BOOK: The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism
CHINA: Agricultural & commercial espionage within the USA
Phi Beta Iota: Nothing new — Singapore does it better — they attract and treat well those ready for best in class management & facilities.
CITIES: New Model for International Governance (VIDEO)
CIVIL SOCIETY: Citizens as Civic Innovators
CORRUPTION: Greece Arrests Two More in Ongoing German Bribery Case Related to Arms Deals
CORRUPTION: Pakistani counter-terrorism funds used for gifts, expenses, phones, flowers
CYBER: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
CYBER: In-Q-Tel Invests in FireEye
CYBER: Light Table – Out in the Open: These Hackers Want to Give You Coding Superpowers
CYBER: Russia 17 Year Old BlackPOS Malware Author – More Details
CYBER: South Korea hacked for 20 million credit cards
CYBER: Vietnamese malware
CYBER: Zombie Botnets
EDUCATION: Earn an elite MBA (without the diploma) for under $1000
ETHICS: Israeli expert seeks ethics code for cyber warfare
ETHICS: Minnesota starvation experiment
JAPAN: “no war” pledge removed from policy paper
LATIN AMERICA: Cost of violence
LIFE: Battle between conventional and alternative medicine
LIFE: Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdieff — one the greatest thinkers of all time, and the least known
NON-VIOLENCE: Julia Bacha at TED – Pay Attention to Non-Violence Efforts by Specific Israelis and Specific Palestinians
NSA: 2-3 “Tips” a Day to FBI, Newly Declassified Documents Say
NSA: Germany Considering Investigation
Phi Beta Iota: What the Germans will discover is that a) NSA provided funding to the German intelligence services that was not reported to their own Parliament and President; b) that German services provided space and access to German telecommunications to which Germans themselves were not afford access; and c) that German services carried out warrantless services for NSA and other countries that were not approved by nor reported to their own government.
NSA: The scandal unfolds further
PMC: How Erik Prince, Founder Of Blackwater, Will Help China Subjugate Africa
SYRIA: Geneva conference
SYRIA: Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regime
Phi Beta Iota: Is this a deliberate act to undermine Assad's negotiation position just before the Geneva conference and put him under severe pressure?
SYRIA: Evidence from Defector of Assad's “Killing Machine”
SYRIA: Invitation to Iran withdrawn
Phi Beta Iota: Could this have been another form of pressure on Syria?
THREAT: Iraq-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Volgograd Attacks
THREAT: Killings of Christians by Islamists Doubled in 2013
THREAT: Radicalized, Islamist, ‘Lone Wolves' Pose Growing Homeland Threat
THREAT: Muslim Brotherhood Tours America
THREAT: When Do Nuclear Missteps Put Security in Jeopardy?