Below is the Annotated Bibliography that completed ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig. It was designed to be a “handbook” of sorts on Reality. We like to paraphrase Trotsky, with a tip of the hat to Alvin Toffler who quoted him in War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century:
“You may not be interested in reality, but reality is interested in you.”
Trotsky was referring to war. For the Public Intelligence Blog, reality is war, and our worst enemies are domestic in nature, causing self-inflicted wounds vastly more fatal than any foreign armed adversary could produce at any cost. The categories in the graphic below are repeated legibly below the graphic. This Blog superceeds the below bibliography, which only cover about 500 of the 1500+ books that are more easily accessed here within the Blog–as a gift to others, however, the below document can be useful as a starting point. This is all the stuff neither the government nor the media are willing to cover seriously in the public interest.
Anti-Americanism, Blowback, Why the Rest Hates the West. 92
Betrayal of the Public Trust. 93
Biomimicry, Green Chemistry, Ecological Economics, Natural Capitalism.. 98
Blessed Unrest, Dignity, Dissent, & the Tao of Democracy. 99
Capitalism, Globalization, Peak Oil, & “Free” Trade Run Amok. 100
Collective Intelligence, Power of Us, We Are One, & Wealth of We. 102
Culture of Catastrophe, Cheating, Conflict, & Conspiracy. 104
Deception, Facts, Fog, History (Lost), Knowledge, Learning, & Lies. 104
Democracy in Decline. 107
Emerging and Evolving Threats & Challenges. 110
Failed States, Poverty, Wrongful Leadership, and the Sorrows of Empire. 114
Future of Life, State of the Future, Plan B 3.0. 115
Innovation & 21st Century Leadership. 117
Instruments of National Power Hard and Soft. 120
Intelligence, Decision-Support, & Decision-Making. 121
Internet (Good, Bad, & Ugly). 123
Philosophy, Psychology, & Religion from Faith to Fascism.. 124
Strategy. 127
War, Waste, & Crimes Against Humanity. 129