Новости за 06.06.2017

By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams The new website aims to provide “courageous whistleblowers” an outlet to ensure crucial information continues making its way to the public.

By Rajan Menon / TomDispatch North Korea hasn’t been cowed into compliance by Washington’s warnings and military muscle-flexing. Here’s why diplomacy is not naive appeasement in the Korean crisis.

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, at the company’s Step into the Rift event in San Francisco in 2015. (eVRydayVR / Flickr) Palmer Luckey, the 24-year-old founder of Oculus VR, has a new startup. According to The New York Times, Luckey is working on building a virtual border wall with help from Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters. The Times reports: [Luckey’s new company] is developing surveillance technology that could be deployed... Читать дальше...

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By Jan Rocha / Climate News Network A national crisis over demands for the president to step down is adding to the threats to the environment.

The Truthdig columnist spoke at a Veterans for Peace demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial on Memorial Day and explained what it takes to resist.

Neal Fowler / CC BY-NC 2.0 Nerdalize, a startup in the Netherlands, is running an experiment that could save companies and house-dwellers lots of money while also helping protect the environment. The basic idea is that companies can have Nerdalize install servers in private houses, where the energy released from the machines will heat their water for free. From The Verge: You know just from using a laptop that computers give off a lot of excess heat. For data centers containing tens of thousands of servers... Читать дальше...

On Monday, hours after The Intercept published a piece including a top-secret National Security Agency report on Russian military cyberattacks in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election, charges against the person who allegedly leaked the document to the publication were announced. The Intercept piece revealed that the NSA had come across information that showed that “Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to... Читать дальше...

“To enslave, you have to convince the people who help you do the enslaving, as well as the enslaved themselves, that they are not human beings,” says the chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress (pictured, far right).

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment The president’s shameful and out-of-context attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan (pictured) have reminded us of how boorish Donald Trump can be. Britain agrees.