Category Archives: despotic academia
Yes, there are many alternatives to rentier capitalism. This is one. (Bankrupt Theory –> Bankrupt Policy –>…?)
Yes, there are many alternatives to rentier capitalism. This is one. from PBS newshour (more on the original website) When Canadian journalist and friend of Making Sense Frank Koller published his book “Spark”, about the profit-sharing model pioneered at Cleveland’s Lincoln Electric, it encouraged Making Sense … Continue reading
The U.S. Drives the World Toward War
The U.S. Drives the World Toward War Dec 16th, 2013 @ 04:57 am › Kiyul Chung ↓ Skip to comments Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which … Continue reading
IBM’s Role in the Nazi Holocaust–What the New Documents Reveal: Some of the Uses of “Metadata” or From “Meta” to “Granular” Levels of Surveillance
IBM’s Role in the Holocaust — What the New Documents Reveal – Posted: 02/27/2012 4:08 pm – Introduction by Jim Craven/Omahkohkiaaiipooyii – President Obama recently acknowledged what psyhopaths and sociopaths never get or recognize: that there is difference between what … Continue reading
CBS on the NSA
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-60-minutes-get-cameras-into-a-spy-agency/ Miller: NSA “just losing time” in wake of Snowden scandal For the first time, the National Security Agency is talking about the secrets taken by Edward Snowden. The leader of the NSA’s internal investigation spoke to CBS News senior correspondent John … Continue reading
Nukes of Hazard: A Review of Eric Schlosser’s ‘Command and Control’
NUKES OF HAZARD Eric Schlosser’s “Command and Control.” BY LOUIS MENANDSEPTEMBER 30, 2013 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/09/30/130930crbo_books_menand There have been hundreds of accidents involving nuclear weapons since 1945. Illustration by Shout. On January 25, 1995, at 9:28 a.m.Moscow time, an aide handed a briefcase to Boris Yeltsin, … Continue reading
“The Man [Men] Who Saved the World ‘by Doing Absolutely Nothing’ [sic] “
The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Absolutely Nothing Thirty years ago, Stanislav Petrov proved a cool head in a Cold War. MEGAN GARBERSEP 26 2013, 4:53 PM ET http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-man-who-saved-the-world-by-doing-absolutely-nothing/280050/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Saved_the_World http://www.globalzero.org/ru/node/793 See Movie Trailer Petrov receives a 2011 … Continue reading
The Late Chalmers Johnson: The True–and Shocking–History of the CIA
NEWS & POLITICS TomDispatch.com / By Chalmers Johnson COMMENT NOW! The True — and Shocking — History of the CIA An on-the-record master history of the CIA has finally been published, and it lesson is that an incompetent intelligence agency can be … Continue reading