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(ANTIMEDIA) Many in the independent media have commented on what the informed among the American populace are now witnessing: the rise of an American fascist state. Rarely, though, are we provided a glimpse into the inner-workings of the machine.

Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Following up on my analyses the past few months, my take is largely corroborated with the recent ‘Vault 7’ release – the biggest intelligence dump in history.  

21st Century Wire says…
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has revealed at a press conference earlier today that WikiLeaks will give tech companies which suffered ‘billions of dollars of damage’ when hacked by the CIA ‘exclusive access’ to its technical expertise.
Assange said the leaked information came from an isolated computer on the network at CIA headquarters in Virginia. He described the loss of the information as a “historic act of devastating incompetence.”

21st Century Wire says…
Just 24 hours after the release of ‘Vault 7, Zero Day’, Wikileaks has claimed that less than 1% of Vault 7 has been released ‘so far’. This is surely to generate not only excitement amongst security analysts, researchers, software engineers and hackers alike, but considerable dread within the intelligence community. 

This week on the New World Next Week: Pablo Escobar's son says his dad ran drugs for the CIA; Wendy's lays off 1,000 minimum wage workers for automatic kiosks; and Americans have fewer TVs on average than when we started making this show.

This week on the New World Next Week: Pablo Escobar's son says his dad ran drugs for the CIA; Wendy's lays off 1,000 minimum wage workers for automatic kiosks; and Americans have fewer TVs on average than when we started making this show.

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | February 28, 2017 It’s heartwarming that The New York Times and The Washington Post are troubled that President Trump is loosely throwing around accusations of “fake news.” It’s nice that they now realize that truth does not reliably come from the mouth of every senior government official or from […]

This infographic comes courtesy of HowMuch.net, which visualizes Brand Finance’s list of the top 500 brands.
Each country’s brand is sized accordingly to the dollar value of that company.

That most valuable brand in the world is Google, which edged out Apple by about $2B (via Zerohedge)…

Google’s Artificial Intelligence Is Becoming ‘Human-Like’ — and That Might Be a Bad Thing

(ANTIMEDIA) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently used Twitter for the first time in five years, hoping to put death rumors to rest.
The founder of the whistleblower hub joined Twitter in October 2011 but never posted any tweets — until Tuesday.
The first, which he sent to discuss the death rumors, claims “[r]umors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” The second tweet is a retweet of a publication from WikiLeaks’ official account.