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The Execution of Kanno Sugako
On 25 Jauary 1911, in anarchist history we remember the execution of Kanno Sugako. Kanno was a journalist, feminist and anarchist who had previously been imprisoned after a police attack on a small demonstration in Tokyo, known as the Red Flag Incident. In 1910, police uncovered a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan and […]
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Turns Dissent into Domestic Terrorism
President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is Operation TIPS on steroids. After 9/11, President George W. Bush proposed a program recruiting ordinary workers — truck drivers, postal workers, utility workers, cable installers — to report “suspicious behavior” to authorities. Critics quickly warned that TIPS resembled a domestic informant network, a kind of “neighbors spying […]
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Recruiting New Spies via Internet
It’s no secret that almost every state conducts intelligence both at home and abroad. However, if several decades ago this activity was in the sidelines, the emergence and development of the Internet and information technologies lifted the veil on espionage and empowered intelligence with new, although sometimes controversial, capabilities. Thus, on September 19, 2025, the […]
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Bad Math
The bombed remains of automobiles with the bombed Federal Building in the background, April 19, 1995. Sometimes we see pictures of ourselves from a decade or three back and think, what was going through their head? In other circumstances, we don’t have to wonder. We know. It happens to writers a lot. It’s often our […]
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Julian Assange Is Released from Prison: What Does it Mean?
Lifesize bronze sculpture featuring (L-R) former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former US soldier Chelsea Manning convicted of violations of the Espionage Act, on May 1, 2015 at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin. (AFP Photo / Tobias Schwarz) © AFP The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will at […]
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DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture
There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA. — Chilean intelligence officer, remarks to a US military attaché, 1974 Decree 521 of the Chilean government of June 18, 1974, was a chilling moment in the country’s convulsed history. With the state now in the pathologically disturbed hands of a military dictatorship […]
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What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way
I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so long. — Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet […]
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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are buried in a mass grave in Khan Younis. Photo credit: Al-Jazeera The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel […]
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Wars on Terrorism
Domestic and international terrorism have caused havoc in several nations. Each nation exhibits a unique approach to combatting terrorism; each nation exhibits a unique outcome from its approach. Examining types, causes, approaches, and outcomes of wars on terrorism in four nations — United States, Israel, China, and Russia — discloses successful strategies, self-destructive strategies, and […]
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Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On
The tear-squeeze remembering those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington has become an annual event. In the words of US President George W. Bush, it was an attack on “our very freedom”. The US had been targeted because it was “the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in […]
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