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NATO calls for assasination of hackers
- rtpg 13y agolink to a 302 page document, cool. This is why I can't call wikileaks journalism. They're important for journalism, but at least the NYT would point to the offending paragraph.
- mtgx 13y agoI think the future of journalism, like everything else really, will become decentralized. So instead of having one monolithic structure do everything from research and investigate journalism, to writing, you'll have all these pieces separated. The writing will be left to the "bloggers" or people who just write and analyze from the sources they get. The "investigative" part will come mainly from leaks and whistleblowing - well unless the Obama administration has something to say about that, but I doubt they can stop the change. Also, this policy most likely comes from US. I think it's really terrifying how easily the Obama administration can order assassinations. It's like they don't even care about laws and fair trials anyway. Don't like someone? Just eliminate them.
- gwgarry 13y agoIt always boils down to, we do what we want (to preserve the peace / our world order), and then if you try to do the same thing we'll come mess you up with our military. The whole point is to create legal and rhetorical justification for what amounts to administrative, State-sanctioned violence to protect the functioning of the empire. The ideas are as old as empire. In the City of God, St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great, who asked him “how dare he molest the sea”. “How dare you molest the whole world” the pirate replied. “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor” Aptly the document is written by the Navy.