Putin To Obama: “Show Some Proof Or Shut Up”
Putin has had enough of the relentless barrage of US accusations that he, personally, “hacked the US presidential election.”
Putin has had enough of the relentless barrage of US accusations that he, personally, “hacked the US presidential election.”
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet.
The Google campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo: Connie Zhou/AP Originally published on Medium. INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is the founding editor of the 100% reader-funded investigative journalism project INSURGE intelligence. His latest book is Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence (Springer, 2017). He is an 18-year investigative journalist, formerly of The Guardian where he reported on the geopolitics of social, economic and environmental crises. He now reports on ‘global system change’ for VICE’s Motherboard. He has bylines in The Times, Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, New York Observer, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, among other places. He has twice won the Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting; twice been featured in the Evening Standard’s top 1,000 list of most influential Londoners; and won the Naples Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award created by the President of the Republic. Nafeez is also a widely-published and cited interdisciplinary academic applying complex systems analysis to ecological and political violence. He is a Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute.
‘The US government is currently undertaking a massive effort to digitally arm itself for network warfare.’
The National Security Agency intelligence service isn't just trying to achieve mass surveillance of Internet communication. The digital spies of the Five Eyes alliance want more. Documents from the archive of Edward Snowden indicate they are planning for wars of the future in which the Internet will play a critical role, with the aim of being able
Another delay for the sentencing of former Anonymous hacker Sabu Monsegur is raising questions about his true role.
At 10 a.m. August 23, sentencing for Anonymous hacker Hector “Sabu” Monsegur -- which was scheduled for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York -- was adjourned without explanation.
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