Review of Yasha Levine's book Surveillance Valley. The secret military history of the Internet. " It tells a story about Silicon Valley that really isn’t told enough, and it points out some really unpleasant – but, alas, all too true – aspects of the technology that we have all come to depend on. Google, the “cool” and “progressive” do-good-company, in fact a military contractor that helps American drones kill children in Yemen and Afghanistan? As well as a partner in predictive policing and a collector of surveillance data that the NSA may yet try to use to control enemy populations in a Cybernetics War 2.0? The Tor Project as paid shills of the belligerent US foreign policy? And the Internet itself, that supposedly liberating tool, was originally conceived as a surveillance and control mechanism?"
By John Scales Avery TFF Associate John Scales Avery presents his latest book on one of the most destructive institutions in modern societies and of our time. I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Devil's Dynamo”. It is a collection of articles and book chapters that…
Bevisene som gjorde at FN gjenopptok undersøkelsene ble lagt fram i boka «Who killed Hammarskjöld» av Susan Williams i 2014. Hennes undersøkelser viser med stor tydelighet at vestmaktene og viktige finansinteresser må ha stått bak nedskytinga av Hammarskiölds fly for å bevare sin kontroll over Kongo og landets enorme rikdommer. Tidligere undersøkelser bærer preg av å dekke over fakta framfor å grave dem fram.
Google henchwoman Anne-Marie Slaughter has shown far too openly how Google is throwing its money and weight around in DC.
"The good news is that Schmidt’s and Slaughter’s backfire won’t just dent her but has put a long-overdue spotlight on how much power Google and tech titans wield in the Beltway and how too few people have been willing to stand up to them. The fact that the New York Times ran a detailed, well-reported piece against Google when the editorial policies of its business section have moved strongly towards being even more pro-corporate, suggests that the Times and other media outlets have finally woken up to the threat that Google’s power over the Internet represents to them. The Times might have thought the way that Google was stomping on small blogs and politically-oriented YouTube channels was irrelevant to them. But the Google initiative to punish even major publishers like the Los Angeles Times for what Google deems to be too much ad clutter means Google has now taken the position that it can be the arbiter of what ads websites can run, which is tantamount to saying it can choke down their revenues. For anyone paying attention, this is a death threat."
Jeffrey D Sachs, Huffinton Post May 2, 2016: " There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex"
Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.
"Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term."
By Jon Schwarz on 27/10/2015 Reprinted with permission from The Intercept. Last week, The Intercept published a package of stories on the U.S. drone program, drawing on a cache of secret government documents leaked by an intelligence community whistleblower. The available evidence suggests that one of the documents, a study ti
New Yourk Times op ed , by David Vine, an associate professor of anthropology at American University, is the author of the forthcoming book “Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World.”
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Pandora's Box? "This is the quintessential Pandora's box moment - like the splitting of the atom or the cloning of Dolly the sheep. We will all have to deal with the fall-out from this alarming experiment," comments Jim Thomas of the ETC Group. "Synthetic
Conn Hallinan: "Drones are a high-tech solution to a deeply complex political problem. The longer they stalk the skies over Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the more difficult those political problems become. It is time to stop bombing and start talking."
by Kyoungeun Cha, who works for the Peace Network in South Korea."The U.S. and South Korean government are expanding their military alliance, and if the naval base on Jeju Island is set up, the U.S. navy will use the base to monitor China’s naval power. B
David Cronin (IPS 19.6.2010) "Some 1.6 billion euros (2 billion dollars) has been allocated to the EU's "Clean Sky" project, which aims to develop aircraft engines that emit half as much carbon dioxide as those now in use. With the funding being divided b
Verizon Business Network Services Inc., Ashburn, Va., was awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract consisting of one five-year base period, two 24-month option periods and one 12-month option period and a maximum ceilin
Den amerikanska militärledningen ackrediterad av Vita huset är de faktiska parter som i verkligheten iscensätter dödandet av både amerikanska unga män i tjugoårsåldern iklädda uniform samt fattiga civila i Mellanöstern. Wikileaks påvisar detta uppenbara
Annika Spaldes blogg om fredsarbete och en andlighet som utmanar denna världens makter. "Förstörelsens fästen är kraftigt bemannade, det är dags för de snälla att bli fly förbannade. Tage Danielsson"
by Justin Vela, SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug. 6) -- What if you had a missile system and nowhere to put part of it? That seems to be Washington's dilemma as it shops around for a site for a system meant to protect its forces and allies in Europe and the Mideast f
"Did 9/11 make us all go mad? " "who's made the profit? Well, the arms dealers, naturally, and Boeing and Lockheed Martin and all the missile lads and the drone manufacturers and F-16 spare parts outfits and the ruthless mercenaries who stalk the Muslim
Jan Mosander : "Journalisten Nils Resare har skrivit om bistånd i många år. Jag gissar att det är hans biståndsintresse som utgör grunden för hans bok ”Mutor, makt och bistånd – Jas och Sydafrikaaffären (Natur & Kultur). Det förvånar inte. Det är lätt at
The term thermobaric is derived from the Greek words for "heat" and "pressure": thermobarikos (θερμοβαρικός), from thermos (θερμός), hot + baros (βάρος), weight, pressure + suffix -ikos (-ικός), suffix -ic. Other terms used for this family of weapons are
Turkey's State Minister & chief negotiator for EU talks Egemen Bagis criticized Germany, along with France, for seeking to sell military equipment to Greece while pressing the government in Athens to make drastic public spending cuts as a result of its di
The U.S. administration's decision last month to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to potentially unstable Arab nations in the Gulf - including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain - have triggered fears of
"So the movements against new industrialisation engulfing Eastern India is intimately connected to the war on terror, both because the metals’ apex use is in manufacturing arms, and because the attempt to set up new mining-metals projects is escalating co
Wikileaks avslöjanden drabbar nu även i viss mån den ryska eliten. Av den senaste skörden offentliggjorda telegram framgår att Ryssland varit berett att avstå från att leverera mot S-300 missiler till Iran i utbyte mot USA:s godkännande av ett ryskt köp
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
The Pentagon has rolled out prototypes of its first-ever programmable "smart" grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon that uses microchipped ammunition to target and kill the enemy, even when the enemy is hidden behind walls or other cover.
Noah Shachtman December 6, 201: "What the 29-foot-long craft did during all those months in orbit is still a matter of intense speculation. a prototype for an orbiting bomber? platform to take out the satellite assets of an enemy"?Russian military estab
Obama försöker nu få det nya START-avtalet ratificerat av senaten innan årsskiftet. Avtalet som slöts med Ryssland tidigare i år förutsätter en ytterligare begränsning av de kärnvapen som de båda länderna innehar
Empire - Hollywood: Chronicler of WarAl Jazeera: Is it a case of art imitating life, or a sinister force using art to influence life and death? December 24, 2010Empire - Hollywood: The Pentagon calls the shotsAl Jazeera: Hollywood and the war machine: A
The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing to use plutonium-based (or MOX--mixed oxide) fuel in commercial nuclear reactors. In addition, the DOE is producing tritium for nuclear weapons in civilian reactors operated by Tennessee Valley Authority. These f
M. Atzmueller, L. Thiele, G. Stumme, and S. Kauffeld. Proc. Annual Machine Learning Conference of the Benelux (Benelearn 2017), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology, (2017)