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Tag Archives: neoconservatism
Informatic Guerrilla Warfare
Guerrilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency Traditional guerrilla activity such as bombings, snipings, and kidnapping complete with printer manifestos seems like so many ecologically risky short change feedback devices compared with the real possibilities of portable video, maverick data banks, acid metaprogramming. … Continue reading
Bringing Democracy to Nicaragua (Part 1 of 2)
Another set of text fragments from one the deep archives…. The Unmaking of a Country The actions in Chile had helped signal the most important development at the end of the Cold War – the triumph of the transnational moderate … Continue reading
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Tagged AFL-CIO, BCCI, business nationalism, CIA, Cold War, covert war, criminal capitalism, democracy, democracy promotion, Iran, Iran-Contra, Iraq, Israeli, liberal internationalism, National Endowment for Democracy, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, Nicaragua, Oliver North, proxy wars, Sandinista, Social Democrats USA, transnational capitalist class, transnational politics
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The Revolution in Military Affairs: A Partial Timeline (+links)
“A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is a major change in the nature of warfare brought about by the innovative application of new technologies which, combined with dramatic changes in military doctrine and operational and organisational concepts, fundamentally alters the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Wohlstetter, Andrew Marshall, Bush, California Ideology, CIA, communication, complexity, Cowles Commission, drones, Ford Foundation, Futurism, game theory, Global Business Network, globalization, information technology, intelligence community, Iraq, JSOC, Kevin Kelly, military-industrial-complex, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, netwar, networks, NSA, Obama, Paul Wolfowitz, post-Fordism, postmodernism, Project for the New American Century, RAND corporation, revolution in military affairs, Richard Perle, Rumsfeld Doctrine, Santa Fe Institute, scenario forecasting, Social Democrats USA, surveillance, swarm, War on Terror, warfare
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The Swarmachine: A Historical Puzzle (Part 1)
The Colors of Revolution As the Cold War came to an end, undoing the critical strategic worldwide gridlock fueled by the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, globalization took off, accelerating the flows of capital, technology, and … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Bateson, civil society, color revolution, communication, complexity theory, control, counterculture, cybernetics, Deleuze, democracy, democracy promotion, emergence, Freedom House, geopolitics, globalization, Guattari, hacking, Hardt, information technology, internet, LaRouche, military-industrial-complex, National Endowment for Democracy, Negri, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, networks, NGOs, psychoanalysis, psychology, R.D. Laing, RAND corporation, revolution, Rockefeller Foundation, Students for a Democratic Society, swarm, Tavistock
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Resistance/Control: Vanguard Capitalism for Transnational Dissent
The following is a file from the archives, fragments from a long-since jettisoned text that had proven itself unwieldy in articulation and in dire need of critical reconsideration in its theoretical approach. That said, I’ve dusted it off and posted … Continue reading
From Socialism to Neoliberalism: A Story of Capture (Part 2 of 2)
Kahn Goes to Washington, Rustin Goes to War Overall, 1972 proved to be a year of change on all fronts. Shachtman passed away and was eulogized by Kahn in the pages of Dissent. Henry Jackson lost the nomination to George McGovern … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, AFL-CIO, democracy, labor, neoconservatism, Social Democrats USA
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From Socialism to Neoliberalism: A Story of Capture (Part 1 of 2)
[The following comes from a text I had worked on several years ago. For a variety of reasons, the project never came to fruition, but I’ve been revisiting my notes from this period in preparation for my current work. Note: … Continue reading
Deterritorial Investigations 