Archives for July 31, 2014

U.S. ‘Homeland’ Includes Canada And Mexico On NSA Map (PHOTO)

Just when you thought the NSA sur­veil­lance pro­grams could­n’t get any scari­er, the spy agency goes ahead and makes Cana­da part of the U.S. “home­land.” That’s how Cana­da — as well as Mex­i­co, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean — was labeled on an NSA map pre­sent­ed at a Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee meet­ing Wednes­day (August, 2013). […]

Trilateral Defense Ministers Meeting Continues to Build North American Security Framework

As an exten­sion of the North Amer­i­can Lead­ers Sum­mit which was held in Feb­ru­ary, the defense min­is­ters from the U.S., Cana­da and Mex­i­co qui­et­ly met (in May) to dis­cuss con­ti­nen­tal secu­ri­ty issues. Dur­ing the con­fer­ence, they addressed shared defense and secu­ri­ty chal­lenges. This includes threats posed by cyber attacks and transna­tion­al crim­i­nal orga­ni­za­tions. The North […]