Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 2.0

BOOK: The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes Also: Radio Interview with Author BUDGET: Congress Wants More Insight into Cyber, SOF Budgets CYBER: Cyberwar Increasingly Defined By Espionage and Regional Conflicts, Argues FireEye CYBER: DDoS New Technique, Warns US-CERT CYBER: Google Spyware SMS Tracker CYBER: How Jihadists Use the Internet

NIGHTWATCH: Saudi-Funded Wahhabism on the Table as Enemy #1

Syria: President Bashar Asad Monday called for a battle against Wahhabism, the political and religious theology embraced by the Saudi Arabian government that backs the Sunni uprising against his regime. “President Assad said that extremists and Wahhabi thought distort the real Islam, which is tolerant,” state news agency SANA reported. He underlined the role of …

Chuck Spinney: Gaza Drowning in Shit — Israel’s Long-Term Anti-Access Program Deepens the Atrocity

Anti-Access, Area Denial Israeli Style Mother Nature Intensifies the Gaza Siege by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Gaza was recently hit by a severe winter storm, and it lacks the electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure to deal with the crisis. Here, FYI, is report in Ma’an, a Palestinian news agency, describing the disastrous effects of this storm. …

Penguin: NSA Paid RSA for an Embedded Back Door Into Products Sold — Time to Indict Hayden & Alexander — and File RICO Charges Against RSA

Can you spell treason? How about racketeering? This would seem to call for the indictment, conviction, and loss of pensions for the top NSA deciders, and enough RICO lawsuits to put RSA out of business.  Shame! Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer EXTRACT: Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show …

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Conflict of Two Judaisms — Judaism of Love and Judaism of Conquest

A Jewish State Would Not Be Oppressive or Racist Toward the Powerless, the Immigrants, the Homeless, The Other–an essay by Uri Avnery Editor’s Note: Uri Avnery, a committed atheist, and chair of Israel’s peace movement Gush Shalom,  recognizes that the real problem in Israel today is not that it is a Jewish state, but that it …