The rise of surveillance capitalism in the 21st century has been very good for the world’s intelligence agencies, and vice versa. Maybe too good. Google has become an indispensable partner of the National Security Agency. The CIA has “relied exclusively” on Amazon for a $600 million cloud computing system. Israel’s intelligence services have birthed a...
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As China Absorbs Xinjiang, Mosques Are Disappearing |
The scope of Chinese social engineering in the western province of Xinjiang is amazing and appalling. The province, home to the non-Chinese Uighur people, most of the Muslim, is now subject to surveillance and “re-education”on a scale not seen anywhere else in the world. Now Bellingcat, the online investigative site, says the Chinese government is...
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TED Fellow Allegedly Led Attack on the North Korean Embassy in Madrid
Six years ago, human rights activist Adrian Hong commanded the stage at a TEDGlobal event in Scotland. As a guest host, the 27-year-old Yale graduate moderated a group discussion on “Forces of Change” highlighting what he called “the strong movements, energies and people that are driving major shifts in the world, particularly in Africa and...
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China Installed A Top Cop to Steer Interpol. Then He Disappeared.
Of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, China’s Ministry of State Security ranks near the top. The MSS has created the Orwellian surveillance and “re-education” system to control the ethnic Uighur people in western China. In Beijing, the hand of the MSS can be discerned in puzzling headlines about the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the...
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Chris Hayes Talks About the Uighurs and China’s Secret Internment Camps
One of the most under-covered new stories in the world is the Chinese government’s “Orwellian” repression of the Uighur people in western China. China’s Ministry of State Security is responsible. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes picked up the story on his podcast. Right now, roughly ten percent of the Uyghur population has been ‘disappeared’, held indefinitely in...