Stephen E. Arnold: The Noisy (Useless?) Internet

Optimizing the Noisy Internet Humans love to complain, especially the older generations about how their youth was superior to the current day.  Alan Franzoni rants about how the Internet has gotten too noisy in “Stopping The Internet Noise-A Useful Internet Back Again.”  Franzoni complains that the modern Internet is not as useful as the Internet …

Robert Steele: UNHINGED: drone assassination – American suicide

REVIEW ESSAY Unhinged: drone assassination – American suicide Intelligence and National Security, 33/1 March 2017 We kill because we can: from soldiering to assassination in the drone age, by Laurie Calhoun, London, Zed Books, 2016, 400 pp., US$15.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 178360547 7 Drones and the future of armed conflict: ethical, legal, and strategic implications, …

Robert Steele: Memorandum for the President-Elect on Need for an Open Source Agency

استخدام جوجل ترجمة للقراءة باللغة العربية 使用谷歌翻译在中国阅读 Использование Google Translate для чтения на русском языке Google Türkçe Oku Çevir kullanın SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Trump-OSA 8 Oct 2015 updated 8 Dec 2015 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT-ELECT VIA: (1) CHIEF OF STAFF-DESIGNEE (2) NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR-DESIGNEE

Robert Steele: US IC Allegations Against Russians Are Crap — Our Own Traitors, Not the Russians, Are the Real Enemy, Fake Evidence & Fake News – UPDATE 22

I invite readers to tweet this post to @realDonaldTrump and @seanspicer using the tweet share button at the bottom of this post. UPDATE 22: BuzzFeed reports the evidence is simply not there. The FBI Never Asked For Access To Hacked Computer Servers The FBI did not examine the servers of the Democratic National Committee before issuing …

Berto Jongman: Half of Humanity Not on Internet

Half The World’s Population Is Not Yet On The Internet Less than half of the world’s population still isn’t using the Internet, although the numbers are improving, according to a United Nations report.  A report recently released by the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) found that 47.1% of the population is online, an increase …

Glenn Greenwald: Anonymous Leaks Are Not Evidence — A Sharp Critique of Fake News from the Washington Post

Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: the key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims …