Check out this latest post on the Joe Rogan blog for details on Christian missionaries conducting genocidal witch hunts on children in Africa, the cost of the War on Drugs in Mexico, and the effect of the internet on global awareness.
My two cents: The internet increases the ability of individuals not only to be aware of the news, but to offer the resources to connect the current news to old trends. Rogan references how quickly Blackwater would have been exposed back in the day, but few people really know what Blackwater is.
You've heard of the School of the Americas right? SOA was a Latin American-based private army training corporation which developed military outfits to support American business interests in the third-world without "direct" American involvement. This way you can overthrow a democratically elected leader in a foreign country without dirtying your hands. It was closed in 2000 due to protests in the United States and reopened on January 2001 as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
The internet does not expose everything.
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