Friends of WikiLeaks – Los Angeles (formerly FoWL-Chicago)
Domestic Surveillance
Google and YouTube’s Censorship Orders for War In Ukraine
“In a capitalist world of universal deceit, every act of telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act that threatens the continued existence of the capitalist world.” – IWPCHI (after Orwell). The world has been aware for a long time now that the U.S. Government has completely co-opted the major bourgeois press media outlets and top … Continue reading
FULL TEXT: US Dept. of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General – Review of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” Investigation
USDoJ OIG Review of FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation_480-page pdf We’re posting up the complete 480-page .pdf censored “version 2” of the US Dept. of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General’s “Review of Four FISA Applications And Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation” (Revised December 2019 version). … Continue reading
Are U.S. Workers Being Forced to Submit Fingerprints to Permanent FBI Biometric Database to Get Jobs?
The constantly expanding police-state powers of the US capitalist state have been steadily eroding the privacy rights of all U.S. citizens over the past 30 years. Back in the 1980s during the Reagan Administration when the capitalists began demanding that prospective employees take pre-employment urine tests for drug screening, the socialist left were the only … Continue reading
DOCUMENT RELEASE: 26 Pages of Docs Related to Chicago Police Dept’s Cell Phone Spying Operations
We are pleased to publish a marvelous 26-page document trove which was released 6 February 2017 by “The Atlantic” magazine’s “CityLab” website. CityLab published a collection of documents from 27 US police departments detailing the extent to which US big-city police agencies have acquired and are using cell phone spying hardware and software. With this … Continue reading
Tor Project Salesmen Appelbaum and Gibson Continue to Flog Useless Tor “Anonymity Software” Around the World. Why?
On 28 December 2014, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel released a huge tranche of documents from the Snowden archives to the public. Some of these had been released by the Guardian, the New York Times and the website ProPublica earlier but in redacted or incomplete forms. The Der Spiegel article accompanying the release – “Prying … Continue reading
Update on Friends of WikiLeaks – Chicago’s Membership Numbers
It seems like just yesterday we were complaining about the vast sea of apathy that exists in the working class intellectual wasteland that exists here in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. The utter lack of any serious working-class opposition to the continuing massive assaults on the trade union movement in Chicago continues unabated. The unionized … Continue reading
Tor Project Executive Director Andrew Lewman’s Response to Our 2nd “Open Letter” to Tor
We have just received an email response to our 2nd “Open Letter” to Tor from Andrew Lewman, Executive Director of the Tor Project. His letter, which we reprint in its entirety, speaks for itself; however, we will publish our response to it later today or tomorrow. Lewman’s letter grossly misrepresents many of the points we … Continue reading
Tor “Sponsor F”: Make Your Product More Useful to Us for Attacks on China
Here is an example of one of the contracts the Tor Project has underway at the present time. Read this and try to figure out who is behind this particular project. You will not that, at the end of the list of project objectives, the country of China is mentioned specifically. We asked Tor Project … Continue reading
Tor Project’s Support for US Espionage Activities in Syria, Iran and China Questioned in New Open Letter to Andrew Lewman
The following is the text of a new email we’ve just sent to Mr. Andrew Lewman, Executive Director of the Tor Project. We will publish his response when we receive it. In his email to us we received yesterday, Mr. Lewman admitted that the two major funders of the Tor Project in 2011 were the … Continue reading
Tor Project: Surreptitiously Funded by US Defense, State Departments in 2011 via “Cutout” Company, “NGO”?
We love the Internets! We love how you can start out looking at one thing, and then get slowly, imperceptibly drawn away towards something else, and then, all of a sudden… TECHNICOLOR! That’s what happened to us today. We started out by opening up our “Friends of WikiLeaks – Chicago” Twitter account to see if … Continue reading
Friends of WikiLeaks - Los Angeles (formerly FoWL-Chicago) 