DARPA researchers were instrumental in designing - or appropriating for military use - the surveillance technologies deployed by the National Security Agency (NSA) under president Bush's so-called ''Terrorist Surveillance Program.'' by Tom Burghardt (Global Research) As the costs of imperialist war skyrocket, securocrats find themselves under the gun so to speak, of corporate and Pentagon masters demanding "results." No matter that the solutions sought are for "smart" weapons--particularly those that "think"--systems they believe capable of dominating global south and "homeland" cities. This quest for technological mastery has been dubbed by Pentagon theorists as "network-centric warfare" (Rumsfeld's "Revolution in Military Affairs" [RMA]) a "transformational" process that turn cities, any city, into a limitless...
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