Robert Wright reports that Facebook’s head of “counterterrorism policy,” Brian Fishman, has offered an explanation of why the social media giant blocked the Instagram accounts of high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers. When I asked Fishman to justify this policy, he said it’s designed to keep Facebook on the right side of the law, which...
Category: United States
Post
Post
Regime Change Illusions: Why the Venezuela Uprising Sputtered
When Manuel Figuera, the chief of the Venezuelan intelligence service (SEBIN), turned on the government of President Nicolas Maduro last week, the Trump administration thought their goal of regime change was in sight. If Figuera joined opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s government in exile, SEBIN could both control the country and secure recognition of Washington. With...
Post
NSA ‘Unmasking’ More Americans Picked Up By Mass Surveillance
From Statista.com, a revealing glimpse of the growing number of Americans picked up by U.S. national security agencies work. A report released on Tuesday found that there has been a huge rise in the number of identities of U.S. persons revealed by the National Security Agency (NSA). While the process is known as “unmasking”, the term “U.S....
Post
Did the CIA Orchestrate an Attack on the North Korean Embassy in Spain?
Tim Shorrock adds new details to the ever more interesting story of Adrian Hong , the former Ted Talk host and alleged ringleader of the Feb. 22 invasion of the North Korean embassy in Spain. Shorrock focuses on Lee Wolosky, Hong’s lawyer. He’s a former national security adviser to Presidents Bush and Obama and leader...
Post
Standoff Continues at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC
The ordeal of Venezuela erupted on the streets of Washington Wednesday as supporters of embattled President Nicholas Maduro and struggling would-be president Juan Guaido faced off noisily but peacefully at the country’s embassy in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood. With two dozen American supporters of Maduro holed up in the Embassy, a a slightly larger crowd...