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    Europe’s Terminal Decline Is Now IRREVERSIBLE | Dr. Ulrike Guérot

    via ▻https://diasp.eu/p/17674209

    ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vVPQ6PZY8

    Neutralities Studies || Interviews - 1h - 02.06.2025

    #Ideology and manic war- #narratives have eaten up the European leadership and the technocratic apparatus the continent is built on. The very institutions that were supposed to function as guardians of civil and democratic rights are now being weaponised against those ends. And the people committing these violations are doing so while yelling that the OUTSIDE is full of authoritarians.

    Today I’m talking again to Professor Ulrike Guérot, (...)

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      oAnth @02myseenthis01 CC BY 8/06/2025

      (Today I’m talking again to Professor Ulrike Guérot) ... one of Germany‘s most famous and outspoken political scientists. We‘ve talked before among other things about her political persecution at home in #Germany but today we want to focus on her new book, called „Zeiten Wenden” - or - “Changing Times: Schematics about the intellectual situation of the Present” in wich she explores and says good bye to reason, #democracy and #Europe as we used to know it.

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    • @02myseenthis01
      oAnth @02myseenthis01 CC BY 9/06/2025

      ▻https://europeanpeaceproject.eu/fr

      ▻https://europeanpeaceproject.eu/manifest-frans

      Projet européen pour la paix – Le Manifeste

      Aujourd’hui, le 9 mai 2025 – exactement 80 ans après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qui a coûté la vie à 60 millions de personnes, dont 27 millions de citoyens soviétiques, nous, les citoyens européens, élevons la voix ! Nous avons honte de nos gouvernements et de l’UE qui n’ont pas retenu les leçons du XXe siècle. L’UE, autrefois conçue comme un projet de paix, a été pervertie et a ainsi trahi l’essence même de l’Europe ! Nous, les citoyens européens, prenons donc aujourd’hui, le 9 mai, notre destin et notre histoire en main. Nous déclarons l’échec de l’UE. Nous entamons une diplomatie citoyenne et refusons la guerre planifiée contre la Russie ! Nous reconnaissons la coresponsabilité de « l’Occident », des gouvernements européens et de l’UE dans ce conflit.

      Nous, citoyens d’Europe, nous opposons avec le European Peace Project à l’hypocrisie éhontée et aux mensonges diffusés aujourd’hui – Journée de l’Europe – lors des cérémonies officielles et sur les chaînes publiques.

      Nous tendons la main aux citoyennes et citoyens d’Ukraine et de Russie. Vous faites partie de la famille européenne et nous sommes convaincus qu’ensemble, nous pouvons organiser une cohabitation pacifique sur notre continent.

      Nous avons devant les yeux les images des cimetières militaires – de Volgograd à Riga et à la Lorraine. Nous voyons les tombes fraîches que cette guerre insensée a laissées en Ukraine et en Russie. Alors que la plupart des gouvernements de l’UE et des responsables de la guerre harcèlent et refoulent ce que la guerre signifie pour la population, nous avons appris la leçon du siècle dernier : l’Europe, c’est « plus jamais la guerre » !

      Nous nous souvenons des efforts de construction européenne du siècle dernier et des promesses de 1989 après la révolution pacifique. Nous demandons la création d’un Office européen de la jeunesse et de la Russie sur le modèle de l’Office franco-allemand de la jeunesse de 1963, qui a mis fin à « l’hostilité héréditaire » entre l’Allemagne et la France. Nous exigeons la fin des sanctions et la reconstruction du gazoduc Nord Stream II. Nous refusons de gaspiller l’argent de nos impôts dans l’armement et la militarisation, au détriment de l’État social et des infrastructures. Dans le cadre d’une conférence de paix de l’OSCE, nous demandons la création d’une architecture de sécurité européenne avec la Russie et non contre elle, comme le stipule la Charte de Paris de 1990. Nous demandons une Europe neutre, émancipée des États-Unis et jouant un rôle de médiateur dans un monde multipolaire. Notre Europe est post-coloniale et post-impériale.

