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Surveillance is the business model
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine
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The Weathervane Bares All
As I’ve stated repeatedly, the recent presidential election and its aftermath have been amazingly clarifying. Come to find out that the torrent of propaganda spewed out by the corporate media in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, … Continue reading
Stage–2
US neoliberal and neoconservative elite are going through the stages of grief in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. Judging by the recent McCarthy-style smear campaign in the Washington Post, they’re still stuck at anger. On Thursday, the … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals
Tagged Donald Trump, faith in American democracy, fake news, foreign policy elite, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Kubler-Ross, lost control of the narrative, McCarthy, neocons, neoliberals, New American Century, new york times, propaganda, Russia, Russian dupe, Saddam Hussein, smear campaign, Washington consensus, washington post, weapons of mass destruction
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