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Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games “The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games hosts”. – Martin Müller, European Urban and Regional Studies, 2015 The organisers of the Olympics have always been into appearances and grand theatre. And the International Olympic Committee has always been […]
Spending More on Nukes: STRATCOM’s Nuclear Death Wish
Spending More on Nukes: STRATCOM’s Nuclear Death Wish Photograph Source: Sgt Samuel Rogers (USAF/Barksdale Air Force Base) – CC BY 2.0 Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing. But beware the trappings of zeal. When it comes to the business of retaining an inventory for humanity’s annihilation, the zealous should be kept away. […]
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, construction of which is intended to transport 55 billion cubic metres of Russian gas to Germany per year under the Baltic Sea, is a ragbag of options and promises. The fruit of a deal between Berlin and Moscow, it has troubled […]
Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance
Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring the global citizenry; it all comes down to the same thing. You are being watched for your own good, and […]
Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz
Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz Hegemons are never going to sound too sensible when they lock horns or joust in spats of childish anger. Power corrupts, not merely in terms of perspective but language, and making sense about the next move, the next statement, is bound to be challenging. Otherwise justified behaviour can […]
Doubts at the NSA: Shelving a Mass Surveillance Program
Doubts at the NSA: Shelving a Mass Surveillance Program Earlier this year, Luke Murry, national security adviser for Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, revealed that the National Security Agency had been averse over the last six months to using the phone surveillance program that hoovers information from millions of US phone calls and text messages. This […]
Delegitimising Journalism: The Effort to Relabel Julian Assange Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “Your honour, I represent the United States government”. The Westminster Magistrates Court had been left with little doubt by the opening words of the legal team marshalled against the face of WikiLeaks. Julian Assange was being targeted by the imperium itself, an […]
Means of Control: Russia’s Attempt to Hive Off the Internet
Means of Control: Russia’s Attempt to Hive Off the Internet Such measures were always going to come on the heels, and heavily so, of the utopians. Where there is Internet Utopia, Dystopia follows with dedicated cynicism. Where there are untrammelled means of searching, there will be efforts to erect signposts, usually of a warning nature. […]
Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated. Inconsistencies must be removed. There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative”
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative” Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated. Inconsistencies must be removed. There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]
Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange
Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange Photo Source Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0 Those with a stake in the hustling racket of empire have little time for the contrariness that comes with exposing classified information. Those who do are submitted to a strict liability regime of assessment and punishment: you […]
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson Photo Source Eli Christman | CC BY 2.0 “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” – President Andrew Jackson, Washington, July 10, 1832 They are three players, all problematic in their […]
Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange’s Fate
Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange’s Fate The pulse of negotiations, a flurry of communications, and the person central to this is one who threatens to go nowhere – for the moment. But go somewhere these parties would wish Julian Assange to do. For six years, cramped within a space in London a […]
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia Humans are a funny species. They create settlements along fault lines that, on moving, can create catastrophe, killing thousands. They construct homes facing rivers that will, at some point, break their banks, carrying of their precious property. Importantly, they return in the aftermath. Existence continues. The same follows certain […]
The Death of the Investigative Journalist
The Death of the Investigative Journalist The Yes Minister series portraying the skulduggery of Whitehall during the Thatcher years throws up a salient reminder how certain things do not mix. Should the art portfolio be slotted alongside television? Probably not, but politics is politics. Civil servants will intrigue and seek to influence the minister of the day […]
