Adam Ramsay — The Spin War: Cambridge Analytica and Privatized Military Propaganda

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Only two years after Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, he wrote a sentence which, for me, teaches us more about the Cambridge Analytica story than much of the punditry that we've seen since: "just as wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but by the secret circulation of capital, so war is not measured by being unleashed but by its speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic and informational space." Must-read. Details how the British ruling class is maintaining empire. Why Trumpgate and Russiagate are parts of the same canard, using a decoy to distract.Mint PressThe Spin War: Cambridge Analytica and Privatized Military Propaganda – You can’t understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does. Adam Ramsay

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Acanum, AggregateIQ, Bell Pottinger, Black Cube, Cambridge Analytica, G4S, Palantir, SCL. SAS, Strategic Communication Laboratories

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