The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Deborah Wheeler 5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising and therefore valuable, February 11, 2015 This is a solid piece of work that might normally have been a 4 but it surprised me just enough to warrant taking it to a 4. I love unconventional wisdom and seeing solid proof that conventional wisdom — in this …
Internet & Ideology Against the Nationalist Fragmentation of Cyberspace & Against “Astroturf Activism” The Arab Spring redrew the battle-lines between over the control of information between the statist/capitalist elites and the popular classes – raising questions of increased restriction and surveillance, and of the limits of cyber-activism. In some ways this battle is often mischaracterised …
Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Recycling and Internet-Centrism, a tale of Cyber-Utopia Gone Really Wrong, November 30, 2012 Abhinav Agarwal (Bangalore, India) Dunks a much needed, well-reasoned, and well-researched bucket of cold-water over “Internet-centrists” and “cyber-utopians” (cyber-utopianism is a “naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication”), and assembles together an …
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Book of the Day: Cypherpunks on Freedom and the Future of the Internet Excerpted from a review by Cryptome: “This is a highly informative book, perhaps the best published on the substance of WikiLeaks, its technology, philosophy, origin and purpose, rooted in the Cypherpunks resistance to authority through encryption and anonymizing technology. The trenchant and …
Tech giants have power to be political masters as well as our web ones The Arab spring showed how multinationals can wield power without responsibility by controlling internet access John Naughton The Observer, 25 February 2012 Among all the excited commentary about the role of social networking in the Arab spring, one uncomfortable fact stands …
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The U.N. Declares Internet Access a Human Right By Adam Clark Estes 11:29 AM ET The United Nations counts internet access as a basic human right in a report that bears implications both to on-going events in the Arab Spring and to the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers. Acting as special rapporteur, a human rights …
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PDF (32 Pages): Steele on Virtual Intelligence Conflict Avoidance Full Text Online Below the Fold
