Author Archives: S.J. Kerrigan

You may have noticed that there is quite a lot of controversy surrounding the military “kinetic” conflict in Libya or what most people used to call “a war.”  While much of this controversy surrounds the wisdom of engaging in another military conflict in a troubled and politically complex region, perhaps even more controversial is the […]

At midnight this morning, the hacker group Anonymous posted internal emails from Bank of America employees which they say provides evidence that the bank knowingly committed fraud by providing regulators with inaccurate information, but critics charge that the same content was already available before today and the quality of the leak itself isn’t as newsworthy […]

According to a spokesperson for US Central Command, Persona Management Software is not being used by the US government inside the United States and that the program is limited to “foreign, non-English speaking” websites. Lt. Cmdr. Bill H. Speaks, spokesperson for US Central Command, said the program “supports classified activities outside the [United States]” on […]

(Listen to my BBC interview on Persona Management Software here.) The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites. Private security firms employeed by the government have used the accounts to create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the […]

According to leaked internal memos, private security firms with ties to the CIA and the Department of Defense proposed cyber attacks, media manipulation and other forms of subversive activity to protect Bank of America who was threatened by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange late last year. It assesses the threat posed by Wikileaks and offers several […]

I fully admit, I don’t know a lot about the humanitarian mess going on in Haiti since last year’s devastating earthquake, but it’s been over a year and the Haitian people are still living in some of the worst conditions imaginable. This “rescue” has truly been a disaster. I ran across these earlier this month […]