Part 1 – American Imperialism Leads the World into Dante’s Vision of Hell Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate. (Abandon all hope ye who enter here.)” —Dante, “The Divine Comedy,” Inferno (Part 1), Canto 3, Line 9 Before the Tomahawk Missiles start flying between Moscow and New York, Americans had better educate themselves fast about the…
Surveillance has become a growing feature of daily life wielded by both the state and the larger corporate sphere. This merger registers both the transformation of the political state into the corporate state as well as the transformation of a market economy into a criminal economy. One growing attribute of the merging of state and…
Nations are beginning to take more seriously the control of their respective information space after years of allowing US-based tech giants Google and Facebook to monopolize and exploit them. Vietnam, according to a recent GeekTime article, is the latest nation to begin encouraging local alternatives to the search engine and social media network in order…
