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Psychological Operations – military strategies to control thinking of people and the enemy/adversary

The Sound of the New War Drum Goes Tik Tok

By Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra and Melissa Garriga Last [month], a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn’t it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok under the magnifying glass, it’s turning a blind eye to its own surveillance programs on [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:29:08-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Capitalism, China, China, Economy, Internet, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Psy-Ops, Security and Insecurity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Books: No Pasaran! Anti-Fascist Dispatches

No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis Shane Burley (Editor); Tal Lavin (Foreword); David Renton (Afterword) Publisher: AK Press  https://akpress.org Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 564 Released: October 25, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781849354820   Now available for preorder. Order your copy now and receive a ¡No Pasarán! enamel pin with your copy. Both will ship as soon as the book is released! ¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:08:33-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Book Reviews, Books, COVID-19, Free Speech, Historical, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, LGBTQ+, Movements, Police Brutality, Politics, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Psy-Ops, Reviews, Solidarity|0 Comments
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AUTOMATING BANISHMENT

AUTOMATING BANISHMENT The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Lands   Report Summary   Automating Banishment was researched and written by dozens of community members collaborating through the Stop LAPD Spying Coalitionʼs Land and Policing Workgroup. Over the past decade, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has been building community power to abolish LAPD surveillance. This report grew out of that organizing and examines the relationship of data-driven policing to real estate development, displacement, [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:36:53-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Garcetti, Gentrification/Displacement, Hamid Khan, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Police, Politics, Psy-Ops, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Paid Public Relations, Corporate “Spin” Replacing Local News Around the US

Network of websites, print publications provide paid PR instead of local news https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/technology/timpone-local-news-metric-media.html According to an expose by the New York Times, there is a fast-growing network of nearly 1,300 websites and some print publications that aim to fill a void left by vanishing local newspapers across the country. The network, found in all 50 states, is built not on traditional journalism, according to the Times. Instead, it offers propaganda ordered up [...]

By |2020-10-29T17:53:30-05:00October 29th, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Big Business, Capitalism, Economy, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Psy-Ops|0 Comments
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Grand Jury = State Terrorism

Grand Jury System = State Terrorism By Chelsea Manning httpss://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-asd-2019/ (As read on Saturday, November 9 at the Aaron Swartz Day Event, in San Francisco.) I wish I could be there in person, but I appreciate this opportunity to summarize for you my letter to the court that ordered me to be confined, explaining why grand juries are so dangerous. I am not alone in objecting to the grand jury as a [...]

By |2019-11-28T23:41:23-05:00November 28th, 2019|Activism, Chelsea Manning, Constitution, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Jails, Justice/Injustice, LGBTQ+, Movements, National Security, Obama, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Prisons, Psy-Ops, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Walking On Stolen Land

2019 Thanksgiving statement by Leonard Peltier   The year of 2019 is coming to a close and with it, comes the day most Americans set aside as a day for Thanksgiving. As I let my mind wander beyond the steel bars and concrete walls, I try to imagine what the people who live outside the prison gates are doing, and what they are thinking. Do they ever think of the Indigenous people [...]

By |2019-11-28T23:35:14-05:00November 28th, 2019|Anti-Racism/Racism, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Peace, Psy-Ops|0 Comments
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Echoes of Fascism: “The Terror of the Unforeseen”

Echoes of Fascism The Terror of the Unforeseen by Henry Giroux, reviewed by Stephen Rohde Reprinted with permission from the Los Angeles Review of Books Nine years before the Civil War, the former enslaved person, and ardent abolitionist, Frederick Douglass condemned a nation for stubbornly clinging to the abomination of slavery in his blistering speech What to the Slave Is Your Fourth of July. “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the [...]

By |2019-10-02T05:48:54-05:00October 2nd, 2019|Book Reviews, Books, Constitution, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Politics, Psy-Ops, Reviews, Solidarity, Stephen Rohde|0 Comments
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Repudiate the Attempted Coup by the US and its Accomplices in Venezuela

Venezuelans demonstrate in support of the Bolivarian Revolution and Maduro and against US sanctions and intervention Repudiate the Attempted Coup in Venezuela by the US and its Accomplices Statement of the Communication Forum for the Integration of Our America (FCINA) In defense of Peace and the sovereignty of Latin America and the Caribbean, we repudiate the attempted coup of the United States and accomplices in Venezuela   The communication networks and social [...]

By |2019-02-04T02:28:02-05:00February 4th, 2019|Anti-capitalism, Columbia, Economy, Energy, Historical, Independent Media, Latin America, Movements, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Psy-Ops, Solidarity, Venezuela, Wall Street|0 Comments
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Global Police State

By William I. Robinson, Prof of Sociology & Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara [excerpts] A global police state is emerging as capitalism descends into an unprecedented crisis, given the extent of ecological degradation and social deterioration, and the sheer scale of the means of violence deployed around the world. "Global police state" refers to three interrelated developments: 1. Ever more omnipresent systems of social control, repression and warfare to contain [...]

By |2018-12-01T04:03:24-05:00December 1st, 2018|Africa, Anti-capitalism, Beyond Capitalism, Big Business, Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Drones, Economy, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, Peace and War, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Psy-Ops, Puerto Rico, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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New LAPD Chief – Moore of the Same

Garcetti, Chief Moore & Police Comm. Soboroff New LAPD Chief- Moore of the Same by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA httpss://ara-la.tumblr.com/post/174935057110/new-lapd-chief-moore-of-the-same Following a search and recommendation of three top candidates by the Police Commission, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has named Asst. Chief Michel Moore (pronounced Michael) as his choice for LAPD Chief to replace Chuckie Beck, who is retiring early after unrelenting community criticism. Garcetti's choice is expected to be approved by [...]

By |2018-07-04T04:28:36-05:00July 4th, 2018|Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, Drones, Historical, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Psy-Ops, Solidarity, Voting, War, Whistleblowers, Women|0 Comments
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The “Masterstroke” of the US Against Venezuela

The "Masterstroke" of the US Against Venezuela [Excerpts] by Stella Calloni The US and its partners are quietly preparing a brutal "Plan to end the dictatorship of Venezuela": the "Masterstroke."  The document, labeled "Top Secret" and dated Feb. 23, 2018, is available on-line here: https://www.voltairenet.org/article201100.html. This plan is already underway. Its first part began before the upcoming Venezuelan elections. If they do not succeed in overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro with this new [...]

By |2018-05-28T01:51:57-05:00May 28th, 2018|Anti-capitalism, Columbia, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, News, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Politics, Psy-Ops, Voting|0 Comments
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Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease

Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease by Chris Hedges httpss://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/15/trump-symptom-not-disease Forget the firing of Comey, the paralysis in Congress, or the press that covers our descent into tyranny as if it were a sports contest between corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats. The crisis we face is the result of a decades-long corporate coup that has rendered the citizen impotent, left us without authentic democratic institutions and allowed corporate and military power [...]

By |2017-05-27T03:34:35-05:00May 27th, 2017|Anti-Racism/Racism, Banks, Beyond Capitalism, Chris Hedges, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Politics, Prisons, Psy-Ops|0 Comments
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