🇻🇳The Chris Hedges Report: The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report
The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance.
It was developed first as a #counterinsurgency tool for the #VietnamWar and the rest of the #GlobalSouth, but like many devices of foreign policy naturally it made its way back to #US soil. Yasha Levine, in his book #SurveillanceValley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, chronicles the linear history of the internet’s birth at the #Pentagon to its now ubiquitous use in all aspects of modern life. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to explain the reality of the internet’s history.
Levine describes the early concept of the internet as “an operating system for the American empire, an information system that could collect all this data and that could provide useful, meaningful information to the managers of the world.”
#Vietnam #Internet #BigBrother
#AmericanEmpire
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The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance.
It was developed first as a #counterinsurgency tool for the #VietnamWar and the rest of the #GlobalSouth, but like many devices of foreign policy naturally it made its way back to #US soil. Yasha Levine, in his book #SurveillanceValley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, chronicles the linear history of the internet’s birth at the #Pentagon to its now ubiquitous use in all aspects of modern life. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to explain the reality of the internet’s history.
Levine describes the early concept of the internet as “an operating system for the American empire, an information system that could collect all this data and that could provide useful, meaningful information to the managers of the world.”
#Vietnam #Internet #BigBrother
#AmericanEmpire
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🇵🇸From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the U.S. | Mondoweiss
#Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.
Via @mondoweissgram
#US #ProjectEsther #FBI #COINTELPRO #Activism #Repression #Palestine
#Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.
Via @mondoweissgram
#US #ProjectEsther #FBI #COINTELPRO #Activism #Repression #Palestine