GCHQ’s Rainbow Lights: Exploiting Social Issues for Militarism and Imperialism

Over the weekend, the British surveillance agency GCHQ — the most extremistand invasive in the West — bathedits futuristic headquarters with rainbow-colored lights “as a symbol of the intelligence agency’s commitment to diversity” and to expresssolidarity with “International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.” GCHQ’s public affairs office proudly distributed the above photograph to media outlets. Referring to Alan Turing, the closeted-and-oppressedgayWorld War II British code-b...