The internet. GPS. Windows. Videoconferencing. Siri. Smart dust. Why isn’t it common knowledge that these technologies started as DARPA-funded projects? When the government, defense contractors and tech giants team up to create the next generation of military...
Today we talk to former US Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney about AFRICOM, the US military’s African Command, and its ostensible mandate to foster “security cooperation” between the US and Africa. We discuss what AFRICOM is...
VIDEO AVAILABLE SHORTLY DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO of this report Drone Wars: US Ramping Up Unmanned Air Strikes and Domestic Surveillance TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Sunday Update from the Centre for Research on...
Alex Abella joins us to discuss his book, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire. We discuss RAND’s “contributions” to military planning, systems analysis, nuclear weapon deployment, rational choice theory and...