      Nous, citoyens européens, déclarons par la présente que cette guerre est terminée ! Nous ne participerons pas à ces jeux de guerre. Nous ne ferons pas de nos hommes et de nos fils des soldats, de nos filles des infirmières à l’hôpital et de nos pays des champs de bataille.

      Nous proposons d’envoyer immédiatement une délégation de citoyens européens à Kiev et à Moscou afin d’entamer le dialogue. Nous ne resterons pas là à regarder notre avenir et celui de nos enfants être sacrifiés sur l’autel de la politique de puissance.

      Vive l’Europe, vive la paix, vive la liberté

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      #Europe vs. #EU / #CE

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      oAnth_de @02myseenthis02 CC BY 9/06/2025

      Deutschsprachige Verlinkungen anlässlich des englischsprachigen Interviews mit Ulrike Guerot vom 06.02.2025 bei ’Neutrality Studies’

      ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1119822

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      oAnth @02myseenthis01 CC BY 10/06/2025

      cf. Emmanuel Todd :
      Entretien dans Weltwoche, 22 mai 2025

      ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1120100

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  • @biggrizzly
    BigGrizzly @biggrizzly CC BY-NC-SA 16/04/2025

    Nonilex : « #GiftArticle The #Trump admin… » - Mastodon
    ▻https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114345445310800937

    The #Trump admin has handpicked which #news #media outlets can participate in the presidential #PressPool, & on Tues it eliminated a slot reserved for reporters from independent newswires.

    In the briefing room, ofcls have made room for a new cohort of more #partisan attendees, like #RightWing podcasters, who ask less-adversarial questions than traditional #journalists.…

    ▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/15/us/trump-white-house-briefing-room-new-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.

    #FourthEstate #journalism #democracy #FreePress #propaganda

    Toujours la même chose. Tu te dis que c’est horrible ce qu’il se passe là bas. Le Président US choisit des journalistes d’accord avec lui, et pas trop pugnace dans les questions et les relances.

    Puis tu te rappelles de ce qu’a tjs été le « pool » présidentiel en France.

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  • @aurelieng
    aurelieng @aurelieng via RSS CC BY 12/03/2025

    Tech execs are pushing #trump to build ‘Freedom #cities’ run by corporations
    ▻https://www.osnews.com/story/141902/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations

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    #US #ideology #politics #democracy #oligarchy #bigtech #technology #technocapitalism #capitalism #musk #network #rivalry #artificialintelligence #monarchy #dystopia #FreedomCitiesCoalition

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  • @aurelieng
    aurelieng @aurelieng via RSS CC BY 11/03/2025

    #doge Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy
    ▻https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-has-become-what-it-claimed-to-destroy

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    #politics #musk #trump #us #administration #bureaucracy #paradox #accountability #transparency #deepstate #democracy

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  • @ant1
    ant1 @ant1 CC BY-NC 3/03/2025

    #Democracy is #Crumbling. Is Anybody #Doing Anything?
    ▻https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-is-crumbling-is-anybody

    Fortunately, there are easy tools to help you reach out to your representatives. The organization Indivisible ▻https://indivisible.org/coup has information about how to reach your representatives including talking points you may wish to guide you, and a toolkit on how to show up at your Senator’s home office in your state. ▻https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cru6DBkH5gadq3S-mVhiSU72mC2ZeDHXG93jeiemFH0/mobilebasic

    There is even an app now, called 5 Calls: Contact your Congress ▻https://5calls.org that you can download to keep the information available and at your fingertips. It is available in the App Store on Apple I-phones. Want to call your Governor every week? You can find contact information here. ▻https://www.usa.gov/state-governor

    [...]

