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2015/09/092015/09/09

Berto Jongman: NeoCons Destabilized Europe

02 Diplomacy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

The Dick Cheney legacy?

How Neocons Destabilized Europe

The refugee chaos that is now pushing deep into Europe – dramatized by gut-wrenching photos of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey – started with the cavalier ambitions of American neocons and their liberal-interventionist sidekicks who planned to remake the Middle East and other parts of the world through “regime change.” Instead of the promised wonders of “democracy promotion” and “human rights,” what these “anti-realists” have accomplished is to spread death, destruction and destabilization across the Middle East and parts of Africa and now into Ukraine and the heart of Europe.

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2015/09/092015/09/08

Stephen E. Arnold: Algorithms Gone Wild…

IO Impotency

Algorithms Still Need Oversight

Many have pondered what might happen when artificial intelligence systems go off the rails. While not spectacular enough for Hollywood, some very real consequences have been observed; the BBC examines “The Bad Things that Happen When Algorithms Run Online Shops.” Read full post.

2015/09/082015/09/07

Berto Jongman: End-to-End Encryption and the Internet of Things

Advanced Cyber/IO

End-to-end encryption is key for securing the Internet of Things

Securing the IoT begins with understanding why it requires a fundamentally different set of strategies and tools than those currently used in IT, telecom and other domains . . . SSL/TLS is not sufficient for small devices with the need to protect the data in use, in motion and at rest.

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2015/09/062015/09/05

Robert Parry: William Polk on Muslim Memories of West’s Imperialism — What Our Presidential Candidates and Public Do Not Know…

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Peace Intelligence

Muslim Memories of West’s Imperialism

Special Report: American politicians know little about history, so they lash out at people from formerly colonized Third World nations without understanding the scars that the West’s repression and brutality have left on these societies, especially in the Muslim world, as historian William R. Polk explains. Read full article.

2015/09/042015/09/03

Robert Parry: It’s Official — NATO and US Lump Public Relations in with PSYOPS and Information War

IO Impotency

US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War

The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.

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2015/09/032015/09/02

Jean Lievens: OpenMinTeD Cross-Science Text and Data Mining

Advanced Cyber/IO

The next step in Open Science? Text and Data Mining!

The new H2020 European project “OpenMinTeD” will be the first to build an infrastructure that makes it much easier to mine, by making existing text mining tools discoverable, interoperable and usable. The infrastructure brings together text and data registries/databases and will develop a standard layer, that makes it possible to easily find text and data from all over the world, and mine it. . . . It brings together the different stakeholders, content providers and scientific communities, text mining and infrastructure builders, legal experts, data and computing centres, industrial players and SMEs.

2015/09/032015/09/01

Sahil Kini: The India Internet – in 780 Languages, 86 Scripts, 29 Major Languages, 22 of Them Official

Advanced Cyber/IO

One LaaS Thing: Building the Indian Internet in local languages

India today speaks 780 languages represented in 86 different scripts. 29 of them are spoken by at least a million people, 22 are recognized by the Constitution as official languages. One of them, of course, is English. From being the language of colonial oppression, it has now risen to the status of the language of aspiration. Whenever I bring up the topic of the need for the promotion of India languages, I’m waved away by most who say that the rise of English speakers is inevitable. And perhaps it is.