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David Swanson: Kellogg-Briand Pact – Peace Pact of Paris — Bans War, USA is Still a Party to This Treaty

A Built-In Cure for War Erin Niemela’s recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive.  Count me in.  But I have a related idea that I think should be tried first. While banning war is just what the world ordered, it has about it something of the whole Bush-Cheney …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Government Opens Information Highway — Sort Of

Government Opens Information Highway Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT The U.S. Government is trying to improve the American dream by making sure that its citizens have access to some of the government’s arsenal of information. According to the Whitehouse article “Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government …

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Jean Lievens: Michael Schmidt on The Internet & Ideology — war between the parasitic and productive classes

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 …

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Berto Jongman: Overview of How NSA Can Socially Graph Anyone Into Virtual Nakedness — Always

How to Build a Secret Facebook By Alex Pasternack Motherboard, 10 June 2013 Since retiring from a three-decade career at the NSA in 2001, a mathematician named William Binney has been telling anyone who will listen about a vast data-gathering operation being conducted by his former employers. “Here’s the grand design,” he told filmmaker Laura Poitras last year. “You …

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