    Lastly, make sure you have and can share good information. For those federal workers who are understandably concerned and on edge, Civil Service Strong has excellent resources with comprehensive information for civil service workers. ▻https://www.civilservicestrong.org/resources The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project’s Know Your Rights guide is a remarkable comprehensive resource than can walk immigrants and their families through different scenarios and concepts. The information is printable and is available in ten different languages ▻https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights. Keep it yourself, but also share with neighbors, teachers, and clergy. Some school districts are providing training for parents and teachers on how to deal with ICE ▻https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2025/01/17/nyc-public-schools-hold-trainings-on-dealing-with-ice-ahead-of-inauguration; ▻https://abc7.com/post/santa-ana-unified-school-district-training-staff-case-ice-agents-show-campus/15847896. Ask your school district if they have such a training program, and if not, tell them you would like to see one offered.

    On a more pragmatic note, many of you have told me that you are looking for ways to keep up with news without becoming overloaded and without scrolling. I encourage you to get the SmartNews app. I have found it very helpful. It’s news without the noise. You can learn more here: ▻https://www.smartnews.com/en

    And don’t forget to support those organizations that are doing the heavy lifting for our democracy: the ACLU ▻https://www.aclu.org, NAACP Legal Defense Fund ▻https://www.naacpldf.org, Democracy Forward ▻https://democracyforward.org, Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Government (CREW) ▻https://www.citizensforethics.org, ProPublica ►https://www.propublica.org, Slate ▻https://slate.com, Mississippi Free Press ▻https://www.mississippifreepress.org/,and Wired ►https://www.wired.com. There are many more. Please add your suggestions in the comments.

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  • @aurelieng
    aurelieng @aurelieng via RSS CC BY 2/03/2025

    The A.I. #monarchy
    ▻https://substack.com/home/post/p-156886169

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    #US #ideology #politics #trump #democracy #oligarchy #bigtech #technology #religion #philosophy #technocapitalism #capitalism #competition #millennialism #musk #accelerationism #neoreactionary #thiel #nation #network #rivalry #institutions #bureaucracy #artificialintelligence #dystopia

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  • @aurelieng
    aurelieng @aurelieng via RSS CC BY 28/02/2025

    US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes | Proton
    ▻https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-data-requests-surge

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    #bigtech #surveillance #capitalism #meta #google #apple #privacy #government #democracy

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  • @aurelieng
    aurelieng @aurelieng via RSS CC BY 19/02/2025

    #despair and Voter #turnout in the United States
    ▻https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article-abstract/doi/10.1215/03616878-11670168/392357/Despair-and-Voter-Turnout-in-the-United-States?redirectedFrom=fullt

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    #politics #vote #participation #election #mentalhealth #democracy

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  • @aurelieng
    aurelieng @aurelieng via RSS CC BY 17/02/2025

    It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans
    ▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-ai-plans/681635

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    #democracy #politics #institutions #administration #automation #governance #algorithms #dystopia #bias #trump #musk #US

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  • @urban_political
    Urban Political @urban_political via RSS 28/07/2023

    Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy
    ▻https://urbanpolitical.podigee.io/66-how_cities_can_transform_democracy

    We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy?

    This incisive book argues that urbanization undermines the established certainties of nation-state politics and calls for a profound rethinking of democracy. A novel way of seeing democracy like a city is presented, shifting scholarly and activist perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of urban collective life, and from fixed communities to emergent political subjects. Through a discussion of examples from around the world, the book shows that distinctly (...)

    #Democracy,Urban_Politics,Zurich,Glasgow,Cities
    ▻https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/1175439-m-12b1c76763cfa4509715cc9050a84ea5.m4a?source=feed

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  • @maxbastow
    Max @maxbastow 15/05/2023

    Step by step, capitalism’s shotgun marriage with democracy since 1945 is breaking up. (p. 64)

    ▻https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii87/articles/wolfgang-streeck-how-will-capitalism-end

    #capitalism #democracy #neoliberalism #crisis #economy

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  • @oanth_rss
    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss via RSS CC BY 5/02/2021

    Global democracy has a very bad year | Graphic detail | The Economi...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/12405230

