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Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, George Orwell and our “Greatest National Security Threat”
Posted by ausomeawestin in Politics on October 24, 2015
Asked what the greatest national security threat facing the United States is, Hillary Clinton gestured to nuclear weapons, implicating Iran, perhaps Pakistan (though the U.S. is quite cozy with Pakistan, with Obama set to sell eight F-16s to them shortly, despite their enabling and funding the Taliban), Martin O’Malley named nuclear Iran and climate change, and […]
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Is Surveillance by the NSA Just? Part II (On Sartre, Privacy, and the Other)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Existentialism, Politics on July 8, 2014
New revelations from old Snowden disclosures tell of the intelligence successes of internet surveillance, and prolonged intrusions into private affairs. No longer can it be said, as it had in the past, that the NSA has nothing to show for its surveillance program – documentation of foiled terrorist attacks has been read by journalists at […]
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Spying for National Security Reasons vs. Spying for Economic Gain
Posted by ausomeawestin in Political Philosophy, Politics on May 20, 2014
In a surprising move, the United States has indicted members of the Chinese military on counts of cyber-espionage in stealing trade secrets from American corporations for the benefit of Chinese companies. Members of the Chinese government have dismissed the charges as ridiculous, and noted the hypocrisy of the United States in light of revelations about […]
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Is Surveillance by the NSA Just? (deontology, Kant, Ross, and the priority of the right)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Morality, Political Philosophy, Politics on January 18, 2014
To say that there has been a vociferous response to the continuing revelations of surveillance conducted by the NSA might be to state the facts mildly; there has been heated debate in the public sphere on the matter, culminating in a presidential address yesterday declaring that (modest) changes would be made. President Barack Obama’s remarks […]
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The NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations (and the Doctrine of Double Effect)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality, Movies & Television Shows, Politics on December 5, 2013
Old disclosures from Snowden have resulted in the new revelations that the NSA is using cellular phone data to map and track the movements of millions of persons with the intention of tracking non-American terrorists, but with the incidental effect of tracking non-terrorists. The Washington Post writes, “The NSA does not target Americans’ location data […]
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