Mark Ames
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ShamiWitness: How Bellingcat and neocons collaborated with most influential ISIS propagandist on Twitter
Syria regime-change "experts," from Bellingcat Eliot Higgins to pro-war journalists like Michael Weiss, promoted ISIS recruiter ShamiWitness as an "expert" → Read More
Pando: Oligarchy in the USA
A handy guide to the Russian billionaires snapping up chunks of Gawker, Uber and other influential American assets. → Read More
Pando: Nondisclosure Nation: A History, From Ober to Assange
As the UN rules in favor of Julian Assange, Mark Ames examines the dark history of non-disclosure agreements used by the US government (and even Assange himself). → Read More
Pando: All the billionaire's men (Or: Shattered Glenn)
Pierre Omidyar’s flagship publication, The Intercept, has suffered through a series of humiliating failures. The newest bombshell, which dropped yesterday, is an entirely different matter. → Read More
Pando: The "white-slaver" awakens: It's not Disney to whom George Lucas should be apologizing
The multibillionaire should start by saying sorry to the tens of thousands of VFX animators and tech engineers caught up in the wage-fixing cartel he helped create. → Read More
Pando: Has Pando missed the heart of the Uber problem? A transportation industry expert writes...
In response to my article on “the Uber of trucking," Pando received the following response from Hubert Horan, by one of the early advisers/architects of the trucking deregulation in the 1970s and a well-known transportation industry expert. → Read More
Pando: Turkey shoots down Russian plane: Wars have a funny way of taking on a life of their own
Putin’s initial reaction is about as angry and hot-headed as I’ve seen Putin since he first came to power in 1999. → Read More
Pando: Silicon Valley vs Civilization
Silicon Valley’s love affair with their favorite world leader continues. Meanwhile, at home, Narendra Modi's party is accused of defending, even encouraging, violence, rape and murder. → Read More
Pando: With "Convoy," tech billionaires build another castle at another narrow in the stream
Founders of Amazon, eBay and Uber join forces to "disrupt" the trucking industry. with the goal of doing to the trucking industry what Uber has done for taxis. Here's what that means. → Read More
Pando: The Whistleblowers of Oz
Why, after all these years of government leaks, has so little changed? → Read More
Pando: What the hell? Pierre Omidyar selects one of Edward Snowden's former Booz Allen bosses to be an Omidyar Fellow
The billionaire who bought access to the Snowden NSA leaks has just selected the whistleblower's NSA-contractor boss to his "fellowship" program. → Read More
Pando: What the hell? Pierre Omidyar selects one of Edward Snowden's former Booz Allen bosses to be an Omidyar Fellow
The billionaire who bought access to the Snowden NSA leaks has just selected the whistleblower's NSA-contractor boss to his "fellowship" program. → Read More
Pando: Rand Paul: The rise and fall of Silicon Valley's Republican dream candidate
The precipitous rise and fall of Rand Paul's presidential campaign is set for its final, thrilling dive. Libertarians from coast to coast are fleeing the scene of the debacle, wondering how it all went wrong. Here are some answers. → Read More
Pando: Big Tech’s monopoly power as a threat to democracy
As tech billionaires convert their wealth and private political power into acquiring more and more public political power, let's look again at what monopoly power means in the age of hi-tech. → Read More
Pando: The Donald Trump
Every time Trump steps in another pile of racist conspiracy dogshit, everyone throws up their hands and asks, “Does he really believe what he’s saying?" The answer is yes. → Read More
Pando: The Life and Murder of Anna Loginova: Part Three
The story that bothered me most was what happened to Maria Viricheva... → Read More
Pando: The Life and Murder of Anna Loginova: Part Two
As the myth of Anna Loginova began to unravel, what began to emerge in its place was something far more interesting and impressive. → Read More
Pando: The Life and Murder of Anna Loginova
When Russia's first model-bodyguard was murdered by carjackers, the media went nuts over her life story. The only problem: everything about that story was a lie. → Read More
Pando: Trumpfellas
No I don’t know. You said it. You said I’m funny. How am I funny? What is so funny about my candidacy? Tell me! → Read More
Pando: Awkward! The idea of "corporate personhood" relies on the same Amendment that gives birthright citizenship
Also, how the founder of Stanford also gave us the idea of corporate personhood. → Read More