Cyber-Terrorism: How the US and Israel Attacked Iran—and Failed
Sabotaging another nation’s power grids, or blowing up industrial plants, are actual acts of war under international law. The term “cyber-terrorism” as …
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: The Duty to Expose War Crimes
On Thursday, April 25, 2019, I had the honour of participating in two separate radio interviews concerning the case of Julian Assange …
The WikiLeaks Case: Democracy Dies in Empire
In the avalanche of news reports that have washed over the globe since the abduction of Julian Assange, this conversation struck me …
Julian Assange, Political Prisoner: A Dark Day for Citizenship
After a day of following RT’s live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in …
CARICOM Confronts the Big House: Trump Attempts to Split the Caribbean over Venezuela
It’s a simple matter, even if one might lose oneself in the various details, names, places, and dates. The Caribbean Community and …
Donald Trump, Empire, and Globalization: A Reassessment
“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,” Donald Trump recently declared, “I’m both”. The only way in which the two (seemingly contradictory) …
The hybrid media space of nerd politics
Invited paper to the ECPR joint sessions workshop on Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention, Nottingham, UK, 27-30 April …
The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project What a sight to behold. These are the dying days, counting …
2016: The Ending of the Year of Beginnings
Probably the most memorable year in decades, 2016 was a non-stop accumulation of turning points and landmark events. In broad terms, we …
101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails
US voters have been given a rare, even unprecedented opportunity to look at the machinery inside an electoral campaign and a foundation, …
Empire’s “Mimic Men”
Imperialism by Invitation or Imitation? US efforts in remaking the international system according to an image reflecting the US are not usually …
(New Book) Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism
From ALERT PRESS: Click here to order a printed copy, or, Click here for the free e-book (pdf) Friends and allies, partners …
23. Freedom technologists bibliography
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists Annotated bibliography (see Doc version …
21. Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. 464 pp. John Postill RMIT University …