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Surveillance and privacy
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
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Reflections on the war on terror
Opinion: Will Canada respond to terror like the United States or like Norway?
rabble.ca 07/05/2013 - Christie Blatchford went on to - rightfully - declare that while Canada has seen terrorist-related activity in the post 9/11 era, the bumbling ineptitude of the so-called Toronto 18 doesn't compare to the weight of what the Al Qaeda brand carries. If the two men accused of  plotting to blow up a Via train are genuinely connected to Al Qaeda in some way, we've -- in her words -- finally "made it to the bigs." I love baseball, therefore, I love baseball analogies. Blatchford is right in her analysis; a country being targeted by Al Qaeda for the first time is, in a way, like being called up to the Majors. But the real question that emerges is this: in response to this alleged Al Qaeda-linked terror plot, are we going to play small ball, or embrace the power game? It's a crucially important question because it's not terrorism that shapes a society, but how society responds to acts of terrorism. There are two different game plans that Canadian policymakers might want to consider.
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Henry A. Giroux | Lockdown, USA: Lessons from the Boston Marathon manhunt
The Boston Bombing: Made in the U.S.A.
How international rules on countering the financing of terrorism impact civil society
TNI 08/05/2013 - Making banks and non-profits liable for the acts and social networks of their customers and beneficiaries while holding charities and CSOs responsible for the 'extremist' views and actions of their associates stifles freedom of association and expression and promotes self-censorship. The  Arab uprisings galvanised 'pro-democracy' governments in the West into a reaffirmation of their commitment to supporting civil society organisations (CSOs) working under repressive and authoritarian regimes. A Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society was launched by the US State Department in 2011 and in 2012 the European Union (EU) set up the European Endowment for Democracy. Leaving aside debates about their methods and motives, these commitments expose a schism in Western foreign policy landscape still dominated by the 'war on terror', which has adversely impacted on the legitimate activities of many charities and CSOs worldwide since 2001. Read more |
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Reflections on terrorism
From a super-maximum prison cell, Canadian convicted terrorist describes his 'gradual' radicalization
The National Post 03/05/2013 - The first Canadian charged under the country's post-9/11 anti-terrorism laws has condemned both the Boston bombings and an alleged al-Qaeda-inspired plot to attack a VIA passenger train for targeting civilians and says if the radicalization of  the accused was anything like his own, it would have been a "gradual" process driven by news of suffering in their homelands at the hands of Western troops in an online age that connected them with other young Muslims ready to take up arms. "For me, it was gradual. There was no moment of enlightenment," Momin Khawaja told the Ottawa Citizen. Khawaja, born and mostly raised in Ottawa, is serving life in a super-maximum prison after he was found guilty in 2008 of participating in, contributing to, financing and facilitating a group of British Islamist extremists plotting to bomb London in 2004 and wage a wider jihad against the West. In his first interview since his 2004 arrest, Khawaja said the pair accused in the VIA plot were wrong to "harm innocent civilians and not military combatants." Read moreEverything you've been told about radicalization is wrong
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War on Whistleblowers: Free press and the National Security State
A new film directed by Robert Greenwald looks at four whistleblowers who  had their lives practically destroyed after they went to the press with evidence of government wrongdoing.
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Why are you proud to protect refugees?
Following recent changes to Canada's refugee determination system, it may be tougher to protect refugees in Canada.  Join the Canadian Council for Refugees in showing Canadians and the world why we are still proud to protect refugees and refugee rights.
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Deportation is not entertainment! Cancel the reality show Border Security
Dozens of people were interrogated, arrested, and detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency. Shockingly, some of these traumatic  experiences were filmed for a reality TV show "Border Security" which airs on National Geographic Channel. Sign the petition to urge National Geographic Channel and Force Four Entertainment, to cancel the show "Border Security" immediately.
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Donate to the legal fund for Mohamed Mahjoub
The security certificate process was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2007 Charkaoui ruling. A new certificate was issued against Mr. Mahjoub in February 2008 under  this new process and he was forced to begin the process all over again. The Federal Court has not yet ruled on the 'reasonability' of the new certificate against him. In the context of these new security certificate proceedings, Mr. Mahjoub was subject to an unprecedented violation of his rights. The present fund-raising initiative is aimed at obtaining a permanent stay of the unfair proceedings against him in light of this unprecedented violation. |
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"Hundred for Hassan" Campaign
Hassan will be put in prison if he does not pay his "creditor" - in this case, the Canadian government - $2,000 per month for the cost of his own surveillance. Justice for Hassan Diab invites  you to be one of 100 people who care about due process and the presumption of innocence and oppose abusive extradition proceedings, by pledging $20 per month or more to share the cost of Dr. Diab's oppressive burden. |
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stored. Let's repeat that last part: "no digital communication is secure", by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.
