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Category Archives: Hackers
Another Mega Group Spy Scandal? Samanage, Sabotage, and the SolarWinds Hack
By Whitney Webb Source: The Unz Review The devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on Russia by US intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage, a company whose software was integrated into SolarWinds’ software just as the “back door” was … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Hackers, History, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Binational Industrial Research and Development, Chris Krebs, CIA, Crowdstrike, Cyber Unified Coordination Group, DNC, Donald Trump, FireEye, Hackers, Henry Kissinger, Isabel Maxwell, Israel, Jonathan Kolber, Jonathan Pollard, Klaus Schwab, Marc Benioff, Microsoft, Robert Maxwell, Russia, Salesforce, Samange, SolarWinds, Technocracy, The Great Reset, Unit 8200, Viola Ventures, WikiLeaks, World Economic Forum
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No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
By Pepe Escobar Source: Global Research The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service as … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Hackers, internet freedom, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Ayn Rand, capitalism, Cedric Durand, Chinese credit system, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Futurism, George Keyworth, Internet, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Silicon Valley, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Techno-Feudalism, Technocracy, technology, the Digital Age
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Ecuador Has Been Hit by 40 Million Cyber Attacks Since Assange’s Arrest
By Elias Marat Source: The Mind Unleashed The government of Ecuador claims that the country has come under a broad and concerted cyber attack, with approximately 40 million attempts to compromise web portals connected to public institutions ever since the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, Hackers, hacktivism, imperialism, media, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, society, State Crime, Whistleblowers
Tagged activism, Ecuador, El Comercio, empire, geopolitics, Global Elites, hacktivism, imperialism, INA Investment Corporation, INA Papers, Julian Assange, Lenin Moreno, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, press freedom, Rafael Correa, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks
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Cyberwar: #RussiaGate Is US
By Rob Williams Source: Project Censored The following is a critical book review of Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect A President – What We Don’t, Can’t, And Do Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). “Russia hacked the … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Hackers, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged CIA, corporate media, Cyberwar, DNC, Donald Trump, Election 2016, FBI, Hillary Clinton, James Clapper, James Comey, John Pilger, John Podesta, Julian Assange, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Leaked Emails, Media Literacy, Michael Hayden, NSA, Robert Mueller, RussiaGate, Russian Hackers, WikiLeaks
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
(Editor’s note: on this 36th anniversary of the passing of Philip K. Dick, it seems an appropriate time to note the relevance of his work to our current dystopia as Henry Farrell does in the following essay. Unfortunately the author … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Empire, Hackers, media, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Algorithms, automation, big data, Consciousness, Dystopia, Fake News, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, PKD, politics, propaganda, Reality, sci-fi, Science fiction, Social Media, Sociology, technology
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Time To Make Life Hard For The Rich
By Hamilton Nolan Source: Splinter It is time for polite, respectable, rational people to start saying what has become painfully obvious: It is time to stop respecting the rich, and start stealing from them. In earnest. Inequality is eating America … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Hackers, Inequality, Revolution, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, activism, capitalism, Class War, Democracy, Economic Collapse, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, elites, income gap, Inequality, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Revolution, US government, wall street, Wealth Disparity
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Tomorrow Belongs to the Corporatocracy
By C.J. Hopkins Source: The Unz Review Back in October of 2016, I wrote a somewhat divisive essay in which I suggested that political dissent is being systematically pathologized. In fact, this process has been ongoing for decades, but it has been … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, freedom of speech, Hackers, History, media, Militarization, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, Clinton, corporate media, Corporate New, Corporatism, corporatocracy, culture, Election 2016, Extremism, Facebook, Free Press, free speech, Google, Hegemony, media, propaganda, Russia-gate, Russian Hackers, surveillance state, Trump, Twitter
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