NightOwl

Vijay Prashad:

Such texts are boring not because of their content but because of how they are written. The style of these texts is almost intended to prevent the reader from getting anything out of them. It’s believed that just by publishing these manuals and reports they meet a certain standard of democracy. But what this kind of writing does is to turn people away from reading. Such writing is, therefore, antidemocratic.

Why do we need to "practice" in the South China Sea? How would we react if another country sailed their military up to the coast of BC?

Un Bits de Tim as they say in Quebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usaid#Political_operations_abroad

There's a number of good ones in this thread.

This seems to be the actual indictment, in case anyone wants to read it:

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s._v._kalashnikov_and_afanasyeva_indictment_0.pdf

The Carter Center (cited by that BBC piece) is funded by various western governments including the US, as well as CIA-affiliated regime-change orgs like the National Endowment for Democracy. They are not a neutral party.

The "pro-Kremlin" smear is similarly questionable as it is promoted by the same groups.

Are there any problems with this particular story? I found it to be mostly collating current thought about BCI and its applications.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyULepxgw4