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SUMMARY:Book Event: The Information State
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Jacob Siegel and Eli Karetny\n\n\nDate: March 16\, 2026 \nTime: 6:00PM \nPlace: Skylight Room\, Graduate Center CUNY 365 Fifth Ave\, New York. \n  \nWe’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? \nThe Information State is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel charts how the technological infrastructure built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Commercial Internet applications now double as military-grade surveillance and influence tools. Government tech partnerships established after 2001 in response to the global war on terror took on a life of their own and now target Americans. \nInstead of competing for voters’ support\, the information state uses censorship\, mass surveillance\, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality. Government officials requested that social media companies boost stories about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to Russia\, while censoring those about Hunter Biden’s laptops\, the origins of the COVID-19 virus\, and the war in Ukraine. \nAn alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. Laws signed by President Obama as he left office fused together the media\, NGOs\, the national security complex\, and big tech companies into an unelected ruling party. In short\, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information State is an urgent\, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? \nThe Information State is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel charts how the technological infrastructure built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Commercial Internet applications now double as military-grade surveillance and influence tools. Government tech partnerships established after 2001 in response to the global war on terror took on a life of their own and now target Americans. \nInstead of competing for voters’ support\, the information state uses censorship\, mass surveillance\, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality. Government officials requested that social media companies boost stories about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to Russia\, while censoring those about Hunter Biden’s laptops\, the origins of the COVID-19 virus\, and the war in Ukraine. \nAn alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. Laws signed by President Obama as he left office fused together the media\, NGOs\, the national security complex\, and big tech companies into an unelected ruling party. In short\, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information State is an urgent\, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/book-event-the-information-state/
LOCATION:Graduate Center\, Skylight Room 9th Floor\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Origins and Future of the United Nations
DESCRIPTION:Moderator\nJohn Torpey\, Director \nRalph Bunche Institute for International Studies \nPresenters\nLukas Haynes\, RBI Visiting Scholar\, discussing Peace Through Power: \nFDR’s Military Leaders and the Pragmatism of the UN Charter \nTapio Kanninen\, RBI Senior Fellow\, discussing Revitalizing the United Nations: \nMaking and Keeping the Peace \nCommentators\nRichard Gowan\, International Crisis Group \nStephen Schlesinger\, World Policy Institute (ret.) \nDate and time\nMonday\, April 20\, 2026 5-6:30pm \nWine and Cheese Reception to Follow \nPlace\nRalph Bunche Institute for International Studies\, Room 5203 \nCUNY Graduate Center \n365 Fifth Avenue \nNew York\, NY 10016
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-origins-and-future-of-the-united-nations/
LOCATION:Graduate Center Room 5203\, 365 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Reality of UFOs/UAP
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by journalist Leslie Kean who has been investigating and reporting on the subject for over 25 years. Q&A moderated by RBI Acting Director\, Eli Karetny. \nRSVP for The Reality of UFOs/UAP - May 6. 6PM\n\n\n\n\n\nLeslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals\, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. She has been covering UFOs/UAP for the mainstream since 2000. Kean and reporter Ralph Blumenthal have contributed articles to The New York Times on UFOs/UAPs for eight years\, beginning with a game-changing front page story about a secret Pentagon UFO program in 2017\, written with Helene Cooper. Kean’s over two decades of reporting on UFOs was profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. Kean and Blumenthal broke the story of whistleblower David Grusch in The Debrief in 2023\, which led to an open Congressional hearing. Kean also helped produce two seasons of the NatGeo documentary series “UFOs: Investigating the Unknown” (2025) streaming on Hulu. \n\n\n\nKean is also the author of Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program and was Ezra Klein’s NY
URL:https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/event/the-reality-of-ufos-uap/
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