    Global democracy has a very bad year | Graphic detail | The Economist | #democracy #pandemic #covid19

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    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss via RSS CC BY 20/01/2021

    ‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics (ht...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/12324324

    ‘Why Me?’ The Role of Perceived Victimhood in American Politics | #victimhood #politics #democracy #trump #egocentricity #system

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  • @oanth_rss
    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss CC BY 24/09/2020

    Full article: Democratic regression in comparative perspective: sco...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/11695932

    Full article: Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes | #civilsociety #decline #democracy #democratic #economy #fear #institutions #media #politics #populism #regression

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  • @olange
    Olivier Lange @olange CC BY-SA 5/08/2019

    « The Great Hack — L’affaire Cambridge Analytica » film documentaire réalisé par Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer / distribué par Netflix, 24.07.2019, 139 min.
    ▻https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542 #dataRights #democracy

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      CDB_77 @cdb_77 24/09/2019

      #Cambridge_analytica #film #documentaire #Great_Hack #Jehane_Noujaim #Karim_Amer

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  • @oanth_rss
    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss CC BY 7/07/2019

    Democracy Is for the Gods (▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/opini...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/9324148

    Democracy Is for the Gods | #democracy #humility #seduction #submission

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    koantig @koantig CC BY-SA 15/06/2019
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    Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market

    https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Anwar-Amazon-full_img.jpg

    ▻https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-doesnt-just-want-to-dominate-the-market-it-wants-to-become-the-mar

    To think of Amazon as a retailer, though, is to profoundly misjudge the scope of what its founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, has set out to do. (...)
    Instead, it’s that Bezos has designed his company for a far more radical goal than merely dominating markets; he’s built Amazon to replace them. His vision is for Amazon to become the underlying infrastructure that commerce runs on.

    In the left-behind towns and neighborhoods, the despair that has set in stems from more than just economic hardship. There is a pervasive sense of powerlessness that is toxic to democracy. (...)
    The cities that possessed a degree of local economic power had a bigger middle class and a greater variety of jobs, Mills and Ulmer found. But their most important findings had to do with civic health. The cities with a robust local economy invested more in public infrastructure and services, and their residents were involved in community affairs in greater numbers.

    via an interview with the author on “On The Media”: ▻https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/making-america-antitrust-again-on-the-media
    ▻https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm060519_cms940786_pod.mp3

    (15 min)

    #amazon #monopoly #democracy

    • #Amazon
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    The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Thre...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/8870014

    The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom

    #Assange #Wikileaks #press #journalism #democracy #freespeech #PressFreedom

    • #Ecuador
    • #United States
    • #DoJ
    • #Trump administration
    • #U.S. government
    • #Manning
    • #journalist
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      lien propre:

      Glen Greenwald, Micah Lee - 20190412

      ▻https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indictment-of-julian-assange-poses-grave-threats-t

      In April, 2017, Pompeo, while still CIA chief, delivered a deranged speech proclaiming that “we have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us.” He punctuated his speech with this threat: “To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for. It ends now.”

      From the start, the Trump DOJ has made no secret of its desire to criminalize journalism generally. Early in the Trump administration, Sessions explicitly discussed the possibility of prosecuting journalists for publishing classified information. Trump and his key aides were open about how eager they were to build on, and escalate, the Obama administration’s progress in enabling journalism in the U.S. to be criminalized.

      Today’s arrest of Assange is clearly the culmination of a two-year effort by the U.S. government to coerce Ecuador — under its new and submissive president, Lenín Moreno — to withdraw the asylum protection it extended to Assange in 2012. Rescinding Assange’s asylum would enable the U.K. to arrest Assange on minor bail-jumping charges pending in London and, far more significantly, to rely on an extradition request from the U.S. government to send him to a country to which he has no connection (the U.S.) to stand trial relating to leaked documents.

