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Guest Post
By Ante Horvat

Foreign Intelligence Agencies, Capabilities, and Croatia

The revelations last year by Edward Snowden – and the brave reporting by Glenn Greenwald and his colleagues at The Intercept, as well as in quality independent blogs such as Washingtonsblog.com – shine a bright light on just how massive, invasive, many times in most countries, blatantly unconstitutional, and illegal surveillance has become in the world today with borderline psychotic government obsessions to control internet discourse on politics and geopolitics.

Information management is power, as management equates to control.

While the internet was not what it is today in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, signals intelligence was a key component of intelligence for all states – the pervasiveness of Internet usage has only exponentially increased its usefulness to further these goals.

Yugoslavia, which broke with Stalin earning it a…

I happen to know a unique flower,
one that exists nowhere here,
except Out of a misty dream,
where our path seem to meet,

then closes, within a dream
One who dares not to touch the thorn
must never want a rose,
a rose looks fair,
yet fairer is its fragrance and its radiance

‘Feeling at peace, however fragile
it learned to breathe fresh air,
even when sheltered behind the screen,

i think it already knows
beauty and sorrow are linked together,
in the high times and low however,
it can bring me a smile.

I happen to know a unique flower,
one that exists nowhere here,
except Out of a misty dream,
where our path seem to meet,

then closes, within a dream
One who dares not to touch the thorn
must never want a rose,
a rose looks fair,
yet fairer is its fragrance and its radiance

‘Feeling at peace, however fragile
it learned to breathe fresh air,
even when sheltered behind the screen,

i think it already knows
beauty and sorrow are linked together,
in the high times and low however,
it can bring me a smile.