Graphika: la barba del estado profundo para controlar la era de la información

Los actores semiestatales juegan un papel muy importante en el panorama en línea de hoy y en la década de 1970, los empleados de Graphika probablemente habrían estado trabajando directamente para la CIA.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
Graphika Feature photo

NEW YORK – Graphika is the toast of the town. The private social-media and tech-intelligence agency that tracks down bots and exposes foreign influence operations online is constantly quoted, referenced and profiled in the nation’s most important outlets. For example, in 2020, The New York Times published a fawning profile of the company’s head of

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Los nicaragüenses ignoran a los fantasmas de Facebook que engañan o tratan su elección

Parece que se ha llegado a un acuerdo tácito entre el gobierno y Facebook: puedes quedarte con las ganancias, pero nosotros controlamos el mensaje. Como tal, un cínico podría preguntarse qué diferencia funcional hay entre Facebook y el estado de seguridad nacional.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA -- Less than a week before Nicaragua’s presidential election, social media giant Facebook deleted the accounts of hundreds of the country’s top news outlets, journalists and activists, all of whom supported the ruling left-wing Sandinista government, a top Washington target for regime change. Facebook claims that these

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La entrevista del MI6 de Angelina Jolie muestra cuán conectado está Hollywood con el estado profundo

Para algunos, la combinación de una estrella de Hollywood y un maestro de espías veterano puede parecer extraña. Pero, en realidad, la pantalla grande y el estado de seguridad nacional siempre han estado íntimamente entrelazados.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
Angelina Jolie CIA Feature photo

With election fever still gripping the U.S., talk of rigging or interference in the democratic process is reaching new levels, high enough that even Hollywood legend Angelina Jolie is talking about it. In an extraordinary interview in Time magazine, the star of “Wanted, Maleficent, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” sat down with the former head of the

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Blowback: The Costs of War Continue to Soar in the Trump Era

The costs of America’s wars, still spreading in the Trump era, are incalculable and go far beyond the trillions spent on perpetuating America’s wars.

Tom Engelhardt
Por Tom Engelhardt
An M109 Paladin gun crew with 1st Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, fires into the mountains of Oro Grande Range Complex, N.M., Feb. 14, 2018. (U.S. Army photo)

As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool $5.6 trillion (including the future costs of caring for our war

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How The Mainstream Media Became A Neo-Stalinist Propaganda Regime For Wealthy Neocons

The Media Reform Coalition (MRC), steered out of Goldsmiths University’s Leverhulme Media Research Centre, found that 71% of UK national newspapers are owned by just three giant corporations, while 80% of local newspapers are owned by a mere six five companies.

Nafeez Ahmed
Por Nafeez Ahmed

This in-depth special report is part of the Media Reform Coalition’s ‘media democracy’ series of think pieces. John Pilger once wrote that journalism is the first casualty of war. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, as governments push forward with new legislation on mass surveillance and anti-terror powers, as the drumbeat for more war

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