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Ready for a new cold war? The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that recent reports about Chinese hacking show the U.S. is losing a global cyber war. Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), chairman of the House panel, slammed the Chinese military for alleged cyberattacks on U.S. corporations and attempts to hack ...

War on Society

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In the face of a new communique from ITS we cannot remain silent. And we want to begin by recognizing something that for us has grown qualitatively from this group of action, and that is Respect. We believe that at one time their analysis and reflections had an arrogant inclination. And before continuing we want [...]

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“The Social War in Portugal”

Jaime Semprun’s “La sociale guerre au Portugal” was originally published by Éditions Champ Libre on 16 May 1975, a mere three weeks after the manuscript was completed. It was composed of a brief introduction and two main parts: the first covers the period from 25 April 1974 to 28 September 1974; the second the period [...]

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Secret Societies Against the State

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Whereas society is totalizing, the social war is fragmentary and counter-power movements themselves are made up from multiple societies. Within these societies, that when in movement are struggling against the state, are hidden secret societies that excel in unstable conditions. Under the rule of social peace, these same anti-social forces are in permanent conspiracy, they [...]

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Seth Kim-Cohen: In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (2009)

An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present. Marcel Duchamp famously championed a “non-retinal” visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an Ear is the first book to ask why the sonic arts did not experience a parallel turn toward a non-cochlear sonic art, imagined [...]

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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through the [...]

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How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

A New Book Transforms Our Understanding of What the Vietnam War Actually Was For half a century we have been arguing about “the Vietnam War.” Is it possible that we didn’t know what we were talking about? After all that has been written (some 30,000 books and counting), it scarcely seems possible, but such, it [...]

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‘Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States’: Facts through a new lens

 ‘Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States’: Facts through a new lens

It’s somehow appropriate that Oliver Stone has chosen a hotel just a few blocks from the Agriculture Department to talk about his new project. “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States,” a documentary series that debuts Monday on Showtime, focuses on Henry A. Wallace — former agriculture and commerce secretary, as well as Franklin [...]

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The Financial Elite’s War Against the US Economy

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Today’s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers. Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) and now even the educational system. (At over $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt came to exceed credit-card debt in 2012.) The [...]

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Chasers War on Scientology

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“Free Gullibility Test” segment from Chaser’s War on Everything, 28 April 2006. http://www.xenu.netRelated PostsThe Psychopath’s Bible Has James Gates Discovered Computer Code in String Theory Equations? Welcome to The Matrix! Doomsday Prophets Excited About Asteroid 2012 DA14, First Apocalypse Of 2013

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Pierre Klossowski: Sade My Neighbor (1947/1991)

Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the wake of the savagery of the Second World War. That era’s union of cold technology and ancient hatreds gave rise to a dark, alternative reason–an ethic that was value-free and indifferent with regard to virtue and vice, freedom, and slavery. [...]

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Descent Into Holy War: What’s Really Happening in Syria

It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. He hacks with a machete at the neck of a middle-aged man who has been forced to lie in the street with his head on a concrete [...]

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Andrew Hodges: The Alan Turing: Enigma (1983/2012)

The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime codebreaking and the computer revolution. A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing’s centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second [...]

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The Cultural Cold War The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

Imagine the United States government providing export subsidies not just to peanut farmers or aircraft makers. Imagine also a secretary of culture, financing operas, orchestras and painters especially to promote them abroad. Most card-carrying members of the intelligentsia would vigorously applaud so splendid an idea while bemoaning its utter unreality. Not for us, they lament, [...]

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These women fought bravely

“These women fought bravely, and were reported to be the last to retreat.” To read on the role of women during the Spanish Civil War, read Lisa Lines’ article, Female Combatants in the Spanish Civil War: Milicianas on the Front Lines and in the Rearguard. (via effectiveresistance)Related PostsJan Cohen-Cruz (ed.): Radical Street Performance: An International [...]

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Breaking the Taboo: Watch On-Line for Free

Breaking the Taboo was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade, and is Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman Featuring interviews with current and former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political [...]

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Syrian Minority Fear the End of Fighting More Than War Itself

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The Government and Your Guns

They Don’t Want Your Guns; They Want Your Obedience

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