Tag: surveillance state

• Greek police using masked ‘mercenaries’ to push migrants back across border

  April 14, 2026

  Police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey, according to wide-ranging evidence uncovered by the BBC. We have seen… more ›

• Tearing Up the Map • EQUATOR

  March 21, 2026

  Netanyahu’s war to remake the Middle East https://www.equator.org/articles/tearing-up-the-map more ›

• The Take: 2025 in Review: Is ICE in the US operating as secret police?

  January 2, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/a1OHUQ2 We’re looking back at 10 of the episodes that defined 2025 at The Take. This originally aired on November 19. None of the dates or references have been… more ›

• Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns

  November 20, 2025

  The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has… more ›

• Tom Stevenson · The Mask Is Off: Bukele’s Prison State

  September 4, 2025

  Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/tom-stevenson/the-mask-is-off?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›

• Unplugged Mysteries

  June 1, 2025

  Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel… more ›

• The Technopolar Paradox

  May 15, 2025

  The frightening fusion of tech power and state power. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/technopolar-paradox-ian-bremmer-fusion-tech-state-power more ›