Pentagon + Internet

Can't believe my 3rd post is a political one :P

The subject is about a news article featured on the BBC website.

It is about a document written by Pentagon officials which is regarding internet as "an enemy weapons system". The article states the plans about controlling the free information on the Internet. Another article on yet another website (which is the Alternative Press Review website) states that Mainstream Media is already controlled in the US and the time has come for the control of Internet, in brief. Having watched Fahrenheit 9/11, Lord of War and many documentaries Chomsky appeared on, I think that the plans are realistic. The good side is that I think it will be in the US that most reaction will occur from the minority of intellectuals in the case that this kind of control becomes noticed and known.

Here are some notes about the news article on BBC:

"The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act."

[Now thats weird. They could reach this document thanks to the "Freedom of Information Act". Looks that "they" left a loophole. Let me continue with my excerpt:]

"Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it.

...

Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications.

And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon.

But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear.

The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to - and the grand scale on which it's thinking."


The last sentences clearly talking about the previous operations. I am not surprised of the misleading, generated news that the military makes up. I guess it is all part of shaping the public opinion in their own way.

OK, enough of the boring stuff. I have two papers waiting to be analysed. So, good night to you all :)