So, I’ve been reading around a bit, as we all should do, to see where Sharon Weinberger is ‘coming from’. I recommend, as it might complement your perspective of The Intercept. The bio page on the TI website mentions her history at Wired magazine, her writing at Slate, her contributions to the BBC, ‘Nature’ journal and her work on a history of DARPA. Quite groovy for a defense tech writer. However, it doesn’t mention that she has come to The Intercept having been flung out centrifugally from the revolving door between the State Dept Foreign Service; a defense industry corporation who work under the DARPA umbrella called System Planning Corporation; writing and editing warmongerer’s wank mags like Defense Daily and Defense Technology International; and a dominant pro-military ‘think tank’ The Center for Strategic and International Studies. [This last one is interesting for anyone who has followed Dov Zakheim in his contribution to the PNAC document ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’ and his role as comptroller for Bush junior at the Pentagon (2.3 trillion missing?). Weinberger co-wrote a paper with Zakheim titled ‘Fortress Europe’ (2000) that suggests in its conclusions (amongst other things) the push for closer relationship between the EU and NATO – the like of which we see today supporting a neo-fascist regime in Ukraine.] I guess there is no evidence in any of that to prove that Sharon Weinberger is compromised in her reporting here, but I think that it is good to know someone’s bio when they write pieces like this , and for a publication (TI) with statements like the following in their ‘about’ section:
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The bio page on the TI website mentions her history at Wired magazine, her writing at Slate, her contributions to the BBC, ‘Nature’ journal and her work on a history of DARPA. Quite groovy for a defense tech writer.
However, it doesn’t mention that she has come to The Intercept having been flung out centrifugally from the revolving door between the State Dept Foreign Service; a defense industry corporation who work under the DARPA umbrella called System Planning Corporation; writing and editing warmongerer’s wank mags like Defense Daily and Defense Technology International; and a dominant pro-military ‘think tank’ The Center for Strategic and International Studies. [This last one is interesting for anyone who has followed Dov Zakheim in his contribution to the PNAC document ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’ and his role as comptroller for Bush junior at the Pentagon (2.3 trillion missing?). Weinberger co-wrote a paper with Zakheim titled ‘Fortress Europe’ (2000) that suggests in its conclusions (amongst other things) the push for closer relationship between the EU and NATO – the like of which we see today supporting a neo-fascist regime in Ukraine.]
I guess there is no evidence in any of that to prove that Sharon Weinberger is compromised in her reporting here, but I think that it is good to know someone’s bio when they write pieces like this , and for a publication (TI) with statements like the following in their ‘about’ section: