103 out of the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo are on a protracted hunger strike although one would never know if one were reading only the American media. Of these, 41 prisoners are being force-fed to keep them alive. The US does not use the phrase “force-fed”–rather, it describes the process as “enteral feeding.” Of course, the US does not describe these prisoners as “prisoners of war” either. Instead, to avoid invoking the Geneva Conventions on the humane treatment of prisoners, it calls them “unlawful enemy combatants.” The treatment of these human beings–who have no charges against them nor do they have any prescribed procedures to determine their guilt or innocence–is a profound national disgrace.
US President Obama has ordered the national security agencies to draw up a list of possible sites for cyber-attacks. The top secret document was leaked to The Guardian and it outlines the priorities of the US in a cyberwar and you can read the document here. The directive specifically contemplates offensive cyber-attacks and defines them as Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO). These types of operations are specifically designed to cause damage to another state’s infrastructure, ostensibly to alter that state’s calculations of harming US national interests. With this directive, the US formally integrates cyberwarfare into the total matrix of US military actions.
And now for something completely different. It’s time to make our heads explode and try to answer the question, “Is Mathematics Real?”
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