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"The Five Eyes Alliance" is a good moniker for that: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/is-the-f...

"Oceania"

Hypocrisy and doing terrible things in the name of something purportedly important aren't exactly novel themes in Western history.

That is probably a tad unfair to Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, etc.

Canada's RCMP spied on Amnesty, the Anglican Church and the Raging Grannies. Our secret services gave their American counterparts information that led to torture of Canadian citizens and others.

You think we're not part of this totalitarian movement?

I'm not Canadian, but do you think that Canada is participating in a particularly more extreme manner than non-engligh speaking countries?

Language is not the binding factor here.

Why do you always have to look at evidence of systematic abuse of power and government corruption and say, "Well it's not as bad as China/Russia/x"?

How about you choose a line in the sand. And say that behaviour on this side is OK and on the other side it's not.

US / UK / NZ / Canada and Australia have historically cooperated on Intel. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

Yeah, I am not disputing that... read my above comment again.