You can now download a full PDF copy of Stan Goff’s book Sex and War here.

Posted by BrianR as Books at 10:01 AM PDT

New article by James Craven aka Omahkohkiaayo i’poyi called Turkey, Genocide, and National Security. Check it out.

National Security has to be seen holistically and in non-linear ways. What do I mean by that? I mean that contrary to how we have been taught throughout U.S. history, that “National Security” is about defense against foreign and domestic enemies with their own “Regime Change” ideas, and thus a strong military and police apparatus is the central key to national security, it is about a lot more than that.

For example, even with the best and most sophisticated military and police hardware available, what good is it if you do not have personnel educated well enough to read technical manuals to figure out how to use it most effectively and fix it? Thus high quality and accessible education is vital to national security. What good is state-of-the-art hardware if your personnel are not physically healthy enough to use it and/or emotionally healthy enough to be trusted with it? Or what good is all of it if your personnel do not have stable homes and families to come home to? Or what good is all that military and police hardware and doctrine if you have a society and system not worth protecting (in which “Regime Change” is actually necessary for rather than a threat to, “national security”; e.g. fascism) and not likely to induce a whole lot of people to want to protect it?

Read the rest of this IA Analysis by James Craven.

Posted by BrianR as Analysis at 8:56 PM PDT

Understanding technology and how it can be used for social change can be challenging. Rarely are there manuals that explain Internet technology OUTSIDE of a corporate structure. All to often tech books explain products for consumers. So we are forced to read between the lines and envision how we would use software and hardware in unintended ways. While this is fun and creative wouldn’t it be great if we had more direct radical tech info?

I just found a great book called The Organic Internet [download PDF] from the Mayfirst / People Link collective. You can support this radical tech collective by purchasing a paperback version for $7.

In this collection of essays, Organic Internet May First/People Link techie-organizers explore this remarkable social movement:

* analyzing its growth and character as an expression of humanity’s resistance and resilience;

* offering an analysis of how it impacts the progressive movement and how we should impact it;

* taking up Internet issues like access, race and gender, threats to the Internet’s independence and freedom, free and open source software, spam, email, security and privacy, dns and other Internet protocols;

* and suggesting strategies for the use, protection and expansion of the Internet’s technology.

Read the rest of the entry for a great review of this book.

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Posted by BrianR as Books at 9:43 AM PDT

WARNING: This is a very graphic video.

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Posted by stan as Analysis at 10:24 AM PDT