Posts Tagged ‘conspiracy theory’

WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi ‘death squad’ trained by UK government

WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi ‘death squad’ trained by UK government
Rapid Action Battalion, accused of hundreds of extra-judicial killings, received training from UK officers, cables reveal The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a “government death squad”, leaked US embassy cables...
December 22nd, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Why the world needs WikiLeaks

Why the world needs WikiLeaks
he controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who’s reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives...
December 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

Wikileaks’ aim to defeat “Authoritarian Conspiracy”

Wikileaks’ aim to defeat “Authoritarian Conspiracy”
The following is an interesting analysis (by ‘zunguzungu’) of a text by Wikileaks leader Julian Assange, probably written around 2006. See the paper: State and Terrorist Conspiracies For additional analysis, see here. By Michel Bauwens for the P2P Foundation Analysis: (nearly quoted in full) “Most...
December 14th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theories

An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theories
Damien DeBarra is a regular blogger at www.blather.net [http://www.blather.net/index.htm]. DeBarra is also student at the University of Edinburgh on the Msc. in e-learning course, currently doing the ‘Digital Cultures’ semester [http://digitalculture-ed.net/] .For this course he was asked to conduct...
December 10th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More

The Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy

The Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy
‘DARKNESS OVER ALL’ – JOHN ROBISON AND THE BIRTH OF THE ILLUMINATI CONSPIRACY By Mike Jay – http://mikejay.net/ At the beginning of 1797, John Robison was a man with a solid and long-standing reputation in the British scientific establishment. He had been Professor of Natural...
November 9th, 2009 | Social Insight | Read More