      Indeed, the Trump administration’s motive here is clear. With Ecuador withdrawing its asylum protection and subserviently allowing the U.K. to enter its own embassy to arrest Assange, Assange faced no charges other than a minor bail-jumping charge in the U.K. (Sweden closed its sexual assault investigation not because they concluded Assange was innocent, but because they spent years unsuccessfully trying to extradite him). By indicting Assange and demanding his extradition, it ensures that Assange — once he serves his time in a London jail for bail-jumping — will be kept in a British prison for the full year or longer that it takes for the U.S. extradition request, which Assange will certainly contest, to wind its way through the British courts.

      The indictment tries to cast itself as charging Assange not with journalistic activities but with criminal hacking. But it is a thinly disguised pretext for prosecuting Assange for publishing the U.S. government’s secret documents while pretending to make it about something else.

      Whatever else is true about the indictment, substantial parts of the document explicitly characterize as criminal exactly the actions that journalists routinely engage in with their sources and thus, constitutes a dangerous attempt to criminalize investigative journalism.

      The indictment, for instance, places great emphasis on Assange’s alleged encouragement that Manning — after she already turned over hundreds of thousands of classified documents — try to get more documents for WikiLeaks to publish. The indictment claims that “discussions also reflect Assange actively encouraging Manning to provide more information. During an exchange, Manning told Assange that ‘after this upload, that’s all I really have got left.’ To which Assange replied, ‘curious eyes never run dry in my experience.’”

      But encouraging sources to obtain more information is something journalists do routinely. Indeed, it would be a breach of one’s journalistic duties not to ask vital sources with access to classified information if they could provide even more information so as to allow more complete reporting. If a source comes to a journalist with information, it is entirely common and expected that the journalist would reply: Can you also get me X, Y, and Z to complete the story or to make it better? As Edward Snowden said this morning, “Bob Woodward stated publicly he would have advised me to remain in place and act as a mole.”

      Investigative journalism in many, if not most, cases, entails a constant back and forth between journalist and source in which the journalist tries to induce the source to provide more classified information, even if doing so is illegal. To include such “encouragement” as part of a criminal indictment — as the Trump DOJ did today — is to criminalize the crux of investigative journalism itself, even if the indictment includes other activities you believe fall outside the scope of journalism.

      As Northwestern journalism professor Dan Kennedy explained in The Guardian in 2010 when denouncing as a press freedom threat the Obama DOJ’s attempts to indict Assange based on the theory that he did more than passively receive and publish documents — i.e., that he actively “colluded” with Manning:


      The problem is that there is no meaningful distinction to be made. How did the Guardian, equally, not “collude” with WikiLeaks in obtaining the cables? How did the New York Times not “collude” with the Guardian when the Guardian gave the Times a copy following Assange’s decision to cut the Times out of the latest document dump?

      For that matter, I don’t see how any news organisation can be said not to have colluded with a source when it receives leaked documents. Didn’t the Times collude with Daniel Ellsberg when it received the Pentagon Papers from him? Yes, there are differences. Ellsberg had finished making copies long before he began working with the Times, whereas Assange may have goaded Manning. But does that really matter?

      Most of the reports about the Assange indictment today have falsely suggested that the Trump DOJ discovered some sort of new evidence that proved Assange tried to help Manning hack through a password in order to use a different username to download documents. Aside from the fact that those attempts failed, none of this is new: As the last five paragraphs of this 2011 Politico story demonstrate, that Assange talked to Manning about ways to use a different username so as to avoid detection was part of Manning’s trial and was long known to the Obama DOJ when they decided not to prosecute.

      There are only two new events that explain today’s indictment of Assange: 1) The Trump administration from the start included authoritarian extremists such as Sessions and Pompeo who do not care in the slightest about press freedom and were determined to criminalize journalism against the U.S., and 2) With Ecuador about to withdraw its asylum protection, the U.S. government needed an excuse to prevent Assange from walking free.

