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Campaign Intelexit: “Exit path back to democracy” for members of the intelligence community in moral conflicts
As “the world’s first exit program for the intelligence community” the campaign Intelexit started last month. Employees from the secret services like the National Security Agency (NSA), the UK Government…
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Mass confiscation of mobile phones by police after spontaneous anti-rascist demonstration
On Thursday 16 January around 600 people in Leipzig took part in a spontaneous demonstration against racism focused on the murder of Khaled Idris Bahray, a 20-year-old Ertirean refugee who…
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German police instructed Tunisia and Egypt on internet surveillance prior to revolutions
The German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) instructed the authorities of multiple North African and Middle Eastern countries in internet surveillance in the years running up to the Arab…
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Implementing the “solidarity clause”: EU secret service to be reinforced?
The “solidarity clause”, known more formally as Article 222 of the Lisbon Treaty, regulates the use of police, secret service and military means in case of a crisis within the…
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With false documents against “Euro-anarchists”: Exchange of Anglo-German undercover police highlights controversial operations
Examination of several recently exposed cases suggests that the main targets of police public order operations are anti‐globalisation networks, the climate change movement and animal rights activists. The internationalisation of…
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The EU Security-Industrial Complex
Interview with Ben Hayes about his book “NeoConOpticon” On the occasion of the current Swedish EU Council Presidency, on 29-30 September 2009, the Fourth European Security Research Conference takes place…