🇻🇳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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There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in #Vietnam. It goes like this:
Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians.
They came home broken and unappreciated.
It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned.
Notice what that story does.
It centers Americans.
Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings.
In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop.
A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction.
Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery.
They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam.
The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill.
Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll.
txt - @RussianBaZa
#VietnamWar #Nam #Vietcong
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Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians.
They came home broken and unappreciated.
It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned.
Notice what that story does.
It centers Americans.
Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings.
In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop.
A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction.
Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery.
They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam.
The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill.
Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll.
txt - @RussianBaZa
#VietnamWar #Nam #Vietcong
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My Lai, Sexual Assault and the Black Blouse Girl: Forty-Five Years Later, One of America’s Most Iconic Photos Hides Truth in Plain Sight | Reading The Pictures
Looking back at the Vietnam war and the iconic photographs that mark that era, how is it that the American public knows about the “Napalm Girl” but no one knows or speaks of the My Lai “Black Blouse Girl?” And what does it mean that, forty-five years later, even though her experience was publicized by investigative reports and Congressional testimony, what happened to her – reflected in this famous photo – remains hidden in plain sight?
#USEmpire #Vietnam #VietnamWar #Nam #MaiLai
Looking back at the Vietnam war and the iconic photographs that mark that era, how is it that the American public knows about the “Napalm Girl” but no one knows or speaks of the My Lai “Black Blouse Girl?” And what does it mean that, forty-five years later, even though her experience was publicized by investigative reports and Congressional testimony, what happened to her – reflected in this famous photo – remains hidden in plain sight?
#USEmpire #Vietnam #VietnamWar #Nam #MaiLai