The latest crisis that rocked the Greek government shows the bloc?s surveillance problem goes beyond the notorious NSO Group.
Big Brother is everywhere
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One view of what’s really happening
A full-fledged information battle
The NYT: “In recent weeks, the Biden administration has detailed the movement of Russian special operation forces to Ukraine’s borders, exposed a Russian plan to create a video of a faked atrocity as a pretext for an invasion, outlined Moscow’s war plans, warned that an invasion would result in possibly thousands of deaths and hinted that Russian officers had doubts about Mr. Putin. …
“The hope is that disclosing Mr. Putin’s plans will disrupt them, perhaps delaying an invasion and buying more time for diplomacy, or even giving Mr. Putin a chance to reconsider the political, economic and human costs of an invasion.
“At the same time, Biden administration officials said they had a narrower and more realistic goal: They want to make it more difficult for Mr. Putin to justify an invasion with lies, undercutting his standing on the global stage and building support for a tougher response. …
“One U.S. intelligence official said that when the country’s spy agencies have information that could help the world make better judgments about Russian activity, it should be released, as long as the government can avoid exposing how the information was collected or who passed it along.
“It is, according to some strategists, a full-fledged information battle.”
Nothing but bad options
What war in Ukraine would look like?and how America should respond.
Let the vaccinated in; keep the unvaccinated out
Most Europeans, vaccinated or not, have been banned from the United States since March 14, 2020: More than 550 days and counting.
How not to handle a pandemic
On an epidemiological map of the world, the Czech Republic shows up as a tiny island of doom and gloom. While the global number of new coronavirus cases has been dropping for six consecutive weeks, the Central European nation of 10 million has been experiencing near record levels of new infections.
If you’re a popcorn manufacturer
or a sick voyeur, Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving. Otherwise, not so much.
A better way to do it
Studies in the Baltic state moved seamlessly online thanks to its early adoption of education technology
Stock up on the popcorn
“For all his [Johnson’s] bluster, history suggested that the negotiations were less likely to collapse than to enter a climactic final act, promising even more of the theatrics and brinkmanship that have characterized the Brexit drama from the start.”
Alas, now’s not the time to visit Venice
As annual floods return to Italy's canal city of Venice, a newly installed flood barrier manages to keep the rising waters at bay -- a success hailed as vital to its tourism recovery