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  If The Wars Go On Edward J. Curtin, Jr. I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World War I (the war to end all wars that didn’t),  If The War Goes On . . .   Or more appropriately, I might have eliminated that conditional “If” since it seems Pollyannish. It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business.  During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Krushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right in his fierce song,  Masters of War : (Verse 1) Come, you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks (Verse 3) Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see th

  The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet EUGYPPIUS Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex”  with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League . Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, and I have to say that this is one of the most amazing and bizarre stories I have ever encountered. The CTI League appear to be an organisation cobbled together in 2020 from two main factions. The first comprised  a group of computer security experts and military/intelligence contractors put together by a (former?) Israeli intelligence official named Ohad Zaidenberg during the early months of the pandemic , originally (and allegedly) for the purposes of prote