Israeli Mass Surveillance in the Middle East

This was aired in January 2011, the start of the Arab Spring demonstrations.

See Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Dies in Saudi Arabia, Snowden on Surveillance, Five Years of War in Yemen and Trump Besieged by Media.

Amazingly NZ investigative journalist Nicky Hager is neither dead nor in prison, as far as I know. He has concentrated on mainly issues relevant to his native New Zealand, but I rather suspect his books will reveal a great deal about the wider world too:

See his web site https://www.nickyhager.info for more of his writing:

• Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network, published in 1996, was Hager's first book.
• Secrets and Lies: The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign was co-authored with Bob Burton and published in 1999.
• In August 2011 Hager published Other People's Wars, an investigation into New Zealand's role in the "War on Terror". Using leaked military information, Hager highlights the difference between what New Zealand was told about its role in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what the leaked documents show.
• In March 2017, Hager and fellow journalist Jon Stephenson published Hit & Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the meaning of honour. The book explored the New Zealand Special Air Service's involvement in Operation Burnham, a retaliatory military raid on two Afghan villages, Naik and Khak Khuday Dad, in Afghanistan's Tirgiran Valley in August 2010.

Look after this guy, please: he's worth half  a dozen Edward Snowdens and a couple of Julian Assanges. He was being fairly seriously harrassed in 2014 however: