelesen habe. Es ist „The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret War” [Die Brüder John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles und ihr geheimer Krieg] von Stephen Kinzer. Das Buch ist faszinierend und packend. Ich konnte es nicht weglegen. Es holt weit aus, um die Misere zu erklären, in der sich die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika heute befinden.

Abdel Hamid „was not called in by the police“, said Shaaban El Shami, forensic medicine aide to the Egyptian justice minister, threatening legal action against those publishing „news that comes from sources who want to distort reality for political ends and which has nothing to do with the truth“.

Italian student Giulio Regeni was tortured for seven days before being killed in Cairo last month, two Egyptian police sources were quoted by Reuters as saying Tuesday citing Cairo coroner Hisham Abdel Hamid.

The Greek government declined an invitation to participate in a second meeting of police chiefs from four Balkan countries — Fyrom, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia — along with Austria, which was held on Tuesday in Belgrade on the pressing issue of border controls.

The first such meeting was held in Zagreb on Feb. 18.

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Every EU member state can decide for itself whether to uphold the parliament’s call for a complete interruption of arms trade with Saudi Arabia. A mandatory curb on EU arms flows to the kingdom would require unanimity within the EU Council, de Ruyter noted. The Netherlands has been cited by Control Arms, a coalition of arms watchdogs, as one of Saudi Arabia’s arms sellers. Other countries on the list are France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Montenegro, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

(25.2.2016) An earlier draft of the resolution that named and criticised the UK and other EU member states, including France, Spain and Germany, was dropped. The final version said “some EU member states” had continued to authorise transfers of weapons to Saudi Arabia since the violence started, in violation of EU rules on arms control. The motion was passed by 359 votes to 212

Visiting with employees of key arms-maker BAE Systems, British Prime Minister David Cameron bragged up growing British arms sales to Saudi Arabia, saying BAE and other nations were sending “brilliant” and advanced weapons like Typhoon warplanes to the Saudis.

Common sense and simple justice demand that the United States and its European allies acknowledge the disastrous results of pumping up an increasingly aggressive Saudi regime. The next step is to stop arming it. The sooner this happens, the better it will be for the security of the region.

A documentary produced by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights focusing on IOF violations against the medical workers during a the last aggression on the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014.

A new documentary shows the devastation Israel’s 2014 bombardment of Gaza caused to medical and rescue teams.

The US government is bankrolling the project to the tune of $120 million, with hopes of installing the technology at the US border with Mexico.

Die Firma Whatsapp hat sich bislang nicht zu den Störungen geäußert. Ein Grund für die Probleme könnten gestern veröffentlichte Updates für die App unter Android und iOS sein. Sie enthalten – je nach Plattform – einige größere Neuerungen, darunter eine erweiterte Unterstützung von Cloud-Diensten wie Google Drive Dropbox und Dropbox.

For some time now, we‘ve been covering the UK‘s plan — led by Home Secretary Theresa May — to pass a new Snooper‘s Charter that would increase surveillance powers greatly in the UK. There‘s been a growing amount of criticism of the plan in the UK, so rather than respond to it, May has simply moved to fast track the bill, officially called the Investigatory Powers Bill. The bill will officially be „published“ today on March 1, and then will likely be voted on before the end of April.

(18.2.2016) Auch WhatsApp-Gründer Jan Koum stärkte Apple-Chef Tim Cook den Rücken. Man dürfe „diesen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall nicht zulassen“, schrieb er in einem Facebook-Eintrag.

(13.7.2015) Die Briten hat die sogenannte Snooper’s Charter, zu deutsch Schnüffel-Charta, bislang eher weniger interessiert. Grundsätzliche Datenschutzfragen werden auf der Insel generell weniger gestellt. Doch seit bekannt geworden ist, dass der Gesetzesentwurf mit dem offiziellen Titel Investigatory Powers Bill auch auf beliebte soziale Netzwerke wie WhatsApp, Facebook oder Snapchat übergreifen könnte, sie sogar verboten werden könnten, tobt das Netz.

When it comes to the conversation that‘s going on about the use of encryption, CIA director John Brennan and NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett have acquitted themselves rather poorly on a regular basis. It‘s been an ongoing source of frustration to see the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks in particular devolve into a discussion on encryption, despite all evidence suggesting that those attacks weren‘t planned using any kind of encryption at all. That didn‘t keep Brennan from claiming that the CIA was unable to keep attacks from occurring due to encryption, nor has it stopped the calls from intelligence officials for even more data collection, despite the fact that those same officials have proven to be soft targets for hackers themselves. Ledgett, meanwhile, has proven to be an adversary of the free press, cheering on the destruction of computers from The Guardian.

And so it is with this backdrop that Brennan and Ledgett sat before Congress and claimed that terrorists were only using all of this encryption because of the god damned media.

The court in Turkey has issued a decision to shut down Kanalturk, Bugun TV channels, Bugun Gazetesi, Millet Gazetesi newspapers and Kanalturk Radyo radio, Hurriyet newspaper reported March 1.