Category: Information Operations (IO)

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Berto Jongman: NSA Tags Collection Bits to Expose Future Leakers

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Snowden-Proof? NSA Trying to Stop Future Leakers

The National Security Agency – notorious for targeting the general public with its surveillance programs – will monitor its own employees to guard against another leak like the one perpetrated by former agency contractor Edward Snowden.

ROBERT STEELE: In 1986, while serving on detail within CIA's Office of Information Technology, I pointed out the insanity of providing total access to everyone. No one wanted to listen then.  They still do not want to listen.

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Robert Parry: Neocon, R2P Hypocrisy

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military
Robert Parry
Robert Parry

Neocons, R2Pers and Hypocrisy

Exclusive: R2Pers say America has a “responsibility to protect” endangered people around the world, but this R2P moral imperative is selective, often indistinguishable from neocons tolerating some slaughters and choosing to wage war against certain enemies — just dressed up in liberal rhetoric, reports Robert Parry.

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Berto Jongman: Covert War Between US and Russia? West Sidelined by Sino-Russian Entente & Expulsion from Southern Hemisphere?

02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Being read, together, in Europe.

Putin Orders Millions Of Troops To High Alert After US Hypercraft “Attack”

From Greater Europe to Greater Asia? The Sino-Russian Entente

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Berto Jongman: Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Programs? PBI: Or Just Plain Dishonesty?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Media, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Is Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Policies?

More than thirteen years after the U.S. intelligence community named the prevention of terrorism its number one goal, it seems to have little understanding of what drives terrorism, or how to counter it. And, if the recently increasing criticism is correct, the government’s investment in academic terrorism research isn’t helping. It may be because the government is continuing to fund research supporting discredited theories of terrorist radicalization, rather than objective empirical analyses.

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Stephen E. Arnold: FTC Finds Google Harms Rivals by Manipulating Search Results, Recommends Lawsuit — Not Under Obama-Biden!

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google Altered Search Results?!

If you know anything about search results, search engine optimization, and search algorithms, you probably wondered if Google ever changed its search results so they would be favor one search result over another.  Google already alters results with Google AdWords, the Right to Forgotten, and removing results if they break rules.

The FTC revealed via The Wall Street Journal that Google has been altering its search results for profit: “Inside The US Antitrust Probe Of Google.”  The FTC found that Google was using its monopoly on search to harm Internet users and its rivals.  FTC recommended a lawsuit be brought against Google for three of its practices.

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