From Thursday’s Files
Kissinger’s ‘Game’ & Its Warning
‘Free Reading’ In Croatia – https://globalvoices.org/2016/12/27/for-a-limited-time-croatians-get-free-access-to-a-digital-library-of-100000-books/
Shrooms and Their Effects – http://www.businessinsider.com/magic-mushrooms-shrooms-mental-physical-effects-2016
Kerry’s UN Text
Secretary Kerry’s speech on Israel and Security Council Resolution 2334
Ruling Class Fissures Over Israel – http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/us/politics/john-kerry-israel-palestine-peace.html
A Progressive in Chile’s Election – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chilean-Leftist-Presidential-Hopeful-Snatches-Lead-in-Key-Poll-20161228-0010.html
Sugar in the Crosshairs – https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/the-sugar-wars/508751/
Military Finance As Fantasy Realm
The 21st-Century General Staff: Military Moonshots For Modern War – Modern War Institute
Sexual ‘Ethics’ & Robots
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-sex-marriage-robots-science-fiction.html
Net Neutrality’s Current Context – http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/70457
FOIA Litigation About Russian ‘Hacking’ – http://www.recode.net/2016/12/27/14088808/russia-hacking-trump-election-journalist-sues-foia-leopold-shapiro-cia-fbi
Circa 1530 Fake News Hysteria – http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Great_%22Fake_News%22_Scare_Of_1530/56025/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Decrypting Erdogan’s Contradictions
Security Counsel’s Possible Skuppering Israeli Apartheid
Is UN Security Council Resolution 2334 The Beginning Of The End For Apartheid Israel?
Debord on Intellectual Property – https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/1963/never-work.htm
Trump and the Special Forces
Greater Autonomous Killing Power
Five Giant Leaps for Robotkind: Expanding the Possible in Autonomous Weapons
Friendly CIA Accountants @ Deloitte
Accountants And Spies: The Secret History Of Deloitte’s Espionage Practice
Vice Scotches Comments – http://www.blacklistednews.com/Vice_Joins_Trend_Of_Killing_News_Comments_Because_Giving_A_Damn_About_Your_Site%27s_Community_Is_Just_Too_Hard/56016/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Toshiba’s Troubled Nuclear Deals – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/unions-labor-ctu-cwa-verizon-strikes-uber-neoliberalism/
A Review Essay of the Film Allied – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/28/alli-d28.html