• Week of 02.01.2017
The Roundtable Podcast 74
* Please note that in this podcast I incorrectly say that Robert Jago’s editorial,”Why I Question Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous Ancestry,” was published at APTN. It was in fact published at the Canadaland Podcast on December 24, 2016.
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Posted in Podcasts
Tagged CIA, Donald Trump, Drews Reviews, FBI, Fiction, Honest Ed's, Mark Twain, Podcasts
TO UNEARTH SOME latent implications of Edward Snowden’s recent act of whistle blowing, and the landscape of surveillance it has brought to the fore, I propose the following thought experiment. You are to imagine a world in which the infrastructure of potential effective and total citizen invigilation by the state and its proxies is realized, and additionally in which the potential to abolish the private life of the individual is at hand. My question is this: do you think the people of that world should care?
Tagged America, CIA, Edward Snowden, FBI, National Security, NSA, PRISM, terrorism, War On Terror
ABOVE THE fold of October 4th’s Globe and Mail there was featured a piece by the fine journalist Steven Chase, “Military intelligence unit keeps watch on native groups.” A more candid and accurate phrasing (Chase, not a writer given to mealy-mouthing, is not responsible for the headline) would be “Canada is spying on indigenous people.”
Posted in Canada
Tagged 9/11, Assembly of First Nations, ATIP, Caledonia, Canada, CIA, CSIS, Globe and Mail, Harper Government, Homeland Security, Indigenous Peoples, News, Politics, Steven Chase, terrorism
