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Hans Ulrich Obrist
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016364.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: ART MEETS AI Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book U...

Bullying the Neighbors: Frozen Conflicts
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019281.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Freedom House Chapter 7 Bullying the Neighbors: Frozen Conflicts, the Near Abroad, and Other Innovations Vladimir Putin's publicists have used the phrase “sovereign democracy” to describe the political system that evolved in Russia under his leadership. In practice, however, P...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019238.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians Beijing has revived the practice of coerced pub- lic “confessions” and escalated its surveillance of the Tibetan and Uighur minorities to totalitar- ian levels; and Azerbaijan has made the Aliyev fa...

All the more so when dictators rediscover the time-honored technique of weaponizing the
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016883.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…veillance cameras in every bar and bedroom. Yet that has not happened, because democratic governments (even the current American administration, with its flagrantly antidemocratic impulses) lack the will and the means to enforce such surveillance on an obstreperous people accusto...

State and Local Governments
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020478.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

SECTION 2 State and Local Governments In late 2017, an American city in the mid-Atlantic region was invited to form a sister city relationship with a town in southern China. The American partner city was home to a large number of national security professionals and university a...

J Street, the left-leaning alternative to the more established American
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023523.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

J Street, the left-leaning alternative to the more established American Israel Public Affairs Committee, put out a statement of support for Mr. Obama on Wednesday. “To oppose the president without laying out a credible alternative basis for a two-state solution is to embrace a st...

Confucius Institutes
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020500.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e abroad. However, faculty and other watchdogs have warned that they may present risks to intellectual freedom by using American universities as vehicles through which to advance Chinese Communist Party propaganda. Accusations leveled at Cls revolve mainly around the exclusive us...

Origins and Structure
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020489.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…a scientific, educational, and cultural exchanges that started to be promoted by a growing number of preeminent Chinese American scientists, engineers, and academics who were also advising the Chinese government to launch reforms in science and education. These Chinese Americans...

“The early simulations,” Baran recalled, “showed that after the hypothetical network
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018313.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

“The early simulations,” Baran recalled, “showed that after the hypothetical network was 50% instantly destroyed, the surviving pieces of the network reconstituted themselves within a half a second.” That was a way of saying that his messages were finding new routes on the networ...