Month: December 2015
Déjà vu or is this new?
How unique is Edward Snowden among national security whistleblowers? Is his new or old information about mass surveillance? Given the Five Eyes intelligence sharing arrangement has been in place for almost seventy years, Snowden’s evidence of its reach and power to impact political rights, democracy and technology echo previous revelations, defections and publications. Snowden revealed…
PhD = Press Here Dummy
In a previous life, I had a morbid fascination with the violence of nuclear weapons; nuclear threats, nuclear tests, nuclear deterrence and nuclear war planning. What will it take to bring disarmament? Why isn’t it happening given it is the democratic will of the vast majority of countries on earth and the vast majority of all populations polled…