Whitewashing Britain’s largest intelligence agency

Satellite dishes at GCHQ Bude in Cornwall (Photo: Nilfanion / Wikimedia) By Richard Norton Taylor, Published by Declassified UK, 10 February 2021 The new ‘authorised history’ of GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency, ignores or simply dismisses its most controversial activities as supposed scandals, giving a thoroughly one-sided account of the

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The State Of Mass Surveillance

Camera in Parliament Square. Image: Stephen Johnson, Flickr By Robert E.G. Beens,Published by Forbes, 20 September 2020 The U.S. Patriot Act, devised and enacted only weeks after 9/11 in 2001, has become a huge symbol of the massive expansion of government surveillance in the U.S. Twelve years later, in 2013,

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Bob Cryer’s Last Speech to the House of Commons

Published by Hansard, 25 March 1994 vol 240 cc609-16 In May 1994 Peace Campaigners throughout Britain were terribly saddened to hear the news of Bob Cryer's death in a road accident. Among many achievements in an outstanding parliamentary career he was always a totally committed supporter of the peace movement.

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