Berto Jongman: Enemies of the Internet

A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies Electronic Frontier Foundation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended to track countries that repress online speech, intimidate and arrest bloggers, and conduct surveillance of their citizens.  Some countries have been mainstays on the …

Berto Jongman: Full Text of Edward Snowden Testimony to European Parliament

PDF (12 Pages): Introductory Statement & Answer to Questions Highlights: 00 The included links are a “best of the best” selection of media stories. 01 EU security agencies have created a bazaar allowing NSA to get it all. 02 There are many other undisclosed programs. 03 According to Snowden, at least ten specific individuals are …

Berto Jongman: USA SSI Op-Ed Not Your Grandfather’s Insurgency — Criminal, Spiritual, and Plutocratic

Not Your Grandfather’s Insurgency — Criminal, Spiritual, and Plutocratic Robert J. Bunker The U.S. Army is facing both ongoing and projected austere economic times with deep troop and budget cuts. As a result, a concomitant rise in soul searching over the Army’s “strategic Landpower” contribution to national defense is increasingly evident. This is a natural …

Jean Lievens: Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism?

Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis International Policy Digest, February 22, 2014 Technological fixes to time-honoured problems are all the rage these days. Bitcoin is meant to fix money, social media are seen as an antidote to Rupert Murdoch and assorted tyrants, networked robots are to help countries like Japan deal with demographic declines …