By Binoy Kampmark They are a trying lot, spruiking their overvalued, loss-making firms, sowing discord and fear, and then seeking state collaboration that will serve to implicate all the parties concerned should things sour. And what will the rest of us get? Hardly the promised land. But the United Nations, for the first time in history, became a centre stage …

By Richard Stone OTE: TECHINT is an umbrella term for the technical INTs: IMINT (Imagery Intelligence), SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) and MASINT (Measurement and Signature Intelligence). It is a section of US-led intelligence-gathering focussed upon scientific material concerned with spatial wave lengths, time dependence modulation and hydromagnetic data. It is data-mined through AI; it is, furthermore, central to Pentagon military planning …