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Major global telecommunication companies – such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Skype – have assembled secret stockpiles of personal information about their users, which they share with the NSA.
Circulated by the Czarist secret police in the early 1900s to justify the regime’s anti-Jewish pogroms, it became the foundation of the anti-Semitic literature of the first half of the twentieth century, with horrendous consequences.
And Navalny has just released a new exposé on Putin’s secret dacha near the border with Finland.
And when these acts are carried out at the request of a democracy, those who implement them have no secret society of fellow torturers to turn to for social support or comfort.
It is no secret where Trump stands with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict: throughout his campaign, he promised to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – in clear violation of international law.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have found analysis made by the experts of the state security police and the state security ministry of the former German Democratic Republic which demonstrate that the GDR was bankrupt, but that this information was treated as the ultimate state secret (also described was what could be done to fool the world about that fact).
And, given diminishing government transparency in the US and more and more secret law, is it not a serious issue that a presidential candidate will not address his or her mistakes and shortcomings?
China’s rulers have denied that the secret arms deals were valid, and insist that the government did not authorize them.
At first, the war in Afghanistan was a war of liberation against the Red Army; then it turned into a civil war, and from the mid-1990’s it was subsumed in the Indian-Pakistani conflict, as Pakistan sought to achieve strategic depth and regional influence via the Taliban, a creation of the Pakistani secret service, the ISI.
Devious and erratic negotiating tactics, coupled with secret schemes to prepare – as part of a “Plan B” – for an exit from the euro, undermined the government’s trustworthiness, leading even Paul Krugman to admit: “I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.”
Whether Socrates’ humility was sincere or a secret joke at the expense of the powers that be (before said powers put him to death after tiring of his irreverence), the point is that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of how little we really know.
All those days spent in secret conclave in Basel, drinking through the BIS’s legendary wine cellar, have apparently led to no consensus.
It’s no secret that the collapse of asset bubbles carries massive financial and social costs.
For one thing, the entire process was carried out in secret, to the point that Israeli-Polish relations were mediated by the countries’ respective intelligence agencies, lest the law’s key proponent, Polish Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, catch wind of what was in the works.
Hiding from a scandal may help you in the short term, but it is harder than ever to keep a secret nowadays – and those who cover it up enable crimes and ethical violations are complicit in them.
The agenda is long, but it is hardly a secret.
President Mahmoud Abbas has made no secret of his objection to such a strategy.
Yet while their economies blossomed, power remained opaque, screened by personal loyalties, secret deals, corrupt practices.
Africa's Odious DebtsOne side effect of the American/British occupation of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance: the debts taken on by odious regimes.
Supreme Court justices who themselves were frequently wined and dined by corporate donors gave the green light to keep these corrupt flows secret in their infamous Citizens United decision.
Beijing hosted a secret visit by Kim Jong Il at the end of May, perhaps to talk him into hosting the summit as a wedge to replace Washington as the major player on the peninsula.
It has long been an open secret that Saudi and Israeli officials talk regularly and probably share intelligence.
Israeli use of Saudi air space, for example, would not remain a secret for long, forcing Saudi rulers to contend with a massive, popular anti-Zionist backlash at home and across the Arab world.
In 1993, Cuba invited an IMF official, Executive Director Jacques de Groote, to visit Havana for secret meetings with Castro and other senior officials.
Disbelief grows with every revelation of secret Iranian facilities and plans, and with every refusal by Iran to negotiate safeguards that would allow for civil use while preventing weaponization.
Its editors argued that while the decision to publicize secret material is always difficult, these documents were of “significant public interest” and “illuminate the extraordinary difficulty of what the United States and its allies have undertaken in a way that other accounts have not.”
Sometimes it is possible to do good only in secret.
Such leaks are also bound to lead governments to place a higher premium on information generated by covert intelligence-gathering, which is generally less leak-prone, but usually of much lower quality – as I can personally attest, having once been responsible for Australia’s main secret services.
And it hosted secret talks between the US and the Pakistan-backed Afghan Taliban.
In 1903, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, produced by Imperial Russia’s secret police, “exposed” a diabolical Jewish plot to achieve world domination by promoting liberalism – and became a pretext for anti-Semitism in Europe.
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