Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Mexican President Offers Political Asylum to Julian Assange

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats National Preparedness

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) offered asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange while praising his work Monday. The move comes soon after Mexico’s Congress passed a law that will restrict and control the work of U.S. agents in that country.

During his morning news conference, AMLO praised Assange–calling him a journalist who deserves a second chance and should be pardoned. Lopez Obrador said that he ordered his foreign relations ministry to file the needed paperwork for the United Kingdom to release him and award political asylum.

AMLO’s spokesman Jesus Ramirez Cuevas said that Mexico’s government asked for an end to Assange’s “torture” and for his release.

The announcement came soon after a U.K. judge refused an extradition request by the U.S. government, the AP reported. Assange is wanted for espionage charges and publishing numerous files from hacked from government agencies.

AMLO’s extradition offer comes soon after his congress and senate passed a law that will limit the activities carried out by foreign agents in Mexico and will control the information they gather and share. The move has been widely criticized as an attempt to keep the DEA and other agencies from targeting corrupt figures with ties to cartels. The passing of that law comes soon after Mexico successfully pressured the U.S. Department of Justice into releasing a former secretary of defense who was charged in a U.S. court for drug trafficking and conspiracy. After the voluntary dismissal, the former general was sent home.

Photo: PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/01/04/mexican-president-offers-political-asylum-to-julian-assange/

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