Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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CounterPunch: Big Expense, Bad Policy, Bad Ethics: U.S. Military Bases Abroad

Corruption, Military, Officers Call

counterpunch squareBad Policy, Bad Ethics: U.S. Military Bases Abroad

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Military spending now accounts for 54% of discretionary spending in the entire federal budget ($599 billion of $1.1 trillion). Vine calculates that overseas bases account for anywhere between $71 – $120 billion of military spending. That is to say, bases abroad cost as much as four times the amount spent on Social Security, Unemployment & Labor ($29 billion); nearly twice as much as Housing and Community ($63 billion); four times as much as Science ($30 billion); and 1.7 times as much as Education ($70 billion).

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Robert Steele: Stupid Princeton Kids

Cultural Intelligence
Robert David Steele Vivas
Robert David Steele Vivas

Should Princeton disown Woodrow Wilson?

At Princeton and other colleges, historic symbols are targets of the racial justice movement.

ROBERT STEELE: If we renamed every building, monument, and road associated with every US leader responsible for crimes against humanity, we would have to rename ALL of them. Perhaps we should focus on the crimes against humanity being committed by the current US Administration? Or is that too hard for privileged kids looking to make a statement without having to lift a finger? I am all in favor of restitution (especially to our Native Americans) in the context of Truth & Reconciliation, but I'd rather get it right across the board, instead of this infantile crap. We need to restore integrity to our government — that means Electoral Reform, the election of an Independent President with a Coalition Cabinet, and the election of 20-30 small party and Independent Members to Congress so as to restore Article 1 of the Constitution. Anything less is a waste of time and energy.

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Doug Rushkoff: How Digital Media Finally Enables Distributed Enterprise

Advanced Cyber/IO
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff

Platform Cooperativism, hosted by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider, the closing keynote, a first effort at expressing the gist of my upcoming book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, in 40 minutes of speaking.So here's the video of that talk. This may be the only talk where I try to include everything, and I think it's interesting to look at the evolution of the expression of these ideas.Plus, the talk is followed by a great analysis of the book's ideas by Astra Taylor.

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Search: Eight Tribes

Advanced Cyber/IO
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ROBERT STEELE: There are iron curtains between the tribes; wooden walls between industries and organizations, and plastic sheets between individuals in the same organization. Micah Sifry's book, The Big Disconnect, and Stephen E. Arnold's book CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access, capture my concerns perfectly. The IT industry has been corrupt (selling out to NSA), criminal (selling false and weak solutions), and stupid (not thinking through the eight aspects of analytic sharing and sense-making I discuss in my review of Sifry's book and my Foreword to Arnold's book. Kaliya Hamlin (Identity Woman) has the core values (anonymity, identity, privacy, rights, security) that need to be integrated into a larger World Brain, while my work on Applied Collective Intelligence outlines the way forward.

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Steve Aftergood: CRS on The Islamic State

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

CRS on Islamic State and US Policy

Phi Beta Iota: The CRS report is superb on the facts in relation to the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) if one assumes they are an autonomous entity.  It falls severely short in failing to inform Congress on the culpability of elements of the US Government (CIA, State, Pentagon), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey as well as Israel, Qatar, and Iraq, in creating ISIS, nurturing ISIS, and protecting ISIS.

See Also: ISIS @ Phi Beta Iota

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