Commentator of Note: Victor Davis Hanson

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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.

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He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 and the Bradley Prize in 2008.

To read his full biography, click on on the photo.

We draw from him very selectively, but often enough to merit his own explicatory page here.

Contributing Editor: Berto Jongman

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Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Albert J. (Berto) Jongman (1955) majored in western sociology at the University of Groningen in 1981. During his studies he gained practical experience as a research assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a researcher at the Polemological Institute of the University of Groningen where he dealt with several research topics including the quantitative study of war, political violence, armament and disarmament issues and human rights.  In 1987 he moved to the University of Leiden where he acted as datamanager of the Project on Interdisciplinary Research on the Root Causes of Gross Human Rights Violations (PIOOM). He also worked on several research projects,  including the World Conflict and Human Rights Map, 20th Century Genocides and Monitoring Human Rights Violations. In 2002 he moved from  academia to government. Since early 2002 he works as a senior terrorism analyst for the Dutch Ministry of Defense. His ‘World Directory of Terrorist and other Organizations associated with Guerrilla Warfare, Political Violence and Protest,' was included in the award-winning ‘Political Terrorism. A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature' (2nd edition, 1988) edited by Alex P. Schmid. During the 1990s he regularly contributed to the Dutch Yearbook on Peace and Security.  Currently an update of Political Terrorism is being prepared under the title Handbook of  Terrorism Research that will be published by Routledge in the Spring of 2010. In his current function he participates in a number of Advanced Research Working Groups of NATO and in activities of the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism.

Call for Multinational Editors

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open doorThis web site is infinitely expandable, and is backed up by our websites and databases in Sweden.  We are seeking multinational editors who will receive full editorial privileges here in return for covering specific countries or topics from a Public Intelligence perspective.  Within couintries we also seek “tribal” editors, one each for each of the eight tribes of intelligence (academia, civil society, commercial, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-governmental).  Within Civil Society we are especially interested in editors covering labor unions and religions as both a constituency (in need of public intelligence) and in the case of religion only, as a threat (penetrating governments and exerting undue illegal influence on public policy).

Editors, who may be anonymous to the public, are likely to be offered free admission to the new annual multinational information sharing and sense-making conference.  Use Contact to get in touch

We will support postings in any language with the request, not a condition, that the title and first paragraph be provided in English for indexing purposes.

Contributing Editor: Oso (Bear in Spanish)

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Brown Bear
Brown Bear

Our contributing editor on ethics and government-contractor relations desires to remain anonymous.

With multiple graduate degrees across information science and arts, Oso is a veteran of the commercial intelligence sector.  He eschews politics, but when asked, seeks the common sense answer most verifiable by real facts.

He reads broadly, especially poetry and fiction, but with a proper leavening of non-fiction and a special interest in religion and more recently, intelligence and counterintelligence as it pertains to religions specifically.


Law Enforcement Editor: David Jimenez

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David Jimenez
David Jimenez

David Jimenez holds an A.A.S. in Intelligence and Imagery Analysis from the Community College of the Air Force, a B.S. in Management and Human Resources from Park College, and an M.A. in Human Resource Development from Webster University. A United States Air Force retiree, Mr. Jimenez was awarded the Distinguished Meritorious Medal, several Air Force Meritorious Service Medals, and three Air Force Commendation medals. He is the recipient of a 2002 Golden Candle Award from Open Source Solutions Network (OSS.Net) for 21st Century Emerging Leadership (for hosting the Intelligence, Security, & Terrorism Conference (IST), 2002, attended by 400 individuals from law enforcement, government, military, security, business, and first responders).

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Contributing Editor: Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley

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Webster Griffin Tarpley
Webster Griffin Tarpley

Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley is in some ways a complement to individuals such as Chalmers Johnson and Noam Chomsky who attempt to speak truth to power from an academic point of view.  Others such as Ralph Peters, Chuck Spinney, and Robert Young Pelton comes at truth to power froma “ground truth” perspective.

Many will disagree with Dr. Tarpley's analytic conclusions, but we stand firm on the importance of his point of view and the need to hear his voice.  He is a valued contributor to Phi Beta Iota.

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Phi Beta Iota: Dr. Tarpley is a brilliant historian, and we continue to believe that his work on 9-11 was of the highest order, but new evidence has been produced that suggests he might be an agent of influence of the Israeli Mossad, perhaps not directly recruited, but financially subsidized through intermediaries.  With regret, and continued respect, he is suspended as a contributor effective 30 January 2010.  His obsession with blaming the CIA for everything should be understood in this light, but is never-the-less respected as a voice that must be heard.