NY TIMES– Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to Congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials. While it is not clear how many of those businesses won contracts, at … Read More
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End of the Internet? The Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse
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COMMON DREAMS– So Google and Verizon went public Monday with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that’s seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its “Don’t Be Evil” pledge.But cut through the … Read More
Alarms Sound Over Trash Fires in War Zones
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WASHINGTON POST– Hundreds of military service members and contractor employees have fallen ill with cancer or severe breathing problems after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they say they were poisoned by thick, black smoke produced by the burning of tons of trash generated on U.S. bases. In a lawsuit in federal court in Maryland, 241 people from 42 states … Read More
Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
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WIRED– The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents … Read More