      A technical analysis of the indictment’s claims similarly proves the charge against Assange to be a serious threat to First Amendment press liberties, primarily because it seeks to criminalize what is actually a journalist’s core duty: helping one’s source avoid detection. The indictment deceitfully seeks to cast Assange’s efforts to help Manning maintain her anonymity as some sort of sinister hacking attack.

      The Defense Department computer that Manning used to download the documents which she then furnished to WikiLeaks was likely running the Windows operating system. It had multiple user accounts on it, including an account to which Manning had legitimate access. Each account is protected by a password, and Windows computers store a file that contains a list of usernames and password “hashes,” or scrambled versions of the passwords. Only accounts designated as “administrator,” a designation Manning’s account lacked, have permission to access this file.

      The indictment suggests that Manning, in order to access this password file, powered off her computer and then powered it back on, this time booting to a CD running the Linux operating system. From within Linux, she allegedly accessed this file full of password hashes. The indictment alleges that Assange agreed to try to crack one of these password hashes, which, if successful, would recover the original password. With the original password, Manning would be able to log directly into that other user’s account, which — as the indictment puts it — “would have made it more difficult for investigators to identify Manning as the source of disclosures of classified information.”

      Assange appears to have been unsuccessful in cracking the password. The indictment alleges that “Assange indicated that he had been trying to crack the password by stating that he had ‘no luck so far.’”

      Thus, even if one accepts all of the indictment’s claims as true, Assange was not trying to hack into new document files to which Manning had no access, but rather trying to help Manning avoid detection as a source. For that reason, the precedent that this case would set would be a devastating blow to investigative journalists and press freedom everywhere.

      Journalists have an ethical obligation to take steps to protect their sources from retaliation, which sometimes includes granting them anonymity and employing technical measures to help ensure that their identity is not discovered. When journalists take source protection seriously, they strip metadata and redact information from documents before publishing them if that information could have been used to identify their source; they host cloud-based systems such as SecureDrop, now employed by dozens of major newsrooms around the world, that make it easier and safer for whistleblowers, who may be under surveillance, to send messages and classified documents to journalists without their employers knowing; and they use secure communication tools like Signal and set them to automatically delete messages.

      But today’s indictment of Assange seeks to criminalize exactly these types of source-protection efforts, as it states that “it was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning used a special folder on a cloud drop box of WikiLeaks to transmit classified records containing information related to the national defense of the United States.”

      The indictment, in numerous other passages, plainly conflates standard newsroom best practices with a criminal conspiracy. It states, for instance, that “it was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning used the ‘Jabber’ online chat service to collaborate on the acquisition and dissemination of the classified records, and to enter into the agreement to crack the password […].” There is no question that using Jabber, or any other encrypted messaging system, to communicate with sources and acquire documents with the intent to publish them, is a completely lawful and standard part of modern investigative journalism. Newsrooms across the world now use similar technologies to communicate securely with their sources and to help their sources avoid detection by the government.

      The indictment similarly alleges that “it was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning took measures to conceal Manning as the source of the disclosure of classified records to WikiLeaks, including by removing usernames from the disclosed information and deleting chat logs between Assange and Manning.”

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  • @josephine2
    Joséphine Crabe @josephine2 CC BY-NC-SA 18/02/2019

    Rebel Cities 20: With #Hip-Hop As Sound Track, Young Senegalese Say Enough Is Enough | Occupy.com
    ▻https://www.occupy.com/article/rebel-cities-20-with-hip-hop-sound-track-young-senegalese-say-enough-enough

    https://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/Pg-30-senegal1-afp.jpg

    “The leaders hang on to the power

    In spite of the opposition of the population.

    Politicians are all the same, no difference.

    Only broken promises and lies.

    We are fed up of your nonsense,

    We really need change.”

    These are the lyrics of #Senegal hip hop artist Keur Gui in the 2014 song “Diogoufi,” which means “Nothing has changed.” The group is active in political organizing, walking the talk of their lyrics. In 2011, its leading vocalists were at the forefront of the Senegal #Y’en_A_Marre ("We Are Fed Up"), founded in the capital #Dakar alongside other artists, academics and activists.

