Is Google able to effect regime change – it appears so
that four months ago, Google created a new holding company called
Alphabet and that Eric Schmidt the new Executive Chairman of Alphabet
and therefore Google had decided to accept the offer of leading the
Pentagon advisory board with a view to “bringing Silicon Valley
innovation and best practices to the US military.”
We questioned the ethics and moral judgement of the both Schmidt and
Google in joining forces with the biggest killing machine in human
history that has indeed instigated and implemented a regime of death and
destruction the world over in pursuit of profit.
We pointed to the meeting between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange
back in 2011, supposedly organised to discuss a book Schmidt was writing
but who turned out was accompanied by Jared Cohen. Cohen had moved to
Google from the U.S. State Department in 2010. He had been a slick ideas
guy at two U.S. administrations, known to be something of a courtier
from the world of policy think tanks and certain institutes. He was
a senior advisor for Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton. Newsweek reported that:
“It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department
of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay
scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in
Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he
befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation
wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s
natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank”
based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was
born.”
