[Inside the Five Eyes series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3| Part 4 is below] The global Five Eyes signals intelligence network is now woven, almost invisibly, into the policy and politics of the English-speaking world. Its leaders are almost never seen in public. The first time that representatives of all five partners of...
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Britain Unplugs Huawei From Its 5G Networks
In a victory for the Trump administration, the British government has decided to ban technology built by Huawei, the global telecom giant, based in China. The British decision heals a rift that was splitting the two biggest partners in the Five Eyes signal intelligence alliance. The Five Eyes is the world’s largest intelligence collection enterprise,...
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Former MI6 Spymaster Claims Wuhan Lab ‘Accident’ Caused COVID. Virologists Disagree
Sir Richard Dearlove cited an “important” new study by British and Norwegian researchers which he thinks could “shift the debate.” The researchers claim to have discovered clues suggesting key elements were “inserted” into the virus’s genetic sequence and may not have evolved naturally — a prospect contested by almost every other scientist studying the virus’s...
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The Five Eyes Block the Huawei Challenge
[Inside the Five Eyes: a series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 is below]. Once unknown, the Five Eyes is now coming into public view as supra-national surveillance service. The Five Eyes track terrorists and smugglers. They coordinate drone strikes and disaster response. They have the ability to...
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‘Influence’ Shows Why if You’re Not Worried About the November Election, You Should Be
A Canadian documentary, Influence, profiles the late Tim Bell, a state of the art political consultant, in the United Kingdom. His firm, Bell Pottinger, had a long history of advocacy for authoritarian clients from Syria’s Bashar Assad to South Africa’s Jacob Zuma. He was, in a phrase, a disinformation artist. Like Frank FIgliuzzi, Kent Harrington,...