Articles from Global Guerrillas

Over the last several weeks we've seen a rapid diminishment in the fictive kinship that unites us as Americans.  In fact, many of us don't just disagree with other Americans.  We see them as existential threats.  

Here's a good example of global guerrilla tinkering and decentralized defense.

Fire Kites

Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza strip have developed a simple and effective weapon for disrupting Israel.   It's a fire kite.  Here are the details (reuters video report):

Here's a question you should be asking yourself:

What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like?

Given what we've seen so far, it isn't likely that we're going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, paramilitaries, ideologies, ubiquitous/vicious secret police, relentless propaganda, etc... 

That model died when globalization and the Internet hollowed out the nation-state.

Here's a question you should be asking yourself:

What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like?

Given what we've seen so far, it isn't likely that we're going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, paramilitaries, ideologies, ubiquitous/vicious secret police, relentless propaganda, etc... 

That model died when globalization and the Internet hollowed out the nation-state.