    #Politic #democracy #municipalism

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    Hacker Noon @hackernoon CC BY-SA 1/02/2019

    Tom Atlee’s Review(s) of ‘Designing Regenerative Cultures’
    ▻https://hackernoon.com/tom-atlees-review-s-of-designing-regenerative-cultures-6093266d681f?sour

    A JOURNEY INTO THE JUICY COMPLEXITY OF REGENERATIVE CULTUREThank you so much for this wonderfully honest review of how Designing Regenerative Cultures landed within you. I am deeply grateful you gave it time and hope the book with remain useful to you. Lots of love, DanielI knew a lot about regenerative #culture before I opened this book. I knew how it differs from sustainability (although I actually see #regeneration as fundamental to true sustainability; it’s just that mainstream views of sustainability don’t recognize that). But I’ve now learned that what I knew is clearly only a beginning. So I’ve ended up writing two parallel reviews, a new adventure for me… Here’s my first one:1.I have not finished this book. I was waiting until I finished it to write a review. But now I realize that my (...)

    #books #democracy #design

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    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss CC BY 10/11/2018

    Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy (https...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/7986792

    Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy | #democracy #disaster #blockchain #elections

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    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss CC BY 18/09/2018

    The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can ...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/7734905

    The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do - A memo to big tech | #portability #microsoft #facebook #amazon #regulation #takeslash #bigdata #GAFAM #interoperability #mentalhealth #google #apple #democracy #technology #monopoly

    • #Amazon
    • #Facebook
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    Sombre @sombre CC BY-NC-SA 11/09/2018
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    Between “democracy” and “illiberalism”, what else ?

    Is democracy doomed to lose its liberal core? | Eurozine
    ▻https://www.eurozine.com/democracy-doomed-lose-liberal-core

    But there is evidence of mounting illiberal temptations in the industrialized world, in democratic societies. Are these temptations linked with temporary phenomena, in the ‘extraordinary times’ we are living through, or do they have deeper roots? An answer to this question begs an examination of trends in society and economy, of the emergence of new (unconventional) threats, and, not least, of failed public policies. The argument that ‘liberal democracy’ is on the wane is wrong to the extent that policies can be corrected, that citizens and elites alike do not lose trust in democratic values. It may also be true that, although democracy has a ‘liberal core’, it can also be driven by ‘illiberal’ components, and that the magnitude of the latter can vary. But for democracy to survive , its liberal core must be preserved.

    (error 404 #democracy not found)

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    oAnth_RSS @oanth_rss CC BY 27/08/2018

    Who needs democracy when you have data? (▻https://www.technologyrevi...
    ▻https://diasp.eu/p/7599703

    Who needs democracy when you have data? | #justice #politics #surveillance #governance #technology #democracy #SocialCreditScore #automation #data #bigdata

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      klaus++ @klaus 27/08/2018

      ►https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democracy-when-you-have-data

      #Chine

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    Hacker Noon @hackernoon CC BY-SA 8/07/2018

    Centralized vs Decentralized Platform for Political or Public Influence
    ▻https://hackernoon.com/centralized-vs-decentralized-platform-for-political-or-public-influence-

    https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*-gUpVOF_4BPsQ0gRiLwe-A.jpeg

    Centralized vs Decentralized PlatformOnce hyped as the tool that would free the people from dictatorship by providing all with a platform to air their opinion and organize resistance, Facebook’s appearance in the News lately has, increasingly often, been linked with breaches of privacy, with the wholesale distribution of fake news or as a tool used to exert undue foreign or domestic influence on democratic #elections.Though Facebook statistics are routinely used to measure participation and vote intentions, as well as a channel to influence #politics, its reliability for such purposes is questionable. Transparency and privacy issues coupled with the determinedly profit based model of Facebook does not make it a reliably neutral vehicle for opinions.Facebook algorithms and general (...)

    #democracy #voting

    • #Facebook
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