Articles by Tom Burghard
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US Cyber Command’s Plan X: Pentagon Launching Covert Cyber Attacks
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
It should be clear, given what we have learned from Edward Snowden and other sources, that the US government views the internet, indeed the entire planet, as a battlespace. General Alexander told the House Armed Services Committee that “Cyber offense requires a deep, persistent and pervasive presence on adversary networks in order to precisely deliver effects.”
→ read full articleECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
While the public is angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting including the content of phone calls, emails, geolocational information, bank records, credit card purchases, travel itineraries, even medical records, in secret, the historical context of how, and why, this vast spying apparatus came to be is often given short shrift.
→ read full article“Dark Alliance”: The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and the Laundering of Drug Money
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
According to these worthies, the egregious economic disparities between the filthy ruling rich and the rest of us revolve around the salient fact that the “world is dividing into two blocs–the plutonomies where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few,” and the great mass of proletarians who need to sit down, shut up and worship at the feet of their masters.
→ read full articleWall Street Banks, Money Laundering and the Drug Trade
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
US Department of Justice Urges Federal Court to Approve Sweetheart Deal with Drug-Tainted HSBC – “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone
[HSBC used to stand for Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation but today it stands only for another Mafia-organized crime]
HSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal
Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
While HSBC’s Canary Wharf masters are back-peddling furiously over charges that they gave a leg up to terrorist financiers and drug traffickers as a recent U.S. Senate report charged, new evidence emerged that its business as usual for the multinational banking giant founded by Hong Kong-based British opium merchants.
→ read full articleTeflon President? Noose Tightens Around Uribe as Former Death Squad Leaders Spill the Beans
Tom Burghardt, Anti-fascist Calling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Recent arrests by Colombian authorities and revelations by the president’s former allies are beginning to draw a circle around Uribe and the U.S. secret state in some of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abuses of previous decades. As the net tightens, members of the president’s own family are sharply focused in the cross-hairs of investigators.
→ read full article‘Managing’ the Plaza: America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels
Tom Burghardt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
A series of some five million emails, The Global Intelligence Files, were obtained as a result of last year’s hack by Anonymous of the Texas-based “global intelligence” firm Stratfor. That major financial powerhouses in Europe and the U.S. (can you say Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, HSBC, ING and Wachovia) have been accused of reaping the lions’ share of profits derived from the grim trade, now a veritable Narco-Industrial Complex, the public continues to be regaled with tales that this ersatz war is being “won.”
→ read full articleFBI Wiretapping of Internet Users: “All Your Data Belongs to Us”
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
6 Dec 2010
A Seamless Global Surveillance Web. In a further sign that Barack Obama’s faux “progressive” regime will soon seek broad new Executive Branch power, The New York Times disclosed last week that FBI chief and cover-up specialist extraordinaire, Robert S. Mueller III, “traveled to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to meet with top executives of several technology firms about a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users.”
→ read full articleSpace Warfare: Preparing the “Battlespace” for a New Imperial Adventure
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
30 Aug 2010
Secretive Mini-Shuttles and Spy Satellites
→ read full articleMoney Laundering and the Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
26 Jul 2010
When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was caught in Campeche by the Mexican military … carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S.,” it elicited a collective yawn from corporate media. And when authorities searched the plane and found its cargo consisted solely of 128 identical black suitcases marked “private,” packed with cocaine valued at more than $100 million, the silence was deafening.
→ read full articleThrough the Wormhole: The Secret State’s Mad Scheme to Control the Internet
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
5 Jul 2010
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” A century later, radical French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and declared that “politics is the continuation of war by other means.” In our topsy-turvy world where truth and lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it would hardly be a stretch to theorize that cyber war is the continuation of parapolitical crime by other means.
→ read full articleBIG BROTHER AND THE HIDDEN HAND OF THE “FREE MARKET”
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
12 Apr 2010
As the securitization of daily life increase at near exponential rates (all to keep us “safe,” mind you) the dark contours of an American police state, like a pilot’s last glimpse of an icy peak before a plane crash, wobbles into view.
→ read full articleBEYOND ORWELL: THE ELECTRONIC POLICE STATE, 2010
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
17 Mar 2010
A truism perhaps, but before resorting to brute force and open repression to halt the “barbarians at the gates,” that would be us, the masters of declining empires (and the chattering classes who polish their boots) regale us with tales of “democracy on the march,” “hope” and other banalities before the mailed fist comes crashing […]
→ read full articleWHO WOULD BENEFIT POLITICALLY FROM A TERRORIST INCIDENT ON AMERICAN SOIL? THE STRANGE CASE OF UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB
Tom Burghardt - Global Research,
9 Jan 2010
Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day was foiled, not by a bloated counterterrorist bureaucracy, but by the passengers themselves. Talk […]
→ read full articleOBAMA’S BIOWEAPONS PROGRAM
Tom Burghardt – Global Research,
22 Dec 2009
The Obama administration’s recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our "change" president’s duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster. Recapitulating sinister Cold War practices that informed American ruling class consensus when it came to secretly toying with nature’s most deadly pathogens, (a) because they could, (b) because it was, and […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S ULTIMATE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION: BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Tom Burghardt,
5 Aug 2009
Bioweapons Research, Secrecy and Contamination Go Hand in Hand The 2001 anthrax attacks underscore the dangers posed to our health and safety by the Bioweapons-Industrial Complex. The killer(s) employed a military-grade version of the deadly pathogen, a four-mutation blend of anthrax prepared at the government’s test site at the remote Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S EXPANSIVE BIOWEAPONS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Tom Burghardt,
1 Aug 2009
The dystopian British sci-fi film 28 Days Later opens with animal rights activists breaking into the Cambridge Primate Research facility to free chimpanzees used in a secret weapons program. Terrified by the intrusion, a scientist warns the raiders that the chimps are infected with a genetically-modified pathogen. Ignoring his admonition, the chimps are let loose […]
→ read full articleTHE LAUNCHING OF U.S. CYBER COMMAND (CYBERCOM)
Tom Burghard,
3 Jul 2009
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a memorandum on June 23 that announced the launch of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). A scheme by securocrats in the works for several years, the order specifies that the new office will be a "subordinate unified command" under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM). According to the […]
→ read full articleHIGH-TECH BARBARISM: LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT’S A BIRD… IT’S A PLANE… IT’S A RAYTHEON SPY BLIMP!
Tom Burghardt,
27 Jun 2009
As the American republic’s long death-spiral continues apace, newer and ever more insidious technologies usher us towards an age of high-tech barbarism"At first glance" Newsweek reveals, "there was nothing special about the blimp floating high above the cars and crowd at this year’s Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend." "Nothing special" that is, until you […]
→ read full articleNEW SPY SOFTWARE COMING ON-LINE
Tom Burghardt,
16 Sep 2008
"Surveillance in a Box" Makes its DebutRead more
→ read full articleTHE BUSH REGIME’S IMPERIAL AFFIRMATION: ENDLESS WAR, ENDLESS CONQUEST, ENDLESS REPRESSION
Tom Burghardt,
14 Sep 2008
While people around the world begin to celebrate George W. Bush’sJanuary 20, 2009 departure from the White House, senior administrationofficials are crafting legislation, rule changes and executive ordersthat will make permanent the worst excesses of this criminal regime. Read more
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